Friday, June 3, 2011

Stormwitch - Tales Of Horror (1985)


Country: Germany
Genre: Heavy/Power Metal

1. Intro Point Of No Return
2. He's Still Alive
3. Masque Of The Red Death
4. Arabian Nights
5. Intro Sword Of Dragon
6. Trust In The Fire
7. Night Stalker
8. Lost Legions
9. When The Bat Bites

Excellent second studio album.

Stormwitch - Walpurigs Night (1984)

Country: Germany
Genre: Heavy/Power Metal

1. Cave Of Steenfoll
2. Priest And Evil
3. Skull & Crossbones
4. Werevolves On The Hunt
5. Walpurigs Night
6. Flour In The Wind
7. Warlord
8. Excalibur
9. Thunderland
10. Walpurigs Night (Live)
11. Cave Of Steenfoll (live)
12. Thunderland (Live)
13. Light The Pyre (Unreleased)


Debut full length by excellent early power metal/heavy metal band Stormwitch.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Tokyo Blade - Blackhearts & Jaded Spades (1985)

Country: UK
Genre: NWOBHM

1. Dirty Faced Angels
2. Make It Through The Night
3. Always
4. Lovin' You Is An Easy Thing To Do
5. Undercover Honeymoon
6. You Are The Heart
7. Blackhearts And Jaded Spades
8. Tough Guys Tumble
9. Dancing In The Blue Moonlight
10. Playroom Of Poisoned Dreams
11. Monkey's Blood

A album that gets more shit then it deserves, It's not as good as their self titled or "Night Of The Blade" but it's stil a real good heavy metal album with some great tracks.

Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade (1983)

Country: UK
Genre: NWOBHM

1. Powergame
2. Break The Chains
3. If Heaven Is Hell
4. On Through The Night
5. Killer City
6. Tonight
7. Sunrise In Tokyo
8. Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia

Debut album by the great brittish band Tokyo Blade.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Quartz - Against All Odds (1983)

Country: UK
Genre: NWOBHM

1. Just Another Man
2. Madman
3. Too Hot To Handle
4. Hard Road
5. Tell Me Why
6. The Wake
7. Buried Alive
8. Silver Wheels
9. Love 'Em & Run
10. Avalon
11. (It's) Hell, Livin' Without You

Third and last album by Quartz.

Quartz - Stand Up And Fight (1980)

Country: UK
Genre: NWOBHM

1. Stand Up And Fight
2. Charlie Snow
3. Can't Say No To You
4. Revenge
5. Stockinh Up The Fires Of Hell
6. Rock 'N' Roll Children
7. Questions
8. Wildfire

Second full length.

Quartz - Quartz (1977)

Country: UK
Genre: NWOBHM
1. Mainline Riders
2. Sugar Rain
3. Street Fighting Lady
4. Hustler
5. Devil's Brew
6. Smokie
7. Around And Around
8. Pleasure Seekrs
9. Little Old Lady

First full length by Quartz.

Dismember - Death Metal (1997)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Death Metal

1. Of Fire
2. Trendkiller
3. Misantrophic
4. Let The Napalm Rain
5. Live For The Fear (Of Pain)
6. Stillborn Ways
7. Killing Compassion
8. Bred For War
9. When Hatred Killed The Light
10. Ceremonial Comedy
11. Silent Are The Watchers
12. Mistweaver

Fourth full length by Dismember. This is where we got the know the a bit more Melodical Dismember we hear today.

Master - Slaves To Society (2007)

Country: USA
Genre: Death Metal

1. The Final Skull
2. In Control
3. Beaten For Possibility
4. Slaves To Society
5. The Darkest Age
6. Cheater
7. Anarchy Nearly Lost
8. The Room With Views
9. Remnant Of Hate
10. The Last Chapter
11. World Police

Legendary Master's eight studio full length.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Alien Force - Hell And High Water (1985)

Country: Denmark
Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock

1. To YouX
2. Get It Out
3. Ripper
4. Nervous
5. Fly Away
6. Stranger
7. Night Or Glory
8. Hell And High Water
9. Time Is Out

First out of two full lengths released by Alien Force. Superb Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Friday, May 27, 2011

Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Psychadelic Rock/Doom Metal

1. The Great God Pan
2. Coven Tree
3. The Hermit
4. My Demon Brother
5. Morning of The Magicians
6. Oliver Haddo
7. Night Of Augury
8. The Witch Dance
9. Daughter of The Sun

Second full length by Blood Ceremony. Feels matured and more complete then their first album.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Sabbat - Dreamweaver (1989)

Country: UK
Genre: Thrash Metal

1. The Beginning of The End
2. The Clerical Conspiracy
3. Advent of Insanity
4. Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares?
5. The Best Of Enemies
6. How Have The Mighty Fallen?
7. Wildfire
8. Mythistory
9. Happy Never After

Follow up to the their mighty debut and they left no one standing dissappointed this time either.

