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Band:SOFT KILL
Album:Savior
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Post Punk
Portland Oregon’s SOFT KILL, ripped through 2016 with their first release on Profound Lore Records “Choke”, the follow up to 2015’s “Heresy” became the band’s most acclaimed LP to date and saw the band on a constant touring cycle in support of it through North America and Europe as demand for the band was on a constant upswing. SOFT KILL now return with the triumphant follow up full length “Savior” to be released by Profound Lore Records on (insert release date here), bringing their unique blend of gloom, laced with pop charm and flawless song writing that transcends the post punk genre.
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Band:SOFT KILL
Album:Savior
Label:Profound Lore
Format:LP
Genre:Post Punk
Portland Oregon’s SOFT KILL, ripped through 2016 with their first release on Profound Lore Records “Choke”, the follow up to 2015’s “Heresy” became the band’s most acclaimed LP to date and saw the band on a constant touring cycle in support of it through North America and Europe as demand for the band was on a constant upswing. SOFT KILL now return with the triumphant follow up full length “Savior” to be released by Profound Lore Records on (insert release date here), bringing their
unique blend of gloom, laced with pop charm and flawless song writing that transcends the post punk genre.
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Band:WAYFARER
Album:WORLD'S BLOOD
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
“World’s Blood” is black metal of the American West. Wayfarer recorded the album in the winter of early 2018 at The Thousand Caves in New York under the watchful production of Colin Marston.
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Band:WAYFARER
Album:WORLD'S BLOOD
Label:Profound Lore
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
“World’s Blood” is black metal of the American West. Wayfarer recorded the album in the winter of early 2018 at The Thousand Caves in New York under the watchful production of Colin Marston.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:DANCE FOR YOUR LIFE - RARE FINNISH FUNK & DISCO 1976-1986
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Synth Disco
An expertly curated selection of the best, weirdest and most wonderful tunes the Finnish disco and funk underground had to offer back in the 70s and 80s.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:DANCE FOR YOUR LIFE - RARE FINNISH FUNK & DISCO 1976-1986
Label:SVART
Format:2LP
Genre:Synth Disco
An expertly curated selection of the best, weirdest and most wonderful tunes the Finnish disco and funk underground had to offer back in the 70s and 80s.
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Band:PETER BROTZMANN/JUHANI AALTONEN/PETER KOWALD/EDWARD VESALA
Album:HOT LOTTA
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Jazz
Limited, exclusive, extended reissue of Hot Lotta, one of the rarest items in Peter Brötzmann’s oeuvre. Hot Lotta was a special cultural event, the meeting of the brightest free jazz talent from Germany and Finland. Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald were joined by Edward Vesala and Juhani Aaltonen for the studio session that resulted in the album but also toured Finland and recorded a radio session. That radio session has now been unearthed and is presented as an added bonus in this official reissue.
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Band:PETER BROTZMANN/JUHANI AALTONEN/PETER KOWALD/EDWARD VESALA
Album:HOT LOTTA
Label:SVART
Format:2LP
Genre:Jazz
Limited, exclusive, extended reissue of Hot Lotta, one of the rarest items in Peter Brötzmann’s oeuvre. Hot Lotta was a special cultural event, the meeting of the brightest free jazz talent from Germany and Finland. Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald were joined by Edward Vesala and Juhani Aaltonen for the studio session that resulted in the album but also toured Finland and recorded a radio session. That radio session has now been unearthed and is presented as an added bonus in this official reissue.
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Band:WITCH MOUNTAIN
Album:WITCH MOUNTAIN
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:DOOM METAL
Witch Mountain's fifth album and their first with new vocalist Kayla Dixon at the helm.
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Band:WITCH MOUNTAIN
Album:WITCH MOUNTAIN
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM METAL
Witch Mountain's fifth album and their first with new vocalist Kayla Dixon at the helm.
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Band:Wigwam
Album:DARK ALBUM
Label:SVART
Format:2LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Finnish progressive rock act Wigwam split up for several years after Dark Album, released on Love Records in 1978. This is the first time the album gets reissued on vinyl. This gatefold double vinyl set also features Daemon Duncetan's Request, the mythical mispress version of Dark Album, that's quite a bit different from the final album.
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Band:CONVULSE
Album:WORLD WITHOUT GOD
Label:SVART
Format:DLP
Genre:Death Metal
A deluxe reissue of one of the most legendary albums from the Finnish Death Metal underground, Convulse's World Without God is for the first time ever presented with the original demo tracks on vinyl.
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Band:JIM PEMBROKE
Album:CORPORAL CAULIFLOWER'S MENTAL FUNCTION
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Limited official reissue of Jim Pembroke’s 1977 solo album, originally on Love Records.
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Band:CONVULSE
Album:WORLD WITHOUT GOD
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
A deluxe reissue of one of the most legendary albums from the Finnish Death Metal underground, Convulse's World Without God is for the first time ever presented with the original demo tracks on vinyl.
