What can be said,this is a blog where I will post some stuff I really like,so I think you should like it too.I am a metalhead to the heart,but I will put here every kind of stuff I like,not only Metal.I hope you will enjoy it,and let me know if there is anything needed,especially from the ex-Yugoslavia territory.
Cheers!
This is one of the best comebacks of the year 2011. The Christian Thrash Metal band Amen played at the beginnings of the 90s, then stopped, a member continued to play with Hope, and now that Hope are disbanded, Amen are here again. The stuff is mid-tempo melodic Thrash Metal, with an excellent production. They made it perfectly this time, so let`s hope for some new stuff from Amen in 2012.
Ok, so this is the new year.. we`ll see what will it bring. Some says this one is our last, but all they can do is suck my ass (some heavy rhyme is goin` on, right?).. Ok, let`s talk business now. I am absent for some time, because I decided to reactivate my other blog PULAROCKCITY and so I have to checkall the links, and reupload and blah blah blah.. you know what is all about. Give me just a week more, and I will continue with some nice stuff here, all already uploaded and ready for you. Plus, I have to recheck all the links for the year 2007 (man, it is 5 years I am running this blog!!) because some of you told me about some links that have expired (because they were all on rapidshare, and I don`t have the permission to access my uploads, so fuck rapidshare, I will reupload them all on mediafire).Please, be patient.
This is it for now, enjoy your meal, your women, your soccer team, your drink, your music..
Allright, here is the new release from the Grind masters from Pula, Bolesno Grinje !! I got it yesterday from both Jule (guitar) and Hoc (bass), and posting it straight on ! This album is an AWESOME release, balancing through Grindcore, Crust, and the most furious and insane Death Metal. This is the first release after their drummer Rio left them (actually, as far as I know, he left all the bands he played with and went Techno-DJing..), and with the new drummer Luze. The pace is still very fast and very loud, and if you like the fact of 15 songs in 25 minutes (but actually it`s 14 songs in 21 minutes, as the last song is some kind of noise), then you should download this album right away! To be fair to the band, I will put two links for download, one is mine, and the second one will be theirs, where you can download the album with a small amount of money, helping that way the band in releasing a vinyl of this album (but you can also write 0 euros and download it anyway). ENJOY THIS FUCKER !!!
I loved this band back in the 90s. Actually, I loved only the period of this promo tape, their explosive live performances.. wow, what a band it was.. with their first album they kinda mellowed out, I didn`t accepted their semi-sell-out transformation, so I am putting here a great, and I mean GREAT Promo tape from 1996!!
Oh, this is a nice one. For all the nostalgic Speed metal lovers like me, here is the LD`s demo from 1984, a pretty fair recording that will remind you how good those times were...
Oracle Encounter is actually the return of Tomo, frontman of the now probably forever defunct Blockade Runner. Here we have a very modern way of expression, showing that Tomo is really far from quitting it all..
..A great recording (soundboard, of course) of the mk2 line-up of this once great Yugoslavian Hard Rock band.. the show is recorded in Zagreb in 1985, much before the goddamn war splitted Yugoslavia. A rare document of excellent quality, worth having it in your collection.
This is something by request, but something that anyway was waiting to be posted. In the 90s, Headbanger started as a pretty sloppy but very defined band, making very exciting shows (see the video). Later they raised their skill level much higher, but the music also became more mature. This is their first phase, and a very nice cassette !!
I received this mp3 album from my friends from Ostend Powers from Belgium. This is a full massive guitar riffs collection, the recording is at a very high level, and I will probably be very close if I compare them to Alice In Chains (but not completely, just in shades).. a reason more for you to get this!
Well, this is also the last (official) recording I have from this band, a single cassette released by the biggest major label in Croatia, Croatia Records, and probably the sells weren`t too good for the standards of Croatia Records, so this cassette single is a kind of rarity. I got it directly from a band member Drazen, so thanx to him!
Finally, the (momentarily) last live recording I have from Fear Of God, recorded in 1988 in an unknown location. The recording is more or less good and listeneable, but hey, this is FOG, do not ever expect an Iron Maiden production.....
Well, do I have to add anything? You may like or not Korn, but you have to admit that the first album (and more or less the 2nd and 3rd) were good records, not as a whole, but with a lot of brilliant tracks. Well, this is (probably one of) the demo recorded before the first album, just months before they will become planetary hyperpopular. Pretty raw versions.
This is the band where my brother Chriss plays the drums, a kind of soothing alternative Rock (with two louder tracks!), with an excellent production. Something that you can put an ear on if you like different kind of Rock. In this case, you won`t be disappointed!
And here we go to Russia and my friends from Welicoruss, who sent me this great EP, cool stuff with a rich orchestral production, stuff you will like if you like bands using symphonic elements in their Metal.
You know me, I am not into any kind of Black Metal, not even following anything about it, but I will always help any band from the ex-Yu territory to get more airplay and possible fans or listeners. And to be honest, there is absolutely no reason not to try them, excellent Pagan BM with a very good production, and with (something the band is probably very proud of) lyrics in Macedonian language (with a lyric sheet with translations in English). A very nice release. Try it.
Now, this band comes from Serbia, and even I am not a fan of My Dying Bride, I think they re-interpreted the MDB style perfectly, and it sounds very very good. Actually, if you ask me (and you don`t, but I will say it anyway) I will rather take a listen to TBE..
The slovenian U.B.R. were undoubtely one of the greatest HC bands from the ex-Yu territory. And surely one of the most succesful, being part of one of the most legendary compilations of it`s kind, the Maximum Rock`n`Roll one, along with great manes as Rattus, Raw Power, Terveet Kadet and others. The track featured there is from this tape, the song Harmonija. Now, if you heard that song then you have exactly the picture how this demo sounds. Killer.
This is one of my all-time-favourites demo (along with Death`s Infernal death and Phantasm`s 1987 demo), and, as somebody asked, a great copy. This is a great crossover piece, heavily metallic but still with a lot of HC power and aggression. A must, if you ask me.
Here is another pearl of the history of Punk. The recording is a bit poor, but good enough to hear how GBH sounded at the very beginnings. Truly interesting stuff !
Should it be said that any Minor Threat live show or recording is total power, something that makes you go mad? I think they were one of the most exciting HC live bands in the history of music. This is a soundboard recording, not perfect but raw and direct how it should be! Enjoy, people!
My blogs represent what I like in music, no matter what kind of music is.In AudioHeaven you will rarely find stuff that can be found on any other music blog, I put here stuff that is maybe hard to get, but of course there will be also stuff that is practicly obligatory on every music blog, but only if represent a milestone in my musical taste. As I am a metalhead, most of the stuff you will find here will be metal in any kind and form, but there will also be posts that won`t have any matching point with metal. The only thing I would like is that you occasionally write some comment of the stuff you just downloaded. Thank you and enjoy good music. AND PLEASE, TELL TO OTHERS ABOUT MY BLOG!!
PS; all the regular releases on this blog are here for you just for pre-listening, if you like the stuff, of course, buy the cd and support the bands! As for demo and live bootlegs, enjoy them and support bands by visiting their gigs!!
