The Sin And The Sentence

These Days I was wondering why Trivium have never performed on Rock in Rio stage. I know They don't need to be there to be great as they are, however, Trivium is really louder, bigger, heavier than those names who are called to perform there, anyway.. speaking of The Sin and The Sentence, when they released Silence In The Snow I really find that I like it, SITS was a great album, but yet not so great if it's compared to In Waves, or some old Trivium releases, but it was okay. But after 2 years They managed to release an album that is great in many ways: the heavy guitar parts and the solos are amazing, the screaming vocals are superb, the lyrics are terrific, catchy chorus... I think this is the best Trivium Album to date even I've been a follower since In Waves(i got it), i really dug into Trivium work, and doubtless The Sin And The Sentence is the one, it's the kind of album you got to have, because it's so fucking awesome, Hail to Trivium!  


Trivium - The Sin And The Sentence



01. The Sin And The Sentence
02. Beyond Oblivion
03. Other Worlds
04. The Heart From Your Hate
05. Betrayer
06. The Wretchedness Inside
07. Endless Night
08. Sever The Hand
09. Beauty In The Sorrow
10. The Revanchist
11. Thrown Into The Fire

Physical Album: https://goo.gl/cV9Uoy
Digital Album:  https://goo.gl/pkUYmb

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Psychotic Symphony

I think what's remarkable about Psychotic Symphony is those great solos (God Of The Sun, they start at 7:15), the vocalist (Jeff Scott Soto) sounds really like classic heavy metal singer, some catchy riffs, some tunes really got this arabian (egyptian) atmosphere, but I think what's not so cool, Derek is yet sounding like when he was in DT, sometimes a few of his solos recall Lines In The Sand, except the Divine Addiction track that reminds something from Deep Purple (tribute ?), for me the best track is God of the Sun, anyway it's a great debut, the more you listen to it more you like it!


Sons of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony



1. God of the Sun
2. Coming Home
3. Signs of the Time
4. Labyrinth
5. Alive
6. Lost in Oblivion
7. Figaro's Whore
8. Divine Addiction
9. Opus Maximus

Google Play: https://tinyurl.com/y889cptk
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/yazwqtgc



Lineup
Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen..)
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N' Roses..)
Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big..)
Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater,ex-Yngwie Malmsteen..)
Mike Portnoy (The Winery Dogs, ex-Dream Theater...)

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Phoenix

I got to learn about these guys when I was taking a look at AFM Records YTC new singles and "Before We Waste Away" was an unexpected surprise, because it's really heavy, got a catchy chorus, got this sense of at same time that there are new elements, yet sound like classic heavy metal, fantastic solos, the vocalist totally rocks, the whole album is phenomenal!


Nocturnal Rites - Phoenix



1. A Song For You
2. Repent My Sins
3. A Heart As Black As Coal
4. Before We Waste Away
5. What’s Killing Me
6. The Poisonous Seed
7. Used To Be God
8. Nothing Can Break Me
9. The Ghost Inside Me
10. Welcome To The End
11. Flames

Google Play: https://goo.gl/tYUQEh
Amazon:  https://goo.gl/AyxZAi

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Clairvoyant

I feel like over the years The Contortionist were shaping their song to get where they are now, it's undeniable some spiritual influence in their songs (the album has this concept about clairvoyance and the loss of someone). They are sounding really more atmospheric, but yet there are a lot of passages that really impress, slightly we can hear some shy screaming (Clairvoyant, the beginning reminds me of something from Cynic), but not like before, anyway it's really a piece of gem, love it!


The Contortionist - Clairvoyant



1. Monochrome (Passive)
2. Godspeed
3. Reimagined
4. Clairvoyant
5. The Center
6. Absolve
7. Relapse
8. Return To Earth
9. Monochrome (Pensive)


Buy It! 

It was all this reimagined
It was a different kind of speech
It was repetition
It was what you wanted to be

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8th SIN

I hadn't any clue who were these guys till I hear their (Before We Waste Away/2017), and since that moment I was really pumped about their sound, so I dug into their work, that was when I found The 8th Sin (2007), that's hard to say something bad about it, because this album got all elements I really love, it's probably one of the greatest power/heavy metal I've ever heard, Hail to Nocturnal Rites/8th SIN!!


Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin



1. Call Out to the World
2. Never Again
3. Not the Only
4. Tell Me
5. Not Like You
6. Leave Me Alone
7. Till I Come Alive
8. Strong Enough
9. Me
10. Pain & Pleasure
11. Fools Parade (Outro)
 

Buy It!!
 

