Earcandy - Motown Gold act review

Earcandy is a UK based sonic enterprise that is ready and able to deliver live music performances as the hallmarks of any event and/or a senselessly wild birthday party you could be the premiere extra surprise of. I have been contacted by a representative of said firm, and been asked to check out one of the acts the company offers on its current roster, and I assume that the selection palette will be even richer than it is right now.

I'm a Michael Jackson fan, - and you are one too, you got that?? - so my choice was the act called "Motown Gold", a quintet - logically - of five friendly people who exhibit high skill levels at rendering the music of the Motown era in a fluent, family friendly fashion. They bring the real deal,  and the lady who sings the trademark lines of the "kid Jacko", is especially convincing. Motown, by the way, is the record label that produced the LPs Michael Jackson sang on in his childhood while fortifying the ranks of The Jackson Five.

Based on my impressions, it seems safe to say that UK based Earcandy delivers along a tasteful musical comfort zone which is highly compatible with the targeted peak moment of a civilized party your business partners can attend to without the risk of anyone getting any more drunk than it is suitable around well defined cleavages and radically exploited lobsters.

If the idea of crowning an event with a musical performance sounds - hah. - good to you,  check out Earcandy at their official site today at : http://earcandylive.co.uk

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Souljunky - I Found Your Dream review

Year : 2012
Genre : Melodic Rock, Soft Rock, Disco
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
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Chigaco based Souljunky brings exceptionally smart and eloquently shaped melodic soft rock, radiating a vibe that has full throttle capacity to convey the emotional disposition of the highest peaks of a laid back, slick retroid character. Think of the tremendous Scarface soundtrack, and embed a bit - JUST a bit - of The Cure, the golden era of disco, a form of Bee-Gees without the high pitch head voice singing into it, and spice the resultant mix with a keen understanding of how to construct memorable choruses of dignity and harmonic elegance Aerosmith style. This isn't all yet : I personally am cosmically horrified by the music of U2 and I don't like it (that much [at all]), yet, this particular formation manages to convey the ethos of U2, too - SIC! - via their more mysterious and dainty contributions. Read on to know more about this Souljunky LP.

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Katrin the Thrill - Evil Eye Charm review

Year : 2012
Genre : Psychedelic, Dark Soft Rock, Soft Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : Greece
Official site : > - here - <

Despite a resilient, young body and the spiritual experience of 1 000 000 years - give or take - contained in it, Greece's Katrin the Thrill is an established presence of entertainment in her home country, while she and her former (?) associates were as close to making a record deal as it is humanly possible on a land Circe reigns at with a soul intact. Not surprisingly : Katrin the Thrill is a highly talented sonic/vocal consortium who radiates a darkened variant of Grace Slick + a tint of Sheryl Crow on top of musical themes and thought-fields that make early Nina Hagen and anytime-Peter Steele content individuals. The aforementioned lamentations are covering about the third of the disc. The major part of it has massive psychedelic leanings. Did you notice the infinite amount of invisible white rabbits on the cover art yet? No? Look harder! Never seen someone who has fully disappeared. Read on to know more about the much anticipated Evil Eye Charm LP.

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SKiLTRaX - Big Bad Wolf review

Year : 2012
Genre : Trance, Dance with an Ambient demeanor
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Connecticut based SKiLTRaX considers himself to be an individual gifted enough in the ways and machinations of music to take and shape and transmit the layers of sound his inner ears hear into eloquent audio reality, though he never felt an urge to try and convey his ideas on an analogue instrument. (At the end of the day, all sounds are digital anyway, monumental tribal drums played by a rampaging Godzilla - included.)

The name of the game is straightforward, bright-brisk trance/dance music with genuine thought and imagination behind it, this time submitting keenly to a laid back, ambient behavior that reigns oh, so thankfully free of everyday average tendencies of stale domination. The prime requirements that are necessary to sport the capacity to contribute a trance declaration into a form which could be a privilege to be immersed into, are all possessed AND given. Read on to know more about the disc.

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No Boundaries - Cover

A cover of the Michael Angelo Batio shred guitar classic "No Boundaries".

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NO - Roll

Year : 2012
Genre : Pop
Label : Independent
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : > - here - <

The band called simply "NO" brings forth its second full length declaration, now orchestrated to lighthearted-, free spirited pop music that exhibits no intimidating or experimental tendencies at all, concentrating instead on attaining a brisk, risk free image of pop as soon as possible per entry.

The compositions are straightforward bonfire statements, fluently fixated on the myriad types and kinds of sentiments that were/are/will be compatible with said romantic environment, and it is beyond any doubt whatsoever that the quartet emerges efficient at pressing the proper buttons in order to appeal for the preference patterns of a random radio running rampant. - aua. Read more about this disc.

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Mercury Underground - debut EP review

Year : 2012
Genre : Modern Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : Scotland
Official site : > - here - <

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Mercury Undergound is a Glasgow based modern rock group which sounds completely committed to bring you the classic era of said parent genre with recent production standards, pulling this stunt off without falling to the other side of the horse, where over-production is as pronounced of a danger as is volume-fetischism. The situation of the miserable music critic is pleasant now, as the debut LP of scrutinized ensemble comprises of three muscularly realized, straightforward modern rock tracks indeed, and the love for the genre-, the solid understanding of it is tight and convincing throughout. Read on to know more about this slick-, massively guitar centered EP.

