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Band:BREACH THE VOID
Album:THE MONOCHROMATIC ERA
Label:CORONER
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Born from the ashes of past disappointments, Breach The Void (formerly known as Etna), created by drummer Alex Anxionna (former Sybreed) began in early 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland. Alex worked in order to combine aggression and sensitivity, melodies and harmonies, but also complex rhythms thus creating a futuristic electronica soundscape involving metal in a new age. With his experience in Sybreed, in studio but also on many tours, which accompanied among other groups like Fear Factory, Mnemic and Ill Niño, Alex, eager to follow his own path in music, was quickly surrounded by first musicians to record a demo three titles called “Retribution Engine”. The reactions were immediate, since many chronics emerged after this first effort. To crown its beginnings, Breach The Void has had the daunting privilege to be in RockHard’s ‘’demo of the month’’ sampler, prompting Breach The Void to be a value more than evident in the Frenchspeaking countries. After a few line-up changes, Alex has finally found the rare gems that responded fully to the levels of requirement. Firstly with bassist Fabian Ferraglia (ex-Last Warning), they started recruiting the right musicians born of the same musical vision: an abstract and post-apocalyptic future. The band was complemented by the involvement of singer Marko Romero (ex-Nevent), mixing tortured screams and emotional clean vocals. Frederic De Cecco has also joined the group, bringing his killer touch into Breach The Void’s compositions... Breach The Void has been shown an incredible motivation and amazing ambition. The result of these alliances exploded late 2008 where the group has invested the Taurus Studio to record their first album. After several months of hard work, Breach The Void finally was able to return to the mixing process in early May 2009, with Claude Lander and Ben Rudio. The mastering was then assigned to the prestigious Tue Madsen (Mnemic, The Haunted, Sick of it All) who has put the finishing touches to this sonic bomb: ten songs tinged with finesse, aggression with catchy choruses carried by a production seamless worldwide.
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Band:FRACTURE
Album:SIMPLE CHAOS
Label:NIGHTMARE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
“Classy! This is very very very good in a thoughtful, mellow Redemption meets a Metamorphosis Zero Hour on a blind date with Fates Warning and rage for order Queensryche sorta way....” (Perpetual Motion)
Fracture pride themselves as being one of very few bands out of Australia to have delved into a genre of music that is vastly becoming popular. Ask the band and the will say that they would call their music “Metal” but composition of their music has it otherwise. It's Progressive Metal!!
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Band:HALCYON WAY
Album:BUILDING THE TOWERS
Label:NIGHTMARE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Excellent Prog Metal From Atalnta GA.
This is their second album and it's combination of Prog and Heavier influences make it a must for fans of Queensryche,Kings X,Slayer,Chimaira etc
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Band:MANTICORA
Album:SAFE
Label:NIGHTMARE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
MANTICORA, Denmark’s reigning metallic champions are weighing in with their seventh full length entitled “Safe”. Manticora is an amalgam of power metal, technical thrash and orchestrated epic metal that bring on a solid sonic assault to the listener live or recorded. Each album since the bands third release has brought profile tour opportunities that they’ve gladly accepted due to the rave reviews and accolades they’ve received in the metal media. This album they’ve planned the tour in advance, because now their the headliner. Manicora will tour Europe in Sept / Oct. and will play a series of higher profile metal festivals around the world to support this new release.
A must have for fans of Nevermore, Blind Guardian, Evergrey, and Testament
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Band:TETRAFUSION
Album:ALTERED STATE
Label:NIGHTMARE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Tetrafusion’s blend of complex, technical metal blended with a highly-intellectual melodic structure offers an eclectic brand of progressive rock and metal along the likes of PORCUPINE TREE, RUSH, DREAM THEATER, CYNIC, TOOL, and MUSE. Originally an instrumental band, the band released their debut record “Absolute Zero” to critical acclaim, which quickly launched the band into the underground metal scene, sans-vocals, along the likes of SCALE THE SUMMIT, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, and CANVAS SOLARIS, Altered State's biggest slogan is "substance over style", where as our debut was very styleoriented and straight forward. We definitely have our progressive, crazy fast heavy moments, but we took a step back and gave it a lot more atmosphere and melodic vocals which is something the band believed their music needed on many levels.
