German/Swedish metallers AT VANCE released their ninth album, "Facing Your Enemy", on April 27 via AFM Records.

Hypnos return surprisingly and triumphant! The new album features challenging, mature Blackend Death Metal material throughout. Czech death metal commando HYPNOS was founded in the fall of 1999 year by BRUNO (bass, guitar, vocals), right after he left the well-known Death band KRABATHOR, as being one of the band´s main men. The second founding member is drummer PEGAS, known especially for his great drumming on Krabathor's “LIES” album from 1995 year. HYPNOS became one of the leading death metal acts from Czech/Slovakia and attacked European stages immediately.

New York Dolls - The First Albums: 1973-74 (4CD in Original & Remastered form)
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The New York Dolls created punk rock before there was a term for it. Building on the Rolling Stones' dirty rock & roll, Mick Jagger's androgyny, girl group pop, the glam rock of David Bowie and T. Rex, and the Stooges' anarchic noise, the New York Dolls created a new form of hard rock that presaged both punk rock and heavy metal. Their drug-fueled, shambolic performances influenced a generation of musicians in New York and London, who all went on to form punk bands. And although they self-destructed quickly, the band's two albums remain two of the most popular cult records in Rock & Roll history.

Handel's operas are now so thoroughly a part of modern musical life that you might think every major opera house welcomes them. But until November 2010, when it introduced an absorbing new production of Alcina, the Vienna Staatsoper resisted them, not having done a Baroque opera since Monteverdi's Poppea in the 1960s. The present production boasted an all-star cast of Baroque specialists, a former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Adrian Noble, the highly-acclaimed conductor Marc Minkowski and his Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble in the pit…