Friday, November 11, 2011

How Like A Winter - Beyond My Grey Wake (2003)

Italy
Doom/Gothic/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.55 (47 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.73
192 KB

1. A Flower That Sears In Silence
2. All The Season Of Madness
3. Laying Together Again
4. Bescreen'd
5. Who Is Hiding
6. Crucifige
7. XCVII
8. The Night, The Him
9. So Death Would Be Just A Bad Dream

Slow mournful doomy metal. You can hear a quite big My Dying Bride influence in their music and lyrics.

Candlemass - Death Magic Doom (2009)

Sweden
Traditional/Epic Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.71
The Crypts View: 4.10
320 KB

1. If I Ever DIe
2. Hammer Of Doom
3. The Bleeding Baroness
4. Demon Of The Deep
5. House Of 1,000 Voices
6. Dead Angel
7. Clouds Of Dementia
8. My Funeral Dreams

Candlemass - Ancient Dreams (1988)

Sweden
Traditional/Epic Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.74
The Crypts View: 4.12
192 KB

1. Mirror Mirror
2. A Cry From The Crypt
3. Darkness In Paradise
4. Incarnation Of evil
5. Bearer Of Pain
6. Ancient Dreams
7. The Bells Of Acheron
8. Epistle No. 81 (A Michael Bellman Cover)

Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)

Sweden
Traditional Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.95
The Crypts View: 4.81
128 KB

1. Gothic Stone
2. The Well Of Souls
3. Codex Gigas
4. At The Gallows End
5. Samarithan
6. March Funebre
7. Dark Are The Veils Of Death
8. Mournerns Lament
9. Bewitched
10. Black Candles

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Heir Apparent - Graceful Inheritance (1986)

USA
Heavy/Power Metal
RYM rate: 3.71
The Crypts View: 4.39
160 KB

1. Entrance
2. Another Candle
3. The Servant
4. Tear Down The Walls
5. Running From The Thunder
6. The Cloak
7. R.I.P. (Live)
8. Hands Of Destiny
9. Keeper Of The Reign
10. Dragon's Lair
11. Master Of Invasion
12. Nightmare
13. A.N.D...Drogro Lived On

Brilliant debut album.

Heir Apparent - One Small Voice (1989)

USA
Heavy/Power/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.72
The Crypts View: 4.36
320 KB

1. Just Imagine
2. Crossing The Border
3. Screaming
4. Alone Again
5. Cacophony Of Anger
6. The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)
7. The Haunting
8. Two Hearts
9. We, The People
10. Young Forever
11. One Small Voice
12. Decorated
13. The Fifth Season

Featuring a live video of "Just Imagine"
US Power/Heavy metal that shows some progressive elements as well.

Krokus - Headhunter (1983)

Switzerland
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.58
The Crypts View: 3.77
128 KB

1. Headhunter
2. Eat The Rich
3. Screaming In The Night
4. Ready To Burn
5. Night Wolf
6. Stayed Awake All Night
7. Stand And Be Counted
8. White Din
9. Russian Winter

Arena - The Seventh Degree Of Seperation (2011)

UK
Neo Progressive Rock/Metal
RYM rate: 4.06 (14 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.76
320 KB

1. The Great Escape
2. Rapture
3. One Last Au Revoir
4. The Ghost Walks
5. Theif Of Souls
6. Close Your Eyes
7. Echoes Of The Fall
8. Bed Of Nails
9. What If?
10. Trebuchet
11. Burning Down
12. Catching The Bullet
13. The Tinder Box

This was a big suprise for me, Arena have been around for sixteen years and have put out eleven albums and yet i haven't heard of them until i came around this album. Some real good reviews got me curious. So i check it out and it truly delivers some really good well writen, soft progressive metal/rock. Worth for any prog fans.

Focus - Moving Waves (1971)

Netherlands
Progressive Rock
RYM rate: 3.84
The Crypts View: 4.11
320 KB

1. Hocus Pocus
2. Le Clochard
3. Janis
4. Moving Waves
5. Focus II
6. Eruption.

This album was later to be known as Focus II. Excellent progressive rock with the talented and original Jan Akkerman.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol's Kozmic Blues Again Mama!.. (1969)

USA
Blues/Psychadelic Rock
RYM rate: 3.85
The Crypts View: 4.37
320 Kb

1. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
2. Maybe
3. One Good Man
4. As Good As You've Been to This World
5. To Love Somebody
6. Kozmic Blues
7. Little Girl Blue
8. Work Me, Lord

Roxxcalibur - Lords Of The NWOBHM (2009)

Germany
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.64 (21 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.94
320 KB

1. London Bride Is Falling Down (Intro)
2. Atomic Rock
3. Heads Will Roll
4. Flying High
5. Day To Day
6. If Heaven Is Hell
7. Lift Up Your Eyes
8. Satan's Serenade
9. Hellbound
10. Music Power
11. Angel of Death
12. A Face In The Crowd
13. Battlescarred
14. Stage Fright
15. At War With Satan

Roxxcalibur is covering 15 of the most outstanding songs from the NWOBHM era. And they have done it suprisingly well. Great tribute.

