Friday, April 30, 2010

Remembrances

Remembrances was founded in october 2003 by Antonio López (guitar) and Haydée Mariñoso (singer), they wanted to play in a gothic metal band with influences like Lacuna Coil, The gathering, Theatre of Tragedy… After a lot of changes and musicians which were in the band, Remembrances started to play live in October 2005 and recordered their debut album, 'Crystal Tears', between march and July 2006 in Tatxin Studios with:

Antonio: guitar ,Quini: drums, Joaquín: bass, Arturo: keyboard and pianos, Haydée: vocals

2008 was a great year for Remembrances: the band was selected to play in the international festival Villa de Bilbao, was finalist in the national song contest Belladurmiente, and won the third prize in the national competition Stage Mediatic. Thanks to this, Remembrances played in the important Mediatic Festival 2008 with bands like: The Waterboys, Fangoria, Los Suaves, In Extremo, Loquillo, Medina Azahara, Saratoga, Avalanch...



In October 2008 Joaquín left the band and he was replaced by Perea, an experimented bass and singer. Since then, Perea gives the band new and nice sounds and male vocals.

In February 2009 Remembrances participated in the Spanish Preselection Eurovision with ‘Espejismo’, the only song in spanish played by Remembrances. The band received the votes of thousands Internet users and was selected to play in the semifinal phase on national TV. Never before a gothic metal band had participated in Spanish Preselection Eurovision and a lot of people can meet Remembrances.

At present, Remembrances composes the songs of the second album. In this themes, the voice of Haydée will be accompanied by the male vocals and chorus of Perea.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Twilight Zone


Love this tune...

Reminds me the 80's...

Finally found this, it is the tune of 60 seconds in GALEY ZAHAL the military radio of Israel.


Thursday, April 22, 2010

Give a little bit

Great cover and a great band. Had a friend who used to hang out with them ,he said they were honest and nice folks.





Great Balls Of Fire

Great hit from Jerry Lee Lewis.

I remember Goose singing it in "Top Gun" to his wife...

After that he crashed with Tom Cruise...









Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Forever Slave

Forever Slave was founded in 2000 by Sergio and Lady Angellyca. Soon after the band got in contact with others musicians and Forever Slave had been born.

Hate, their first mini demo (2000) and Schwarzer Engel (2001) were determining its special music style.

In December 2003 Forever Slave started to record Resurrection, a dark opera about Elizabeth Bathory's life.

In this year the band participated in some festivals.n Spring 2005, FOREVER SLAVE signed an international deal with Armageddon Music (Germany). The band recordered their debut album ( Alice's Inferno ) between May and June 2005, which it was produced by Lars Ratz. This album became top 9 in metal French Underclass sales, top 27 in Tipo's Sales (Spain) and it was album of the Month in Metal Hammer (Spain)

During 2005-2007 Forever Slave played in important festivals: Wacken Open Air Fest (Germany), Metal Female Voices Fest (Belgium), Rock Stars Festival (Spain) and they shared scenery with bands like Amon Amarth, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Arch Enemy, Battlelore, Carnivore, Celtic Frost, Children of Bodom, The Dogma, Ektomorf, Emperor, Fear Factory, Finntroll, Gamma Ray, In Extremo, Korpiklaani, Michael Schenker Group, Ministry, Morbid Angel, Motörhead, Mystic Circle, Nevermore, Opeth, Primal Fear, The Scorpions, Six Feet Under, Soilwork, Soulfly, Subway To Sally, Victory, Whitesnake, Wintersun,... and gothic metal bands with female singers, per exemple: Tristania, Xandria, Midnattsol, Visions of Atlantis, Theatre of Vampires, Naio Saion,...

Forever Slave recorded their second album in May-August 2007. The title of this album is Tales of Bad Girls and it was released in April 2008 in Europe by Wacken Records/SPV. The promotion of this album was supported with an European tour with Kamelot and Firewind.
Tales for Bad Girls will be released on 7th October 2008 in USA by SPV USA
Now, Sergio and Lady Angellyca are composing new songs for their next album...

Monday, April 19, 2010

Stylo - Gorillaz New Hit


Fantastic video!!!

Bruce Willis at his best...

It looks like the "Mad Max "Gang is back

they will show in Israel in this June !!!