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Band:SPIRITUS MORTIS
Album:THE GOD BEHIND THE GOD
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:DOOM METAL
This album, already a doom metal cult classic, saw Albert Witchfinder join forces with Finland’s most ancient metal band and breathe new, heavy life into the genre. Difficult to find on disc for years, this official reissue has been inspected and revamped by the hand of Mr Witchfinder himself.
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Band:SPIRITUS MORTIS
Album:THE GOD BEHIND THE GOD
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM METAL
This album, already a doom metal cult classic, saw Albert Witchfinder join forces with Finland’s most ancient metal band and breathe new, heavy life into the genre. Difficult to find on disc for years, this official reissue has been inspected and revamped by the hand of Mr Witchfinder himself.
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Band:UADA
Album:CULT OF A DYING SUN
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
2 years after the release of the lauded debut album “Devoid of Light“, and tours across American and European lands, the Pacific Northwest four-piece has completed work on their new album “Cult of a Dying Sun”. Recorded by Robb Bockman at The Maleficarum, Portland, OR and Shane Howard at Sawn & Quartered, Denver, CO with final mix and mastering duties taken over by Arthur Rizk (Inquisition, Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy). It features again classic artwork of Kris Verwimp, interior design from Chris Kiesling/Misanthropic-Art and photography by Peter Beste. On their sophomore full-length, “Cult of a Dying Sun”, Uada expand their scope and range of hypnotic craft. Balancing sharp riffs with spectral melodies in a manifold of haunting yet distinctive black metal dirges. A sharp spear in the heart of the brightest star. Epic, atmospheric, deadly.
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Band:PHILIPPE PETIT & FRIENDS
Album:ON TOP
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:AVANT-GARDE/EXPERIMENTAL
"On Top" is the second Philippe Petit & Friends LP, it was originally thought to become the third part in a trilogy
oribinated by Strings Of Consciousness. When the SOC collective broke up Philippe kept inviting his friends,
musicians and singers, The ones he felt were "On Top". On the first track Philippe, Eugene S. Robinson and Hervé
Vincenti give us a tense and at times tender narrative, It plays out like like an old radio drama except it's urgent and
you feel somehow locked in.
On top of the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacàn comes last on the album, it lives up to it's title, The holy city of
Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') it is close to Mexico City and was Built between the 1st and
7th centuries A.D. In the track time seems to slow to a crawl, it feels like a "peak " moment, all clear and beautiful but
like any peak it get's uncomfortable when it's revealed we are animals. While not without its harsh moments,
ultimately this is a gorgeous, transformative intimate and emotive album.
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Band:PHILIPPE PETIT & FRIENDS
Album:On Top
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:AVANT-GARDE/EXPERIMENTAL
"On Top" is the second Philippe Petit & Friends LP, it was originally thought to become the third part in a trilogy
oribinated by Strings Of Consciousness. When the SOC collective broke up Philippe kept inviting his friends,
musicians and singers, The ones he felt were "On Top". On the first track Philippe, Eugene S. Robinson and Hervé
Vincenti give us a tense and at times tender narrative, It plays out like like an old radio drama except it's urgent and
you feel somehow locked in.
On top of the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacàn comes last on the album, it lives up to it's title, The holy city of
Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') it is close to Mexico City and was Built between the 1st and
7th centuries A.D. In the track time seems to slow to a crawl, it feels like a "peak " moment, all clear and beautiful but
like any peak it get's uncomfortable when it's revealed we are animals. While not without its harsh moments,
ultimately this is a gorgeous, transformative intimate and emotive album.
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Band:WAND/DARTO
Album:WAND/DARTO
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:7 inch Vinyl
Genre:Rock, Garage Rock, Indie
"We smashed together in Los Angeles and wrote these two songs; repurposed lyrics we wrote in the studio together. A lot of people got to sing who had never sung on record before. All in all it was a successful collaboration, I think. The spirit of both bands made it onto the tape together, intact. We ate breakfast burritos the next morning, then Darto flew away. I went to go to the beach but our car died in Topanga Canyon..."
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Band:ROBERT REED
Album:SANCTUARY III
Label:PLANE GROOVY
Format:VINYL
Genre:PROG ROCK/INSTRUMENTAL ROCK
Strictly limited to just 300 individually numbered copies and signed copies, pressed on 180g audiophile black vinyl with a full colour insert and high quality lined inner sleeve.
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Band:MARTIN GORDON
Album:THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
Label:Radiant Future
Format:VINYL
Genre:Pop, Rock
Strictly limited to just 500 individually numbered copies, pressed on 180g audiophile black vinyl with a double-sided lyric insert and high quality lined inner sleeve.
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Band:PERTH COUNTY CONSPIRACY, THE
Album:THE PERTH COUNTY CONSPIRACY
Label:FLASHBACK
Format:LP
Genre:PSYCH
Despite having completed their debut for Columbia just weeks earlier, in August 1970 Cedric Smith, Richard Keelan, Michael Butler and other Conspirators recorded another album, exclusively for Canadian radio broadcast. For it they'd assembled a fine batch of new material, as well as striking arrangements of songs by Bob Dylan, Donovan and Smokey Robinson. Warm, atmospheric, and slightly mystical, it’s re-issued on LP for the first time here, together with a large-format booklet including a detailed group history and previously unseen images. It also comes with a reproduction of a vintage flyer.
