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Various Artists: Keep Our Heads

The DIY record label Eolian Empire (a side-label of Earsplit Records) is back after some years of silence and is about to release their most ambitious record to date: a compilation record covering 26 underground bands from their area, called Keep Our Heads. The compilation contains all rock and metal genres, from doom to rock to thrash to hardcore and to many more guitar oriented genres.

The Black Heart Rebellion

To say it took a few listens before Har Nevo opened up would be the understatement of the year. I still have to be in a particular mood to really enjoy the music fully, This is The Black Heart Rebellion latest and they have created an album of the type that doesn't come along very often.

Streets Of Town

This album has been lying around for some time now, to the point I’d almost forgotten a review still had to be written, and since its release goes back more than a year, I’ll be very short about it. Streets Of Town is a Greek band, although judging by the music they sound more America then some American bands.

What they bring us is good, bluesy hard rock, with some other influences mixed in, like Southern Rock, boogie and classic rock.

Paganland

Paganland was founded in 1997 by Ruen and Bilozor in Lviv, an Ukrainian city. The natural mysricism hidden in the Carpathian’s greatness, the dense woods, and pure mountain sources could not but affect musicians with a pagan outlook (or what did you think with the name Paganland). Therefore, Paganland’s debut demo “Gods Of Golden Circle” an the demo “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, one way or another, had been related to the pagan metal.

Newstead

Bass player Jason Newsted has been off the grid from the music world since his work with Voivod ended after 2009’s “Infini.” Other than contributing to the supergroup WhoCares and an appearance during one of Metallica’s 30th anniversary shows, the man seemed to be missing from the scene (or even the world).

Lord

Originally known as Dungeon, the band began in the arid desert of the Australian Outback, home of Mad Max- The Road Warrior, and hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest major city. This isolation proved to be no obstacle, however, and the band recorded a demo that received glowing reviews in music magazines across the country.

Fatal Impact

Fatal Impact’s humble birth was around a decade ago. The band hit stages all around Norway with their forceful, pounding, dark yet illuminating music. The band released their self-debut album “Law Of Repulsion” in 2008.

The album begins mid-tempo numbers like “Where the Alders Grow” and “Silent December” are slightly boring. “End Time Theater” includes bright shredding solos, “The Blind Man’s Eye” is very heavy and aggressive song.

Alkaline Trio

The band that will never make the same record twice are the Chicago-based punk legends Alkaline Trio. They have been around since 1996 and after having released eight full length studio albums, they're back with number nine, called My Shame Is True.

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