"We are not like you, we are not the same
Not like the fools who follow and live their lives tomorrow
No, we are not like you, we are not the same
And so the story ends, we will never be like you"

 

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Live in Oslo

Wow.. almost one year later (09/17 Brazil) u could feel the same energy  on Circus Maximus Live in Oslo, for those who ordered digital version (1080p), it's almost like being in a CM concert, extremely recommended, fucking awesome!


Circus Maximus - Havoc In Oslo

 

CD1
1. Forging
2. Namaste
3. The One
4. The Weight
5. Highest Bitter
6. Architect of Fortune
7. Arrival of Love
8. Loved Ones


CD2
1. Sin
2. Havoc
3. Pages
4. Abyss
5. I Am
6. Chivalry
7. Game of Life



Unforgettable is Michael saying that would be talking (..15 minutes) to everyone after the concert here in Brazil.

Buy It!!

Blu-ray

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Take Me Home

I think when some music is able to "touch" your heart someway, somehow, or with great lyrics, awesome instrumental, marvelous voices, then it fulfils its role, that's art, this is what these guys do, remarkable painting!


For All We Know - Take Me Home



01. Breathe: In
02. Take Me Home
03. Fade Away
04. They’ll Win
05. Let Me Fly
06. The Big Wheel
07. Breathe: Hold
08. Colours
09. We Are the Light (feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen)
10. Some Will
11. Prophets in Disguise
12. Breathe: Out
13. We Are the Light (Alternate Version)

 http://www.forallweknow.net/

Google Play: https://goo.gl/4NZ8rG
Amazon: https://goo.gl/KWoZjQ



We are the light and We Open Doors
We're Shining Bright, Brighter Than Before
We are the Future, Move on And Explore

We Are The Light..

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BABEL

I cannot say I really enjoyed the first single of this new album, but the more you listen to not only the single,but the whole album, more they grow on you, it's really a great release, it's not too concept like the previous album (I did not like the storyline) but on this one "The crew is searching for God". What is more impressive about Soul Secret is this ability to sound heavy, sometimes jazzy, melodic, the keys are really well done, whole instrumental is really awesome!


Soul Secret - BABEL



1. Prologue
2. What We’re All About
3. A Shadow on the Surface
4. Will They?
5. Logos
6. Awakened by the Light
7. Entering the City of Gods
8. The Cuckoo’s Nest
9. Newton’s Law
10. In the Hardest of Times

Buy It!

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Kryptonite

It's Hard not thinking about 80's while listening to Kryptonite debut album. The first impression I had when I heard "This is the Moment" was Oh.. this could be a soundtrack for 'Stranger Things', the synthesizer are really a trademark, but of course the instrumental work is marvelous and the vocal really impresses, really something worth buying!


Kryptonite - Kryptonite



01. Chasing Fire
02. This Is the Moment
03. Keep the Dream Alive
04. Fallen Angels
05. Across the Water
06. Love Can Be Stronger
07. Knowing Both of Us
08. Get out Be Gone
09. One Soul
10. Better Than Yesterday
11. No Retreat No Surrender


Buy It!


Across the Water
I'll find my way following the stars
Across the Water
So far away like Jupiter and Mars

Across the Water
Through night and day
Miles and miles apart 

 

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Brightest Star

The key to creativity: that's hard. I do know how hard is to be a true musician and yet being creative, but for Big Big Train it seems to be easy (easy= hard work, inspiration), because in every single album they pull out something that amazes. Even a few songs 'from folklore' are sounding better on this one, Behold the beauty of this new baby!


Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star



1. The Second Brightest Star
2. Haymaking
3. Skylon
4. London Stone
5. The Passing Widow
6. The Leaden Stour
7. Terra Australis Incognita
8. Brooklands Sequence
9. Londo Plane Sequence
10. The Gentlemen's Reprise

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Animal As Leaders in Sampa

I haven't been in a djent concert yet and this will be the perfect time to attend to a fucking great event with such great musicians as Tosin and Javier and for everyone who lives in Sao Paulo, this is the moment, guys, the moment to go DJENT: ANIMAL AS LEADERS IN SAO PAULO!!! 07/29
Na bagaça do Carioca Club, que é bem melhor que o Hangar 110, vixi..