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Band:PERTH COUNTY CONSPIRACY, THE
Album:THE PERTH COUNTY CONSPIRACY
Label:FLASHBACK
Format:CD
Genre:PSYCH
Despite having completed their debut for Columbia just weeks earlier, in August 1970 Cedric Smith, Richard Keelan, Michael Butler and other Conspirators recorded another album, exclusively for Canadian radio broadcast. For it they'd assembled a fine batch of new material, as well as striking arrangements of songs by Bob Dylan, Donovan and Smokey Robinson. Warm, atmospheric, and slightly mystical, it’s re-issued on LP for the first time here, together with a large-format booklet including a detailed group history and previously unseen images. It also comes with a reproduction of a vintage flyer.
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Band:US AND THEM
Album:On Shipless Ocean
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:LP
Genre:ACID FOLK
On Shipless Ocean is the second full‐length long‐playing album by Us and Them and as you’d expect, it’s laced with their unique brand of light psychedelic folk.
On Shipless Ocean is an album that ebbs and flows, like all good albums should. Light translucent moments drift into rich dense textures, that evoke an autumnal stillness on a crystal‐clear day. Delicate acoustic guitars are moderated by a haunted electronic palette that suggests a sense of tradition and modernity, a pastoral moment glimpsed in the heart of the city.
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Band:FATSO JETSON/YAWNING SONS/WATERWAYS/MARIO LALLI
Album:LEGENDS OF THE DESERT (DESERTFEST 2018) (AZURE BLUE VINYL)
Label:H42 Records
Format:Vinyl 12” EP
Genre:DESERTROCK/ROCK
DesertFest 2018 'Legends of the Desert'. On the occasion of this year's Desertfest London four brand new songs featuring FATSO JETSON, Yawning Sons WaterWays and Mario Lalli. Limited Edition of 200 copies on AZUR Blue 12” Vinyl.
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Band:RATTLESNAKE
Album:DIRT IN MY EYES/PICTURE PERFECT
Label:H42 Records
Format:Vinyl 7”
Genre:HARD ROCK/RETRO 70S ROCK
This is the outstanding debut 7“ from Brooklyn, NY power trio RATTLESNAKE! A band with an incredible sound inspired by the Classic American Southern Rock of the 70s/80s as well as NWOBHM, progressive Rock, and good old Rock’n Roll Boogie! The two-song offering is a major statement in the modern heavy rock underground. It’s a welcome return to quality and memorable songwiting and razor-sharp musicianship that truly honors the tradition and inspiration from groups like Blackfoot, Point Black, The Outlaes, Molly Hatchet & Wishborn Ash. Rattlesnake features the soaring vocals and impeccable drumming of Adam Kriney from THE GOLDEN GRASS, Guitarist and co-lead vocalist JP Gilbert and bassist and back-up singer Don Berger.
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Band:ANLA COURTIS/KAWAGUCHI MASAMI/FUKOUKA RINJI
Album:RAMEN EN LOS PARLANTES
Label:Purifiva / Pataphysique Records
Format:CD
Genre:Psychedelic, Experimental
Finally, there is a release of a miraculous collaboration between the two musicians from Tokyo underground scene and Anla Courtis, the leader of Reynols- the legendary experimental band of Argentina. It was recorded in studio during the time Anla was in Tokyo in January, 2015. It is not just a simple improvised session, but truly a very colorful psychedelic album with roaring noise to minimalistic onkyo works, approach to ethnical music and vocal songs.
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Band:DOGEYED
Album:THROW THE BONES
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:Vinyl 12 inch
Genre:INDIE ROCK
Debut 12” EP from Bristol based sad, sappy indie suckers Dogeyed! Out 11th May 2018 on Specialist Subject Records.
Initially a solo project, singer & guitarist Harriet Elder has been performing and recording lo-fi bedroom demos since 2016.
Recently she’s been joined by Jonathan Minto (who also plays in Caves) on drums and Tim Rowing-Parker (from Woahnows)
playing bass.
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Band:HOWLIN' WILSON
Album:A PICTURE OF YOU (EP…COLOURED VINYL)
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:VINYL 7 inch
Genre:ROCK N ROLL/60S
Limited edition, coloured vinyl EP TRIBUTE TO JOE BROWN
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Band:JACK RABBIT SLIM
Album:DESPEDIDA
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:ROCK N ROLL/60S
CD digipak from one of the Rockabilly scene’s best loved bands. This is their LAST EVER album
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Band:JACK RABBIT SLIM
Album:DESPEDIDA (122 COLOURED VINYL)
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:VINYL 12 inch
Genre:ROCK N ROLL/60S
CD digipak from one of the Rockabilly scene’s best loved bands. This is their LAST EVER album
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Band:AGER SONUS
Album:Necropolis
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:DARK AMBIENT/AMBIENT/DRONE
Ager Sonus is back with his second Egyptian themed album on Cryo Chamber, the first being Book of the Black Earth.
