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Le band di oggi:

RosaCroce - Broken Chains
Tourist - Everytime we touch
Firewind - Mercenary Man
Urbansnake - Kill your master
Countdown - Break rise blowing [SITO] [JAMENDO]
Helldorados - Sgt- Rock'n'Roll

>> SCARICA L'EPISODIO 80<<

[audio http://www.everydayshow.eu/PODCAST/everydayshow80.mp3]

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Picks,

Firewind: ESP cutoms

Divine Heresy: Monster Energy (Not sure if Custom)

Dark Tranquillity: No Cutoms

Arch Enemy: ESP Customs

Best Position: Stage Right

Note: Michael Amott throws a few picks at the end of their set :)

Rock Hard, Rock Loud & Rock On!

JR

Stand on something tall and bellow.

Constantly modified band, Firewind, remain unchanged for the first time in the bands’ history to release their fifth album.

Power metal, sent from the heavens and forged with the iron from the blood of the gods. You can’t not listen to this album and feel like you are the most powerful being on the planet. after hearing this album, I immediately went out with a horn or mead and slayed the peasants and pillaged their gold. I then returned to my castle and sat upon my thrown with my concubines at my feet.

This is music with the top blown off, huge wide expanses hold position over this music and you can feel the wind blow through your hair as you listen to hour long power chords echoing around you.

A very moving and empowering album, moving more towards the light and enchanting over the heavy and demonic. The heaviest song on the album, “The Silent Code” still holds this euphoric overtone while “My Loneliness” is a sad and selfish tale of loneliness.

This is the sort of album, if it was graded by a school teacher, would have “could do better” written on it. They appear to do well without trying all that hard and you feel that if they really put the effort in to it, they could come up with something really mind blowing.

Listen to this album: With a flaming torch in one hand and a wench in the other.

Rating: 79%

Extracts from “The Silent Code” and “My Loneliness”
[audio http://bumchops.googlepages.com/firewind.mp3]

"Mercenary Man"

Firewind - The Premonition
Data de Lançamento: 2008
Género: Heavy Metal
Editora: Century Media

1. Into The Fire
2. Head Up High
3. Mercenary Man
4. Angels Forgive Me
5. Remembered
6. My Loneliness
7. Circle Of Life
8. The Silent Code
9. Maniac
10. Life Foreclosed

Os Firewind têm vindo a crescer de álbum para álbum e isso notou-se e bem com o excelente "Allegiance" lançado em 2006. Este "The Premonition" é pesado, melódico, rápido e possui excelentes prestações de todos os membros da banda, com especial destaque para Gus G. e o vocalista Apollo Papathanasio. Este é um álbum que ao fim de ouvir-mos algumas vezes, ficamos com as músicas quase todas na cabeça de tão bom ser. O álbum varia entre músicas bem Heavy Metal e outras ao estilo melódico, perto do que a banda grega fazia á alguns anos. Especial destaque para o cover da música "Maniac" do filme Flashdance, que ficou fabuloso.

"The Premonition" é um álbum recomendado a todos os fãs de Metal e candidato já a dos melhores do ano na minha opinião. Ainda é bom saber que bandas novas lançam álbuns de Metal tão bons.

Melhores músicas: Todas, com especial destaque para "Mercenary Man", "Angels Forgive Me", "The Silnet Code" e "Maniac".

Nota: 9.5/10

O Headbanger's Blog tem já disponível a partir do seu site, o novo clip dos Firewind da música "Mercenary Man". O clip aparecerá também este sábado (hoje) no MTV2 "Headbanger's Ball". A música faz parte do novo álbum da banda grega, "The Premonition" lançado a 25 de Março e que alcançou a posição número 6 do top grego.

01. Into The Fire (6:34)
02. Head Up High (3:43)
03. Mercenary Man (3:56)
04. My Loneliness (4:01)

+ entrevistas individuais a todos os membros dos Firewind.

O novo álbum tem data de lançamento marcada para 24 de Março.

