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The second full-length studio album by French Heavy/Power Metal band.
Traditional Heavy Metal with a little touch of Power Metal.
"Blood Leads To Glory" celebrates the 80s in all of their traditionalism, and while you will not find a lot of variety, the energy and spirit will make up for that.
If ElvenStorm had released this album 30 years ago, it would not have sounded out of place and without sounding antiquated today either. Anybody looking for a fix from the past, this French band has all the ingredients to shoot yourself up with and bang on!
Infernö Records, 2014 (IRO23CD). Made in France. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Sanguis Ad Gloriam 1:43
2. Reign In Glory 4:39
3. Werewolves Of The East 5:17
4. Temple Of The Sun 3:55
5. Ruler Of The Night 5:13
6. Black Hordes 5:30
7. Fallen One 4:28
8. Sirens Of Death 4:43
9. Where Angels Dare To Die 6:13
10. Mistress From Hell 4:59
11. Into The Fire (Savage Grace cover) 3:19
Total playing time: 50:01 min.


Samples: https://infernorecords.bandcamp.com
https://elvenstorm.bandcamp.com

Re-release of the fourth (third official) full-length album by the cult Polish Melodic Death/Thrash Metal band.
The third album from these five Poles at once blasts intensely from the speakers; it is no hard question, however, which groups have influenced Elysium. At The Gates, The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity… And as if that wasn’t enough: singer Maciej Miŝkiewicz sounds exactly like Speed Strid (Soilwork).
They are good musicians inasmuch as they handle their instruments blamelessly (and particularly the bass is nicely present, supporting the rest of the instruments in a fine way, without drowning in the overall sound). If you are a fan of the bands mentioned above, or bands playing in the same vein, do not hesitate, especially if you are an avid fan of Soilwork. The Thrashy guitars of Elysium and the mature lyrics (where special care has been given, which is very obvious) are sure to entertain the average melodic Thrasher!
For fans of: In Flames, Metal Church, At The Gates and Dark Tranquility!
Metal Mind Productions/CD-Maximum, 2003/2004 (CDM 0404-1783). Used: very good.


Tracklist:
1. World Hello Day 4:20
2. Feedback 4:37
3. Aeolian Choreography 4:18
4. 4.48 (For Sarah) 3:53
5. Sinusoid Forward 4:32
6. Venus Project 7:24
7. Departure Fresce 4:19
8. Digital Future Anthem 4:44
9. Suicide Generation 8:48
Total playing time: 46:55

Re-release of debut full-length album by the Spanish Gothic Metal band.
Gothic Metal with a healthy Pop thread running right through the middle.
Those five guys are coming from Barcelona, Spain. Band was born in 1996. During the years, some demos saw the light. In 2001 some line-up changes took place and they hit the studio for another demo and their first album, "Black Tears And Deeps Songs For Lost Lovers", in 2004.
Their Gothic Metal is somewhere between 69 Eyes and H.I.M.. As for the music itself, it's exactly as mellifluous as it should be for a band like this one.
If bands like To Die For, Beseech, HIM, Lacrimas Profundere and latter-day Sentenced are all in your collection, you need this!!
Re-edition includes three bonus tracks and video!
Erzsebet Records/Indar Productions, 2005/2008 (ERZ002). Made in Spain.


Tracklist:
1. Romeo's Death
2. This Wind
3. Falling
4. I Don't Believe in You
5. Nothing to Promise
6. Black Tears and Deep Songs for Lost Lovers
7. Your Ghost Dancing
8. False Illusions
9. Alone
Bonus Tracks:
10. When My Heart Is Bleeding
11 - I Don't Believe in You (Remix)
12 - Black Tears and Deep Songs for Lost Lovers (Unplugged Version)


Samples: http://www.lastfm

deathcore with brutal influences from Russia
Blacksmith Prod., 2006 (BSP14CD)


Tracklist:
1. Bonecrusher
2. Broken Mirror
3. Crushed By Fallen Sky
4. Every Time We See...
5. Faceless Humanity (and its facedevouring principles)
6. Let Them Lick Your Mind
7. Mr. Earthmover (Instrumental)
8. World Of Excrements

