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Hey, yet another Motörhead studio album, in fact their 21^st to date, and yet again a powerhouse addition to an already impressive collection of material!

Markradonn are an Orlando, Florida based project by Haniel Adhar (g, v, b, production, engineering, mix, music and lyrics). He wrote a couple of songs that are based on the Floridian-styled Death Metal scene, but created with a completely different, unique angle. Done with the assistance of several session and guest musicians, his first studio result under the Markradonn-moniker, called Final Dying Breath, turns out to be a Death Metal-oriented form of Extreme Music incorporated with (cf.

How he manages to combine them all is a riddle to me, but between his work as a producer and with his bands Casanova/Demon Drive, and Wolfpakk, Michael Voss has found the time to also write an record songs for a next Mad Max album. The career of this band spans some thirty years, although with lots of splits stops and restarts, but this does not show in this brand new album.

Kiara Laetitia Italian ex-vocalist of Skylark (and writer, model and actress, too). "This work is dark yet melodic and positive at the same time" says Kiara "I've been through one of the toughest moments in my life and I came out of it as a new person, stronger I should say and this is how the idea for 'Fight Now' came about.

Did you know that people born from parents already active in music, will often also get into music themselves? Of course, deviation from that statistic rule dó exist, and it's not because the parent(s) was successful, that the kid is later equally (as) successful, but usually there's a degree of perseverance in kids from musicians to at least try and make it in the business themselves!

The New York City-based act Imperial Triumphant was formed in 2005 by two guys who were active within the Death Metal scene especially (Malignancy and Pyrrhon, for those who care).

Final Depravity a German Trash Metal band. Contains: Dennis 'Blaze' Baron (Vocals, Guitars) Oliver Hey (Guitars, Vocals) Alex Voss (Bass) and Jerome Reil (Drums)

Embercrows a German band formed in 2004. Line up: Simon (Vocals & Guitars), Marcos (Keys), Robert (Drums) and Stoff (Bass). Playing Melancholic metal and dark rock.

Down Among The Dead Men (question: named after the so-called The Lord Weird Slough Feg 2000-record, or the eighteenth-century John Dyer song; there are a couple of scriptures (i.e. books, novels, stories) too with this moniker, by the way) is a new project, which shamelessly can be labelled as ‘super-group’. Why? Because of the members. Down Among The Dead Men were formed by two extremely skilled and well-known Extreme Metal musicians (both of them wrote the music for this first album).

The Swiss band Crystal Ball is a power/heavy metal band that once again surfaces. Following a 6 year hiatus, a new album "Dawnbreaker" was finally released this year. Their sound can best be described as a blend of classic Heavy Metal, euro-Rock and melodic Power Metal. But this album reminds me the most of bands like Firewind, if that helps to compare them to something you know.