Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Welcome to My Nightmare is the eighth album by Alice Cooper, released in 1975. This was Alice Cooper's first solo album (all previous Alice Cooper releases were bandefforts). The cover artwork was created byDrew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it as one of the "Top 100 Album Covers Of All Time".

Welcome to My Nightmare is a concept album. The songs, heard in sequence, form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven.

Welcome to My Nightmare inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special and a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and the Welcome To my Nightmare concert film in 1976.

The song Welcome to my Nightmare is a parody of the 1968 novel "There's a Nightmare in My Closet" by Mercer Mayer.

Famed film actor of the Horror genre Vincent Price provided the introductory monologue in the song "The Black Widow".

The remastered CD version adds three alternate version bonus tracks.

In 2011, the sequel Welcome 2 My Nightmare was released.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 2002 CD reissue bonus tracks 2 Personnel 3 Charts 4 Stage adaption 5 References 6 External links

Track listing

1. "Welcome to My Nightmare" (Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner) – 5:19
2. "Devil's Food" (Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Kelley Jay) – 3:38
3. "The Black Widow" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:37
4. "Some Folks" (Cooper, Ezrin, Alan Gordon) – 4:19
5. Only Women bleed (Cooper, Wagner) – 5:49
6. "Department Of Youth" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:18
7. "Cold Ethyl" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 2:51
8. "Years Ago" (Cooper, Wagner) – 2:51
9. "Steven" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 5:52
10. "The Awakening" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 2:25
11. "Escape" (Cooper, Mark Anthony, Kim Fowley) – 3:20

2002 CD reissue bonus tracks

12. "Devils' Food" (Alternate Version) - 5:13
13. "Cold Ethyl" (Alternate Version) - 2:56
14. "The Awakening" (Alternate Version) - 4:20

Personnel

• Alice Cooper - Vocals
• Bob Ezrin - Synthesizer, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Fender Rhodes, Remixing, Mixing, Remix Producer
• Vincent Price - Special Effects, Vocals
• Dick Wagner - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
• Steve Hunter - Electric and Acoustic Guitar
• Josef Chirowski - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Clavinet, Fender Rhodes
• Prakash John - Bass
• Tony Levin - Bass
• Pentti "Whitey" Glan - Drums
• Johnny "Bee" Badanjek - Drums
• Greg Allen - Art Direction, Design
• Craig Anderson - Mastering
• Bob Brown - Second Unit Director
• Spencer Chrislu - Author
• David Ezrin - Vocals
• Jim Frank - Engineer
• Dan Hersch - Mastering
• Bill Inglot - Mastering
• Bret Lopez - Photography
• Gary Lyons - Vocals
• Allan MacMillan - Arranger
• Toby B. Mamis - Project Assistant
• Brian Nelson - Project Assistant
• Jeffrey Morgan - Liner Notes
• Rod O'Brien - Engineer
• David Palmer - Engineer
• Phil Ramone - Engineer
• Mike Reese - Mastering
• Michael Sherman - Vocals, Production Assistant
• Ed Sprigg - Engineer
• Corky Stasiak - Engineer
• Julee Stover - Editorial Supervision
• Drew Struzan - Artwork
• Charlie Watts - Mastering
• Gerry Yons - Guitar
• Trish McKinnon