Official re-release of the second demo 2007 by the Polish Death Metal band.
This material showed the way that horde became at a later debut album. Six brutal blows from demo remained in its original version. Music without unnecessary treatment, mix or anything that would destroy the original recordings aggression.
Re-edition also includes full concert from the "Rude Boy" club in Bielsko-Biala from 07.04.2013. The concert was professionally recorded and executed that allows us to experience of this show.
Over 50 minutes for all fans of oldschool Death Metal!!
Old Temple, 2014 (OLD .66.). Made in Poland. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Hellfuck 03:02
2. Murder and Cruelty 04:17
3. Hallucinated 02:44
4. Human Brew 02:45
5. Destruction Thirst 02:32
6. Annihilation 06:33
Bonus Live Material:
7. Absolutely Anti-Human Behaviors 04:02 
8. Necropolis 02:34
9. Possessed by Evil 05:07
10. The Last Step into Nothingness 04:34
11. Dismal Symbol 04:07
12. Maniacal Madness 02:45
13. Dziwki, narkotyki i martwica mózgu (Whore, Drugs and Brain Dead) 02:44
14. Śmierć i zniszczenie (Death and Destruction) 04:50
Total playing time: 52:36

Tracks 1-6: re-released second demo, "Annihilation" from 2007.
Tarcks 7-14: full concert from the "Rude Boy" club in Bielsko-Biała, Poland from 07.04.2013.

The first split-release by the Polish Death Metal band Embrional and the seventh split-release by the Polish Blackened Death/Thrash Metal band Empheris.
Split release of two hordes from Polish Underground! Music for fans of uncompromising, dark, unholy underground music.
Each band present two blasphemies plus four classics! The cover songs are a tribute to: Slayer, Mayhem, Pestilence, Sarcofago, Blasphemy, Assassin, The Ramones and Obituary!!
45 minutes of music being a tribute to the old times of extreme music!!!
Hand numbered CD with pit-art.
Old Temple, 2009 (OLD .37.). Made in Poland. First press.


Tracklist:

EMBRIONAL:
1. Homicide 1:53
2. The Abyss Of Human Soul 4:40
3. Buried By Time And Dust (Mayhem Cover) 2:55
4. Rotting (Sarcófago Cover) 7:07
5. Land Of Tears (Pestilence Cover) 4:48
6. Death & Destruction 4:12

EMPHERIS:
7. Lovecraft 2:42
8. Black Pyramid 3:22
9. Assassin (Assassin Cover) 5:42
10. I Don't Believe In Miracles (The Ramones Cover) 3:59
11. Atomic Nuclear Desolation (Blasphemy Cover) 0:23
12. Slowly We Rot (Obituary Cover) 4:21

Total playing time: 46:04

Мелодия, 1988 (С60 26463 008). Made in USSR. Used (cover/disc): EX+/EX. 

 
Tracklist:

Side A:
1. The Score 9:10
2. Learning To Fly 3:52
3. The Miracle 7:02
    
Side B:   
4. Touch And Go    3:35
5. Love Blind 3:08
6. Step Aside 3:42
7. Lay Down Your Guns 4:20
8. Mars, The Bringer Of War 7:53
    
Total playing time: 42:42 min.

Blackened Thrash Metal from Poland
Eye Distribution, 2006


Tracklist:
Ancient Necrostorms
1. Necropulsar 03:05
2. Valley of Nifelheim 02:43
3. Infernal Path 02:42
4. Shattered Desires 03:02
5. Black Chaos 03:30
6. Empherial Abyss Disaster 03:58
7. A Twilight of the Ancient Victories 04:54
The Rest are Remains
1. The Rest are Remains    03:52
2. Ominous Death    02:45
3. Descending Hellish Avenger    02:55

blackened thrash metal from Poland
Necropulsar Prod. / Eye Dist., 2007 (NPCD001)


Tracklist:
1.The Arrival of the Gods from Deep Skies (Intro) 01:05
2.Tower of the Damned 04:16
3.Eridan Signals 04:23
4.Under a Hatred Skies 04:20
5.The Extraction 03:43
6.The Silent Fall 04:20
7.Agent Orange (Sodom Cover) 06:27
8.Marutukku (The Abyss Cover) 02:52
9.Last Journey (Valpurgia Cover) 02:59
10.Desolate Ways (Morbid Angel Cover) 01:52

45 minutes split of bestial Black/Thrash Metal attack.
Some albums feel like a god's hammer is dropping from the sky and coming right for you to end your very deceitful existence on this earth. And this split will obliterate you! This is one album that will not be collecting dust on your shelf.
For fans of:  BATHORY, VENOM, SODOM, KREATOR, CELTIC FROST, HELLHAMMER, MERCYFUL FATE and more.
CD includes covers of BATHORY, DEICIDE and SEPULTURA!!
Psycho Records/MediaPark, 2012 (PR031)


