Just Another Blog: August 2008

2008 has been the year for Music. We've seen a lot of bands come out with an album this year. Most of them being Masterpieces- Works of Art!
Who wouldn't like the sound of Guitars and Drums pounding inside our ears. Orgasmic innit ?

Well, Read on!

Deathrow - Raging Steel [ReRelease] (2008),Thrash Metal

Artist: Deathrow
Album: Raging Steel
Year: 2008
Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: Germany

Tracklist:
01.The Dawn 01:25
02.Raging Steel 04:17
03.Scattered by the Wind (Pt. I) 02:05
04.Scattered by the Wind (Pt. II) 03:04
05.Dragons Blood 05:57
06.The Thing Within 05:59
07.Pledge to Die 04:07
08.Mortal Dread 04:51
09.The Undead Cry 04:06
10.Beyond the Light 06:42
11.Intro (Bonus Track) 01:00
12.Slaughtered (Bonus Track) 04:01
13.Violent Omen (Bonus Track) 04:36
14.Riders of Doom (Bonus Track) 05:14
15.Samhain (Bonus Track) 06:40
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Total playing time: 01:04:04

Demonizer - Triumphator (2008), Black/Thrash Metal

Artist: Demonizer
Album: Triumphator
Year: 2008
Genre: Black/Thrash Metal
Country: Belgium

Tracklist:
01. Terror, Chaos, Bloodlust, Death 05:03
02. Alcoholic 04:18
03. The Wolf Inside 05:16
04. Triumphator 07:24
05. Bright the Stars Must Shine Tonight 03:45
06. Purity in Legacy 05:21
07. Into the Dark Void 04:54
08. Let Them Hate 03:41
09. Bestial Ejaculation 05:02
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Total playing time: 44:40

Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day (2008),Gothic Metal

Artist: Poisonblack
Album: A Dead Heavy Day
Year: 2008
Genre: Gothic Metal
Country: Finland

TrackList:
1. Intro 00:31
2. Diane 03:57
3. Left Behind 04:45
4. Bear The Cross 03:52
5. A Dead Heavy Day 05:07
6. Me Myself And I 04:31
7. X 06:10
8. Human-Compost 05:24
9. The Days Between 06:20
10. Hatelove 03:58
11. Low Life 04:28
12. Only You Can Tear Me Apart 07:46
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Total playing time: 56:23

Dream Evil - Gold Medal In Metal (Alive & Archive) (2008),Heavy Metal

Artist: Dream Evil
Album: Gold Medal In Metal (Alive & Archive)
Year: 2008
Genre: Heavy Metal
Country: Sweden

TrackList:

CD I
1. United 04:02
2. Blind Evil 04:23
3. Fire! Battle! In Metal! 03:17
4. In Flames You Burn 04:25
5. Crusaders' Anthem 04:06
6. Back From the Dead 04:27
7. Higher on Fire 04:20
8. The Prophecy 04:21
9. Made of Metal 04:06
10. Heavy Metal in the Night 05:00
11. Let Me Out 04:46
12. The Chosen Ones 05:58
13. The Book of Heavy Metal 04:56
14. Chasing the Dragon 04:13
15. Children of the Night 04:29

CD II
1. Dominator 03:23
2. Fight for Metal 03:52
3. December 25th 04:16
4. Pain Patrol 03:14
5. Lady of Pleasure 03:27
6. Chapter 6 04:03
7. Gold Medal In Metal 03:11
8. Point of No Return 03:52
9. The Enemy 03:15
10. Hero of Zeroes 04:30
11. Bringing the Metal Back 03:43
12. Betrayed 04:01
13. Evilized (unplugged) 04:56
14. Dragonheart 03:35
15. Take the World 04:09
16. Crusader's Anthem (demo) 04:03
17. Touring is My Life (live) 01:56
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Aura Noir - Hades Rise (2008),Black/Thrash Metal

Artist: Aura Noir
Album: Hades Rise
Year: 2008
Genre: Black/Thrash Metal
Country: Norway