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Remastered Review From Wiki 

For Settler \m/

Soulfly - Soulfly

Now onto the music, the album starts with a bang in Eye for an eye. Max’s harsh vocals, Mikes interesting riffs and Rays accents make the song a smash start to the album. The album paces itself with the songs No Hope = No Fear and Bleed. While No Hope = No Fear featured more of what was on the previous track, being Palm muted guitars with Max’s harsh screams in the verses and short and simple choruses Bleed featured Fred Durst? WHAT?! Well any ways Bleed still proves to be a good song going to what seems like Nu-Metal almost (But of course this going to happen) with Fred rapping. The next few tracks offered just the same thing but with less appeal with the exception of a few groovy riffs and the tribal influenced drums the songs couldn’t compete with the start of the album. Though in Bumba Max takes a different approach by adding some Portuguese in the lyrics, but still Max’s screams get lazier and worse in every track even unbearable at times. The track Soulfly (yes, there’s a song that’s the same name as the band) brings the album a new look, not only as a instrumental track but also shows the tamer side of Soulfly, also it gives the listeners a break from Max’s vocals with progressive like guitar riffs and the gentle tapping of bongos the song takes you to paradise. The following track Umbabaruma keeps them coming with a pumped up chorus the song will have you out of your chair head banging. The songs become more and more equal as the album goes, Fire and No give excellent instrumentation with some good lyrics from Max, and also I quite like Max’s screams in both songs. Prejudice is an odd track, the song features many different artists singing with Max from different genres, an interesting idea. On the other hand Karmageddon was a complete bore fest and was unwise to set it as the album closer, as the second instrumental Soulfly was much better while this track was basically just Ray doing the same fill over and over again and not at any significant pace either.

How was the band? The band was excellent, the guitars are creative interesting and surprisingly are hardly ever repetitive, Ray is superb and shows the most consistency of any member of Soulfly, the bass is hard to hear at times but remains to be respectable while Max uses an at times nasty scream and usually just doubles up Mike on guitar, I would defiantly like to see more from Max. Though I said the guitar is hardly repetitive the guitar is usually repetitive during the end of songs making the songs blend which is not good. Sometimes the instrumentation is flat and only accented by the drums adding to the blending of songs.

In Conclusion Soulfly have created a solid peace of music but they can defiantly use improvement by adding a few accents and maybe adding Max’s clean voice. The consistency of the album is another issue as the beginning seems to give more appeal than rest of the album because of some of lesser tracks in the middle and that’s a shame. Besides that the album was a hit with me and I recommend it to thrash and metal fans since it’s a brutal head bangger.

 Review:Sputnik

Some Things About The Band 

Year Of Release :1998

Tracklist:
01. Eye For An Eye (with Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares)
02. No Hope = No Fear
03. Bleed (with Fred Durst and DJ Lethal)
04. Tribe
05. Bumba (with Los Hooligans)
06. First Commandment (with Chino Moreno)
07. Bumbklaatt
08. Soulfly
09. Umbabarauma (with Los Hooligans)
10. Quilombo (with Benji and DJ Lethal)
11. Fire
12. The Song Remains Insane
13. No (with Christian Olde Wolbers)
14. Predjudice (with Benji)
15. Karmageddon 

Members Of Soulfly :

- Max Calavera- Vocals,Guitar
- Marcello D.Rappa- Bass
- Mikey Doling- Lead Guitar
- Ray Mayorga- Drums

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Kataklysm - Heavens Venom

You probably think you know how this review of Heaven’s Venom is going to read. I’m going to trot out some clichés about Kataklysm being one of those bands laden with backhanded compliments – “consistent”, “dependable”, “proficient” and the like – without ever saying anything really positive. I’ll throw in some spiel about side-projects to cover up my lack of enthusiasm for “yet another Kataklysm” record. If you think that, you’re completely wrong.

All of those words would’ve been appropriate at previous point’s in Kataklysm’s career. They’ve been a stalwart of the death metal scene but have never really threatened to join the leading pack – usually good, always technically accomplished, varied but only very occasionally touching on excellence (Shadows & Dust from 2002 perhaps being the closest they have come in recent years).

In between this and 2008’s fairly solid Prevail, frontman Maurizio Iacono took the band off for his side-project Ex Deo. The result was the superb Romulus, a concept album based around the rise of the Roman Empire delivered through the medium of symphonic extreme metal. In truth, it was a far more interesting outing than anything his main band had put together for some time. Yet despite several tours and barely a year passing, Kataklysm have returned to their day jobs, ditched the synths and costumes and sound refreshed and invigorated. What the fuck happened to side-projects draining creativity?