Tracklist:
1.Empheris - The Return to Mighty Kadath (Intro) 00:25
2.Empheris - Blood Stains Thy Flesh 02:55
3.Empheris - Lost in the Providence 02:23
4.Empheris - Roar of Aeons 02:15
5.Empheris - Spitfire Thrash 03:19
6.Empheris - Home of Once Brave (BATHORY Cover) 05:43
7.Beast Petrify - Leakaenigma (Intro) 01:40
8.Beast Petrify - Epidemic Glimpse of Horror 03:53
9.Beast Petrify - Dominant Force 05:39
10.Beast Petrify - Majestic Embarkment 04:34
11.Beast Petrify - Pembalasan Penanggal Puaka 05:31
12.Beast Petrify - Crucifixation (Rehearsal Deicide Cover) 04:06
13.Beast Petrify - Primitive Future (Rehearsal Sepultura Cover) 03:05
Total playing time: 45:28


Samples:
http://www.lastfm/Empheris
http://www.lastfm/Beast+Petrify

The fourth full-length album by Italian Progressive Rock/Metal band.
Empty Tremor has been on the Italian Progressive music scene for better than 17 years. Yet, since that time they have only released four albums. Until "Iridium", their most recent one was 2004's "The Alien Inside". Not highly unusual, but that is a long time between efforts. Much too long in the case of "Iridium", a world class work of entertaining melodic Progressive Rock.
Without question, beyond their intelligent and intriguing compositions, the most impressive element of Empty Tremor's music is the considerable talent of vocalist Gio De Luigi. Between his range, depth and effortless versatility, Luigi commands respect and attention. He must be one of the best unknown Rock/Metal singers going in the European theater. While expert throughout, his work on "Autumn Leaves", "Friends in Progression", "Everyday", and the absolutely brilliant "Warm Embrace" are massively entertaining displays of his power.
Their music is pretty darn good! Empty Tremor is hardly some Dream Theater (or name your own most recognizable, ever popular, melodic Prog band) copy cat. Their music can be equally accessible and soulful, sometimes heavy, but mostly intricate and expressive. The aforementioned songs, and adding the title cut, are elemental examples of Empty Tremors vision and musicianship. However, the opening two songs "Breaking the Mirror" and "Run" don't quite inspire, at least at first. But with return listens they will definitely persuade you to Empty Tremor's simple brilliance.
Many Progressive Rock/Metal albums has passed your way, but Empty Tremor's "Iridium" will easily be on your short list of the best Progressive bands! Solid stuff, and highly recommended!!
SG Records, 2014 (SGCD033). Made in Italy. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Breaking The Mirror 6:26
2. Run 4:04
3. Warm Embrace 10:33
4. Autumn Leaves 8:06
5. Friends In Progression 5:44
6. Unconditional Love 8:31
7. Everyday 4:47
8. The Last Day On Earth 5:57
9. Iridium 9:36
Total playing time: 63:44


Samples: http://www.last.fm

First live album by Italian Progressive Metal band.
Band released for studio albums and got great reviews in media. As the name implies, it’s the 20th year’s anniversary for the band that was formed in the eve of 1994. It recorded live at Arena di Mezzano, Ravenna, Italy, on August 2, 2013. “Slice of Live - 20th Anniversary Acoustic Evening” has thirteen tracks, however because it is a live show all tracks are long, mainly by adding some long solo parts and some interaction with the crowed.
Strong Progressive Metal for fans of Dream Theater, Symphony X, Queensryche, Rush, Fates Warning, Shadow Gallery, Pagan´s Mind, Circus Maximus, Ayeron and Seventh Wonder.
SG Records, 2015 (SGCD078). Made in Italy. First press.


Tracklist:
1. The Eyes Of Universe 7:49
2. Slice Of Life 6:05
3. To Lose Your Forever 5:09
4. Lost In The Past 4:52
5. Outside 7:25
6. Star 8:59
7. Another Day (Dream Theater cover) 4:30
8. I Found You 5:44
9. Stay 4:00
10. Waiting For You 3:57
11. Everyday 4:38
12. The Ballad Of Life 3:36
13. Warm Embrace 10:06
Total playing time: 76:52 min.


Samples: https://open.spotify.com

Second full-length album by Dark Gothic/Alternative Metal band from Rome, Italy.
For sure one of the most upsetting bands in the Italian Dark Rock Progressive scene. 
After the great success of "Trama" they are ready to shock you with the sound of the new masterpiece "Domino / Consequence". Once again it's dreaming music with a more direct and full of energy sound, but also with great Progressive and Indie contaminations for a new little jewel of shaded melancholy and emotional intensity in the vein of ANATHEMA, TOOL and KLIMT 1918. Don't leave the great Beatles' cover "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
My Kingdom Music, 2009 (echo049)