Tracklist:
1. Aura Noir - Hades Rise (3:25)
2. Aura Noir - Gaping Grave Awaits (4:00)
3. Aura Noir - Unleash the Demon (3:47)
4. Aura Noir - Pestilent Streams (3:26)
5. Aura Noir - Schitzoid Paranoid (2:45)
6. Aura Noir - Death-Mask (3:35)
7. Aura Noir - Shadows of Death (5:47)
8. Aura Noir - Iron Night/Torment Storm (5:09)
9. Aura Noir - South American Death (3:13)
10. Aura Noir - The Stalker (3:07)
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Total playing time: 38:14

Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (2008),Heavy/Groove Metal/Rock'n'Roll

Artist: Volbeat
Album: Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
Year: 2008
Genre: Heavy/Groove Metal/Rock'n'Roll
Country: Denmark

TrackList:
1. Intro / End of the World 1:05
2. Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood 3:08
3. Back to Prom 1:51
4. Mary Ann's Place 3:41
5. Hallelujah Goat 3:30
6. Maybelenne i Hofteholder 3:20
7. We 3:46
8. Still Counting 4:21
9. Light a Way 4:42
10. Wild Rover of Hell 3:42
11. I'm So Lonely I Could Cry 3:21
12. A Broken Man and the Dawn 4:45
13. Find That Soul 3:43
14. Making Believe 3:29
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Total playing time: 48:24

Purgatory - Cultus Luciferi-The Splendour Of Chaos (2008), Death Metal

Artist: Purgatory
Album: Cultus Luciferi-The Splendour Of Chaos
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Germany

Tracklist:
01. Realm Of The Vortex 03:02
02. Chaos Aeon 03:00
03. Ruler Of The East 03:40
04. Forbidden Wisdom 03:17
05. Red Prison 03:40
06. Hammering The Nails-Vengeance Of The Damned 05:42
07. Pits Of Utmuno (Morgoth Cover) 04:44
08. Burial Of A Plague 03:36
09. The Enemy Within 04:59
10. Seeds Of Annihilation (Live-Bonustrack) 03:33
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Total playing time: 39:13

Lower Hell - Asphyxia [ep] (2008), Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore

Artist: Lower Hell
Album: Asphyxia [ep]
Year: 2008
Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore
Country: Germany

Tracklist:
1. Intro 01:02
2. Alchemist Academy 04:43
3. Asphyxia 04:03
4. Lip Gloss 06:07
5. Beloved Murder 05:45
6. Don't Let Me Down 04:37
7. To Your Ash 04:00
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Total playing time: 30:17

Sven Busam - Vocals
Steffen Busam - Guitar
Bruno Sucher - Guitar
Bloodlust Joe - Bass
Bastian Springmann - Drums

Omnium Gatherum - Redshift (2008), Melodic Death Metal

Artist: Omnium Gatherum
Album: Redshift
Year: 2008
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Country: Finland

Tracklist:
01. Nail
02. A Shadowkey
03. Chameleon Skin
04. No Breaking Point
05. The Return
06. Shapes And Shades
07. The Redshifter
08. Greeneyes
09. The Second Flame
10. Song For December
11. Distant Light Highway
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Total playing time: 47:59

See You Next Tuesday - Intervals (2008),Experimental / Deathcore / Grindcore

Artist: See You Next Tuesday
Album: Intervals
Year: 2008
Genre: Experimental / Deathcore / Grindcore
Country: USA

Track List:
01. Nascence
02. In The End
03. The Life In Death
04. Eternity?
05. Alpha
06. She Once Said I Was A Romantic
07. Daydreams
08. Nightmares
09. In The Beginning
10. Forever On Deaf Ears
11. Goodnight (Our Last Dance)
12. This Time The Keys Are Broken
13. Dedication To A New Era
14. One Of These Days
15. Omega
16. 11/22/07
17. January And On

Sothis - De Oppresso Liber (2008),Black Metal

Artist: Sothis
Album: De Oppresso Liber
Year: 2008
Genre: Black Metal
Country: USA

Tracklist:
01. Of Night And Silence ( 3:58)
02. De Oppresso Liber ( 5:32)
03. Beneath A Black Boiling Sky ( 5:50)
04. Lunar Descent ( 4:50)
05. Obsidian Throne ( 5:32)
06. Defiance ( 6:56)
07. The Cold Disconnection ( 4:21)
08. Lair Of The Benighted ( 5:29)
09. Perpetual ( 5:58)
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Total playing time: 48:26