01. Into The Fire (6:34)
02. Head Up High (3:43)
03. Mercenary Man (3:56)
04. My Loneliness (4:01)

+ entrevistas aos membros da banda.

Os vídeos das músicas foram gravados  na actuação ao vivo da banda na Grécia no dia 12 de Janeiro de 2008. Fiquem com alguns vídeos gravados por fãs do dia 12 de Janeiro.

Select "Read the rest of this entry" below to see this months albums.

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01. Into The Fire
02. Head Up High
03. Mercenary Man
04. Angels Forgive Me
05. Remembered
06. My Loneliness
07. Circle Of Life
08. The Silent Code
09. Maniac
10. Life Foreclosed

O artwork do álbum pode ser visto neste link. Os Firewind vão passar por Portugal no Lagoa Burning a realizar entre os dias 25 e 27 de Julho.

Site oficial.

Parliamo, tra una canzone e l'altra di:

-PodCamp Italia: inizio e sviluppo
- Intervista su Mr.Pod riguardante Scientificast
-RIAA abbassa i compensi agli artisti, QTrax contro la "megattera SIAE"
-In agenda all'Everyday Show

Le band di oggi:

Firewind - Falling to pieces
Taste of Hell - City
Zamarro - Princess
Highlord - Tears of Darkness
Make a Mess - Fate
Aygan - Days so Hard

 >>SCARICA L'EPISODIO 71 <<

1. Into the fire.
2. Head up high.
3. Mercenary man.
4. Angels forgive me.
5. Remembered.
6. My loneliness.
7. Circle of life.
8. The silent code.
9. Maniac.(cover of 80's pop hit from the movie Flashdance).
10. Life foreclosed.

According to the Firewind axeman Gus.G "....the CD,starts out with a pretty intense song "Into the fire",which is like a six and half minute riffing,shredding and double bass madness,the next few are what I'd call modern hard rock-if I have to put a tag on it."

You heard him friends,"Modern Hard Rock"!!!

Commenting on inspirations and the sound of the forthcoming album,Gus.G stated "I think there's a lot of cool guitar stuff all over the album and generally this is a more guitar-oriented effort."(Well,obviously,because Firewind have always produced guitar-oriented music.)"....Our influences draw from Thin Lizzy to Black Sabbath and Megadeth and you can clearly hear that on the riffs and guitar melodies."That's quite true,by judging the very Thin Lizzy-sque "Mercenary man".

Considering "Mercenary man",Firewind seem to have yet again produced a masterpiece that not only stays true to their Power/speed metallic roots,but also good rock 'n' roll that kicks ass.Gus.G also commented on not changing the typical Firewind sound much("much" being the key word here) and the chemistry within the band."Song writing-wise I think a ll songs are special and once again everyone was involved in the writing-we basically kept the Allegiance "winning team" together."They sure have,but while listening to "Mercenary man" the first impression I had was "Wow,if only Chity sang this instead of Apollo".Not that Apollo is a bad singer or anything,but honestly this new-yet-typical Firewind sound literally suits ex-vocalist Chitral "Chity" Somapla.

According to the band,the name "The Premonition" was suggested by the Drummer Mark Cross."The Premonition" was recorded at Studio Fredman,Sweden and mastered by Peter in de Betou's Tailor Made Productions.For more information visit Firewind's myspace page here.

• Yeni Firewind şarkısı internetten yayınlandı 02-03-2008
• Kısa Kısa Haberler (2 Şubat) 02-02-2008
• Yeni Exciter şarkısı internette yayınlandı 02-02-2008
• Celtic Frost’tan yeni albüm hazırlığı 02-02-2008
• Overkill “Live At Wacken Open Air 2007″ DVD’si 02-01-2008
• Metallica Temmuz’da Türkiye’ye mi geliyor? 02-01-2008

First on stage was a little-known band called UnexpecT. Hailing from Montreal, Quebec, Canada this not so little band blew me away right from the start. They have such a unique sound that my knowledge of metal wasn’t up to par in the arena of classification. The almighty Wikipedia describes them as, ”avant-garde extreme metal…with a unique amalgamation of completely different styles of music, including black metal, death metal, metalcore, progressive metal, melodic heavy metal, European Classical music, opera, medieval music, gypsy music, electro, ambient, noise, circus music, and jazz.”