Tracklist:
1.Fourteen Days 04:53
2.Over 04:29
3.Envied Routine 04:39
4.Naiive 05:49
5.Domino 04:04
6.Consequence 04:59
7.Keyword Out Of Context 05:04
8.Leave Apart A Sense 06:05
9.The Script 05:30
10.While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles cover) 04:12 
11.Dipped 05:33
Bonus Track:
12.Keyword Out Of Context (Italian version) 05:41
Total playing time: 01:00:58

The only full-length studio album by German-American Progressive Thrash Metal band.
End Amen were a side project from members of Deathrow and Psychotic Waltz - two of the biggest names on the Progressive Metal scene. Line-up consist of: Uwe Osterlehner - vocals/guitars (Deathrow); Dan Rock - guitars (Psychotic Waltz, Darkstar); Siggi Blasey - bass (Crash Museum); Norm Leggio - drums (Psychotic Waltz, Teabag).
This album did a lot to establish a running trend in Germany lasting for 4-5 years, the Progressive Thrash Metal wave, which produced some of the finest bands of the 90s: Depressive Age, Lost Century, Megace, Skeptic Sense, Entophyte, etc. 
Deathrow's last effort "Life Beyond", released the same year, was a fairly decent, but hardly exceptional follow-up to its mighty predecessor "Deception Ignored". Uwe Osterlehner, the main man behind the latter album, was apparently not satisfied with the results, and decided to give himself one more chance to reach Progressive Metal heights, and he managed to apologize with quite a style for the not entirely convincing swansong of his main act. Deathrow's touring partners that same year were the American Progressive Metal wizards Psychotic Waltz, who were following on the positive reception of their sophomore effort "Into the Everflow". Still, this album wasn't as compulsively great as their brilliant debut "Social Grace", seeing the band abandoning the more aggressive shreds for the sake of sprawling, Psychedelic, abstract song-structures and riff-patterns. In other words, both acts were beyond their creative peaks (not really beyond life yet, fortunately), and this fact called for one more temptation, for Osterlehner the last creation he would put his name under, and for the Psychotic Waltz guys the last production which could be labelled as "Thrash" before their complete surrender to the more accessible and more digestible. Apparently all the men involved were aware that this would be their last opportunity for real Progressive Thrash greatness, because the album begins in such a brilliant fashion with the first three compositions that if the whole of it had been sustained in the same level, we would have been talking "Deception Ignored 2" all these years...
Consequently, this album is "a beast" of its own, sounding like a distant, not very legitimate, relative of the two bands' magnum opuses. At the same time its rich atmospheric undercurrents didn't quite serve as a rigid template for the other bands from the wave to follow, but the more initiated would be able to see influences from past achievements in the genre, like Hexenhaus' "Awakening" and Toxik's 'Think This". Its unique mixture of hard complex Thrashing and sinister keyboard sweeps could have been elaborated on; the guys could have given it one more try, if not for them, at least for the fans, but the disillusionment was already too big in the Deathrow camp for anyone to be interested, and the Psychotics were already too spaced out to get back to normal. It's a shame End Amen couldn't take off into something more than a one-shot. Frankly, though, it would have fallen on deaf ears at the time it manifested. So this was the beginning, and the end...
If you find yourself enthralled by the works of Mekong Delta, Watchtower, Calhoun Conquer, Paradox, Depressiv Age/D-Age, and later Deathrow, then this is certainly something you would value in your collection!!
Institute Of Art Records, 1992 (RTD 397.0001.2). Bootlegged replica. Used (cover/disc): EX/EX.


Tracklist:
1. World In Decay 5:44
2. Prisons Of Posterity 4:53
3. End Amen 5:39
4. Rebirth 5:58
5. Mystic Mountains 1:30
6. A New Day's Absurdity 7:04
7. Nocturnal March 4:55
8. Your Last Orison 4:52
9. Silence 3:00
Total playing time: 43:37 min.

A young but very promising band from St. Petersburg, which plays at the junction of hard rock, folk-rock, gothic and authentic folk. At the music of End of the summeR you can hear echoes of the melody of many people and musical styles.
Perechrestok Records, 2009 (PR 18 CD)


Tracklist:
01.Конец Лета/End Of Summer 04:05
02.Volk Funk 05:34
03.Рагнарёк/Ragnarok 04:37
04.Зеркало/Mirror 05:22
05.In Vino Veritas 04:04
06.Лесная Полька/Forest Polka 05:05
07.Песня Илматар/Song Of Ilmatar 03:50
08.How Death Dances 05:03
09.Lupus Et Agnus 04:52
10.Барометр/Barometer 02:16
11.Сювеярви/Syuvyeyarvi 04:26

