Surprises 2008: Consecration - Aux

Consecration , formed in Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro in 2000, (formerly known as The Lack Of Motivation), plays prog/post-rock influenced doom metal. Bands like Anathema, Opeth, Katatonia are coming easily to mind when I was listening to Aux, even in some parts, the most experimental Phlebotomized or the prog70's King Crimson.
There were few albums of that doomish post-rock that I liked, lots of those bands try to copy other "great ones" like Kyuss or Tool (bands that I dont like too much), or make a metalized version of Radiohead, but somehow, I enjoyed with the first album of Consecration everytime I played it more and more, mostly those melancholic passages like Cliffhangers or Shelter Me.
They call themselves the "Def Leppard of Doom Metal".

1.	Aimless	05:56
2.	Rinasek	06:39
3.	Passage (aux)	06:43
4.	Cliffhangers	07:33
5.	Absinthe	03:35
6.	Shelter Me	06:07
7.	Mercury Room	13:39

Consecration - Aux

Surprises 2008: Synesthesia - From Amnesia To Apocalypse

Synesthesia is a greek band (appearing lots of good bands from that country!) that makes a kind of progressive very melodic death metal. But, the style is wider than that, they play with many influences, growls and a personal clean voice that sometimes could recall a mix of some gothic male singer and Ville ex-Sentenced, some electronic keyboards, clean guitars, atmospheric moments, and in general very varied songs that makes us to enjoy and listen quite easily their debut album.
Many influences and delicate taste in melodies and composing make this From Amnesia To Apocalypse one of the worthest albums of 2008.
Just like anecdote, some of their members are also part of other interesting projects that came lastly from Greece like Transcending Bizarre?, Dol Theeta or Dol Ammad.

1.	Temptation	05:09
2.	In Silence Digress	06:56
3.	Field Of Sorrow	05:06
4.	Threshold	04:27
5.	The Distance Within	05:38
6.	Frozen Rose	06:19
7.	Through The Eyes Of Ambivalence	08:00
8.	Departure	05:05
9.	Frozen Rose (radio edit)	05:04

Synesthesia - Threshold


Synesthesia - From Amnesia To Apocalypse Part I
Synesthesia - From Amnesia To Apocalypse Part II

Surprises 2008: Heathendom - Neoscience

Though formed 10 years ago, the greeks Heathendom released this last year their first album Neoscience. I could recall some the epic doom heavy metal influence of Manilla Road or some slow-time Candlemass with strong Kingdiamondesque feeling and atmospheres. Guitars and melodies are perfectly composed with that thorough mix of those dark riffs and terror-theatrical environment. Similar to my recent discovering, the italians Thunderstorm, I'm gladly expectant about the work of this great band.

1.	Oranges & Lemons (Intro)	00:43
2.	Nescience	04:41
3.	Burn	05:18
4.	The Doll House	06:03
5.	Mirror Of Memories	06:04
6.	Scenes Of Old	04:57
7.	I Bleed	06:15
8.	A Sick Man's Dreams - Blissful Hell	04:51
9.	Hell Within	08:33
10.	War & Pain (bonus track)	05:05

Heathendom -Neoscience

Enslaved vs ovella

Ésta é unha noticia que sucedeu fai xa máis de 1 ano, pero a verdade é que non me enterara ata fai poucos días.
A historia é como sigue:
Os vikingos progresivos de Enslaved decidiron cargar contra o político noruego Lars Sponheim cando éste proclamou que todo tipo de descarga musical ilícita na rede fora legalizada. Cando os de Enslaved oíron tal, puxéronse os cascos vikingos e dirixíronse cual horda de berzeekers á casa de citado político, atravesaron valles, baixaron laderas de montañas Immortal-way e nun ataque salvaje apoderáronse dunha preciada recompensa propiedad de Sponheim: a súa ovella XD
Tralo botín pagano, os guerreiros voltaron nas suas Drakkar e exhibiron a ovella ós habitantes das aldeas, mostrando así o seu poderío e hazañas.
A secuencia dos feitos foi grabada por unha cámara de TV e posteriormente, ainda que todos se esperaban unha boa cena como bos paganos, Enslaved liberou a ovella monte arriba, quedando así en harmonía coa nai natureza mentres fixeron un solo pagano-prog-setentero, un growl e brindaron nos seus cornos con hidromiel vendo sonrientes o animal perderse polos toxos adiante.

As secuencias do secuestro vikingo XD

Xa tardaba algun video máis do tema XD

"Warcry ha tenido dos, para mi para mi, dos facetas, una es... queeeee...transmite un mundo...que tu lo sabes y otro, y otro mundo"
Mariano García
(Entre dos mundos)

Surprises 2008: Faithful Darkness - In Shadows Lies Utopia

Faithful Darkness is a swedish band that combines several styles into the metal. From Gothenburg melodic death, through thrash metal to typical power metal choruses and melodies. Lots of bands are trying with those mixes like Faithful Darkness and most of them end ruining everything or being too clones between themselves.
Faithful Darkness has the touch of every one of those genres but they managed to create a good, catchy and varied debut album. Higher than the average for sure.

1.	Stay Awake	03:52
2.	Pure Silence	04:43
3.	Dispeled Dreams	03:40
4.	Fast I Fall	03:54
5.	Human Torch	03:04
6.	Bound To Illusions	03:54
7.	Alive	02:56
8.	Afterlife	03:47
9.	In Shadows Lies Utiopa	04:14
10.	Believer	04:26
11.	Fields Of Yesterday	02:56

Faithful Darkness - Bound To Illusions


Rapidshare: Faithful Darkness - In Shadows Lies Utopia

Funny Video + Cover Song 16

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Batman vs Videogame

A far l’amore comincia tu is a megahit that Raffaella Carrá made in the 70's. Raffaella Carrá is an italian singer, dancer, tv presenter and actress that was very famous in latinamerica, Spain and Italy mostly in the 70's and 80's decades. The song was recorded by herself in italian, spanish and english, and later was covered in german language by Tony Holiday re-naming the song to tanze samba mit mir. In Spanish Raffaella translated the song re-naming it as well like en el amor todo es empezar.
I have chosen the italian version because it seems like explosions are bigger and I am a rude guy, you know XD
Raffaella Carrá - A Far L'amore Comincia Tu

Tony Holiday was a german pop singer and songwriter. His cover song of Raffaella Carrá quickly became a hit in both Germany and Austria, peaking at #4 on the German music charts and reaching the Top 20 on the Austrian music charts in 1977.
Tony Holiday - Tanze Samba Mit Mir

Tankwart is a parallel project of the german thrashers Tankard. They just made 2 albums in the middle of the 90's making a thrash humour-parody metal.
Tankwart - Tanze Samba Mit Mir