Κυριακή 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2009
THE ANIMALS-BEFORE WE WERE INTERUPTED
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Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt)
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It's All Over Now
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Fire on the Sun
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As the Crow Flies
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Please Send Me Someone to Love
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Many Rivers to Cross
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Just Want a Little Bit Bass
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Riverside County
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Lonely Avenue Pomus
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The Fool Clark
Κυριακή 25 Ιανουαρίου 2009
THE ANIMALS-ANIMAL
Review by Bruce Eder
The Animals' second British album, recorded just before Alan Price exited the lineup, displays far more energy and confidence than its predecessor, and it's fascinating to speculate where they might've gone had the original lineup held together. There are a few lightweight tunes here, such as "Let the Good Times Roll" and the rollicking opener, "Mess Around," that capture the Animals loosening up and having fun, but much of Animal Tracks is pretty intense R&B-based rock. "How You've Changed" is a reflective, downbeat Chuck Berry number that Eric Burdon turns into a dark romantic confessional/inquisition, matched by Hilton Valentine's chopped out, crunchy lead work over the break, while Alan Price does his best to impersonate Johnnie Johnson. The group doesn't do as well with their cover of Billy Boy Arnold's "I Ain't Got You" as the Yardbirds did with the same number, treating it in a little too upbeat a fashion, and Hilton Valentine and Alan Price failing to add very much that's interesting to the break (especially in comparison to Eric Clapton's solo on the Yardbirds' version). "Roberta," by contrast, is a great rock & roll number, and their version of "Bright Lights, Big City," sparked by Burdon's surging, angry performance and Price's hard-driving organ solo. Price's playing opens what is easily the best blues cut on the album, "Worried Life Blues," where Hilton Valentine steps out in front for his most prominent guitar solo in the early history of the band, backed by Price's surging organ. Burdon and company also excel on a pair of Ray Charles covers, turning in a jauntily cheerful, euphoric performance of "Hallelujah I Love Her So," his jubilation matched by Price's ebullient organ work; and a slow, pain-racked performance by Burdon and company on the slow blues "I Believe to My Soul," arguably -- along with "Worried Life Blues" -- the singer's best performance on either of the group's EMI long-players, and matched by Price's quick-fingered yet equally ominous piano playing.
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Mess Around
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How You've Changed
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Hallelujah, I Love Her So
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I Believe to My Soul
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Worried Life Blues
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Roberta Smith
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I Ain't Got You
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Bright Lights, Big City
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Let the Good Times Roll
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For Miss Caulker
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Roadrunner
Κυριακή 11 Ιανουαρίου 2009
WHITESNAKE-SNAKEBITE
Review by Ed Rivadavia
Snakebite barely qualifies as a Whitesnake album. Vocalist David Coverdale had just assembled the band, and in fact, half of the songs contained here had been recorded by the singer nearly a year before for an abandoned solo outing. With this in mind, one can understand why most of the cuts either suffer from a lack of creative direction, the players' limited musical interaction, or both. Of the tracks credited to Whitesnake the band, the best results are achieved on the rollicking "Come On" and the bluesy "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City," the latter eventually being their first hit. And while more cohesive amongst themselves, the Coverdale solo tracks will hardly interest any but the most die-hard fanatics.
