Strynn was created, with the actual line-up, since 2011's beginning. The band plays an old-school, simple and cold Black Metal. A Split-album with Galvauder (Experimental Black Metal) is went out in april 2012. The first album called "Decadence" was recorded and mixed at the end of summer 2012 at Echoes Studio (Charente-Maritime, France) and mastered at Ubik Mastering (Bordeaux, France).

New offering from this Swedish Blackened Death Metal, Grief Of Emerald. As one of the influential band in Sweden scene, the band are not going to let you down. Nine totally nihilistic, dark, fast, evil and full with hatred are the core in this album.Total of 40 minutes running time and there was nothing major to complain, but a must for all death metal all over the world. Get your ears ready for this disaster!!

Before he was in Kingdom Come, Lenny Wolf (possessor of without a doubt one of the best voices in hard rock) was in Stone Fury. This was his first band after coming to LA from Germany, and it's good stuff. This is the first of two studio albums Stone Fury put out, and possesses the moderate hit Break Down the Walls. Stone Fury isn't as polished as Kingdom Come, with a rawer sound, but KC fans will love this.

Former UFO member Michael Schenker (younger brother to Rudolf of the Scorpions) really rips on the guitar. Songs like "Anytime" (a minor hit at #69 on the charts), "Get Down To Bizness" and "I Am Your Radio" really jam! Vocalist Robin McAuley has an incredible gravelly delivery, and sounds great (despite having one of the worst hairdos in 80's rock history!).

Anonymous 4 - Four Centuries Of Chant
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 302 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi USA # HMX 2907546 | Country/Year: Europe 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Medieval, Polyphonic Chant

…The most striking aspect of the chant singing here is the ability of four voices to sound as one. This results in a loveliness of tone that sets them apart from even the finest choirs and a warmly blended sound that distinguishes them from solo singers…

Arvo Pärt - Cantique
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor / Kristjan Järvi
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Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # 88697753912 | Country/Year: Europe 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary

Sony Classical release Cantique, their first from the dynamic conductor Kristjan Järvi, featuring the music of iconic composer Arvo Pärt in celebration of his 75th birthday. Järvi leads the Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor in performance of Pärt’s 1971 masterpiece, Symphony No. 3, plus the world premiere recordings of the orchestral and choral version of his Stabat mater and Cantique des degrès for choir and orchestra…

This 58th volume of the Romantic Piano Concerto series presents two composer-pianists who contributed to Liszt’s piano extravaganza Hexaméron (1837). Thalberg (who would be celebrating his 200th birthday in 2012) famously took part in a pianistic ‘duel’ with Liszt, and was popularly acclaimed as the greatest pianist in the world during his lifetime. He only wrote one piano concerto, and that in his teens, but it is a brilliantly effective showpiece for virtuosity and stamina, the pianist’s hands barely leaving the piano. Johann Peter Pixis has now been …..

The only possible criticism of this disc would presumably be that it doesn't offer more of Canteloube's evocative, atmospheric (even if probably over-perfumed) songs of the Auvergne. If you had any doubts about the artistic merit of these songs, Victoria de los Angeles's performances with the Lamoreux Orchestra under Jean-Pierre Jacquillat should put them to rest. True, other interpreters have but more charm and innocence into this music, but no one has captured the beauty and atmosphere better……

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