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Rest ur askan från sitt forna doom/death metalband Slumber släppte AtomA sin debut Skylight den 30 mars i år. Lovord och positiva recensioner har avlöst varandra och för mig var det här någonting helt nytt. Musiken är en blandning av metal, post-rock och electro förenat med tusen olika känslor på en och samma gång. Bandet består av Ehsan Kalantarpour (sång/synth), Markus Hill (gitarr) och Siavosh Bigonah (bas) från Slumber, samt Oscar Borgenstam (trummor) och Christian Älvestam (kompgitarr/bakgrundssång). Eftersom jag fullkomligt förälskade mig i Skylight så stämde jag träff med Ehsan för att få höra mer om AtomA.

När föddes AtomA?
– Officiellt så började AtomA den 1 januari 2011...

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Whilst working on their second offering to mere mortals, Stuka Squadron are horrified to learn that payment in blood is no longer acceptable…

The vampires desperately need the support of their Legionnaires and urge you to come forward…
As appreciation of the sacrifices you make, the Squadron will reward you in kind…
Pledge your soul to Stuka Squadron

http://stukasquadron.com/?page_id=300

Teaser trailer for new album: http://tinyurl.com/7kf4t3g

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KOBRA AND THE LOTUS – the five-piece group fronted by powerful vocalist Kobra Paige – will play Bloodstock Open Air Festival (the UK’s biggest independent Metal festival) on Sunday August 12th. The band will open the Ronnie James Dio stage, the main stage at the event.

KATL – who recently guested with Judas Priest & Saxon at the Hammersmith Apollo in London – will release their self-titled album on August 6th 2012 via Spinefarm Records.
To celebrate this release, the five-piece will play a one-off, headline show at The Borderline in London on August 13th, tickets available here.

Produced by Kevin Churko (whose previous credits include both Five Finger Death Punch & Ozzy Osbourne), the 10-track album has an intentionally grand-scale dynamic, revelling in the glories of the genre ...

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UK ROCKERS RELEASE VIDEO FOR SINGLE ‘NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR MINDS’ AS THEY PREPARE FOR MAJOR US ASSAULT

IN ANTICIPATION of their first visit to North America as guests on the 43-date Kiss/ Motley Crue tour, The Treatment premiere the video for third single ’Nothing To Lose But Our Minds’ – this a brand new version of the track, the original version of which can be found on the band’s debut album, ‘This Might Hurt’.
Watch the video here.

http://www.vevo.com/artist/the-treatment?source=instantsearch

Talking of their upcoming tour with Kiss & Motley Crue, The Treatment vocalist Matt Jones comments:-
“We’re proud to be representing the British rock scene in the US, cos when it comes to rockin’ music, we have a long and proud tradition in the UK...

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ENSIFERUM, THE highly visual troupe who’ve long been a market leader when it comes to stirring, armour-plated anthems, will have their fifth studio album released through the Spinefarm label on August 27th 2012.

Titled ‘Unsung Heroes’ and produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, Apocalyptica, etc.), this is the hour-plus follow-up to 2009’s ‘From Afar’, and sees the Finnish five-piece – founded in 1995 – pushing their signature sound to bold new heights of drama and excess.

A cinematic experience from first note to last , ‘Unsung Heroes’ takes the listener on a journey of genuine light & shade, with the 16 minute-plus ‘Passion Proof Power’ showing that when it comes to the epic statement, Ensiferum are very much in the front-line, swords at the ready.

“We’ve tri...

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Universal Music Catalogue’s new “Re-presents” label takes well known and loved albums from decades gone and releases them in a new form. This release is Swing Out Sister’s 1987 album ”It’s better to travel”. The album spent 21 weeks in the charts and reached the number one spot. The album contained two top ten hit singles – ”Breakout” which reached number 4 in the charts spending 14 weeks in the charts, and ”Surrender” which spent 8 weeks in the charts and reached number 7. The album achieved platinum sales status and earned the band two Grammy nominations (‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group or Duo’ for Breakout.).
Despite the band’s subsequent releases failing to achieve much chart success, the band managed to release ten albums plus two live al...

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Ben Glover comes from Glenarm, Co Antrim, a small coastal village 30 miles from Belfast, Northern Ireland and splits him time between there and Nashville, Tennessee, where he recorded his latest album. This new album (his fourth) was originally planned to be a five song EP, but the sessions went so well that more tracks were written and recorded and a full length album created.
Ben Glover has toured or performed with artists including Vince Gill, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Mary Gauthier, Jason Mraz and Tift Merritt. His songs have been used in feature films such as “Finding Joy,” hit webisode series “Adults Only,” and as the theme song for BBC N.Ireland sports programme ”The Championship”...

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Blackmore’s Night is the medieval folk rock band formed by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his singer wife, Candice Night. Playing folk rock and taking medieval influences such as stage outfits as well as traditional songs, the band blend these with an electric guitar based rock sound which gives the bands quite a distinct sound. Ritchie Blackmore plays the electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola, and hurdy gurdy, while Candice Night is equally versatile, performing the vocals as well as plaing pennywhistles, tambourine, and Renaissance woodwind instruments. Along with the rest of the band they play Renaissance fairs in the US and also do their own tours...

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”The Kinks at the BBC” is as the name suggests, an album of material by The Kinks that has been primarily taken from the BBC archives. It’s a pretty impressive collection – Five CD’s, one DVD and a book, and at just under £40 is pretty good value when you look how much is included.

The collection was put together from the BBC archive material and also by inviting contributions from fans. The BBC often used to wipe tapes after they were broadcast which has meant that many classic programmes were lost for ever. However, thanks to fans recording broadcasts at home a lot of gems have been reclaimed here for this set.

The collection spans a long period of time – from 1964 to 1977 (plus a few bits from 1994) and includes interviews as well as live performances...

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Hard rock n’ roll, or American punk/pop-rock influence? Its not easy to exactly draw the line in the music of Solity.

Solity’s first album came out in this april, but despite the fact that its the debut disk of these guys, in the style there is an explicit feeling of determinism and professionalism.

Soft melodies for the hard music
Songs can not exactly classified- its a kind of nowadays really „in vogue” style, mixing the different melodies of eras and areas. Solity follows the trend pretty well, but they spread some extra spice by adding soft and hard effects as initial sounds inside the tracks. These are those sides, where blues, boogie, or different soft rock n’roll elements could appears, not only additional.
Basic is the American style with the Swedish feeling…

„Booze, b...