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Dream Setlist

It's not a secret that the first dt song that I enjoyed to see live was The Glass Prison, that was the first and unforgettable song and also that evening setlist! After 12 years, Mike Portnoy please us again with another fucking great setlist and also Haken members will be here too! Thank Everyone who provides that, this means a lot!





Usually → The Setlist
Prelude
(Bernard Herrmann song) (from The Original Film Score of Psycho)

1. Overture 1928
(Dream Theater song)

2. Strange Déjà Vu
(Dream Theater song)

3. The Mirror
(Dream Theater song) (With Keytar Solo and Lie Outro)

Twelve-step Suite
4. The Glass Prison
(Dream Theater song)

5. This Dying Soul
(Dream Theater song)

6. The Root of All Evil
(Dream Theater song) (Eric Gillette on vocals)

7. Repentance
(Dream Theater song) (Mike Portnoy on vocals)

8. The Shattered Fortress
(Dream Theater song)

Encore:
9. Home
(Dream Theater song)

10. The Dance of Eternity
(Dream Theater song)

11. Finally Free
(Dream Theater song)



I don't understand why dt did not release some old material they have with Portnoy (Summer Sonic - 2010), it's like when you have some baby but you insist to say it's not mine.

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Death Road

I think Death on Life Road is the best Jorn album to date, mainly because it's so metamorphic: great riffs and solos, this ability to sound classic ("spirit of 80's") and at the same time modern is really something unbelievable, also the lyrics are on another level and Jorn Lande voice: pure magic, it really deserves 5 stars with glory!


Jorn Lande - Life On Death Road 



1. Life on Death Road
2. Hammered to the Cross (The Business)
3. Love Is the Remedy
4. Dreamwalker
5. Fire to the Sun
6. Insoluble Maze (Dreams in the Blindness)
7. I Walked Away
8. The Slippery Slope (Hangman’s Rope)
9. Devil You Can Drive
10. The Optimist
11. Man of the 80’s
12. Blackbirds


- Amazon: https://goo.gl/tNQNC7
- Google Play: https://goo.gl/Pbv5oZ


Yet I'm not satisfied with this, when real musicians create perfect tunes and are not too popular, a lot of shit are sucessful making real crap, that's unfair!

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Inglorious II

In Synthesis Inglorious II is a rock band with blues in their veins, great riffs, amazing lead vocals (Nathan James) and catchy songs, Holy mama, that's incredible!


Inglorious II



1. I Don’t Need Your Loving
2. Taking The Blame
3. Tell Me Why
4. Read All About It
5. Change Is Coming
6. Making Me Pay
7. Hell Or High Water
8. No Good For You
9. I Got A Feeling
10. Black Magic
11. Faraway
12. High Class Woman


- Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y8dohb2k
- Google Play: http://radi.al/IngloriousIIGooglePlay

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Coma Live

I haven't ever seen a entire BBM concert, even They have 'Colors' available on YT, but as I really love Coma Ecliptic, it would be great to purchase C.E Live, and I did. This New Live Concert is really killer, I mean every band mate is completely committed to this cause: to make great music, although I think Tommy and Dan stand out, mainly for playing more instruments in the gig, it's really amazing What They do in a short time: different voices, microphones changing, to play keyboard, well.. I'd like to thank Metal Blade for letting the video hd version and also wav files available for a great price, awesome!


Coma Ecliptic: Live



01. Node
02. The Coma Machine
03. Dim Ignition
04. Famine Wolf
05. King Redeem - Queen Serene
06. Turn on the Darkness
07. The Ectopic Stroll
08. Rapid Calm
09. Memory Palace
10. Option Oblivion
11. Life in Velvet

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E.X.O.D.U.S

Exodus is a kind of instrumental album that we really need to listen to it until the last song (Exit Through Ashes), it's really catchy, full of amazing solos and riffs, also it's kinda different when compared to the his previous albums, it's really more modern, I venture to say AJ is going slightly Djent in Exodus (Ever After), and also the keyboards on the background are really giving this feeling of something modern, awesome!


Andy James - Exodus



01. Ever After
02. Made of Stone
03. Days Gone By
04. Hurricane
05. From the Dark
06. A World Once Lost
07. Gone
08. Never Back Down
09. Victory
10. Exit Through Ashes

Bandcamp: goo.gl/ottVG9
Google Play: goo.gl/MnTjbc

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Resolve

I'm not 'phd' in progressive music, but I do know that it must be unusual and to have quality (musicality: great notes and tunes, solos, meaningful yrics). These are what we can notice in Resolve, there are a lot of modern prog sounds that they mix with classic hard guitars and vocals. I think in every single song Mindmaze really improve themselves and Resolve is really better than their previous album, highlight to the same classical guitar tune starting and ending the album, really great!