You open your eyes. Darkness. Silence. Oppressing silence. Your breath feels shallow, the air too thin to breathe. The space you are in feels narrow, the ceiling so close you can almost touch it. Your heart starts pounding as the feeling of panic brings you to your senses. You seem to be.. Underground, buried!
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Band:DRONNY DARKO
Album:BLACK HIVE
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:DARK AMBIENT/AMBIENT/DRONE
The third and last album in this dark trilogy, earlier albums being Outer Tehom and Spira Igneus. On this album Dronny Darko explores what lies beyond time where the lurkers roam. The black hive devours time left behind to fuel the future at the knot of time.
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Band:UGASANIE
Album:ICE BREATH OF ANTARCTICA
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:DARK AMBIENT/AMBIENT/DRONE
Ugasanie returns with his 5th album on Cryo Chamber. This time exploring the vast landscapes of Antarctica.
The snowstorm builds on the horizon as the ice crackles under your feet. The faint call of someone beyond the blinding blizzard.
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Band:GRANDMOTHERS OF INVENTION, THE
Album:Live in Bremen
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Jazz Rock, Prog Rock, Zappa
Those of you who have been to a live concert of The Mothers of Inventions probably have had quite an experience. Although the band in which Frank Zappa was active only existed for a short while in its original form, it was formative for many musicians of that generation. The era of rebellion and new beginning that brought not only the hippies but also student revolts into the world found its unique soundtrack in the music of the “Mothers”. The brilliant fusion of rock, jazz and freestyle is unparalleled until today. The GrandMothers Of Invention were founded in 1980 by three former members of Mothers of Invention: Don Preston, Bunk Gardner and Jimmy Carl Black. The gentlemen made it their task to revive the highly complex and virtuous compositions of the “Mothers” in their original and raw form.
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Band:ROCK CIRCUS FEAT. ERIC BURDON
Album:LIVE IM CHIKAGO
Label:SIREENA
Format:2CD
Genre:Rock and Roll, Rock, Pop
At the end of the seventies the music club "Chikago" belonged to the hottest live clubs of the German rock city Hamburg. The former striptease temple has become the mecca of rock n 'roll since a band called Rock Circus appeared there. Behind the band name hid a team that had earned their spurs since the Beat-era in the 60s. With Rock Circus on stage, the store was packed. No wonder, if you read the illustrious cast list: Herbert Hildebrandt, Rock Circus boss and co-founder of the German legend Rattles sang and played the bass. Niels Tabi, formerly with the German Bonds, sat behind the drums. Pianist Bernd Schulz, on loan from Rudolf Rock and the Schocker, also had Rattles past behind him.
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Band:ELECTRIC FAMILY, THE
Album:THE LONG MARCH
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:KRAUTROCK/PROG ROCK/FOLK ROCK
So many words have already been written about The Electric Family. That she teamed up in 1996 under the leadership of German independent veteran Tom "The Perc" Redecker. That she has expanded and renewed constantly, that musicians from different genres contribute to the music of The Electric Family that simply can not be classified. You know that the band does not fear to mix different styles like psychedelic, progressive rock, krautrock, folk rock, punk and hard rock
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Band:WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP
Album:DER JESUSPILZ LIVE
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:ACID FOLK
Bernd Witthüser and Walter Westrupp have been active in the Essen folk scene since the 1960s. After Witthüser had organized the Essener Songtage (feat. The Mothers of Invention, Amon Düül, Guru Guru etc.) in 1968, the two musicians joined forces in June 1969 to a folk duo with psychedelic impact. (The duo can be counted on the very popular genre of acid folk then, where bands such like The Inceredible String Band, Fresh Maggots, Syd Barrett and Tea & Symphony belonged to).
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Band:WITTHUSER & WESTRUPP
Album:DER JESUSPILZ LIVE
Label:SIREENA
Format:LP
Genre:ACID FOLK
Bernd Witthüser and Walter Westrupp have been active in the Essen folk scene since the 1960s. After Witthüser had organized the Essener Songtage (feat. The Mothers of Invention, Amon Düül, Guru Guru etc.) in 1968, the two musicians joined forces in June 1969 to a folk duo with psychedelic impact. (The duo can be counted on the very popular genre of acid folk then, where bands such like The Inceredible String Band, Fresh Maggots, Syd Barrett and Tea & Symphony belonged to).
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Band:AUTORAMAS
Album:LIBIDO
Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:ROCK, PUNK, GARAGE
Brasil’s crazy garage‐pop‐punkers AUTORAMAS have a brand‐new, dangerously powerful LP to offer – and what a wild one it is! With “Libido”, released on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS, the group returns to their raw, punky roots that by all means need to be enjoyed at maximum volume!
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Band:AUTORAMAS
Album:LIBIDO
Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:ROCK, PUNK, GARAGE
Brasil’s crazy garage‐pop‐punkers AUTORAMAS have a brand‐new, dangerously powerful LP to offer – and what a wild one it is! With “Libido”, released on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS, the group returns to their raw, punky roots that by all means need to be enjoyed at maximum volume!
