Dutch extreme metal act CONSPIRACY has just released its third full-length album, "Irremediable", via Pulverised Records. The CD offers 12 warring tracks inspired by controversial 17th century artist Félicien Rops."The material on 'Irremediable' ranges from blackened heavy metal with melodic and harmonious guitar solos to black metal with unorthodox elements, which will pleasantly surprise even the most spoilt listeners."The cover art is based on the painting by the Belgian Satanist painter Félicien Rops (1833-1898), which goes really fine with the dark poetry of Aleister Crowley, Charles Baudelaire and some other classical masters.

Un trio montréalais qui lance son premier album après avoir obtenu un certain succès avec la chanson Cacti are delicious fruit, utilisée dans une publicité de Telus. Le groupe prétend faire de la musique pour danser en français, en anglais, en espagnol et en allemand.
An electro-style trio from Montreal with energetic songs performed in French, English, Spanis, German. Out of 14 tracks just one is more or less down-tempo :)

The third release on ONYX from young Dutch mezzo and rising star Christianne Stotijn. A beautiful collection of 20 Tchaikovsky songs representing the whole range of his creative life from his first performed composition ''My Genius, My angel, my friend,'' written when he was 16, through to the last published song from the year of his death ''Again, as before, alone''. Includes favourites such as ''None but the Lonely Heart'' and ''Why?'' but also rarely heard songs such as ''Mild Stars Looked down'', ''The Cuckoo'' and ''The Gypsy Song'' Christianne learnt Russian especially for this recording and toured it widely before recording it with her superb pianist Julius Drake. This recording should do much to re-evaluate Tchaikovsky as one of the greatest composers of song and not just a writer of pretty tunes.

This musical release from the hard rock band Michael Schenker Group captures a live performance, recorded in Tokyo in January of 2010. Some of the tracks featured in the concert include "Welcome Howl", "Feels Like a Good Thing", "Cry for the Nations", "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie", and more…