Black Tide - Light From Above (2008)

Black Tide are a thrash metal band from Miami, my favourite place in the world. This is their debut album and I bought it after hearing their name around a bit. I'd seen first single 'Shockwave' a fair bit on late night Kerrang and then I noticed that 'Show Me The Way' was on MotorStorm 2, one of my favourite games. So I thought "it's about time I downloaded this album". But I couldn't find a download link anywhere so I had to buy this one, and I was afraid of wasting my money.
However, what it has provided has been wonderful. It's a really great metal album, by a group of very talented youngsters. The singer is currently aged just 16, with another member also aged only 16 (Could be 17 actually, not too sure). Anyway, the point is, they are all very young and have so much potential to be one of the biggest bands in metal in a few years time.

Track Listing:
[1]Shockwave
[2]Shout
[3]Warriors of Time
[4]Give Me A Chance
[5]Let Me
[6]Show Me The Way
[7]Enterprise
[8]Live Fast Die Young
[9]Hit The Lights
[10]Black Abyss
[11]Light From Above
[12]Black Widow

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/133654768/AboveLight.rar

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Dan.

New Release Sunday: Mastodon - Crack The Skye

This week's album is Mastodon's latest offering - Crack the Skye. Personally I have never heard anything from Mastodon, so I'm looking forward to listening. I don't know if any of the others have listened, so I think this will be an interesting one. I am also interested by the 'e' on the end of Sky. This was clearly a typo.

Track Listing:
[1]Oblivion
[2]Divinations
[3]Quintessence
[4]The Czar:
I. Usurper
II. Escape
III. Martyr
IV. Spiral
[5]Ghost Of Karelia
[6]Crack The Skye
[7]The Last Baron

Tool - 10000 days (2006)

Track listing:
1 - Vicarious - 7:06
2 - Jambi - 7:28
3 - Wings for Marie (Pt.1) - 6:11
4 - 10,000 Days (Wings Pt.2) - 11:13
5 - The Pot - 6:21
6 - Lipan Conjuring - 1:11
7 - Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) - 3:46
8 - Rosetta Stoned - 11:11
9 - Intension - 7:21
10 - Right in Two - 8:55
11 - Viginti Tres - 5:02

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I think this album deserves a chance. It's far too clever to be a straight metal album, but I struggle to class it as anything else. I'm sure there are many terms which I'm yet unaware of, but as far as i'm concerned, It's just good.

Songs to listen to in particular:
Vicarious
The Pot
Rosetta Stoned

Enjoy.

Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)

Track Listing:
'Battery' - 5:13
'Master of Puppets' - 8:38
'The Thing That Should Not Be' - 6:37
'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' - 6:28
'Disposable Heroes' - 8:17
'Leper Messiah' - 5:41
'Orion' - 8:28
'Damage, Inc.' - 5:30

Well renowned classic in the metal community 'Master of Puppets' was the first Metallica, and indeed Thrash, album that I listened to and has since remained one of my favourites. This is Metallica before they turned shit, this is the Metallica that the band tried to recapture with 'Death Magnetic', and this is Metallica we should all still be listening to. My favourite aspect of the album has got to be the guitar work from Kirk Hammett supported by singer James Hetfield - proper face melters. If you were to get one thrash album in your life... it would be Slayer's 'Reign in Blood', but this would be second. Maybe.

Album highlights include (although are not limited to as every song is very good):
Lepar Messiah
Disposable Heroes
Battery

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