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Come On
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Bloody Mary
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Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
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Steal Away
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Keep on Giving Me Love
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Queen of Hearts
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Only My Soul
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Breakdown
http://rapidshare.com/files/182054938/Whitesnake-1978_-_Snakebite.rar
WHITESNAKE-LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH
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Come On
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Might Just Take Your Life
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Lie Down
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Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
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Trouble
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Mistreated
Κυριακή 30 Νοεμβρίου 2008
IGGY POP AND THE STOOGES-RAW POWER
Review by Mark Deming
In 1972, the Stooges were near the point of collapse when David Bowie's management team, MainMan, took a chance on the band at Bowie's behest. By this point, guitarist Ron Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander had been edged out of the picture, and James Williamson had signed on as Iggy's new guitar mangler; Asheton rejoined the band shortly before recording commenced on Raw Power, but was forced to play second fiddle to Williamson as bassist. By most accounts, tensions were high during the recording of Raw Power, and the album sounds like the work of a band on its last legs -- though rather than grinding to a halt, Iggy & the Stooges appeared ready to explode like an ammunition dump. From a technical standpoint, Williamson was a more gifted guitar player than Asheton (not that that was ever the point), but his sheets of metallic fuzz were still more basic (and punishing) than what anyone was used to in 1973, while Ron Asheton played his bass like a weapon of revenge, and his brother Scott Asheton remained a powerhouse behind the drums. But the most remarkable change came from the singer; Raw Power revealed Iggy as a howling, smirking, lunatic genius. Whether quietly brooding ("Gimme Danger") or inviting the apocalypse ("Search and Destroy"), Iggy had never sounded quite so focused as he did here, and his lyrics displayed an intensity that was more than a bit disquieting. In many ways, almost all Raw Power has in common with the two Stooges albums that preceded it is its primal sound, but while the Stooges once sounded like the wildest (and weirdest) gang in town, Raw Power found them heavily armed and ready to destroy the world -- that is, if they didn't destroy themselves first.
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Search and Destroy
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Gimme Danger
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3
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
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Penetration
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5
Raw Power
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I Need Somebody
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Shake Appeal
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Death Trip
Κυριακή 9 Νοεμβρίου 2008
GUNS n ROSES-USE YOUR ILLUSION II
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Civil War
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14 Years
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Yesterdays
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Get in the Ring
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Shotgun Blues
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Breakdown
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Pretty Tied Up
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Locomotive
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So Fine
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Estranged
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You Could Be Mine
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Don't Cry [Alternate Lyrics]
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My World
Σάββατο 4 Οκτωβρίου 2008
DANZIN-DANZIN
Review by Steve Huey
Danzig debuts with a record of simple, pounding, bluesy metal featuring lead singer Glenn Danzig's trademark Elvis-meets-Jim Morrison bellow and outlandishly dark, evil lyrics. There isn't a great deal of musical variety or complexity here, but the band powers its way through such signature tunes as "Twist of Cain," "Am I Demon," and the (future) hit "Mother" with a primal energy. Plus, Danzig's tongue-in-cheek posturing as the ultimate unholier-than-thou heavy metal frontman gives the record a definite appeal, even if one is not inclined to view his theatrics as dangerous or threatening.
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Twist of Cain
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ot of This World
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She Rides
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Soul on Fire
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Am I Demon
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Mother
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Possession
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End of Time
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The Hunter
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Evil Thing
Σάββατο 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008
MEGADEATH-SO FAR SO GOOD SO WHAT
1 Into the Lungs of Hell [instrumental]
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Set the World Afire
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Anarchy in the U.K.
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Mary Jane
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502
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In My Darkest Hour
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Liar
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Hook in Mouth
Σάββατο 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008
IRON MAIDEN-SEVENTH SON OF THE SEVENTH SON
Review by Greg Prato
In 1988, harsh thrash metal and radio-friendly glam rock were the two chief heavy metal styles. Instead of aligning themselves to either camp, Iron Maiden stuck to their guns and issued a concept album, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Concept albums had spelled disaster for other metal bands in the past, but this proved not to be the case with Maiden, resulting in what many fans consider their last true classic album (and the last with guitarist Adrian Smith, until their late-'90s reunion). Although the songs are all lyrically tied together by the story of a prophet who tries (unsuccessfully) to warn a village of an impending holocaust, they don't have to be listened to in succession to be enjoyed — one of the main reasons the album worked so well. A total of four singles were issued in the U.K. (all Top Tens) — "Can I Play with Madness?," "The Evil That Men Do," "The Clairvoyant," and "Infinite Dreams" — which all prove to be the album's best cuts. But like earlier Maiden albums, this is a complete album — while "Moonchild," "The Prophecy," "Only the Good Die Young," and the epic title track are not as well-known as the singles, they are just as noteworthy. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son marked the end of a golden era for one of metal's all-time best bands.