Sabbat - A History Of A Time To Come (1988)

Country: UK
Genre: Thrash Metal

1. Intro
2. A Cautionary Tale
3. Hosanna In Excelsis
4. Behind The Crooked Cross
5. Horned Is The Hunter
6. I For An Eye
7. For Thoose Who Dies
8. A Dead Man's Robe
9. The Church Bizzare

A really different thrash album. And i must say that it makes my top 10 thrash albums list together with the follow up "Dreamweaver" Energy and depth in a comlex surface. They did something new and and the result couldn't have been better. Not a single weak song

Grave Flowers - Incarcerated Sorrow (2005)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Doom Metal

1. At Night
2. Lackrosy
3. Feature Of Sleep
4. Sleep Demons Sleep
5. Freeze The Time
6. Save Me Or Destroy Me
7. Erase - Delete
8. Cold Despair
9. Your Memory Lives On
10. My Final Night

A band with Matte Andersson known from the classic band Godgory. Together with Jan "Jason" Jansson he delivers some haunting sorrowful doom in a slow tempo.

Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Melodic Black Metal

1. At The Phantomless Depths
2. Night's Blood
3. Unhallowed
4. Where Dead Angel's Lie
5. Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane
6. Thorns Of Crimson Death
7. Soulreaper
8. No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep

Needs no further introduction!
Rest In Chaos Jon.

Kaamos - Lucifer Rising (2005)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Death Metal

1. Black Revelation
2. Gnosticon
3. Inaugurating Evil
4. Theriomorphic Pandemonium
5. Dark Void
6. Lucifer Rising
7. Sacrament In Red
8. Mysterius Reversion
9. Chthonic
10. Ascent

Follow up to their self titled and this time they have more to give. Stil crushing and heavy but a bit more catchy with some of "hits" of the album. Lucifer Rising should be in your collection if you dig some early 90's inspired death metal.

Kaamos - Kaamos (2002)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Death Metal

1. Corpus Vermis
2. Circle Of Mania
3. The Storm Of Comming
4. Khem
5. Blood Of Chaos
6. Doom Of Man
7. The Chasm
8. Curse Of Aeons
9. Cries Of The Damned

Debut by swedish band Kaamos, delivers some crushing old school death metal.

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (1967)

Country: UK
Genre: Classic Rock

1. A Whiter Shade Of Pale
2. Conquistador
3. See Wandered Through The Garden Fence
4. Something Followed Me
5. Mabel
6. Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of)
7. A Christmas Camel
8. Kaleidoscope
9. Salad Days (Are Here Again)
10. Good Captain Clack
11. Repent Walpurgis - Procul Harum
12. Lime Street Blues
13. Homburg
14. Monsuir Armand
15. Seem To Have The Blues (Mostly All The Time)

Procul Harum's legendary debut. Should be a must have in your rock collection.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Overdrive - Angelmaker (2011)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Heavy Metal

1. Signs All Over
2. In Gut We Trust
3. Angelmaker
4. I Know There Is Something Goin On
5. Under The Influence
6. On With The Action
7. See The Light
8. To Grow
9. Mother Earth
10. It's A Thriller
11. Cold Blood Chaser
12. The Wavebreaker

Fourth studio album and second one since their comeback. I hold this one a bit higher then "Let The Metal Do The Talkin" that came out in 2008. It's solid classic heavy metal. A bit un even over the whole album. But contains some really good songs and the excellent 10 minute long closing song "The Wavebreaker".

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil. (2011)



Country: Sweden
Genre: Heavy Metal

1. The World The Flesh The Devil
2. We Were Never Here
3. Serpents Are Rising
4. Poisoned, Blessed And Burned
5. Demons
6. To Her Darkness
7. Dance Of Her Adversary
8. On Burning Paths

Finally reaches In Solitude's second studio the light of day. Or the darkness of the night which should be more suitable for the music. In Solitude has made a name of themself in the metal community by delivering real old school heavy metal with Occult elements like Mercyful Fate did in the early 80's.