Belligerence - Out:Red [2008],Melodic Black/Death Metal

Artist: Belligerence
Album: Out:Red
Year: 2008
Genre: Melodic Black/Death Metal [female vocal]
Country: Czech Republic

Track List:
01. Confused Perception 04:54
02. Deal 04:06
03. Denigrated Faith 03:33
04. Overfilled 05:12
05. Stigmatic 05:29
06. Warfare 05:27
07. Wounds 04:43
08. Belligerence 03:42
09. Out:Red 04:07
10. 200.4 01:44

Ordog - Life is too Short for Learning to Live (2008),Exprimental Doom / Death Metal

Artist: Ordog
Album: Life is too Short for Learning to Live
Year: 2008
Genre: Exprimental Doom / Death Metal
Country: Finland

Tracklist:
1. Death's Cold Embrance 1:26
2. Live Fast, Die Slow 7:21
3. Drown in Yourself 0:44
4. Chapelle Ardente 11:33
5. Learning to Live 2:34
6. Pokol 19:35
7. Innocence 4:09
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Total playing time: 47:22

ScareCrown - Letters From The Darkness (2008),Gothic Metal

Artist: ScareCrown
Album: Letters From The Darkness(Female Vocal)
Year: 2008
Genre: Gothic Metal
Country: Italy

TrackList:
1. My own devil
2. She
3. Howling
4. Night-like eyes
5. Drops
6. Without voice
7. Show me your face
8. Unknown land
9. Double blade kiss
10. Letters from the darkness
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Total playing time: 37:56

Lord Belial - The Black Curse (2008).Melodic Black Metal

Artist: Lord Belial
Album: The Black Curse
Year: 2008
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Country: Sweden

TrackList:
1. Pazuzu - Lord of Fevers and Plague (3:49)
2. Trumpets of Doom (5:10)
3. Sworn (4:18)
4. Inexorable Retribution (4:46)
5. Antichrist Reborn (5:16)
6. Primordial Incantation (6:08)
7. Devilish Enlightenment (5:26)
8. Ascension of Lilith (7:11)
9. Unorthodox Catharsis (5:30)
10. Soulgate (4:54)
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Total playing time: 52.27

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (2008),Melodic Death Metal

Artist: Amon Amarth
Album: Twilight of the Thunder God
Year: 2008
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Country: Sweden

TrackList:
1. Twilight of the Thunder God
2. Free Will Sacrifice
3. Guardians of Asgaard
4. Where Is Your God?
5. Varyags of Miklagaard
6. Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags
7. No Fear For the Setting Sun
8. The Hero
9. Live For the Kill
10. Embrace of the Endless Ocean
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Total playing time: 42:14
Johan Hegg - Vocals
Olavi Mikkonen - Guitar
Johan Sцderberg - Guitar
Ted Lundstrцm - Bass (Eternal Oath (Swe))
Fredrik Andersson - Drums (A Canorous Quintet/The Plague (Swe)/This Ending, Curriculum Mortis (Swe), Guidance of Sin, Laid to Unrest, Beyond Dreams, The Dead (Swe))

Agalloch - The Demonstration Archive 1996 - 1998 [best of /compilation] (2008),Atmospheric Folk/Dark Metal

Artist: Agalloch
Album: The Demonstration Archive 1996 - 1998 [best of / compilation]
Year: 2008
Genre: Atmospheric Folk/Dark Metal
Country: USA

Track List:
"From Which of this Oak" (1997)
1. The Wilderness
2. As Embers Dress The Sky
3. This Old Cabin
"Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor" unreleased 7-inch (1998)
4. Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor
5. Foliorum Viridium
6. Haunting Birds
"Promo '98" (1998)
7. Hallways Of Enchanted Ebony
8. The Melancholy Spirit
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Total playing time: 59:03

Cloudscape - Global Drama (2008),Progressive Metal

Artist: Cloudscape
Album: Global Drama
Year: 2008
Genre: Progressive Metal
Country: Sweden

TrackList:
1. Mind Diary 05:49
2. Darkest Legacy 03:41
3. Cloak & Daggers 06:34
4. Pain In Blood 03:57
5. The Silence Within 05:06
6. One Silent Moment 04:34
7. Alogoas 08:24
8. Static 05:46
9. Fragile 04:10
10. Eyes Of Jealousy 09:09
11. Ritual Of The Blade 05:03
12. Justice 05:07