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Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hard Rock, Circus Metal
Label : Columbia
Origin : United States
Rating : 6.9 / 10

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New Aerosmith album, old question : does the band stray away from their trademark emotional circus metal direction, or, will they stick to it with ruthless determination hidden behind an infinite flow of pink spandex? This, of course, is a pseudo-question, as the group never ONCE exhibited the urge to deviate from their ultraknown comfort zone, so it seems way too optimistic to expect anything more adventurous/experimental from the band now, after 223423 years of delivering the same circus music. This is a track by track review, with one little perk : - just to offer a nod for the retroid cover art - I will offer an opinion on the first actual track in a random point of this review. (Because the intro gives you a Timothy Learian declaration of how helpless you are, as Listener.) Other than that, we will listen to the album in its entirety from start to finish, BONUS! tracks included. Read on to know more about the new Aerosmith LP.

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Forgotten Tomb - ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil review

Year : 2012
Genre : Blackened Doom Metal
Label : Cruz Del Sur Music
Origin : Italy
Rating : 7.5 / 10

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I have no clue whether THIS Forgotten Tomb is the same one that has featured the band frontman and his insecurities contained in a bath tube on an early '2000s LP, but, in case it IS the same formation, then it is safe to say that the music has changed a lot since the inception of the "Songs to Leave" album. The content of the "... And Don't Deliver Us From Evil" contribution is a rather eloquent and well constructed flow of easily accessible - yes, I have said it - blackened doom, and, if you think that this very attribute harms the legitimacy of sheer heaviness, then, in my opinion you are purely mistaken. Read more to know more and necessarily desecrate the Forgotten Tomb in the mere process of knowing more about it.

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Australasia - Sin4tr4 review

Year : 2012
Genre : Instrumental Progressive Metal with a Black Metal flavor
Label : Golden Morning Sounds
Origin : Italy
Official Site : > - here - <

Italy's Australasia has cultivated a music format which is ripe enough to base a full length debut on without having to reinvent its premiere components. The reoccurring central agenda is to summon music from a tame direction at the start, THEN the more intense side of metal is revealed, almost always through two variations : mit-tempo, and finally, with considerable speed that  finds pleasure winking at stone-traditional thrash metal rhythm patterns - a positive, not a negative. By the time a certain song has showcased all the aforementioned structural elements of different modal tints that are calling the song into life - it already has a healthy amount of content to offer intriguing variation without you even noticing it. It is pretty safe to say that the disc has no weak moments, and this is the result of how the album realizes its own current capacities, and decides to wrap things up before they would start to recycle their previous statements. Read on to know more.

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Stone Sour - House of Gold and Bones Part 1 review

Year : 2012
Genre : Alternative Metal, Hard Rock
Label : RoadRunner Records
Origin : United States
Rating : 7.5 / 10

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I - a terrible letter to start a review with - just watched the new Stone Sour video "Gone Sovereign", and my expectations were met and not surpassed. Although the clip have sought desperately to put goose bumps on my skin in the process and failed at THAT secondary objective, I have heard a competent take on classic alternative - yes, I just lost a level now - rock. This is his.

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Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay review

Year : 2012
Genre : Sludge Metal
Label : Neurot Records
Origin : United States
Rating : 6.0 / 10

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Music and the other types of entertainment are constituting the all-tolerant media evil should be expressed on when the insatiable urge to express evil IS present, because no one has to get harmed in THIS process. I don't condone the harming of any living things - highly evil mind parasites that are fulfilling their functions in a mind  idiotic enough to invent, invite AND serve them : included - but I condone anything in art, saved for the evidently tasteless. Severed toddler heads hanging from erect Baphomet dick is a starting point for tasteless. Unfortufuckinglutely, as a miserable music critic, I already have had the lifting experience of being soulcrushed by quite a few top tier sludge formations in recent days in order to harness high quality amusement, and THIS particular record from renowned sludge ensemble Neurosis simply isn't evil and isn't uncompromisingly disillusioned enough to weigh in as a timeless recommendation, NOT on this particular music review site Noise Shaft. Though I'm not competent enough to offer an opinion on the overall contents of the lyrics, through the music itself, a relentlessly self-fixated demeanor - not hard of a mistake to commit as a human - seems to be observable throughout the effort, which so adores the results of examining itself that it reaches the point on which it emerges content with any expression of its inner findings, and these deliberate anti-charms do not really seem to be sufficiently intricate constructs of classic existentialist fear and the general absence of love-evident to be worth showing for almost an entire hour. Because the 60 minutes disc has about 10 minutes of badass music, too.

Existing as a human is only frightening when you fail to accept the limitations that are inherent to the human condition, - tits will turn you on, for example - and, the very instant you submit to the worship of your fear of your own incapacities, you will suck legendarily as a(n) (f)artist. Granted, a sludge metal band worth listening to really should be fronted by Cthulhu, nevertheless, the style has great potential to express the helplessness of existence, but, more importantly, to offer reflections on the possible shapes of doubts and fears surrounding this particular - human - form of it. The massive caveat I have with this Neurosis - a good thing that the sentence continues - LP is that it not only is relentlessly fixated on shapes and thoughts of fear that have been addressed a million times before through the capacities of music, but, shitassfuck, it seeks to offer clumsy images of hope - cheapest human commodity - at places I don't want to see the REMNANTS of disgusting hope at - AT all. Don't assuage me on a sludge metal disc, please. Crush my soul or get away from me.