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Band:NEATBEATS, THE
Album:OPERATION THE BEAT
Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:BEAT/ROCK’N’ROLL
Here comes another hit‐record by Japan's kings of 60's beat‐music, THE NEATBEATS: “Operation The Beat”. As usual you can expect some fine mid‐sixties sound with wild guitars, Merseybeat‐harmonies, a twistin' beat and a lot of fun. This time, you get a lot of it NEATBEATS‐originals with mostly Japanese vocals. Their elaborate songwriting and authentic vintage recording add up to their fabulous signature‐sound, that we know and love from their previous records. Whether it is wild instrumentals like “Winkle Picker” or fun dancin' tunes like “It's My Friday” or “Sweet Cherry Pie” ‐ you definitely won't sit still listening to these songs.
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Band:AULI AND TAUTUMEITAS
Album:LAI MASINA ROTAJAS!
Label:CPL MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK LATVIA
Drum and bagpipe group Auļi and ethno music group Tautumeitas have joined forces to create a unique music album „Lai māsiņa rotājās”. Album’s theme is dedicated to a very important period of person’s life – engagement and wedding. The powerful sounds of Auļi’s bagpipes and drums represent masculinity, whilst Tautumeitas softer sound but still expressive multipart singing represent femininity. Just as newly weds need to learn how to live together after the wedding, Auļi and Tautumeitas search for ways in which to respect and compliment each other on their musical journey.
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Band:DUO SYSTRAMI
Album:NAR ISEN GAR
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK SWEDEN
När Isen Går (When The Ice Is Breaking)
This is music of life and death. With great originality Duo Systrami creates magic in both their music and their narration.
Here is a strong and unjustified scenic presence.” The motivation of the jury in the competition ”The young Swedish folk music band of the year”.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:NORDIC NOTES VOL.5: FOLK FROM ESTONIA
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK ESTONIA
Dear friends and fans of extraordinary music,
with this compilation, I want to give you a glimpse of what is happening in Estonian folk music.
Some of the featured artists have been around for years with considerable success: Mari Kalkun, Trad.Attack!, Rüüt, and others are almost household names.
Others are brand new, but have plenty of experience playing in other groups.
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Band:LOTTO
Album:VV
Label:instant classic
Format:CD
Genre:IMPROV/POST-ROCK/NOISE
The brand new album from Lotto.Entitled "VV", it consists of 5 instrumental tracks exploring the outer regions of trance-based music.
"There's always this brief period when we start pondering about the direction of our music but usually it turns out to be completely unnecessary. Whatever we may plan ahead, our playing always takes us the other way round," admits guitarist Łukasz Rychlicki.
"In case of 'VV' we didn't think about our previous record, 'Elite Feline'. We never look back."
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Band:LOTTO
Album:VV
Label:instant classic
Format:LP
Genre:IMPROV/POST-ROCK/NOISE
The brand new album from Lotto.Entitled "VV", it consists of 5 instrumental tracks exploring the outer regions of trance-based music.
"There's always this brief period when we start pondering about the direction of our music but usually it turns out to be completely unnecessary. Whatever we may plan ahead, our playing always takes us the other way round," admits guitarist Łukasz Rychlicki.
"In case of 'VV' we didn't think about our previous record, 'Elite Feline'. We never look back."
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Band:ALAMEDA DUO
Album:THE LUMINOUS GUITAR CRAFT OF ALAMEDA DUO
Label:instant classic
Format:CD
Genre:ACID FOLK/AVANT FOLK/CHAMBR FOLK
"The Luminous Guitar Craft of Alameda Duo" is the newest incarnation of Alameda collective. This time Jakub Ziołek and Mikołaj Zieliński present their unique and acoustic view on Greek musical tradition and American Primitivism.
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Band:XENONY
Album:POLISH SPACE PROGRAM
Label:instant classic
Format:CD
Genre:Synth ambient techno, industrial, trip hop
The second album from Warsaw-based synth trio Xenony. "Polish Space Program" contains nine new songs that took the band far from their chip-tune roots.
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Band:KAPITAL & RICHARD PINHAS
Album:FLUX
Label:instant classic
Format:CD
Genre:AMBIENT/INDUSTRIAL/INDUSTRIAL ROCK/NOISE
A new album from Kapital (duo of Rafał Iwański and Jakub Ziołek) and Richard Pinhas (Heldon). Entitled "Flux", the record is the outcome of musicians' meeting at Unsound Festival in Kraków (Poland).
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Band:LONKER SEE
Album:ONE EYE SEES RED
Label:instant classic
Format:CD
Genre:Krautrock, noise rock, psychedelic
A brand new album from Lonker See. Entitled "One Eye Sees Red", the record consists of three complex tracks with a running time of over 40 minutes.
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Band:LONKER SEE
Album:ONE EYE SEES RED
Label:instant classic
Format:LP
Genre:Krautrock, noise rock, psychedelic
A brand new album from Lonker See. Entitled "One Eye Sees Red", the record consists of three complex tracks with a running time of over 40 minutes.
