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Rhapsody - Legendary Tales
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Rhapsody - Lord Of The Thunder 2:00, 943 Kb
Empty Tremor - Apocolokyntosys
WOW!, What a great CD!! These 6 Italian boys (avarage 16 years old) can play music. 'Apocolokyntosys' is a varied CD with some Dream Theater influences. The structure of the songs is complex and good. The instrument playing too. The vocalist has one less good point: his pronunciation is bad. He can sing very well, but I can't hear what he says. The music has very dominant keys and the drummer is very happy with his double-bass drums (and he can play them very well. There are many drummers who use the double bass to strike, while they can't play it very well).
This is a tip for everyone. Every song is a masterpiece. Empty Tremor belongs for me in the category with Angra, Dream theater, Shadow Gallery, Vanden Plas and Symphony X.
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Empty Tremor - Middleman 2:16, 1,03 Mb
Blind Guardian -
Imaginations From The Other Side,
Somewhere Far Beyond
Blind Guardian is one of the biggest speed/prog. bands in the world. With their magnificent choruses, which will be stuck in your head, typical sounds
and lyrics about dwarfs and fairies, influenced by J.R.R.Tolkien, Blind Guardian beats every album again with a new one. Imaginations... and Somewhere..., respectively their third and fourth studio-album, are classic CDs.
Tracklists:
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Blind Guardian - The Quest For Tanelorn(from: Somewhere Far Beyond) 2:11, 1,0 Mb
Blind Guardian - A Past And Future Secret (from: Imaginations From The Other Side) 1:45, 823 Kb
Madsword - Evolution
The 4 guys of the Italian (again?!) are big Dream Theater-fans: On their 1996 demo CD 'Evolution', Madsword has covered 'The Ytse Jam'. Only daring to do is great, and they did it not bad! Back to the other songs: The other 4 tracks (5:45-10:49) are self made. The great bass playing of Simon Rosani is striking for me. Madsword is playing progmetal with clearly inluences of Rush (track 1) and Dream Theater. Many changes of rythms makes the music very complex and technically difficult. There are two negative points on this CD. 1: the vocals are too weak (but: Madsword is currently looking for a new vocalist). 2: The sound quality is not very good. The 'Underground Symphony' has very much talented bands but one thing that has to be changed is the sound quality. Then the CD will get better and more bands will break through.
I hope I will hear more from this Italians soon!
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Madsword - Through The Sky 1:58, 929 Kb
Madsword - The Ytse Jam 1:44, 812 Kb
Symmetry - To Divinity
A new prog-metal band from the East of Holland. Symmetry has made an auspicious start for a nice career with their demo "To Divinity". Their music has nice riffs and many tempo-variations without forgetting the musical part. The CD contains 4 varied songs with excellent playing (live too!) and good production. In short: This CD belongs in a progmetal-fans collection! We will defenitely hear something about them again. The Dutch Metal Magazine "Aardschok" wrote: 'Usually CDs released under private supervision are too long, but this one is absolutely too short'.
For info mail to: prog_metal@oocities.com
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Symmetry - Why Should I 2:02, 960 Kb
Sunblaze - Illuminating Heights
German prog-rock with real orchestral support and a little Therion-influence, these are the first remarkable things about this EP. Two songs with a total running time of over 24 minutes, with violins, flutes, clarinets, saxophones and choirs, very many tempo-variations and good musicians. This CD was released in 1997 and produced by Sunblaze. The production has to be a little more 'fat', because guitars usually don't belong in the background.
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Sunblaze - Sunblaze 2:00, 940 Kb