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Band:TOXXIC TOYZ
Album:MUTATION
Label:NIGHTMARE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This is an extremely powerful sophemore album for a band that has been around playing the French scene since 2003. Toxxic Toyz brand of music is a blending of extremely aggressive heavy rock and melodic power metal with great technical proficiency, tendencies and great song writing, Vocalist David Mcbee's voice fits this music perfectly, he's got a raw attitude basted in melody that brings listening accessibility. This band believes in the raw rock attitude of no keyboard embellishments, it's in your face and it's all good. The songs clock in between 5-7 minutes in length without getting boring due to the bands ability to blend old school riffs into more up-tempo technical and aggressive mature structures.
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Band:NECROTIZE
Album:GRIEVANCE
Label:DISSECTED
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Necrotize are a 5 piece hailing from Birmingham, UK and have taken the countries Metal scene by surprise with their unusual mix of modern day metal and its dark European subgenres. They have crafted what some believe to be a sound of their own and have even received praise from some of the worlds renown metal acts. The band have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with many titans of modern day metal such as : Sepultura, Bolt Thrower, Rotting Christ, Benediction, Evile and many more.
“Necrotize delivered an onslaught that was impossible to resist, all the tracks were heavy and chugcentric – a definite must see ” by Karl Willets (Bolt Thrower).
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Band:PHANTASMA
Album:BOOK OF PHANTASMA
Label:APOCRYPHA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Based out of Slovakia, PHANTASMA have been conquering the underground European Metal scene since 1992. During their 18 year reign, Phantasma produced various acclaimed releases such as Jahave (1999), Gospel (2002), and most recently, Alternativa 666 (2009) which has served as an introduction to PHANTASMA's newest release – BOOK OF PHANTASMA . This much awaited album will be PHANTASMA's 7th release and will solidify their position as one of the top Blackened Death Metal bands in the world. BOOK OF PHANTASMA will undoubtedly quench the thirst of PHANTASMA's dedicated following and Metal connoisseurs worldwide.
For fans of: Impaled Nazarene, Behemoth, Belphegor, Dark Tranquillity, Akercocke, Paradise Lost, Zyklon, Sacramentum, and At the Gates.
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Band:STEEL TORMENTOR
Album:RETURN OF A KING
Label:NEPHIN
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Killer traditional metal from Ireland. Having recorded many demos since 1998, and self-releasing their first album in 2004, Steel Tormentor finally return with a work of epic heavy metal glory with 'Return of a King.'
“Reminiscent of a period in metal history that spawned literally every genre we enjoy today. I’m glad bands like this are still holding high that withered flag from the past; we need more bands like this! “ metalpsalter.com
For fans of 80’s traditional heavy metal in the vein of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Helloween….NWOBHM
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Band:IVAN MIHALJEVIC
Album:DESTINATION UNKNOWN
Label:SG
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Ivan Mihaljevic is a young guitarist, singer, songwriter from Croatia. He's a full-time member of one of the biggest Croatian hard rock bands: Hard Time, he debuted with them at the biggest European heavy metal festival, “Waken Open Air” in 2005, when he was only 18. In 2008 he played on stage with Les Paul at Iridium Jazz Club in New York. Destination Unknown is the final amalgamation between the shredding and the good Hard & Heavy music. Some instrumental pieces alternate with songs.
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Band:KINKY YUKKY YUPPY
Album:ESCAPE
Label:MandO MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
KinkyYukkyYuppy is a rock band from Evreux (France).
In their own words: "When the sweetness and emotion of the POP confronts the power and heaviness of a raw and powerful ROCK. In the KINKY world, the most obvious landmarks are diluted to highlight our wildest musical desires. Imagine DAMIEN RICE trying to play Zack de la Rocha (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE) deciding to scream his rage, jumping around on stage, under Billy Howerdel 's moved gaze (PERFECT CIRCLE), determined to take the sharp and heavy riffs from Mr. Angus (ACDC) to support the expression of such emotion. That could only lead to the Johnston twins (BIFFY CLYRO) throwing themselves into battle with an energy and rhythmic rigor worthy of Dave Grohl's best hits (FOO FIGHTERS). You dreamed about it? ... So welcome to the KINKY. The style is simple and efficient! Headers MELODIES, sharp RIFFS serving a voice full of emotion and energy."
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