Christian Death - The Iron Mask (1992)

In 1992 Rozz Williams reformed Christian Death with Eva O. who he was also in the collaboration The Shadow Project with Rozz. The album consists of eight reworkings of tracks that feature on previous Christian Death albums. The question is weather the tracks should have been rerecorded or not. The tracks seem to lack the organ style keyboards that were in the original songs and in some places the guitars seem heavier than in the original songs, this could be to compensate for the missing keyboards. Another thought on the album is that was this LP motivated by money, This is basicaly the same band as The Shadow Project labeled Christian Death. The positive points however of this record are that Eva O.'s backing vocals fit perfectly with Rozz Williams voice and make his singing alot stronger and that Christian Death only made limited albums with Rozz Williams because of his departure from the band in 1985, it is always nice to see more material featuring him.

Rating: ***

1. Spiritual Cramp - 2:16
2. Sleepwalk - 5:10
3. Skeleton Kiss - 2:40
4. Figurative Theatre - 2:45
5. Desperate Hell - 3:43
6. Death Wish - 2:03
7. Luxury Of Tears - 5:47
8. Cervix Couch - 5:32
9. Skeleton Kiss (Death Mix) - 4:50
10. Down In The Park (Live) - 3:40

Download: Christian Death - The Iron Mask (1992)

Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori - Halo 3 ODST Soundtrack

Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori have been doing the halo soundtracks from the beginning, the have man the halo game from classics to proper epic games, the soundtrack is to go with there latest game and i believe that they are producing music as good as from the fisrt game. This epic two disc album is just unbelieveable, it is a real epic collection of music.

Rating: *****

Disc: 1
Overture
The Rookie
More Than His Share
Deference For Darkness
The Menagerie
Asphalt And Ablution
Traffic Jam
Neon Night
The Office Of Naval Intelligence

Disc: 2
Bits And Pieces
Skyline
No Stone Unturned
One Way Ride
The Light At The End
Data Hive
Special Delivery
Finale
Total time: 1hr 54min

dEUS - Vantage Point (2008)

dEUS are a Belgian rock band that have been releasing albums since 1994 while being fronted by Tom Barman. The line up still contains Mauro Pawlowski from their previous album who is know for being a key member in the formation of Belgian contemporary music and is the lead singer of The Evil Superstars. The latest dEUS album Vantage Point continues where their last studio album Pocket Revolution left of in that they are continuing with a more softer aproach to their music. Alot of songs are still upbeat like "Oh Your God", "Favorite Games", "The Architect" and "Is A Robot" which offer some style from their early years. With each listen to the songs the guitar riffs become more attractive espcially in the title track "When She Comes Down".

Rating: ***

1. When She Comes Down - 5:06
2. Oh Your God - 3:52
3. Eternal Woman - 4:22
4. Favorite Game - 4:11
5. Slow - 6:09
6. The Architect - 3:57
7. Is A Robot - 4:58
8. Smokers Reflect - 4:27
9. The Vanishing Of Maria Schneid - 4:44
10. Popular Culture - 4:56

Download: dEUS - Vantage Point (2008)

Brand New Eyes - Paramore

Paramore are an american rock band that first started writing songs in 2002, since then they have produced 10 really great song including helping with the soundtrack for the film Twilight.
They have just realeased the album Brand New Eyes in september this year and there are already three songs that are going to be known as classics; Ignorance, Decode and Brick By Boring Brick.
The album is a real good listen and worth the time to download it, same as the rest of there other albums.

Rating: *****

Careful - 3:50
Ignorance - 3:38
Playing God - 3:02
Brick by Boring Brick - 4:13
Turn It Off - 4:19
The Only Exception - 4:27
Feeling Sorry - 3:05
Looking Up - 3:29
Where the Lines Overlap - 3:18
Misguided Ghosts - 3:01
All I Wanted - 3:48
Decode - 4:22

The Moment - Framing Hanley

Framing Hanley are a new band for USA, they realease there first and only album named The Moment in 2007. they are known for tw of there songs, Lollipop and Hear Me Now.
there are a very good band worth the time to listen to and there two songs they are known for are really exceptional.

Rating: ****

Home – 3:14
Built for Sin – 3:32
Hear Me Now – 3:53
Slow Dance – 2:57
All in Your Hands – 3:32
It's Not What They Said – 3:41
23 Days – 3:26
Count Me In – 3:35
Alone in This Bed (Capeside) – 3:50
Wave Goodbye – 3:13
The Fold – 3:07
Lollipop (Lil Wayne cover) (bonus track) -- 3:11

Peter Murphy - Recall (1997)

Peter Murphy is know to many people as the "godfarther of goth" for being the root of the gothic genre. After the breakup of his former band Bauhaus Peter Murphy embarked on a solo career and had good success in America with the single "Cuts You Up". Peter had a seven year gap inbetween making solo albums from 1995-2002. The only new meterial to be released was the Recall EP. This featured two re-recorded songs from past albums and three other b-sides. The original version of the two songs to me seemed so much stronger most likely because the new versions key musical instrument seem to be keyboards. Prehapse the best song on the EP is "Surrendered" which has a strong "Arabic" theme to it which Peter's voice seems to fit perfectly into it.

Rating: ***

1. Roll Call / Recall - 4:16
2. Indigo Eyes 98 - 6:38
3. Big Love Of A Tiny Fool - 4:05
4. Surrendered - 5:20
5. Big And Tiny (Live) - 6:12

Download: Peter Murphy - Recall (1997)

The Saints - Imperious Delirium (2006)

The Saints are a long standing Australian punk rock band formed in 1974. After the departure of the bands key guitarist Ed Kuepper the bands music mellowed out into a soft rock until their hiatus wich lasted until 1997. Chris Bailey has since been trying to reestablish The Saints repuation as a punk rock band. After Marty Willson-Piper of The Church played with them for a short period of time the band was for the first time reduced to a three piece with Chris Bailey playing all the guitars on their new project, Imperious Delirium. The album starts with the song "Drunk In Babylon" which immediately sets the mood with a "dirty" rock sound to the guitars. Some of the great moments in the album have to be Baileys well constructed lyrics in "Je Fuckin' T'Aime" which gives it an added element as a love song. They still have some softer slow songs within the album, for example "Other Side Of The World" but even this still contains the punk rock sound they are trying to maintain. Chris Bailey has achieved exactly what he has set out to do with Imperious Delirium and The Saints remain one of the top rock bands of Australia.

Rating: ****

1. Drunk In Babylon - 3:43
2. Declare War - 3:59
3. Trocadero - 3:29
4. Je Fuckin' T'Aime - 3:08
5. Other Side Of The World - 4:06
6. So Close - 3:17
7. Getting Away With Murder - 3:23
8. Drowning - 3:36
9. Enough Is Never Enough - 2:53
10. Learning To Crawl - 3:27
11. War Of Independence - 4:58

Download: The Saints - Imperious Delirium (2006)
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