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Band:SNOWMEN
Album:Rock n Roll Communication - Studio Recordings 82-83
Label:PROGAOR
Format:CD
Genre:Hard Rock
SNOWMEN were formed in Pennsylvania back in 1977. After making a name in the East Coast with their theatrical stage show and explosive Rock'n'Roll, they move to sunny California and in 82 the debut album gets privately pressed (Ice Records). The next year a new 7" single comes out supposed to be a teaser of the forthcoming second album that never happened. In fact nothing ever happened after that for SNOWMEN but the legacy is documented now on this CD for the Hard Rock and AOR collectors market. If you like classic American FM Rock like Loverboy, Autograph and Night Ranger, then you should buy this immediately.
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Band:EMPHASIS
Album:SOUL TRANSFER
Label:RED RIVET
Format:CD
Genre:Progressive Metal
Female singer fronted progressive metal
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Band:SANHEDRIN
Album:A FUNERAL FOR THE WORLD
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:LP
Genre:HEAVY METAL
SANHEDRIN, one of the most exciting new bands to emerge from the Brooklyn music scene, was created in 2014 when guitarist Jeremy Sosville (BLACK ANVIL) and drummer Nathan Honor, SANHEDRIN were eventually joined by former AMBER ASYLUM and LOST GOAT bassist/vocalist Erica Stoltz, whose vocal and lyrical exploits quickly became the perfect complement to the pair’s fledgling compositions.
The trio produced a self-titled demo in 2015, but it wasn’t until “A Funeral For The World” did the band come into their own. Boasting a familiar, but not derivative sound, SANHEDRIN’s songwriting is rooted in the classics, translating into a fresh and honest take on rock and metal that easily crosses into doom, hard rock and stoner metal territory.
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Band:CHEVALIER
Album:A CALL TO ARMS
Label:GATES OF HELL
Format:MLP
Genre:SPEED EPIC METAL
Relentless, uncompromising, raw speed metal from Finland influenced by US epic/power metal and Euro metal (French speed metal in particular). Medieval melodies united to fast riffing, tons of blitzkrieg guitar solos and leads, tight bass and drumming and powerful vocals by Emma Grönqvist, will appeal to fans of ADX, Brocas Helm, Acid, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden and obscure, old school Heavy Metal. An unpolished recording, done at the rehearsal room, places this band out of time. “A Call To Arms” has been one of the most praised released of 2017. Originally released on digital format, it has been later made available on compact disc and tape. Now it’s time to appreciate it on the format that better suits Chevalier… Such music needs to be heard on vinyl! Gates Of Hell edition has been specifically remastered for vinyl and includes a revamped layout by Annick Giroux, an A4 insert and a promotional band’s photo as bonuses.
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Band:IN THE LABYRINTH
Album:SAMAS ANTARAL
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD Digipak
Genre:WORLD/ETHNIC/FOLK
The fifth album by In The Labyrinth, called ’Samas Antaral’, is finally being released after a delay of almost 25 years! The label behind this is Transubstans Records, who is releasing this album both digitally and on CD.
The songs, of which a vast majority are instrumental, were recorded mainly in the early 90s, hence making it a parallel project to the first album to be released by In The Labyrinth, namely ’The Garden of Mysteries’. But there are also a few tracks or parts of tracks recorded as early as 1973 and 74, while some bits and pieces have been added more recently.
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Band:TOMMA INTET
Album:…AND THE FALLEN UNIVERSE
Label:LOVELY RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:INDIEPOP
TOMMA INTET (meaning: “nothingness”) is a collective with an undefined amount of members, born in Sweden during the winter of 2016 and is based on the idea of enlightenment and transcendence. TOMMA INTET is a state of mind. It is the world you experience when you leave something old and familiar (like earlier projects as The High Hats) and decide to evolve into something new and unknown.
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Band:TOMMA INTET
Album:…AND THE FALLEN UNIVERSE
Label:LOVELY RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:INDIEPOP
TOMMA INTET (meaning: “nothingness”) is a collective with an undefined amount of members, born in Sweden during the winter of 2016 and is based on the idea of enlightenment and transcendence. TOMMA INTET is a state of mind. It is the world you experience when you leave something old and familiar (like earlier projects as The High Hats) and decide to evolve into something new and unknown.
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Band:DEMON HEAD
Album:THE RESISTANCE
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:VINYL 7 inch
Genre:HARD ROCK/DOOM
Demon Head is unveiling Rivers of Mars, it is the first song from from their soon-to-come "THE RESISTANCE” seven inch vinyl. The new release is a epilogue to the bands last album 'Thunder on the Fields’, the release contains two stories that will enthrall the listener. The first single Rivers of Mars is a haunting rock song that somehow blends the scene of a forest night with the discovery of water on the Red Planet - our closest, still unknown neighbor world. Demon Head have recorded the songs in a wooden winter house in Denmark. The vibe from the surrounding atmosphere of their new built studio have an impact on the sound and recording of the two new songs.
Could it be that we are not alone?