Stylistically it is the mixture of different styles of extreme music rooting in classical old school death metal.
The ideology of End1 is based on exposure of devolution of mankind, spiritual decay and all aspects of downfall.
The central idea is mental decease as the main and primary constituent on the way towards total physical elimination of mankind.
More Hate Productions, 2010 (MHP 10-078)


Tracklist:
1.Дикая Бойня
2.Предвечный Танец
3.Распылитель Смерти
4.Безжалостная Резня
5.Война (bonus track)

The debut full-length studio album by Italian Technical Heavy Metal band.
Endamaged were founded in 2010. They played all of Rome’s and its surroundings’ venues, before their first EP, “Soldier God”, was released in 2011. Soon, band get aired by some local radio in Italy, Germany and even in Canada and U.S.A.
During the Summer of 2013, the band begins the recording process for its first full length album, which gets finally nailed in August 2014 and significantly titled “At the Gates”.
Rome’s thrash metal act Endamaged stands for stunning Thrash Metal in the vein of Exodus and Iced Earth, with a hint of Iron Maiden and Megadeth. Just check 'em out and let them a chance!
Sliptrick Records, 2014 (SLP014.0104). Used (cover/disc): EX+/EX+.


Tracklist:
1. Soldier God 05:34
2. Death (The 4th Seal) 06:23
3. Lies of the Vultures 04:49
4. Where the Walls Fall Down 05:35
5. No Graves but the Sea 05:28
6. Master of Abyss 08:24
7. Into the Pit... Endamaged 06:16
8. The Dome of the Rock 07:04
Total playing time: 49:35 min.


Samples: https://endamaged.bandcamp.com

The third full-length album by Italian Thrash/Melodic Death Metal band.
Mixed by Tommy Talamanca (Sadist) at famous Nadir Music Studios in Genoa, Italy, band's new full-length is the result of the powerful new sound of Endless Pain, which started with many Thrash Metal influences, now unleashed a Death Metal riffs fury, with raw and very old school style, but the vocal line and the powerful drum beats are very modern.
Blazing fast drums, catchy riffs and a powerful voice are the ingredients of "Chronicles Of Death", born from the experience of a band that had the honour of participating in events such Metalcamp (2005), Sun Valley in Rock (2003), Tradate Iron Fest (2004), sharing the stage with bands like Destruction, Tankard, Dismember, Blood Red Throne, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Sodom, Raw Power, Decapitated, Cripple Bastards, Schizo, Master and many others!
Live Tribe Music/Nadir Music, 2011 (NDR_0004). Made in Italy. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Chronicles Of Death (Intro)  
2. The Ascents Of Golgotha 
3. Atrocity 
4. Trespassing The Shores Of Evil 
5. The Prophet 
6. Dead End Nightmare (Special Guest Trevor Sadist)  
7. ... In Cold Blood 
8. Slaughter For The Legacy 
9. Memories Of The Monster 
10. Death Comes Ripping 
11. Triple Murder
Total playing time: 30:55

Debut full-length album by the Greek Thrash Metal band.
Thrash Metal with caustic lyrics against the political system and all the odds that the reality of the capital has forced us to live under. The guys obviously draw inspiration from the difficult times that people pass through all around the world and of course in Greece and they turn this frustration and anger into 8 full of energy Thrash Metal compositions.
The thing with Endless Recovery is that they prefer the traditional 80’s sound, but they don’t sound retro at all. On the contrary their music is fresh with good riffs and in general it has all these elements that a fan of the sound would appreciate.
So if you like good old Kreator with some Slayer and Sacred Reich elements and with a few Punk Rock spins, then “Thrash Rider” is a release that you should check out!!
Eat Metal Records, 2013 (EMR / CPC). Made in Greece.


Tracklist:
1. Urban Crime     04:37
2. War in the Streets     03:34
3. Power of Hate     04:01
4. Corrupted Media Propaganda     03:54
5. Vision of the Youth     03:34
6. Habits' Mutation     05:00
7. Handicapped Corpse     02:39
8. Thrash Rider     02:45
Total playing time: 30:04

The debut full-length studio album by Italian Technical Thrash Metal band.
For fans of the classic Thrash Metal sound!
Punishment 18, 2010 (P18R 026). Made in Italy. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Endless Prophecy 04:13
2. Forrest Gunner 03:05
3. Lynched by Fate 04:09
4. Fallout Terror 01:51
5. Problem of Humanity 04:24
6. Kick in Your Ass 03:44
7. Slaves of the Matrix 03:43
8. Sono Stufo! 01:32
9. Don't Forget 04:13
10. Endovein Are Adrenaline... for Your Fuckin' Summer!!! 04:08