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Bulgarian Symphonic Metal Band Metalwings released video for the song – Monster In The Mirror

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This song combines angelic and extreme vocals with the sound of heavy guitars, powerful symphonic parts, wonderful melodic lines, beautiful lyrics and dynamics that keep you in suspense until the last second of the song!

Music and Lyrics by Stela Atanasova. Extreme Vocals by Ivo Kalyonski!

LINE-UP:   

Stela Atanasova – Operatic   Vocals, Electric Viola, Keyboards 

Grigor Kostadinov – Guitars 

Angel Kitanov – Keyboards 

Vlad  Enev – Bass

Nikola “Blackie” Ivanov – Drums   

Stela Atanasova also participated in the WOMEN ROCK Project from Belgian Jasper. This project was made by Jasper de Man for Belgian Jasper YT-channel to celebrate the International Women’s Day on March 8th 2021. From that day on he published the whole week, from Monday 8th till Friday 12th over 30 interviews and video compilations. The video from Stela was published on Friday March 12 and you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_QQVyxuofQ 

FOLLOW METALWINGS:     

Website:    https://metalwings.eu  

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/METALWINGSOFFICIAL         

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metalwingsofficial 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metalwingsofficial/        

Twitter:      https://twitter.com/metalwingsband     

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FALLEN ARISE Release Official Lyric Video For -Forever Winter!

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FALLEN ARISE Release Official Lyric Video For “Forever Winter”!

Athens based symphonic metallers FALLEN ARISE have released a new official lyric video for the song “Forever Winter”, taken from their latest album “Enigma” which was released on April 10th, 2020 via Rock Of Angels Records (ROAR). 

Created by: Haris Kountouris, HK Visual Creations – https://www.facebook.com/hkvisualcreations/

On this new offering, the band wanted their music to sound as contemporary as possible, but at the same time to remain faithful to their melodic/symphonic roots. The main part of the overall arrangement and recordings took place in Athens, at Soundflakes Recording Studios with John Mcris being a close associate of the band and the sound engineer for the main body of this new work. Part of the recordings took place at the Rock Factory Studios in Siena, Italy by Nikos Zannis and Davide Fatemi as sound engineers. The mixing process took place at Hell’s Kitchen Recording Studio with John Mcris as mixing engineer. For the mastering process, FALLEN ARISE collaborated with Fascination Street Studios and Tony Lindgren as mastering engineer. The album artwork is created by Paul Culley and the layout by Miron Theodoridis. The band’s photo session took place at rEvolver Studios (Sweden) with the mighty Patric Ullaeus behind the camera.

Enigma” tracklisting:

  1. In Adentu Deorum
  2. Enigma
  3. Reborn
  4. Forskaken
  5. Embers
  6. Without DIsguise
  7. Released
  8. Forever Winter
  9. Horizon
  10. The Storm Inside

Get “Enigma” now: https://smarturl.it/enigmafallenarise
Available on Jewel Case CD, Orange / Red Marbled Vinyl (LTD. 250 copies) & Digital streaming/download format.

Also check out
“Enigma” – https://youtu.be/fTaWaGbNAcg
‘Reborn’ – https://youtu.be/ecXbypIMGec

FALLEN ARISE were formed in 2009, combining a theatrical atmosphere with a progressive approach and a heavy-metal-alike heaviness. So far, the band have shared the stage with NIGHTWISH, PARADISE LOST, MOONSPELL, LEAVES’ EYES, OUTLOUD, just to name a few.

More information at:
BAND: https://www.fallenariseofficial.com | https://www.facebook.com/fallenarise
MANAGEMENT: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement | https://alphaomega-management.com
LABEL: https://roar.gr

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(record review)ENTROPY CODING-“Tales of the Moon”(Agoge Records)

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Entropy Coding is an Italian symphonic prog metal band and this is their new album out on Agoge Records, so it was about time to hear the album and review it in the zine.

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Entropy Coding was founded in 2015.by mastermind keyboardist and main composer Susanna Coltrè. She tried to combine power epic metal influences with symphonic elements and progressive metal and she made an interesting album on which she collaborated with 10 musicians, specialized in different musical genres.

The album contains a kind of intro and eight songs. After the intro “Once upon a time” I was not really happy with the opening track “Neon in the dark” because it gave me too plastic sound of the production like its lacking something in being alive but quite the contrary I found it to be too studio polished and sterile, both in song structure and production wise. Luckily the situation improved with next couple of songs especially with “Feel the air”, the single for which they made a nice lyric video which you can find below. The most beautiful song on this album for me is definitely “Luna” and its epicness, melody, sadness and beautiful keyboard and vocal lines put goosebumps on my skin and tears in my metal hardened eyes.

The musicianship on the album is really tight and although the production is somehow too plastic for me as I said before, this is quality and nice melodic metal for the fans of such music. I think that main goal of this album was to explore the boundaries of metal subgenres and they explored them well through and through. Interesting band, let us see what the future will bring for them.

7,5/10

https://www.facebook.com/EntropyCodingOfficial/

https://www.facebook.com/Agogerecords/