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Band:JEAN JEAN
Album:FROIDEPIERRE
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:SYNTH ROCK/MATH ROCK
Recorded in the Alpes (France), this new album of Jean Jean diverges from the latest release. « We were tired of the over complicated and a bit festive stuff, we wanted to avoid to overdo things, to stop patchworking our ideas and work on real songs, with more hindsight”, explained Edouard and Sebastian. After the EP “Jean Jean EP” in 2010, the album “Symmetry” in 2013, and countless tours over Europe, USA or Japan, Jean Jean got back to a three-piece: Gregory, multi-instrumentist from bands like Almeeva or Kid North, and long time friend, join them to take care of the vintage synthesizers and the bass.
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Band:MUDWEISER
Album:SO SAID THE SNAKE
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:STONER ROCK
Under the hard sun of Montpellier, the four Mudweisers included Reuno, the front man from the famous fusion band Lofofora, took their instruments without overthink their purpose. The ambition was clear: playing loud, bold, whisky fulled Rock’n’roll with a serious stench of southern decadence! Their sludgy sound takes the shortcut from the ears straight to the guts, avoiding carefully the brain, and drags you in their world where losers are kings. With two fulllength, a EP and countless tours over Europe, Mudweiser took over the throne of Stoner “made in France” and they’ll not gonna lose it with So Said The Snake, their upcoming album to be released in febuary 2018 via their long time partners of Head Records. This guys have enough neck breaking riffs to satisfy any fans of Kyuss, Karma To Burn or Nashville Pussy!
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Band:NEKROKRAFT
Album:SERVANTS
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:BLACKENED THRASH METAL
Servants is the first Full Length Album forged by Nekrokraft. This 9 track album, which holds over 42 minutes of blackened thrash metal, was spawned on the Ostrogothian plains of Sweden, during the constant midwinter cold of 2017.
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Band:NEKROKRAFT
Album:SERVANTS
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:VINYL
Genre:BLACKENED THRASH METAL
Servants is the first Full Length Album forged by Nekrokraft. This 9 track album, which holds over 42 minutes of blackened thrash metal, was spawned on the Ostrogothian plains of Sweden, during the constant midwinter cold of 2017.
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Band:SPECTRAL LORE / MARE COGNITUM
Album:SOL (REMASTERED REISSUE)
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL/COSMIC BLACK
Originally released in 2013, "Sol" is the acclaimed conceptual split album which contributed to establish SPECTRAL LORE and MARE COGNITUM within today's atmospheric black metal scene. A scene that they helped to develop, bringing in new and exciting stimuli together with a daring, progressive approach, transforming and transcending black metal without betraying its primary nature: that of a probe to plumb the human microcosm reflected in macrocosmic abysses.
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Band:ABSTRACTER
Album:CINEREOUS INCARNATE
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:BLACKENED DEATH DOOM/DRONE/CRUST
Eight years into their existence, Oakland CA’s dark doom destroyers ABSTRACTER return with their third full-length album, “Cinereous Incarnate”, essentially their own soundtrack to the end of all that is. Through a suffocating deluge of colossal riffs and dismal atmospheres that defy any clear categorization, ABSTRACTER’s hallucinated and apocalyptic music oozes with an immanent and oppressive sense of defeat and of unravelling hope, fusing together crust, black, doom, death metal, and cancerous strains of noise, drone, and dark ambient. “Cinereous Incarnate” is a catastrophic album, an oppressively apocalyptic and hallucinatory listen.
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Band:INHUMANKIND
Album:SELF-EXTINCTION
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:DARK CONTEMPORARY/AVANT-JAZZ/METAL
A duo from Barcelona, Spain, INHUMANKIND is the audacious project of two young musicians, Pablo Selnik (flute) and Àlex Reviriego (double bass), both active in many underground avant-garde acts and both in love with a wide spectrum of music, including black metal, contemporary, free jazz and noise. “The INHUMANKIND project emerged a couple of years ago,” Selnik explains; “after working together on several projects, we decided to start playing some black metal covers re-arranged for a flute/double bass duo, but soon we realized there was some kind of potential on it, and we started writing original music, prioritizing a personal style and music language.”
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Band:PRECARIA - D.I.S. - DOMINUS IRA
Album:METAMORPHOSPHOROS
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:OCCULT BLACK METAL/BLACK DEATH METAL
Spawn in the second half of 2017 from the visions of three underground black metal bands – Mexicos's PRECARIA, DEATHSPIRAL OF INHERITED SUFFERING from USA, and the Russian act DOMINUS IRA – “Metamorphosphoros is a split album dealing with the concept of Theion, the divine fire that burns but never consumes, like the one seen by Moses in the desert, when he heard the voice of YHWH. It's also about the descent to the abyss, and the consequent ascent, in order to attain a state of purification. Something which will ultimately be achieved through death. Within the grooves of “Metamorphosphoros”, PRECARIA, DEATHSPIRAL OF INHERITED SUFFERING and DOMINUS IRA peel back the skin of extreme black metal to reveal the intricate occult currents running through it, and they do that with an urgent pace, unbridled aggressiveness, and occasional atmospheric interludes which serve as pauses between their violent assaults on the senses.