Horrific - Your Worst Nightmare (2009)

USA
Death/Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.34 (49 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.81
320 KB

1. Horrific Trailer
2. Death Rock
3. Brain Drain
4. Abnormal Imagery
5. Dead At Midnight
6. The Ultimate Sacrifyx
7. Metal Cemetary
8. Ride On The Lunatic Side
9. Orgy Of The Blood Parasites
10. Temptress Of The Undead
11. Tales Too Terrible To Tell

This is a one man band by Slasher Dave. This could be called as a tribute to the 80's horror movies.

Skeletal Spectre - Tomb Coven (2009)

Sweden
Old School Death/Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.18 (24 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.73
320 KB

1. The Decapitress
2. Amulet Of Impurity
3. Eerie Bones
4. Wrath Of Currupta
5. Burial Ground
6. Cursed Ancestry
7. Tomb Coven

Debut album by this Razorback band.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Manilla Road - The Deluge (1986)

USA
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.88
The Crypts View: 4.25
128 KB

1. Dementia
2. Shadow In The Black
3. Divine Victim
4. Hammer Of The Witches
5. Morbid Tabernacle
6. Isle Of The Dead
7. Taken By Storm
8. The Deluge
I. Eye Of The Sea
II. The Drowned Lands
III. Engulfed Cathedral
9. Friction In Mass
10. Rest In Pieces

Manilla Road - Crystal Logic (1983)

USA
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.90
The Crypts View: 4.11
320 KB

1. Prologue
2. Necropolis
3. Crystal Logic
4. Feeling Free Again
5 The Riddle Master
6. The Ram
7. The Veils Of Negative Existence
8. Dreams Of Eschaton
9. Epilogue

Iron Maiden - Live After Death (1985)

UK
NWOBHM
RYM rate: 4.17
The Crypts View: 4.68

1. Intro: Churchill Speech / Aces High
2. 2 Minutes To Midnight
3. The Trooper
4. Revelations
5. Flight Of Icarus
6. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
7. Powerslave
8. The Number Of The Beast
9. Hallowed Be Thy Name
10. Iron Maiden
11. Run To The Hills
12. Running Free
13. Wrathchild
14. 22 Acacia Avenue
15. Children of The Damned
16. Die With Your Boots On
17. Phantom Of The Opera

Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning (1983)

Ireland
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.83
The Crypts View: 4.21
320 KB

1. Thunder And Lightning
2. This Is The One
3. The Sun Goes Down
4. The Holy War
5. Cold Sweat
6. Someday She Is Going To Hit Back
7. Baby Please Don't Go
8. Bad Habits
9. Heart Attack

Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World (1973)

Ireland
Hard/Blues Rock
RYM rate: 3.72
The Crypts View: 4.39
320 KB

1. Mama Nature Said
2. The Hero And The Madman
3. Slow Blues
4. The Rocker
5. Vagabonds From The Western World
6. Little Girl In Bloom
7. Gonna Creep Up On You
8. A Song While I'm Away
9. Whiskey In The Jar (Full length version)
10. Black Boys On The Corner
11. Randolph's Tango
12. Broken Dreams

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976)

Ireland
Hard Rock
RYM rate: 4.06
The Crypts View: 4.58
320 KB

1. Jailbreak
2. Angel From The Coast
3. Running Back
4. Romeo And The Lonely Girl
5. Warriors
6. The Boys Are Back In Town
7. Fight Or Fall
8. Cowboy Song
9. Emerald

Mortalicum - Progress Of Doom (2010)

Sweden
Traditional Doom/Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.55
The Crypts View: 3.88
320 KB

1. Guiding Star
2. Into The Night
3. Progress Of Doom
4. A Darker Power
5. Power And Control
6. The Voyager
7. Revolution In Vain
8. Darkness All Around
9. Inner Peace
10. Damnation Of The Soul

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Joe Bonamassa - You And Me (2006)

USA
Blues Rock
RYM rate: 3.83
The Crypts View: 4.25
192 KB

1. High Water Everywhere
2. Bridge To Better Days
3. Asking Around For You
4. So Many Roads
5. I Don't Believe
6. Tamp Em Up Solid
7. Dajngo
8. Tea For One
9. Palm Trees Helicopters And Gasoline
10. Your Funeral And My Trial
11. Torn Down

Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe (2003)

USA
Blues Rock
RYM rate: 3.80
The Crypts View: 3.99
192 KB

1. You Upset Me Baby
2. Burning Hell
3. Blues Deluxe
4. Many Of Many Words
5. Woke Up Dreaming
6. I Don't Live Anywhere
7. Wild About You Baby
8. Long Distance Blues
9. Pack It Up
10. Left Overs
11. Walking Blues
12. Mumbling Word

Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971)

USA
Blues Rock
RYM rate: 3.91
The Crypts View: 4.42
320 KB


1. Move Over
2. Cry Baby
3. A Woman Left Lonely
4. Half Moon
5. Buried Alive In The Blues
6. My Baby
7. Me And Bobby McGee
8. Mercedes Benz
9. Trust Me
10. Get It While You Can