Great new releases from Locomotive Records – http://www.locomotiverecords.com.————————
ARTIST: Runic
ALBUM TITLE: Liar Flags
STREAMING AUDIO: Runic – “Nau”: http://vista.streamguys.com/jspiewak/runic_nau.wmaRunic was born in Castellón (Spain) in 2001. Some people have defined the style of the band as melodic and epic Death Metal; others as Viking Metal, and the rest say that Runic plays Pagan Metal. It really doesn´t matter, because Runic considers its sound as a mixture of these three varieties: The band has a strong admiration for ancestral cultures, they think in Paganism as a need of freedom in a Christian society, and finally, their influences come from melodic Death Metal.
Their second Album „Liar Flags” has been recently finished in Rocketes Studios. It will be made up by nine tracks, in which the band goes on with the way started by “Awaiting the Sound of the Unavoidable”, but trying new patterns, sounds and instruments. In this last recording there are collaborations such as Fran (Templario´s voice and bass) who plays flutes, pipe and many ancient instruments such as “Zanfoña”, included in the track six (Predecessor), Pascual Gimeno (some orchestral arrangements), Cuco with percussion instrument, Ana (chorus arrangements). These contributions help the band to recreate some atmospheres within their compositions.————————
ARTIST: Solitude Aeturnus
ALBUM TITLE: Alone
STREAMING AUDIO: Solitude Aeturnus – “Waiting For The Light”: http://vista.streamguys.com/jspiewak/sa_waiting.wmaFormed in the spring of 1987, Solitude Aeturnus are still producing some the finest heavy metal music on the planet! Out of a sheer dark desire to spread the power of heavy head swirling and pounding hell metal the band pushes onward. The line up began as darkened soul, John Perez, quit his former seminal thrash metal band Rotting Corpse in early ’87. Assembling a group and recording a demo in early 1988, Solitude began planting the seeds within the tape trading and underground metal network. In late ’88 changes started to occur within the band and without going into too many details the members of the band all changed finally settling on a line up that consisted of Perez - guitars, Edgar Rivera - guitars, Robert Lowe - vocals, Lyle Steadham - bass and John “Wolf” Covington on drums. A legal dispute forced the band to change the name to Solitude Aeturnus during the spring of 1989.
A top notch production and keen sense of songwriting makes „Alone” one of the bands best album of their career! Solitude Aeturnus continues to push forward despite the odds. If you want pure metal with special detail to real songwriting then here it is. If you want metal that sounds good to the ears then hear it is. If you want monotonous, faceless metal sounds, then look elsewhere.————————
ARTIST: Disbelief
ALBUM TITLE: Navigator
STREAMING AUDIO: Disbelief – “Navigator”: http://vista.streamguys.com/jspiewak/disbelief_navigator.wma
For more than 15 years DISBELIEF have matured their absolute unique sound with every new album and have become absoutelly outstanding and uncomparable.
The band has worked with different producers like ANDY CLASSEN (Legion Of The Damned a.o.), who did the debut DISBELIEF (1997), the follow up INFECTED (1998), as well as WORST ENEMY (2001) and SPREADING THE RAGE (2003) , HEINZ HESS (Harmful u.a.), who did the album SHINE (2002) with a very individual sound, TUE MADSEN (The Haunted u.a.) whose excellent work made 66 SICK (2005) being the band’s most successful album to date and now finally MICHAEL MAINX (Böhse Onkelz a.o.), who produced the new milestone NAVIGATOR (VÖ 23.02.2007 Germany, 26.02.2007 worldwide) with his incredible experience and the rsult turned out the heaviest, sophisticated and variable DISBELIEF-album to date!
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ARTIST: Crematory
ALBUM TITLE: Klagebilder
STREAMING AUDIO: Crematory – “Hoffnungen”: http://vista.streamguys.com/jspiewak/crematory_klagebilder.wmaBack in 1996 CREMATORY established themselves as genre pioneers, as the release of „Crematory – das deutsche Album„ was not only praised but criticized. Nevertheless the band consequently proceeded its way onwards and a German song has been presented on nearly every album since. It was clear that after 15 years of CREMATORY there has to be a special present for the fans and so the band decided to give the fans what they’ve been yelling for the last 10 years: A new German album!
„Klagebilder„ is an album with the expected amount of smashers with ear-drilling refrains and club hits to dance to, demonstrating that the hit factory CREMATORY is without doubt powered by high voltage.
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