HELLISHTHRONE: (2007) Light a Candle for the Dead... and a Torch to Burn Their Corpses @192kbps

Na ativa desde 2002 a banda paulista Hellishthrone volta a atacar com esse novo trabalho. Logo nos deparamos com uma qualidade superior de gravação, e sete músicas muito bem elaboradas, que esbanjam agressividade e ao mesmo tempo demonstram grande criatividade através de variadas passagens, que vão desde o mais cadenciado até o mais brutal, sempre mantendo a fidelidade às raízes do estilo. Apesar da qualidade linear, podemos mencionar como grandes destaques as faixas ''Though Everlasting War, ''For Those.. I Am Not'', ''Everythingn is Vanity'' e ''Rats of Envy'' (que mescla brutalidade com ótimas passagens acústicas). Com este álbum o Hellishthrone tem tudo para se firmar como um dos principais nomes da cena Black Metal brasileira, confira sem medo! --- Ricardo Campos, Road Crew Magazine.

tRaCkS
1. through everlasting war
2. for those... i am not
3. tears of blood
4. everything is vanity
5. rats of envy
6. only for wrath
7. epilogue

d-Link
http://lix.in/a304df1a
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FACEBREAKER: (2008) Dead Rotten and Hungry @VBR

If the heavy metal music industry were to give out Pulitzer-like awards for lyrical content then Facebreaker would surely win for best documentary with their latest tome on the dietary habits of the undead. Straightforward death metal delivers stories of zombies and flesh eaters that would make any horror movie screenwriter jealous with brain-eating rage. For just a sophomore release, Dead, Rotten and Hungry is a well balanced, well constructed death metal attack that shows plenty of old school influences and modern twists. Maddening riffs combine with pummeling drums and bass filling the ears of the undead with groove oriented death metal. There are plenty of nicely timed tempo changes throughout the disc that jump from rapid fire cranial blows to long, slow rending of flesh from the bone. Add to the bloody mix the guttural barks and growls for frontman Roberth Karlsson and a superb production and you’re left with an album that should bring this band to the forefront of the genre on the backs of freshly arisen corpses.

Dead, Rotten and Hungry is one of those albums that simply cannot be ignored. It’s a throwback to a time in death metal when bands wrote campy lyrics and just played without the urge to be more technical than the next guy. This disc has enough groove oriented death metal to make up for all the super technical crap that’s popped up in recent years. It’s straight forward, hammer-to-the-face method of attack is refreshing and much needed. I highly recommend digging this one up. --- Mouth Forwar Review

TrAcKs
1. slowly rotting
2. dead rotten and hungry
3. night of the burning dead
4. the awakening
5. walking dead
6. burner
7. consumed
8. unanimated flesh
9. unlock the horror
10. soul eater
11. devoured by decay

d-Link
http://lix.in/82aa1600
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CROWN OF THORNS: (1998) Lost Cathedral @192kbps

Lost Cathedral is the best melodic rock album we can get from 1998. My instant impression is that it is Survivor meets prog hard rock. Their songwriting is top of the world and it is strange that it didn't become huge hit in the United States. Listening to Live and Die and Motorcycle Loretta alone will convince you. Highly recommendable for 80's melodic rock fans.

tRaCkS
1. Lost Cathedral
2. Live and Die
3. Motorcycle Loretta
4. Lyin'
5. Free Me
6. Greed of Love
7. Cold Blooded Bitch
8. End of the Road
9. Although We're Fools
10. Wasted Prime
11. Hell of a Night
12. If You Need Me

d-Link
http://lix.in/edb65699
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CRUACHAN: (2006) The Morrigan's Call @320kbps

Cruachan is the Creation of Founding Member Keith Fay, his Brother John Fay and Long Time Friend John Clohessy. With a Love of Celtic Music, History and Mythology, They Sought to Incorporate this Into their Music and Lyrics, on a Scale that Had Never Been Done Before. With a Complete Line-up Playing a Variety of Traditional and Conventional Instruments and a Lot of Original Songs under their Belt, They Signed with "Nazguls Eyrie Productions" from Germany and Released their Debut Album "Tuatha Na Gael" in Early 95'. Cruachan have Been Playing Shows Extensively Throughout Ireland. They have Supported Shane Mac Gowan and the Popes on Two Occasions in 2001, in Dublin's Olympia Theatre and University College Dublin. They Took Part in the Heineken Green Energy Festival in Summer 2001 and Play Regularly at Eamon Doranns in Dublin's Temple Bar Area.