MindMaze - Resolve 


 
1. Reverie
2. Fight the Future
3. In This Void
4. Drown Me
5. Sign of Life
6. Abandon
7. Sanity’s Collapse
8. One More Moment
9. Twisted Dream
10.True Reflection
11. Shattered Self
12. Release
13. The Path to Perseverance

Google Play: goo.gl/g7AomU
Amazon: goo.gl/MG5v9v


"I've reached the end
 The final breakdown

Frames of the Shattered Self
 A broken dream
Now I feel no pain
 but we pray for everything"
 

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Grimspound

even I haven't liked Folklore, it's undeniable the BBT evolution over the years and to see How great they are on Grimspound is phenomenal. Usually I really say something good about Nick, because I started to like SB because of him, but that's diminish the whole. Man, every single musician in BBT world is so committed on playing that really mesmerizes (u can notice it on Stone and Steel documentary). If you listen to Danny Manners tunes or even Rachel Hall, u start to realize how big is this prog world, it's not only about genesis, yes, pink floyd, these bands gave their contributions and are legends, but what's happening now it's really better than these oldies. Speaking of Grimspound: I think it's the best BBT studio album to date, it's full of beautiful soundscapes and the instrumental → Oh.. god, and , as always, vocals are really awesome: a complete package of goodies → a must buy for sure!


Big Big Train - Grimspound 



1. Brave Captain
2. On the Racing Line
3. Experimental Gentlemen
4. Meadowland
5. Grimspound
6. The Ivy Gate
7. A Mead Hall in Winter
8. As the Crow Flies

Google Play: goo.gl/uCvMuA


Big Big Train Line up
 
David Longdon - Lead vocals
Dave Gregory -  guitars
Greg Spawton -  bass
Andy Poole -    guitars
Danny Manners - keyboards
Rikard Sjöblom - guitars
Rachel Hall    - violin
Nick D'Virgilio- drums
 

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Contingent

I forgot how many times I shout "Tell me friends What lies beyond the borders..." That time the band still had 'Lance King' on vocals and I've been loving Legend Of The Bone Carver since then. I cannot say I really like the albums released after Lance era, but speaking of Contingent: For some people music has to be only systematic and complex, but not for me, it got to have more than only these, and on this album I find them: catchy chorus, amazing riffs,  sweet  keyboard passages, great vocals, and feeling, music without it, it's really like eat ice cream without sugar, not fun at all, diabetic album!! love it!


Pyramaze - Contingent



01. Land of Information
02. Kingdom of Solace
03. Star Men
04. A World Divided
05. Nemesis
06. Contingent – Part I: The Campaign
07. 20 Second Century
08. Obsession
09. Heir Apparent
10. Contingent – Part II: The Hammer of Remnant
11. Under Restraint
12. The Tides That Won’t Change
13. Symphony of Tears

Amazon: goo.gl/e7np4O
Google Play: goo.gl/h9A3VL

Words Unspoken of
Living in the rough
 Still We're Here
in 20 second century
A Medieval Tyranny
 Is watching and dictating
 All We survey
 There's army standing guard
  to take our hopes and dreams apart
 The key to survival is stand and obey

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Sign Of Faith

Ignea really could sound like any else band, but just NOT. They combine the force of the heavy metal, with some oriental stuff (They are from Ukraine), growling vocals and yet they are symphonic, I don't know if I've ever seen a band as peculiar as They are, Ignea Akbar!


Ignea - The Sign Of Faith



1. Şeytanu Akbar
2. Alexandria
3. Petrichor
4. Theatre of Denial
5. Jahi
6. Halves Rupture
7. Last Chosen by You
8. Alga
9. How I Hate the Night
10. Leviathan
11. Sputnik (Xes Dreams Version)

CDs and official merch: http://ignea.band/s-h-o-p
iTunes: https://goo.gl/EPkdRu
Amazon: https://goo.gl/177Tb2
Google Play: goo.gl/9y8gdr




weird how the things are, some christians did not let their album available on YT and yet they say they are spreading the gospel for the greater good ($$)².. Ignea seems to be a satanist band and They let their entire album available for free on YT.. I really don't get what god those guys are believing... maybe it is the opposite.

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