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Moonchild
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Infinite Dreams
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Can I Play with Madness
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The Evil That Men Do
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Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
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The Prophecy
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The Clairvoyant
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Only the Good Die Young
http://rapidshare.com/files/144914108/IRON-MAIDEN.1988_Seventh_Son_of_a_Seventh_Son.rar
Παρασκευή 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008
IRON MAIDEN-PIECE OF MIND
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Where Eagles Dare
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Revelations
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Flight of Icarus
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Die With Your Boots On
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The Trooper
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Still Life
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Quest for Fire
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Sun and Steel
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To Tame a Land
http://rapidshare.com/files/144710567/Iron-MAIDEN._Piece_of_mind.rar
Σάββατο 23 Αυγούστου 2008
OZZY OZBOURNE- BARK AT THE MOON
Review by Steve Huey
Ozzy Osbourne finds a permanent replacement for Randy Rhoads in Jake E. Lee, a more standard metal guitarist without Rhoads' neo-classical compositional ability or stylistic flair. Still, Osbourne and his band turn in a competent, workmanlike set of heavy metal featuring the crunching title track, whose video (featuring Osbourne dressed as a werewolf) became popular on MTV. Unfortunately, substance abuse problems would prevent Osbourne from releasing another record up to the standards of Bark at the Moon for nearly the rest of the decade.
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Bark at the Moon
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You're No Different
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Now You See It (Now You Don't)
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Rock 'N' Roll Rebel
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Centre of Eternity
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So Tired
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Slow Down
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Waiting for Darkness
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Spiders in the Night [*]
http://rapidshare.com/files/139519823/Ozzy_-_Bark_at_the_moon.rar
IRON MAIDEN- LIVE AT DONINGTON
Review by Greg Prato
As the title says, Live at Donington was recorded live at England's annual heavy metal festival, Castle Donington, on August 22, 1993. The performances are definitely an improvement over the disappointingly lackluster A Real Live Dead One collection (taken from the same tour), while the track listing is a near-exact duplicate of Dead One. Highlights include such Iron Maiden oldies but goodies as "The Number of the Beast," "Wrathchild," "2 Minutes to Midnight," "Hallowed Be Thy Name," "Iron Maiden," and the then-recent favs "Tailgunner," "Fear of the Dark," "Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter," and "Can I Play With Madness?" While fans of Maiden's more obscure material may prefer A Real Live Dead One, Live at Donington proves to be the better of the two on the strength of its far more inspired performances. While 1985's Live After Death remains Iron Maiden's definitive live collection, Live at Donington proved to be a proper follow-up.
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Be Quick or Be Dead
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The Number of the Beast
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Wrathchild
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From Here to Eternity
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Can I Play with Madness
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Wasting Love
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Tailgunner
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The Evil That Men Do
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Afraid to Shoot Strangers
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Fear of the Dark
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Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter
METALLICA-LOAD
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Ain't My Bitch
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2 X 4
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The House
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Until It Sleeps
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King Nothing
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Hero of the Day
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Bleeding Me
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Cure
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Poor Twisted Me
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Wasting My Hate
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Mama Said
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Thorn Within
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Ronnie
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The Outlaw Torn
Τετάρτη 13 Αυγούστου 2008
SLAYER-SHOW NO MERCY
Review by Jeremy Ulrey
Released at the forefront of the early-'80s thrash movement, Show No Mercy proved to be only a small step toward Slayer's domination of the extreme metal scene, basically amounting to a cleaned-up version of black metal stalwarts Venom. Everything about this album, from the production to the musicianship, is amateurish compared to later releases, but in the same way Metallica was on their own debut, Kill 'Em All. Despite the band's shortcomings, a number of future classics are present on this album, including concert favorites "The Antichrist," "Die by the Sword," and "Black Magic." Show No Mercy remains a solid, if inessential, part of the Slayer legacy. [The 1987 reissue includes three tracks from the Haunting the Chapel EP, though those have since been omitted in favor of both records being independently re-released.]