TrAcKs
1. shelob
2. the brown bull of cooley
3. coffin ships
4. the great hunger
5. the old woman in the woods
6. ungoliant
7. the morrigan's call
8. téir abhaile riú
9. wolfe tone
10. the very wild rover
11. cuchulainn
12. diarmuid and grainne

d-Links
http://lix.in/7e1f3b9a
http://lix.in/73499ae3
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AVANTASIA: (2008) The Scarecrow @320kbps

Tobias Sammet is the Verdi of our age. He has the broadest brush of any composer today. I don't say composer lightly. He is more than a song writer. His arrangements, chord progressions, and lyricism are unmatched by anyone. The musical complexity and variety leave you spell bound, open mouthed and filled with awe. This crazy guy has two bands: EdGuy and Avantasia and there are rumors of a third.
Music pours out of him. At his live performance with EdGuy at BB Kings in New York last fall, you could hardly watch him. He was more electrified than the lead guitar, dancing on the speakers, racing from one side of the stage to the other, screaming out one hit after another. Did I say he does all the vocals in a male range rivaling Celine or Mariah. He could probably match note for note all the whining guitar rifts he writes. So how does this album stack up. His best to date. There isn't a bad cut on the entire album. The other reviewers have mentioned all the best songs, but I encourage a listen to all of them in the order he listed them and pay special attention to "The Toy Master" where Alice Cooper (yes that Alice Cooper) sings the lead vocals. This song should be released by Alice as a come back single. It so rocks and it is so Alice on steroids.
Sammet is a god in Europe and if the USA music world werent so fixated on rap crap instead of Rock, we would all be the better for it. But hey it doesnt matter so much anymore with the music labels so out of touch with their audience. You can get this great rock music anyway. Please pay for it and support Avantasia and Sammet.

TrAcKs
1. twisted mind
2. the scarecrow
3. shelter from the rain
4. carry me over
5. what kind of love
6. another angel down
7. the toy master
8. devil in the belfry
9. cry just a little
10. i don't believe in your love
11. lost in space

d-Links
http://lix.in/6dd56a35
http://lix.in/87bd16df
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ARSIS: (2004) A Celebration Of Guilt @320kbps

I would have never in a million years expected a traditional melodic death revival to come from two guys from Virginia, but it has. While influnenced by bands such as At the Gates, they don't rip them off. Arsis is much faster and more aggresive than anything by At the Gates. The vocalist/bass/guitar player sounds a little bit like Tomas Lindberg and the drummer is one of the best and fastest I've ever heard. If Amazon had half star rating this would probably get a 4.5 since there are a few downsides. Obviously, two people aren't going to come up with as diverse of material as 4 or 5 and as a result the songs sound somewhat similar and the production leaves something to be desired. Other than that this is a killer album. Props to Arsis and Insomnium for staying true.

tRaCkS
1. the face of my innocence
2. maddening disdain
3. seven whispers fell silent
4. return
5. worship depraved
6. carnal ways to recreate the heart
7. dust and guilt
8. elegant and perverse
9. the sadistic motives behind be
10. looking to nothing
11. wholly night

d-Link
http://lix.in/461bb78e
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BLUE OYSTER CULT: (1995) Workshop Of the Telescope (DCD)

Blue Öyster Cult was long in need of a thorough career retrospective, and this is it. Thirty-two tracks filling up two discs with a total running time of 154:46, Workshop of the Telescopes traces BÖC through 14 years as the kings of lite metal, 1972-1986. Actually, as annotator Arthur Levy notes, there are at least two phases in that era. The first, running through 1974, includes the classic first two albums, Blue Öyster Cult and Tyranny and Mutation, when BÖC was one of the few acts in those pre-punk days bucking the trend toward soft rock without indulging in the more grotesque aspects of heavy metal. This material takes up disc one. Disc two leads off with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," which launched the second phase of the band's career, when it sought to balance its hard-rocking approach (heard especially in concert) with pop accessibility. Since this period was marked by uneven material, it is ripe for compiling, and the selection here is good. On the whole, Workshop of the Telescopes lives up to Levy's description of it as "the ultimate BÖC anthology." It's about time. --- by William Ruhlmann, AMG

tracks (CD--1)
1. Cities on Flame with Rock'n' Roll
2. Transamaniacon MC
3. Before the Kiss, A Redcap
4. Stairway to the Stars
5. Buck's Boogie
6. Workshop of the Telescopes
7. The Red and the Black
8. Seven Screaming Diz-Busters
9. Career of Evil
10. Flaming Telepaths
11. Astronomy
12. Subhuman
13. Harvester of the Eyes
14. M.E. 262
15. Born to Be Wild
(CD -- 2)
1. Don't Fear the Reaper
2. This Ain't the Summer Of Love
3. E.T.I.
4. Godzilla
5. Goin' Through the Motions
6. Golden Age of Leather
7. Kick Out The Jams
8. We Gotta Get Out of this Place
9. In Thee
10. The Marshall Plan
11. Veteran of the Psychic Wars
12. Burnin' for You
13. Dominance and Submission
14. Take Me Away
15. Shooting Shark
16. Dancin' In The Ruins
17. Perfect Water

dLinks
http://sharebee.com/e92e4562
http://sharebee.com/b49faba1
http://sharebee.com/ae268662
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