Heaven’s Venom is not simply a case of tightening things up and sharpening the attack though. Things are still very much in full-on death metal territory, with plenty of barrages of out-and-out brutality and large doses of filth, but the increased guitar melody freshens things up dramatically from recent work. Although they do drift into some inevitable Gothenburg-esque minor key lead lines, it stops well short of a tired At The Gates parody. There’s plenty of the trademark Kataklysm riffs flying around, but these sometimes sound higher up the fret board than they have previously. Iacono’s vocals are still throat-shredding and fearsome, and there are none of the Ex Deo symphonics floating around.

The one slight complaint is the faux-philosophical macho bullshit spoken right at the beginning. It may be the way their albums have opened for a decade, but it sounds overly juvenile for a grown-up band like Kataklysm – actually sod that, it would sound like the infantile bollocks on Hackneyed's debut, but at least they’d have an excuse of barely being out the womb. Here it just blunts the roiling attack of opening track ‘A Soulless God’. But it’s still just a minor gripe at best.

The usual features of the Canadians’ work – technical proficiency, good riffs, strong song crafting and heavy as fuck – are all here, but Heaven’s Venom graduates beyond that. Haunting solos, muddily beautiful lead lines and hooks within the brutal vocals all mould into a genuinely engaging record. Starting well with the stomp of ‘Determined (Vows Of Vengeance)’, getting stronger with the misery of ‘Hail The Renegade’ and staying interesting right through the mournful horror of closer ‘Blind Saviour’, Heaven’s Venom is consistent but not in the backhanded way that can sometimes imply. The high quality is maintained throughout and never threatens to run out of steam.

I have to admit, I was expecting that so-so record I described at the beginning of the review, and by this point to be telling you how I’d prefer more Ex Deo records if Kataklysm can’t release records as good as Romulus. Instead, Katakylsm haven’t just matched that side-project for quality, they’ve surpassed it, with Heaven’s Venom the band’s best record from a career spanning ten albums across nearly 20 years. It’s nice to be proved wrong. (By Tom Dare)

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Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

Everybody has “oh shit” moments. My most recent was when I opened the cover art file for “Surtur Rising.” It popped up on my 21-inch monitor and my gut reacted, “Wow, those little dudes are effed.” I have to imagine the huge warrior is Surtur (the leader of the fire giants of Muspelheim, according to the promo metrials); he’s about five times the size of the fleeing Norsemen, his flaming sword was clearly dipped in the giant volcano behind him, and he doesn’t look too pleased. To finish this drawn out metaphor, Amon Amarth is Surtur, “Surtur Rising” is the band’s flaming sword, and the fleeing Norsemen are all the other metal bands that are getting dominated by Amon Amarth’s wrath.

“Surtur Rising” is a phenomenal slab of Amon Amarth’s melodic death metal meat. Early albums like “The Avenger” and “The Crusher,” while great, tended to be one-track melo-viking-death romps, but “Surtur Rising” is a textured, varied, and acutely composed set of ten songs. The story of Surtur, as told in these songs, is obviously a very complex and winding journey, and the music complies, taking us for a ride that is intense and wholly enveloping.

Album opener “War of the Gods” runs from speedy and straight forward tremolo riffs to melodic soundscapes that are more pensive than aggressive. “Tock’s Taunt – Loke’s Trachery Part II” – which is a follow up to “Hermod's Ride To Hel - Lokes Treachery, Part 1” off of 2006’s “With Oden On Our Side” – is the more comfortable Amon Amarth mid-tempo stomp-and-triumphant-chorus, but set off against “War of the Gods” it is the monolith that supports the earth. The members of Amon Amarth needed music to fit an album-long theme on “Surtur Rising,” thus pushing themselves to write music, and an entire album, that goes beyond their normal arc.