Only an idiot - or Chuck Norris - would want to be the protagonist of a nightmare, but it is expectable from a successful sludge metal release to declare 111% indifference towards the human condition, and what I hear on this release is simply music made by people armed with a terrible mood, and, the somewhat seemingly trite variant of that, too. You can have that without having to sit around listening for an hour while having the bad mood of others poured on you. Bad mood simply isn't enough. Never ask the neurotic how he is doing, because he will tell it. Read more if you feel like it.

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Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas review

Year : 2012
Genre : Grindcore with a Melodic Death Metal tint
Label : Candlelight
Origin : United Kingdom
Rating : 8.0 / 10

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Birmingham based Anaal Nathrakh delivers a record that maintains the sonic hyper-aggressivity the formation is known for, yet a notable attraction for the clearly identifiable melodic hook is on eloquent display all throughout the disc. You'd be unfathomably mistaken if you'd think that this hardened duo of veteran silence assassins are seeking ways for the not at all mysterious preferences of the mainstream with the introduction of choruses that truly reek melodic death metal in character. The format/temper of the music still resonates relentless audio terror as it is being courted by delicious, adept variation - although the builds now claim the fortunate liberty to further compliment the flamboyant jackhammer-fray with motives that are sculpted out to reveal a catch-factor in pretty much all ten songs. Funnily enough, the musical language/affection of the disc is akin to the favorite moods of Fleshgod Apocalypse's 2011 LP Agony. The name of the game is neoclassicism orchestrated to a music production environment that can start or end a war at will. Read more or don't.

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Void Eater

GyZ gives you the song : Void Eater. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

- instrumental -

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Cheech - The Monday Tuesday LP review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Independent
Origin : United States in way of Mexico
Official site : > - here - <

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Cheech is a San Diego based hip hop artist spilling and busting the rhymes with an original Mexican heritage, and still you would be wrong to think that he delivers the content through a not-so-headless messenger attached on a turtle, Breaking Bad style. The hip hop of Cheech reminds me of the extremely demanding and entertaining style of Bone Thugz 'N Harmony, as your current rap host is equally fond of utilizing smooth, calmer musical backdrops, - think along an easy listening register highly compatible with green tints if you catch my drift - WHILE the lyrics on top are relentless both in their flow and in their thought.

The Monday Tuesday LP is almost uncharacteristically massive for a hip hop declaration, which never is a problem, once the content is exigent throughout. The disc, first and foremost applies a sober overall strategy of cutting up this truly robust hip hop statement into tracks weighing in around the 3 and a half minute mark, and you get none less than 17 of these larger than life pieces for your relentless ear-soaking pleasure. In other words, we are talking about an unusually massive work of eloquently shaped rapping right now, and it seems to be evident to me that the LP encompasses and reflects multiple stages of the artist's career. This easily is double CD material. If I'm not mistaken, based on his Soundcloud nick, Cheech is 22 now, which is an ultra-young age for a rapper capable to produce relentless flow of spoken text for minutes after minutes and minutes while keeping elegant thought and emotion intact. Read on to know more.

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Latex Cthulhu Lounge

GyZ gives you the song : Latex Cthulhu Lounge. Listen in HD please.

Warning! If you listen to this song from its beginning all the way to its end, you will go insane in 7 days.

Lyrics :

Cthulhu fhtagn

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Kiss - Monster review

Year : 2012
Genre : Glam Rock
Label : Universal Music Group
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.0 / 10

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Experience knows no age. You can think about Kiss what you want, - and no one will give a shit - but the one thing you won't ever be able to take away from this band is that they are the masters of their craft of delivering covert operation family friendly gla... chick metal. PMS metal. The Monster LP is the picture perfect reproduction of the old school BUT exigent registers of late '80s early '90s glam metal. The package - hihi. - really has no shortcomings - ihihi, and hihihi. - to it and renders a rigorously, meticulously and competently constructed glam rock soundscape from beginning to end, top to bottom. You literally have to be a troll-prospect to find a flaw in its fabric, such steep is the level of attention that has been devoted to the creation process of this album. Read on to know more.

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Kids From Nowhere - Kick It In review

Year : 2012
Genre : Honky Tonk Blues, Rock 'N Roll, Alternative
Label : Skipperless Media
Origin : Israel
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with a snippet taken from the band's official biography, as this pretty much is the perfect way to introduce newcomers to this surprisingly solid Israeli Honky Tonk - you  have read it right - ensemble.

"The Kids From Nowhere is an international experiment in American music, based in Israel. Members include singer/songwriter Zach Wheat (Texas), drummer "Element" Yves Elisee Akowendo (Côte d'Ivoire), bassist Elad Avni (South Africa) and guitarist Babush (Israel).

The band is heavily influenced by Texas "outlaw" country music, the British Invasion, and the proto-punk songwriting of Lou Reed and Mark E. Smith. Active since 2007, Kids From Nowhere have played to Israeli and American audiences and are releasing their first LP, "Kick It In" in October, 2012. Produced by Or Bahir (Eatliz, Amit Erez) the album combines vintage rock arrangements and traditional songwriting with modern recording methods. And noise. Lot's and lots of noise."