When I saw the violinist appear on stage my interest was peaked, but then I laid eyes upon their trademark 9-stringed bass and I knew this was going to be one hell of a set. UnexpecT’s style is similar to that of System of a Down, but there is a better delivery with more variety. Their songs were disjointed and sometimes spastic but weaving seamlessly one into another.

UnexpecT turned out to be the biggest surprise (and my favorite band) of the evening, and they were only the opener. I highly recommend catching them live and, with 2 albums and an EP out for sale, they have some really awesome tunes out on the market. They are going to be back at B.B. King’s several times before the end of the year, so everyone will have a chance to see this awesome band.

Next to take the stage was The Agonist. They also hail from the shining city of Montreal and they also have quite the attractive lead singer, but that is where their similarites to UnexpecT end. The Agonist has a more generic style of Death Metal, very similar to Arch Enemy. Don’t think they are an average band, though. They still brought in an interesting show and were able to get the crowd moving. The Agonist will also be returning to B.B. King’s several times over the next few months.

Next up was the second surprise of the night: Firewind. All I knew was that they are a Power Metal band from Greece and that they were highly recommended. But with only their reputation preceding them, I didn't really know what to expect.

Unfortunatly, lead vocalist Apollo Papathanasio was unable to perform due to personal issues. Replacing him that evening was Henning Basse from the German band Metalium. Henning’s vocal style is less melodic, and a bit higher pitched than Apollo’s vocal style (which is not too different from Kamelot singer, Khan’s, vocals). None-the-less, Wearing a Yankee’s jersey and preaching his love of New York City, Henning and Firewind put on an awesome show that incited some crowd-surfing.

My only gripe about Firewind’s performance was that it was far too short. I believe there were some technical problems during the sound check, which lead to a long setup time. This limited Firewind’s performance to a mere 30 minutes. I would have loved to hear more from them, but it was not to be. Unfortunately, their tour in America is over, but I recommend hitting the stores for their recorded music. It is totally worth it.

Finally, it was time for Sonata Arctica. I’ve never really heard much more than a few songs from them, despite urgings from friends to give them a chance. The crowd, however, was more than enthused to see Sonata take the stage and I couldn’t help but be swept up in the vibe.

Bringing the full force of Finnish Power Metal upon the audience, Sonata Arctica brought the crowd to the tips of their toes. Following every lyric the fans moshed and crowd-surfed through the fast songs and sang along with the ballads. It made me feel guilty for not giving Sonata more of a chance before, but as the night went on that feeling began to dissipate.

Maybe I was just growing tired, but as the set progressed I found myself getting bored. I enjoyed the show and it brought my energy up noticeably, but after a while I began to find Sonata rather repetitive. I chalk this up to the fact that Firewind had already given me all that I could handle. It was like trying to pour a gallon of Power Metal into the shot glass that is my attention span. Something definitely overflowed. The hour and-a-half set length didn’t help.

All in all, the show did not disappoint. Each band played a great set and brought something different to the stage for the crowd to taste. And though my evening may have ended on a down note, I did discover two new bands, whose music I will seek out. Let this be a lesson not to miss the opening bands. Though they tend to stink, you never know when you might find a gem among them.

~All photos by Dazvsemir.

For more information, clickety click down below:

• UnexpecT - www.myspace.com/unexpect
• The Agonist - www.myspace.com/theagonist
• Firewind - www.myspace.com/firewind
• Sonata Arctica - www.myspace.com/sonataarctica
• B. B. King's Calendar of Events - www.bbkingblues.com/schedule/index.shtml