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Evil Has No Boundaries
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The Antichrist
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Die by the Sword
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Fight Till Death
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Metal Storm/Face the Slayer
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Black Magic
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Tormentor
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The Final Command
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Crionics
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Show No Mercy
http://rapidshare.com/files/137075135/Slayer-Show_No_Mercy.rar
IRON MAIDEN- IRON MAIDEN
Review by Greg Prato
Iron Maiden's 1980 self-titled album is certainly one of heavy metal's all-time best debuts. Surfacing from the underground along with a host of other New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands (e.g., Def Leppard, Motörhead), Maiden's debut proved to be incredibly influential for future metal bands — it was one of the first to merge heavy metal's power with punk's riffing and attitude, forging a blueprint for such genres as thrash, speed, and death metal. While the band would branch out musically on future releases, Iron Maiden contains some of their most straight-ahead compositions, such as "Prowler," "Sanctuary," "Charlotte the Harlot," and the title track. The group's more progressive direction is signaled by the seven-and-a-half-minute epic "Phantom of the Opera," as well as by the breakneck instrumental "Transylvania." Also featured was Maiden's first Top 40 U.K. single, the anthemic "Running Free," plus several calmer compositions like "Remember Tomorrow" and "Strange World," which showed that there was more to this young band than just bashing away. Bassist/leader Steve Harris proved to be the band's main songwriter/wordsmith early on, with lyrics that often proved thought-provoking — a sharp detour from the expected topic of sex, drugs, and rock & roll that most metal bands relied on, while vocalist Paul Di'Anno's oft-rough vocals were also a main ingredient. Add to it inspired performances by the other members (including second guitarist Dennis Stratton's sole album appearance with Maiden), and you have a promising, ultimately classic debut.
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Prowler
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Sanctuary
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Remember Tomorrow
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Running Free
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Phantom of the Opera
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Transylvania
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Strange World
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Charlotte the Harlot
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Iron Maiden
WASP-KILL FUCK DIE
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Kill Fuck Die
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Take the Addiction
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My Tortured Eyes
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Kill-A-Head
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Kill Your Pretty Face
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Fetus
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Little Death
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U
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Wicked Love
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The Horror
http://rapidshare.com/files/137069128/WASP.KILL_FUCK_DIE.rar
Παρασκευή 1 Αυγούστου 2008
TESTAMENT-LOW
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Low
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Legions (In Hiding)
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Hail Mary
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Trail of Tears
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Shades of War
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P.C.
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Dog Faced Gods
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All I Could Bleed
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Urotsukidoji [instrumental]
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Chasing Fear
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Ride
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Last Call
http://rapidshare.com/files/134228940/Testament_-_Low.rar
WASP-DYING FOR THE WORLD
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Shadow Man
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My Wicked Heart
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Black Bone Torso
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Hell for Eternity
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Hallowed Ground
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Revengeance
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Trail of Tears
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Stone Cold Killers
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Rubber Man
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Hallowed Ground [take]
Δευτέρα 21 Ιουλίου 2008
SEPULTURA-CHAOS A.D.
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Refuse/Resist
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Territory
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Slave New World
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Amen
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Kaiowas
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Propaganda
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Biotech Is Godzilla
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Nomad
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We Who Are Not as Others
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Manifest
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The Hunt
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Clenched Fist
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Policia
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Screams and Laugthers
http://rapidshare.com/files/131306314/Sepultura_-_Chaos_A.D__1993_.rar
SEPULTURA-ARISE
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Arise
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Dead Embryonic Cells
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Desperate Cry
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Murder
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Subtraction
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Altered State
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Under Siege (Regnum Iraw)
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Meaningless Movements
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Infected Voice
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