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Jeff "J. J. Star" Duran - Cursed Since Birth Deluxe Edition review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop, Dance, Rockabilly, Country, Surf Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

There is little if any doubt that with the Cursed Since Birth Deluxe Edition mixtape, disc jockey and micwiz' Jeff "J. J. Star" Duran assembled the perfect compilation with hyper-optimized capacity to make family leaders hide their loved ones in the closet out of the sight of this  flamboyant, explicit/hilarious sonic content. The one thing that will strike you first about this installment is the mere length of the contribution. With 22 tracks spread throughout a time period clocking in well above the 60 minute mark, the mixtape will bend you to its deliberately and intriguingly twisted will, giving you no other chance than to let go of all expectations and submit to all of its curious tints and the galore of skillfully placed oddities which serve as the premier appeals of the flow. Read on to know more about this monster-lenght mix tape.

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hello

 
GyZ gives you the song : hello. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

hello

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Muse - 2nd Law review

Year : 2012
Genre : Emo Rock with Spaghetti Western overtones
Label : Helium 3, Warner Bros
Origin : United Kingdom
Rating : 6.5 / 10

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New Muse album, new inspiration? Don't wait for the kiss of the Muse. Buy the lady a drink. If you can't find constant inspiration, you suck as an artist. No, nobody feels sorry about that, either. Let's investigate. Opening track "Supremacy" starts out with an intriguing-albeit predictable introductory pattern, and the magic is kind of blamed by a banshee's undisciplined index finger when you find yourself in orthodox 4/4 pummeling with virtually meaningless platitude orchestra miming the hologram-riches of musical thought. By 2:11, the fronter already had expressed one of his trademark dramatic introductory lullabies, and THEN the chorus reveals itself as yet another variant on the same thought field the ensemble already has channeled from via their previous offering. Remember their song "Revolution"? Now it is time to "destroy UUUUUR Supremacy". Same effin deal, really, only, the opening track is less muscular this time. AND who is the enemy? The Illuminati, of course! Take heed and bear witness to the poor Illuminati, they get sooo destroyed by popular culture every day of the year, you know. At 2:37, the album showcases its most frightening affectation, and that is a constant winking towards threshold-level spaghetti western sentiments. Oh come on. Read on to know more about the other tracks, too.

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Andaone - Computer Love review

Year : 2010
Genre : Electronic, Hip Hop, Dance with a touch of Ambient
Label : New Move Records
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Andaone is both the person and the moniker behind the Computer Love project, a healthily sized quasi-EP that does a steady job of administering straight-to-the-dancefloor pop rhetorics on the surface, but it gets even better than the orthodox 4/4 pummeling. First and foremost, the backdrops are relentlessly chased by eloquently sculpted rap sequences, while the music has a reoccurring tendency to entertain the ears with pretty well developed instrumental sequences of a tamer approach from time to time. It is not an exaggeration to regard relevant parts of the flow as top of the heat hip hop warfare, either. The track called "360" is a competent, brisk rap installment with clever lyrics and a hook that grips the throat of an urbanistic contemporary inner experience you surely will be familiar with if and when you live in any civilized (hah.) city. Read on to know more about Computer Love.

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Down IV Part I - The Purple EP review

Year : 2012
Genre : Doom Metal, Sludge
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.0 / 10

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Down IV Part I - The Purple EP is the first of four extended plays  the band plans to release on consensus throughout the - logically - coming years. If you are not yet familiar with this band, then know that it is a Southern-State ensemble with quite a few illustrious members in its rankings. Fronter Philip Anselmo surely rings a bell or two as casual co-creator of the groove metal genre, and how about Crowbar fronter Kirk Windstein, who now handles the guitar strings of doom with much hoped for efficiency? The most relevant characteristic of the latest to date Down package that flatters the receptors, is a splendid and sublime spiritual similarity to - hold on to your horses before you vomit into the cleavage of the lady - ZZ Top, but these ZZ Top dudes have gone zombie on you, and now they are coming in to rip your heart out. As a start.

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Gone For Days - Gone For Days EP review

Year : 2012
Genre : Alternative Rock with a Stoner Rock flavor
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Paradoxically, Gone For Days comes (SIC!) to a spot near you to molest silence with ruthless efficiency. The quartet sports and brings a ripe understanding of exigently constructed alternative/stoner rock. Think of a trivium-consortium composed of the radio friendly behavior of Stone Sour, the melodic rhetorics of Disturbed, and add JUST a hint of Place of Skulls on top, and you will have a quite trusty image of the shape of music the self titled EP features. The compositonal tactics exhibited on the spin are easy to decipher and even easier to enjoy without noticing it, - this is a key trick in music, and, once summoned, the music is doing something right - making the 7 entries highly suitable prospects to receive sublime airtime on a radioshow without the band members and their agenda losing credit and dignity in the process. The data is without doubt engineered to be safely approachable from different directions, and it strikes up a pretty sober and muscular balance amidst the elements it emerges to court. Read on to know more about this pleasant alternative/stoner rock effort.

