The debut full-length from a young -yet very talented and highly promising- Finnish quintet whose critically acclaimed demo, entitled "Ritual of the Horned Skull", took the Death/Doom scene by the storm in 2011. Recorded and mixed by Harri Hyytiäinen at Rehearsalucifer Studios (Finland), and mastered by Greg Chandler (of Esoteric fame) at Priory Recordings Studios (U.K.), "Summoned from the Void" is a devastating aural mammoth plenty of crushingly slow tempos, deep growls, somber harmonies, mid-paced heaviness and epic atmospheres that should definitely appeal to fans of bands such as Hooded Menace, early Paradise Lost, Cianide, Rippikoulu, Coffins, early Cathedral, Anatomia…

Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Wiener Philharmoniker / Arnold Schoenberg Chor / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal # 88697720662 | Country/Year: Germany 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Widely respected as a pioneer in the field of early music who employed original instruments in performances of Baroque and Classical music, Nikolaus Harnoncourt is also admired for his insightful interpretations of 19th century music. His 2007 recording with the Vienna Philharmonic of Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem is characteristic of his handling of the Romantic repertoire, insofar as he clearly knows the best scholarship on performance style, yet neither makes authenticity a fetish nor lets expression suffer through an obsession with period practice…

Borderlines formed in 2012 by three members of the pop punk band The Leftovers. Scattered between Portland, ME and Los Angeles, CA they spend most of their limited time together quoting Ghostbusters and drinking beers, but still manage to write and record. Having played nearly 500 shows in over a dozen countries as The Leftovers, they are no strangers to the inner workings of jaded scenes. For their debut EP, "Magical Paths to Fortune and Power", the Borderlines bring the same great songwriting to catchy and filled to overflowing with hooks.

Crematory - Crematory
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Label/Cat#: Massacre Rec. # MASS DP 092 | Country/Year: Germany 1996
Genre: Rock, Metal | Style: Death Metal, Goth Rock

…The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. Much like the latter two groups, the band had begun as traditional death metal, then evolved with an industrial music and gothic metal musical direction on later albums. The band would receive heavy rotation on MTV Germany, and would also make appearances at various extreme metal festivals, including Germany's Wacken Open Air in the years 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2008, in addition to inclusion on Nuclear Blast compilation samplers…

Reformed Chicago death metallers BROKEN HOPE will release their sixth album, "Omen Of Disease", in October via Century Media Records. The drums for the CD were laid down at Belle City Sound in Racine, Wisconsin with engineer Chris Wisco (LAZARUS A.D., JUNGLE ROT, ORIGIN, GORGASM), while the remaining instruments were tracked at Mercenary Digital Studios in Zion, Illinois with engineer Scott Creekmore (DIRGE WITHIN, PUTRID PILE, LIVIDITY)."Omen Of Disease" will feature a special guest appearance by Trevor Strnad of THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER on the new BROKEN HOPE track "Rendered Into Lard". The cover painting for the CD was created by world-renowned horror artist Wes Benscoter (SLAYER, CATTLE DECAPITATION, AUTOPSY, KREATOR).

David Bowie - The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (1972) [FLAC] {40th Anniversary 2012 RCA Remaster}
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© 2012 EMI / RCA / Jones/Tintoretto | DBZS 40
Rock / Glam Rock / Experimental Rock

Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread.

Jemeel Moondoc - Muntu Recordings (2010) [3CD BoxSet] {NoBusiness Records}
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© 2010 NoBusiness Records | NBCD 7-8-9
Jazz / Free Jazz / Modern Creative / Saxophone

Lithuanian based NoBusiness records has put together a wonderful retrospective on under celebrated saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc and his pioneering ensemble Muntu, sumptuously packaged in a three-audio disc plus booklet box set. It's a bulletin from another era, the late 1970s, a fertile period in free jazz history which has been sparsely documented. The music itself is not always of the highest level, because Moondoc is not the great innovator in jazz nor the most incredible sax-player, but the nature of the music, the historical context, and the unbelievable quality and dedication with which No Business offered this music back to the world, make this already now one of the most recommended albums of the year.