Memoira - Memoira (2008),Gothic Metal

Artist: Memoira
Album: Memoira
Year: 2008
Genre: Gothic Metal(Female Vocal)
Country: Finland

TrackList:
1. Arise (Intro)
2. Experimenters Farewell
3. Haunted
4. Destiny Of Yours
5. Incurable
6. Shadow On My Name
7. Half Alive
8. Liberation
9. Amortization
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Total playing time: 41.08

Neronoia - Il Rumore Delle Cose (2008),Dark Atmospheric Gothic Metal

Artist: Neronoia
Album: Il Rumore Delle Cose
Year: 2008
Genre: Dark Atmospheric Gothic Metal
Country: Italy

TrackList:
1. XI
2. XII
3. XIII
4. XIV
5. XV
6. XVI
7. XVII
8. XVIII
9. XIX
10. XX
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Total playing time: 40.30

Incantation - Blasphemous Cremation [ep] (2008),Death Metal

Artist: Incantation
Album: Blasphemous Cremation
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States

Track List:
1. Rotting Spiritual Embodiment (5:39)
2. Blasphemous Cremation (4:53)
3. Godsend (5:29)
4. Profanation (5:30)
5. Christening The Afterbirth (5:47)
6. Eternal Torture (3:48)
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Total playing time: 31:06

Current line-up:
John McEntee - Guitar, Vocals (Goreaphobia, Mortician (US), Funerus, Immolation, Revenant)
Chuck Sherwood - Bass (Blood Storm)
Alex Bouks - Guitar (Engorge (US), Goreaphobia)
Jim Roe - Drums (Morbid Sin, WOMB, Disciples of Mockery, Engorge (US), 2006 Tour Drummer for Speed Kill Hate, Mr. Grim)

End Of Green - The Sick's Sense (2008),Gothic Metal

Artist: End Of Green
Album: The Sick's Sense
Year: 2008
Genre: Gothic Metal
Country: Germany

TrackList:
CD1:
1. Dead City Lights 4:42
2. Killhoney 4:58
3. Anthem For A New Wave 3:10
4. Hurter 5:37
5. Die Lover Die 4:38
6. Let Sleeping Gods Lie 5:40
7. My Crying Veins 6:42
8. Pain Hates Me 3:40
9. The Sickness Crown 4:32
10. Ghostdance 3:10
11. Sunday Mourning 5:51
12. Bury Me Down (The End) 4:52

CD2 (Acoustic):
1. Tragedy Insane 4:58
2. Melanchoholic 4:40
3. Hurter 4:42
4. Demons 3:57
5. Everywhere 3:47
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Total playing time: 79.28

Frost Like Ashes - Born To Pieces (2008),Black Metal

Artist: Frost Like Ashes
Album: Born To Pieces
Year: 2008
Genre: Black Metal
Country: USA

TrackList:
01. Born To Pieces 7:21
02. Pale Shadows 5:49
03. Immortals 3:43
04. Plan 2 (Saint Cover) 8:13
05. When The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash Cover) 4:43
06. Nightfall's Cold Kiss 5:33
07. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent 4:44
08. Nightfall's Cold Kiss (Acoustic) 6:02
09. A Cruel Verse (Rehearsal Tape) 4:44
10. Adorers Of Blood (Rehearsal Tape) 6:21
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Total playing time: 55:13

Carnal Decay - Chopping Off The Head (2008),Death Metal/Grind

Artist: Carnal Decay
Album: Chopping Off The Head
Year: 2008
Genre: Death Metal/Grind
Country: Switzerland

Track List:
01 Mary and the 3 Kings 02:43
02 Shotgun Facelift 03:06
03 Chopping Off the Head 03:49
04 One by One 03:28
05 Bowel Bondage 03:35
06 Raptured by Torturing 03:37
07 Fartover 03:37
08 Mutilation is My Passion 02:29
09 Redatory Instinct 03:29
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Total playing time: 29:49

Thursday, August 28, 2008

New Black/Death/Viking/Thrash/Goth Metal Albums of 2008