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Cyberware Machine Mother

GyZ gives you the song : Cyberware Machine Mother. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

integer
lurking everywhere
she makes me whole
I'm in her
machine mother role
I make you more
I make you whole
because

you don't have a soul

machine mother

cyberware
make me software
new pressure to be found
got a pleasure to declare

her love

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Spazz Mantra

GyZ gives you the song : Spazz Mantra. Listen in HD please. 

Lyrics :

united we stand 
through the fragmentation 
of the one novelty unity
contained on the 
perfect black still canvas 
of consciousness singularity

watch me spazzin' all around
oh, hello, spazzer

again

paint a new story
make me new again

united we stand 
through the fragmentation 
of the one novelty unity
contained on the 
perfect black still canvas 
of consciousness singularity

this is how it begins
this tell me how it all ends

united we stand 
through the fragmentation 
of the one novelty unity
contained on the 
perfect black still canvas 
of consciousness singularity

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ZZ Top - La Futura review

Year : 2012
Genre : Blues Rock, Southern Rock, Boogie Rock
Label : American Recordings
Origin : United States
Rating : 8.2 / 10

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It's been more than a decade since these highly authentic and influential blues/Southern/boogie rock Ancients have emerged to resonate a full length sonic declaration, and the trio brings smoke, chrome and eminent bluesy chops, coming forth with a release that sounds to have a relentless and superbly natural desire to submit to the ZZ Top kind of music with True Love and True Blood, as about 101% of this record would serve more than highly suitable as the eloquent and expressive sonic backdrop to compliment a busy day at Merlott's.

The music of ZZ Top wasn't ever in the need of evolution, IS not in the need for it at all, and won't ever give a dime with two lost holes in it for pondering the possibility of evolution, as ZZ Top always delivered a character of music that has reached its full value timeless potential at day 1, already. The members of this band always have did what they want to do right here, right now, and this is none other than to offer 39 minutes of fresh variation on the music that grew practically immortal the day it first began to connect with the heart, courtesy of its ability to render a woman, armed with a perfect body and sporting the head of a crocodile.

ZZ Top still is ultra-original in the sense that it is sufficient to hear none other than 1.5 seconds of Billy Gibbons' guitar playing to call out : "hey, this is Billy fucking Gibbons riffing!" -second track, "Chartreuse" is a good example of this. By the 1.5th second of the song, you know without any doubt whatsoever that it is a new ZZ Top track, and this equates musical excitement in my book, and I'm pretty sure it equates that in yours, too. Read on to find out more about the spin.

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Devin Townsend - Epicloud review

Year : 2012
Genre : experimental, space opera
Label : HevyDevy
Origin : Canada
Rating : 7.0 / 10

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Epicloud is Devin Townsend's Jesus Christ Superstar from the verges of outer - and INNER - spaces that reject the views of Scientology, - please Google don't supply Scientology ads to this site or I will kill myself - regardless of how the cover art of this LP would be approved by the Knowing It All For Sure smile wielded by Tom Cruise. The music on the disc pretty much is the music I was expecting-, even better : HOPE - cheapest commodity - to get, as there is no doubt whatsoever that the flow is more focused and elegant this time around, then it was during Devin's most/least memorable psychotic episode to date, called Deconstruction. Read on to know more about this space opera spin.

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moody operator

GyZ gives you the song : moody operator. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

- instrumental -

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a listen at : Pia Dean

Genre : Pop with a tint of r&b
Label : Independent
Origin : United Kingdom
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 UK based songwriter Pia Dean literally sounds to be in the process of assembling enough material to release an EP on a sunny day lurking near you, as she already has two tracks sculpted out, while another three songs are offered on her official Reverbnation outpost - link above - in the form of eloquent, highly informative, massively acoustic demo versions.

The character of music channeled by Miss Dean graces shared consensus with a purposefully ultra-gentle approach, that which delightfully submits to the laid back pop ethos of the early '90s. If you are familiar with the track "More Than Words" from the band "Extreme", then you will have a grasp of what to expect in a broad sense, though the emotional scale on display is not necessarily limited to good old rhetorics of "don't you know how much I love you". No, I don't. Show me. Just kidding. Read on to know more about the music of Pia Dean.

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Francis Bowie - Francis Bowie EP review

Year : 2012
Genre : Synthpop, Intelligent Pop
Label : Independent
Origin : Denmark
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Francis Bowie is Francis Bowie in Francis Bowie's Francis Bowie EP, and the official name of the trade is pop music of the intelligent kind. The EP represents an odd-, nevertheless pleasing behavior in the sense that it manages to set things more and more right after a relatively trite and ultra-orthodox opening track. From that point on, the lighting and the mood becomes fluorescent and intriguing in a "shady side of the '80s" kind of way, as Francis Bowie takes you on an atmospheric/emotional sonic stroll that indeed is able to resonate with the ethos it is dormantly obliged to resonate with, which is none other than the one represented by world famous name-kin David Bowie. The builds are simultaneously playful, slim, dainty, fragile, while being uncompromisingly dark, though never enough to make a lady frightened - nooooo, no - and there IS the promise of high definition bliss and happiness, but hopelessness is not someone who has no access to the party, either. Read on to know more about this EP.