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Denia

DENIA is a side project to the band "NO LIFE AFTER LOVE" originally formed by Joey Denia (Songwritter) Maria Jose Erena (vocals) and Mario Infantes (Massakre Zombie, God Bless Us) in early 2009. In mid 2009 the band released their first LP called "No Life After Love" composed of 18 tracks and almost 80 minutes of music. The album was produced by Joey Denia and Jacky Roads in Hardleywood Records. . The fact that our first cd this consists of 18 tracks is the result of a compulsive need to create songs to express in a more visceral, our environment, our difficulties ... In fact, this project was born out of a traumatic experience. Soon you will know the new members of Denia. Currently, and while everything flows, the band doesn..t compose and are in full recording of their new album whose release date is scheduled for early / mid 2010. Denia.

http://www.myspace.com/denianolifeafterlove

Monday, April 5, 2010

Delain

Although originally envisioned by Martijn Westerholt as a musical project featuring a host of guest musicians, due to the high demand for live performances a real band was formed. This lead to the Roadrunner release of Delain's debut album 'Lucidity' in 2006. The group of musicians quickly transformed into a solid rocking force. Now Delain is nothing less than a real band. A versatile band with an impressive new album called April Rain.

The listener is immediately drawn in by sweet, waterdrop-like pianosounds. Then the rest of the band kicks in and the drops form a ferociously swirling river of sound, during which a heavy guitar riff mercilessly crushes. In little under a minute April Rain – the title track - has shown us a few of the many different faces of Delain. And at that point we haven't even heard singer Charlotte Wessels yet. "The album opening title track is one of the songs on the new album I'm most proud of", says Martijn Westerholt, keyboardist and Delain's main composer. "To me it's the ultimate example to show where Delain currently stands and how versatile we have become as a band."

Westerholt is right. The sound on April Rain is versatile indeed, with various musical influences. But the album is very coherent at the same time. The debut Lucidity was characterised by the many guest musicians. This time Delain is primarily Charlotte Wessels on vocals, Martijn Westerholt on keyboards, Ewout Pieters on guitar, Rob van der Loo on bass and Sander Zoer on drums. "Between the five of us, there's everything we need as a band, so there was no use for a lot of musical guests. The grunts in Virtue And Vice, for instance, are provided by our guitarist Ronald Landa and he did a wonderful job", says Westerholt. "There is one exception though. Working with Marko Hielata of Nightwish on Lucidity felt so good, that we also invited him for April Rain. His vocals can be heard on two tracks." A little less audible are the contributions that came from cellist Maria Ahn of the Ahn Trio. "Our producer Oliver Phillips pointed us in her direction", says Charlotte Wessels. "Maria has done a fantastic job. Adding a real cello instead of strings from a computer adds a lot of value to our songs."



Aside from the aforementioned collaborations, April Rain is one-hundred-percent Delain. From the breathtaking opener, to the epic closing track 'Nothing Left'. And they'll leave you breathless. Westerholt: "The extensive touring and playing the past two years has really brought us together personally and musically. Delain is a band now, instead of a project. A tight force that works together. We complement each other and that strengthens our sound." Wessels feels that the whirlwind beginnings of Delain contributed to the strong relationship. "We had an intense and very short time to rehearse before our first gig. We were all in it together and we almost immediately forged a bond. Those early rehearsals where the platform for Delain as we now know it." Looking at the credits on the April Rain album, it's evident that Delain is no longer 'the band of Martijn Westerholt'. The other members and especially Charlotte Wessels have played a major part in the creation of April Rain. Wessels: "Work on Lucidity was fantastic, but it was a bit of a fill exercise as the majority of the songs were already there. On April Rain my involvement was much bigger. Therefore it really feels as 'my' album. Even more so than our debut."

While remaining responsible for the overall Delain sound, Westerholt has given the band members the freedom to contribute. "Now that the band can draw from multiple musical sources, Delain has become a more diverse sounding unit", says Westerholt. This also means that there is even room on April Rain for songs in which he almost had no hand in. Such as On The Other Side. "A very personal song that means a lot to me", according to author Charlotte Wessels. "This song qualifies as 'my little baby' on the album and reflects on a difficult period that I went through." Westerholt: "And therefore, it is featured on April Rain. I have an enormous amount of respect for Charlotte and I feel that when a song is so important for one of the band members it should be on a Delain album. Originally Delain was 'my' project, but now Charlotte and the other band members are just as much Delain as myself."

To promote April Rain, Delain will be embarking on a massive tour. It is quite difficult to imagine that only a few years ago Martijn Westerholt was forced to leave Within Temptation because Pfeiffer's disease made it impossible for him to tour. "It may sound like a cliché, but it's the music that really gives me a massive amount of energy. Mind you, touring still is quite challenging for me, but at the same time I really get a health kick out of it. So over the coming months I'd love to play as many places as possible, especially those where Delain has not played before." All the while the band is already working on album number three. Westerholt: "The moment we were done with this one, we all started talking about the next. We have only just started as a band and at this point in our career there is a constant flow of ideas that we want to explore. We don't want that source to dry up, so the writing continues. If it were up to me, Delain will be broadening all musical boundaries and we're curious to see how far this band can take us. An exciting challenge, which will be great fun!"