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Band:PANEGYRIST
Album:HIERURGY
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:Avant-Garde
I, Voidhanger Records proudly attends the birth of PANEGYRIST, a mysterious entity sure to take the avant-garde black metal scene by storm. Hailing from USA, PANEGYRIST's debut full-length “Hierurgy” – meaning "ritual" or, literally, "holy work" – is an expression of burning religious impulse. This collection of meditations explores the theme of theosis, the process whereby the individual is transformed and united with God through the operations of the divine energies.
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Band:FETO IN FETUS
Album:FROM BLESSING TO VIOLENCE
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/DEATH METAL/GRIND
The third full length of this Polish band playing brutal death/grind with slam parts and bone-crushing breakdowns. Lyrically it’s all about pathological deviation, serial killers and various methods of taking someone’s life. “From Blessing To Violence” will definitely appeal for fans of Suffocation, Napalm Death, Lock Up, Aborted, Cephalic Carnage, Vomitory, Cattle Decapitation, Devourment.
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Band:AFGRUND
Album:THE DYSTOPIAN
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/GRIND
The original and founding members of Swedish/Finnish grindcore band AFGRUND, being Andy, Pat and long-time drummer Panu are back after six years with their fourth full album. "The Dystopian" was recorded, mixed and mastered by Panu Posti at Mean Seed Labs during 2017 and includes 11 songs of intense Swedish grindcore in the vein of NASUM, ROTTEN SOUND, GADGET and the likes.
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Band:A PORTRAIT OF FLESH AND BLOOD
Album:GALLERY OF SORROW
Label:ZERO DIMENSIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Debut album from international (USA, AUSTRIA and JAPAN) symphonic DSBM project A Portrait of Flesh and Blood. Featuring six tracks of melancholic melody, this album is sure to please fans of both modern DSBM and 90’s style black metal.”
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Band:MORSE
Album:PATHETIC MANKIND
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:NOISE HARDCORE
Morse from Montpellier (FR) offers us a second album of 11 rough tracks of bestial and sanguinary music. Recorded in August 2017 by Amaury Sauvé (Plebeian Grandstand, Birds In Row) and mastered by Serge Morattel (Knut, Year Of No Light) in September 2017, this second full lenght opens the band to a powerful, energic music full of variations : from a massive and telluric sludge metal to a unbridled and imaginative noise hardcore, exploring moods of ambiant guitars ...
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Band:HELLAVISTA
Album:ROBOLUTION
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:THRASH METAL
Appeared straight from the earth's core - sent by the devil himself as his orchestra - to set the world on fire. Hellavista Asocial Club are an Austrian Groove Thrash Metal combo which defines their music as an explosive mixture of experienced musicians.
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Band:MAD HATTER
Album:MAD HATTER
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:POWER METAL
Mad Hatter is a Power Metal act from Sweden and was founded by Petter Hjerpe and Alfred Fridhagen (Morning Dwell members) in 2017. The band produces high quality Power Metal combined with Heavy Metal influences. After recording the whole debut album self-titled “Mad Hatter”, both Petter and Alfred needed live musicians to take their
project to the stage so Eroc Rauti and Magnus Skooh joined the band to form a complete tandem. Now Mad Hatter Is ready to take the world with some energetic and powerful Metal!
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Band:DRAKKAR
Album:COLD WINTER'S NIGHT
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:MLP
Genre:EPIC POWER METAL
Born in 1995, DRAKKAR is one of the prime movers of the Italian Power Metal scene. Between 1996 and 2002, the band published two demotapes, the debut album "Quest For Glory", in 1998, "Gemini" in 2000 and "Razorblade God" which came out in 2002. Their next effort saw the light in 2007 as 4 songs-EP called "Classified". But the real comeback year was to be 2012, when DRAKKAR released their 4th full length, "When Lightning Strikes" via My Kingdom Music. After the great success of audience and great media welcome, DRAKKAR started to work on the successor of “When Lightning Strikes”. It was a hard work, but in the end, DRAKKAR created their best, most epic and direct work ever called “Run With The Wolf” and out on March 16th, 2015 via My Kingdom Music. Now it’s time to return on the scenes with a new great release titled “Cold Winter’s Night” a 4-tracks EP which vinyl format will include three new songs and a classic of their shows recorded in studio for the occasion, DIO’s cover “Rainbow In The Dark”.
The dragonship sails on!
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Band:KENOS
Album:PEST
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:VIOLENT DEATH METAL
KENOS project started in 1996 as “Underwise”. In 2001 changes the band’s name in KENOS. In 2002 KENOS realized for MAE Productions their debut CD titled “Rigor Mortis”, which sold out 1000 copies in the first six months. In January 2003 Kenos produced a new CD: “Intersection” released in 2004 by Adrenaline Records. On the early 2007 Kenos made their second full-length called “The Craving” for Lucretia Records International and support them with an European tour with the US band Vital Remains. After this tour and the great words about the album, in 2008 KENOS start the songwriting of the album “X-torsion” that was recorded at Green Sound Studios in 2009 and
released on 2010 by My Kingdom Music. At the end of 2010 a new singer entered the band.
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