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Monuments - Gnosis review

Year : 2012
Genre : Progressive Metal, Djent with Alternative Metal tones
Label : Century Media
Origin : United Kingdom
Rating : 7.0 / 10

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Monuments' Gnosis is a direct-, competent variant on the (re)forming shape of music eminently proposed by Periphery or Hypercube. What. The intricacy of the rumbling rhythm pattern is bread, butter, blood and adrenaline in this whimsical music niche, and now it is safe to say that the tendency to counterpoint the aforementioned exquisitries with alternative metal affectations on a "Toolesque" register, now has become so called common sense, and, also, a current unfortunate limitation of this still new genre, that is out to seek its vistas via releases like this right here. Seeking vistas is not a bad thing to do, but it does not mean that everyone has to find the SAME one. I like this disc, though it weighs in super-reminiscent to Periphery's latest when evaluated for its mere character. Read on to find out more about your mom.

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Dogma

GyZ gives you the song : Dogma. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

dogma

dogma chewing through
to the shelter of the answer
I see ice in your eyes
you've become the dogma's dancer

how very unfortunate

your stealth breath of sobriety
talks to you crystal clear
you choose to look away again
and you compliment a fear

will you ever restrain
your sad, sad game
look out - dogma
I'm armed with your disdain

amgod 
dogma 

amgod
I'm armed with your disdain

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augmented

GyZ gives you the song : augmented. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

I know I should act
like what you say 
would interest me
despite the truth
that it is your silhouette
that excites me

augment
bitch, please

I like the way
you park your shadow on my face
no need to worry when I tell you
that I'd like you better with your face ripped off

augment
bitch, please

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Meroe - Sick Society review

Year : 2012
Genre : Traditional, Heavy Metal
Label : Independent
Origin : Germany
Official site : >- here - <

Meroe brings to you a deeply traditional and massively positivistic form of heavy metal, an incarnation of the genre that does not even attempt to escape the clutches/hug of the most vintage thematic mood dispositions the style always seemed to embrace, and does not mind doing so even today. The album's title, in my opinion, is misleading, and, perhaps playfully/deliberately so, because the verdict it conveys projects an image of music with a rebellious stance to it, wouldn't you agree? Based on the tastefully minimalistic yet rigorous cover art, one is free to assume sonic goodies on a Kreator thrash metal register of high capacity civil unrest, but be assured that the disc gives THOSE lamentations a rest, instead. The content is highly optimistic in its nature, and a large chunk of its lyrical rhetorics revolves around the simple most intriguing constructs men can approach, and those indeed are women. Don't be misled again : Meroe, as a band, as hive entity, decided to stay away from the approach openly - hah, hah. - cultivated by acts like Steel Panther, an American media-hack band that plays absolutely legitimate glam metal, but features lyrics to it that makes all dads hide their daughters in the closet in terror.

It is not at all so with Germany's Meroe. The band is admirable in the sense that it submits to the evident and obligatory amazement of The Woman, alas!, as a man, exhibiting your evident and obligatory amazement towards The Woman is the Ultimate Technique you will NOT get The Woman by, but, the record nevertheless emerges as an idealistically channeled endeavor courting the OH!, so wishful and optimistic denial of the aforementioned notion. Read on to know more about this album.

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Flux

GyZ gives you the song : Flux. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

-instrumental-

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Megadeth - Endgame review

Year : 2009
Genre : Thrash Metal
Label : Roadrunner Records
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.2 / 10

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(K)illuminati connotations aside, - Dave Mustaine is a hobbyist -conspiracy theorist, as far as I know - Megadeth's 2009 LP Endgame is one exceptionally visceral statement, and this latter term of "visceral" seems to me as the most essential one amidst the many that reveal the global character of the disc.

Granted, the ideal-, the optimum form of thrash metal probably should be visceral as a thr(e)(a)shold minimum, but, if you are any kind of embracer of the genre, then you know that this is not always the case. Many is the number of the beast, -TUK! - as is the number of things that invite a thrash album to become its own parody from time to time, up to the point on which from this unfortunate transformation reigns evident and beyond the state of being preventable, since it has happened already.

Even THIS album, which I consider a pretty stellar delivery from Megadeth, features Dave Mustaine's trademark cabaret thrash metal in its full anti-glory, but the manifestations of said affliction gets assuaged by such a strong subsequent segment, that the cabaret side of things becomes tolerable, hell, even enjoyable (!!) when contrasted by the immensely eminent hooks the package packs a healthy dosage of. Yeah, there are tamer hooks on display, too, but the idea which permeates the release is something that sound to be unique : it simultaneously CRAVES acceptance, and, at the same time, does not give a FUCK if you give it to him.

It's like - Dave Mustaine would be happy to know that you love the disc, and could not care less if you would not. In other words, the disc embraces its deficits, which come to you exclusively throughout SOME points of the songwriting strategy, as the production is flawless in my book, and I'm pretty sure it is flawless in yours, too. Read on to find out more about one of the quintessential Megadeth releases.

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Freezy - Cypher Sessions review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Shoot 4 The Stars / True Talent Never Dies
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Connecticut based hip hop artist Freezy releases his fourth mixtape, featuring a wide selection out of the recent talent pool your alert host is keen to recommend. This time, Freezy assembled a collection that sounds to exhibit a more laid back and easy going demeanor as its overall tone, targeting and successfully revealing a tastefully realized lounge session you can chill out to - right after the party you have been into has successfully revealed the meaning of it all. (Again.)