The album winds from triumphant royal halls to quiet country villages; raging wars among the gods to the peace of a weapons master practicing his craft in breeze brushed meadows. While in the past Amon Amarth charged past us, weapons drawn and grins grim, now the band has risen to be the bards of the northern Norsemen. The solos from Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Soderberg carry weight and power as they strain against their wordlessness - not just anthemic melody this time for the axemen. Johan Hegg sings with an insistence rarely heard in his burly growl. It is clear we must know this story, and heed its message.

So we sit, and we listen, and awe slowly conquers our brows as Amon Amarth imparts fantastic tales of Surtur lighting his sword in the eternal flame, his battle with Frej, and of Surtur’s pursuit of the power to raze the nine worlds. “Doom Over Dead Man” slowly exhausts its introspective thunder at the end of this tale, and as it does we could swear it was Surtur himself singing us to sleep.

Eximius Dominus - Warriors Of Europa

Folk Metal - Thane India

Members :

Rishil Nandy - Guitar

Kunal Dey - Bass

Tejas Dani - Vocals

Shreyas - Drums

Sid Sharma - Rythm Guitars
Rajat Srivastava - Keyboards

(Shreyas:Drummer/Lyricist/co-founder) : Basically my plan was to get a band together that played folk metal which had a global appeal and would reflect the Indian rich heritage lyrically. The songs are loosely based on Indian folklore , some on Space Dwellings and others on general ancient themes. Well , there was Sid(Rythms) and Chinmay(ex-lead) and myself, who met each other and had a common passion for Metal. I knew Sid long before since we played Squash together. I had already written 3 songs for a proposed folk project and after a few sessions , we came up with 2 songs completely composed. We asked our good friend 'Rajat Srivastava' to join in as Keyboards , who added the foundation(Summer of 2009). Earlier compositions were severely guitar driven. We uploaded a few videos of our jam sessions online and were met with decent response. After our then-lead-guitarist Chinmay left (October 2009) , the songs were re-composed from Scratch by Sid and Rajat , which were now more melodic , more technical and involving a lot of folk variations. As a 3-piece , we played a few gigs. Then , in the summer of 2010 we asked our long time friends Rishi Nandy(Lead Guitars) , Kunal Dey(Bass/Backing Vocals) and Tejas Dani (vocals) to join us and complete a Six-piece lineup.

We then played 3 shows (2 headline) and took a break to record the album "Heroic Ascension". We have successfully recorded 2 tracks and uploaded them Reverbnation.

We are still in process of writing songs and hopefully by the end of july , we will be releasing a self-produced full-length album.

with 'Warriors of Europa' for FREE DOWNLOAD. We had also released a LIVE Demo : "Rise of the Warlords" long before.

We plan to release our Full-length album before July 2011.
Album Name : Heroic Ascension
Tracklist -
1.Wisdom Of The Ancients (Intro)
2.Soul Bleeding from the Battle Wounds
3.Stoic Disposition
4.Warriors of Europa
5.Vengeance
6.Uncontrolled Valor
7.Parchment of Alchemy
8.Heroic Ascension
9.March Towards Oblivion (Outro)

Band Links :

Here is our Youtube Channel : http://tinyurl.com/5spfoxf
Facebook Page :                          http://tinyurl.com/6zw9m6j
Reverbnation Page :                   http://tinyurl.com/5tol2p6
SignMe2 Roadrunner Page      :http://tinyurl.com/67mwrlt

                                            !!VICTORY TO US ALL!!

Burzum - Belus

 

1. The Intrigues of Leuke (Introduction)
2. The Death of Belus
3. The River of Forgetfulness
4. The Descent of Kaimadalthas
5. Sword Dance
6. The Horse of Kelio
7. Dawn
8. The Return of Belus (Conclusion)

Simply The Best Black Metal Album Of 2010

Burzum Returned and bringed with him

his darkness

Support The Artist :

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