Being smooth and EZ does not prevent the mixtape from showing diverse variation, something that is most notable throughout the overall mood and tempo of the individual entries. In fact, flamboyancy seems to be a key agenda : the album features 17 tracks divided along 49 minutes, which is both a perfect AND a sober length for the addressed intention to cover the recent image of Connecticut area hip hop. Read on to find out more about this.

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Testament - Dark Roots of Earth review

Year : 2012
Genre : Thrash Metal with Alternative/Rock nods
Label : Nuclear Blast
Origin : United States
Rating :  8.0 / 10

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With Dark Roots of Earth, America's Testament brings the picture perfect variation of traditional thrash metal that has no trouble tolerating some well positioned nods towards alternative metal and even classic rock flavors, which though suits these structures pretty efficiently.

Orthodoxy, as sole agenda, and decent-, related song structures are important key factors on the spin. Don't expect the re-invention of the wheel, expect instead another exciting ride in a familiar car on a familiar course. Luckily, there is no need to stick to this metaphor all that much, as the overall flow does a decent job of evading road motor sport thrash metal affectations, and brings that old school-, yet timeless thrash sound that the genre looks the most efficient with to this day.  Read on to know more about the character of the latest to date Testament LP.

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God Programmer

GyZ gives you the song : God Programmer. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

recognized incapacity
flatters the promise 
of new potential

god programmer
designer incomprehensible
creations of awe
reflecting the will
knowing does 
bring time to a still

god programmer
the observed is clean 
masked is the observer
escape all questions by mastering
the art of how to be 
nothing and everything

recognized incapacity
flatters the promise 
of new potential

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The Contortionist - Intrinsic review

Year : 2012
Genre : Progressive Djent Metal with a lurking ambient tendency
Label : eOne/Good Fight Music
Origin : United States
Rating : 7.5 / 10 (score evolved from 6.9 on July 29, 2012)

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The Contortionist steps forward with an orthodox progressive metal release, which, for the most part, is the tasteful courting of an image of music that sounds to fall between Dream Theater and Periphery, yet more limited in its scope than their more renowned peers of popular recognition. The disc sounds the most interesting throughout the adventurous technical breaks of instrumental intermissions that it brings to the table, and it is much less capable to offer relevant surprises when witnessed from the angle of Dream Theater song structure administration. A good amount of the affair is dedicated to the abstract (stock) sci-fi feel that is very easy to exploit mercilessly once you are content to rely on a certain set of "safe-sci-fi" chord passages, - TUKK! - and these tame-, in character, almost ambient affectations do no particular beneficial service for the overall experience of this contribution - other than serving out the rudimentary cravings of a lazy taste bud. My intent is not to put you off of the LP, it instead is to inform you that the disc has a combination of quite predictable-, and even pseudo-content - more on that later - and a steady segment of genuine music cultivation, too. Read on to find out more.

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Any Sky

GyZ gives you the song : Any Sky. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

I will find you, an image to pry
I will love you under any sky

any sky

I will seek you
I will find you under any sky
I will find you

and I will love you
under any sky

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Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse review

Year : 1991
Genre : Thrash Metal
Label : Nuclear Blast Records
Origin : Sweden
Rating : 9.1 / 10

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It probably is very easy to overlook the first full length affair of Sweden's Meshuggah, as this 1991 massively thrash contribution can not even be regarded as a spiritual precursor of what the music of said band has evolved to via their later operations that forms the face of metal to this very moment.

General consensus seems to be ultra-tepid and unacceptably deformed regarding the disc, as, despite my valiant efforts, I have failed to find and read a review that seems to reckon the delivery for what it really sounds to be. In other words : the 'fuck is up with you people? If not a single person is willing to rearrange related reality, then allow Yours, Truly to do so armed with an agenda and scientific rigor.

Meshuggah's Contradiction Collapse is doubtless influenced by a particularly good looking/angry image of early Metallica, but you would need to be supremely biased, I think, to fail to notice that this formation of youngsters - the Meshuggah dudes are in their early twenties by the era of the disc - are delivering a pretty much impertinently mature and complete variant of thrash metal which, to THIS very day emerges galaxies more relevant than say, the cartoon thrash metal of the latest to date Megadeth album, let alone the pinball road-motor sport "thrash metal" rhetorics - synonym : antics - of the latest to date Overkill series of facial ticks. Read on to find out more about this release, that packs infinitely more capacity to kick your ass to hell and back than you ever thought it does.

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Model

GyZ gives you the song : Model. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

mimesis beauty queen
I'm the player
she's the game
I suppose
I better recharge her
with the battery recharger

comes with an emotional conductor
wonder if I could be good enough for her

turning her on
tuning her in
to those standards

she's a model
ready to tell
whenever it needs
the battery re-charger
she's a model
ready to meet
the standards of a love
you're about to sell

simulacra
simulacrae
I no longer mind
if you're the best
I ever gonna get

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Packet

GyZ gives you the song : Packet. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

I take a look around and
it's never empty empty
it always shows me something
incoming in packets

packets 
information packets

everything you see
is representable 
by 1s and 0s

by 1s and 0s

incoming

I take a look around and
it's never empty empty
it always shows me something
incoming in packets

access granted

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Plastic Willow - Lunar Pulse review

Year : 2012
Genre : Alternative Experimental with Psychedelic tint
Label : Dead Sound Box
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This analysis starts out with a quotation snippet taken from reviewed album's closing sentiments in the booklet.

"Lunar Pulse was created form the idea of life itself, it's meant to mimic life's simplicity. Van Jane Willow, the founder of Plastic Willow, wanted to leave the scene of synthetic voices with his experimental album by combining one take tracks with distorted loops. The aim of this album is to plant the idea that imperfection can still be acceptable, in hopes that one day the seed will grow."

The disc is a fluent-, even radical success when scrutinized from the angles it seeks to offer compliments to. This statement demands clarification, and here it goes : the Lunar Pulse LP seems to be an almost entirely-, uncompromisingly and hilariously depressive release that offers momentary respite only to find perverted pleasure taking it all away a second later. The music is a mixture of abstract-, deliberately and most often threateningly spaced out experimental sonic ornamentics, reigning in the form of toxic radioactive icing on top of clearly identifiable compositional structures that promise no hope for your good mood whatsoever.

The audio data deliberately reeks AND embraces hopelessness and exhibits zero interest in the scant promise of the antitheses of it, - hope is the cheapest commodity anyway - though never falling into the trap of seeking your sympathy for the pain it is under. The album is a status report. If you can relate : bad fucking luck. If not, good-, at least better for you. The Lunar Pulse LP has this rare quality that it remains consequently serious with its radical lyrical themes, reigning content with an image of music that is on the hunt to explore various ways of delicate decomposition, yet never crosses the line of becoming of its own parody courtesy of overtly detailed suffering-history. There are numerous interpretation fields to be found, anyway - more on those later on. Click to familiarize yourself with this contribution.

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Al Burrell - My Promise VOL. 2 review

Year : 2006
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official Site : > - here - <

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Al Burrell's My Promise VOL. 2 is a significant, surprisingly mature hip hop affair which is available to you since six years, - an exact period in retrospect, as the disc sports a release date of June 30, 2006. Frankly, I'm kind of baffled that this dude did not yet seem to receive more widespread attention from consensus, main reason being that when you invite this spin to let it make you know "wadap", the GTA San Andreas vibe emerges at high octane and invades your receptors 111%. If you are a regular here at Noise Shaft, then you are perfectly aware that you and me had the privilege to hear some solid recent hip hop works already, which puts me into the position to tell you with my poker face applied that this particular one comes from a place deep enough to demand your immediate attention if you consider yourself any kind of a hip hop aficionado. Read on to find out more about this.

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Chords of Truth - Reflections of Reality EP review

Year : 2012
Genre : Psychedelic Acoustic
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

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Jason Garriotte is the premiere mastermind behind the Chords of Truth enterprise, a psychedelic acoustic project immensely-, smartly-, and relentlessly focused on existentialist observations of all possible reality surfaces, fixated primarily on the one you will have the chance to absorb the project's debut EP through.

The delivery does not only claim that it happens to be an acoustic (guitar) project, it equally takes the liberty to rely solely on the combination of charisma contained in the organic connection between the timeless ringing of the acoustic guitar and between the sung human words. "Angie, 'zat Sunday Mornin'???" Think about a type of exigent bonfire music, which is primordially psychedelic in its rhetorical nature, and, in its musical character. Indeed, the EP reeks the music a prime Timothy Leary is probably ultra-happy with if and when he hears it along a random cosmos, - not to say that he is anything less or else than that in the process, of course - and the inherent intention, the key agenda of the package is to tamely encourage you to explore your inner and outer surroundings with honesty, while the disc also contains the personal model of reality Jason Garriotte is currently cultivating. Read on to find out more about the disc.

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Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal review

Year : 2012
Genre : Progressive Metal, Djent with an Alternative Metal overtone
Label : Roadrunner Records / Sumerian Records
Origin : United States
Rating :  7.5 / 10 (rating evolved from 7.0)

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Regardless of my stoic subjective determination to refuse to review the first full length package of this formation due to the percept by which I personally have found said outing an exceptionally narcissistic one with its vastly out of proportion 62 minutes of playtime, the band now emerges with a full length weighing in at 69 - random series of facial ticks - minutes, that is an immediate sign of a super-possible - kind of : probable - false sense of proportion not only maintained but nurtured, indicating that the band might have ventured right through the periphery - daaaamnimdouche - to fall in love with their own mistakes. Even the premiere Periphery fan admitted that the debut disc of the formation overstays its welcome. Falling in love with your mistakes has tremendous entertainment value, and ridiculously-, even uniquely so if you are serious about this suggested affair. Nothing is more hilarious-, nor more miserable on the face of this reality surface than the Artist who explains how and why his Art works. Periphery thought they have the juice to be awesomeluciousandofcoursehighlyspectacularenough to reign rampant/evident during and for 69 minutes, which is an exhausting amount of time to spend even under a ravenous Nina Hartley in the 69 posture, so, the premiere US based Meshuggah fanband has a whole lot of things to prove to Yours, Truly to justify the Godzilla program length. The album is pretty good. Read on to find out what I think about this disc, if you really want to know but you are afraid to ask.

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