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Completely different band to HEAT. Martensson wrote these songs with Atkins in mind - ie akin to Maids. In that vein it is great - showcasing the more melodic side of pretty maids. You cant compare everything to HEAT cos whilst i love the band my god the last album had its weak moments.

This from Paul Logue - To be able to fulfil the modern needs, the label needs to have all production parts at least 4 months prior the scheduled release date. Vinyl production takes nowadays 8-14 weeks, digital albums should be online in stores 2 months prior the release that direct links can be spread and fans can hit the "buy" button after seeing news online. US releases need 3 months of pre-roll time to add the release to the distributor databases, sub-licensing to Japan and South America needs months of pre-roll time for listening and negotiations. Creative digital promo and marketing campaigns need to be arranged months in advance and last but not least boxsets with manufacturing in China need easily 4 months of production time.

Did you read Paul Logues (of Edens Curse) comments - he explained the reasons why. Ill copy and paste his comments later for you. Will make sense then Cheers

I bet you can rip from that too ;-)

Yep as soon as they find out the links are removed. Too easy to rip from you tube

From what Ive heard of this its like WET crossed with Maids....perfect to my ears and my pre-order is in :-)

Won't be long before the speed and availability of the internet means you really don't need a local copy. Whether you're in your car, on a train or even on a plane it will be there with enough performance to stream from anywhere at cd quality. Something I've been saying for 10 years... streaming cannot take over from MP3s until wifi access is available everywhere - I really cannot see this happening in the foreseeable future - and by that I mean the next 10 years at least. Its taking train companies forever to obtain wifi access - ours is the only line even considering it here in the UK and its still 2 years off at least. Unless they can provide some open access which actually works. Other music formats will never disappear, just shrink. Look at vinyl - its making a comeback now with people getting all retro.

What may have been a step back was still better than most albums in the last two decades. yeah, imo just slightly less excellent than the previous albums.

I do think that it will reduce the availability of illegal downloads of albums.....perhaps not across music in general but definitely in our small genre. Let's not act dumb here - there are one or 2 arseholes in our small genre who actively upload every god damned release onto their pointless little blogs and are damaging an already strained scene. I honestly don't think half as many albums will get uploaded to these blogs if they weren't all handed to these individuals on a plate free of charge 6-8 weeks before release date. We will see.

Frontiers will no longer be supplying promotional MP3s prior to release. Personally I think they should go back to voice over samples - no-one would want to upload or download those. Of course this won't stop people uploading the product once its been released, but at least they would have to buy it first. Statement - I think very little in 2016 is more disappointing for a record label than seeing an album leak before it's official release date. Let's admit it....nowadays the marketing strategies employed by most labels allows fans to download and stream a substantial amount of music prior to the release of a new album. Fans get multiple tracks when they pre-order an album digitally or can even go stream them on a service like Spotify or YouTube, without paying any money. So, truly, it is difficult to understand, even from a fan's perspective (and I am a music fan first and foremost), why there is such a need to try and find and download music illegally on piracy sites and blogs which has not yet been officially released. Moreover, you need to keep in mind that these "pirates" are actually making money off of other's backs here. While you download for free, probably thinking you are smart because you are saving your own money, you are doing two harmful things. First: you are taking away the compensation due to the artist and the record label who have spent significant time and financial efforts to make that music available for you (but, probably you could care less about that). Second: you allow the very people that put the music out for free to make themselves REAL money by selling advertisements on their sites and blogs. Some of these "pirates" are so persistent with their uploading of illegal materials, that you have to assume that this must be their full time job, especially considering the amount of time that it is needed to rip and re-upload full albums on the web, when their own sites/blogs get shut down by the providers after takedown notices. And all this goes on when there are popular, easy to use, LEGAL streaming services like Spotify, Deezer, YouTube, etc. available that give everyone the easy convenience to stream music while paying very little or even nothing at all for the privilege. I really would love if everyone could understand and agree that the promotional needs of a label are such that we can no longer constantly face the risk of having an album leaked prior to the release. Considering that systems such as watermarked MP3 downloads and watermarked CDs do not prevent these leaks from happening all the time, it is no surprise to see that many labels decide to postpone releasing priority releases to journalists until the day of the release. We will now be one of those labels as we feel we must take a serious and strong stand against these leaks. Further, we will not be allowing any more promotional downloads of our albums, regardless if it is watermarked or not. It is just not right, nor respectful to everyone's valuable time, hard work and efforts to keep going like this, so we have to ask for everyone's respect, cooperation and understanding here. Unfortunately, one bad apple spoils the whole bunch and now this is what happens. It is 2016 and journalists - who use their "ink" all the time to push for progress and technology - surely can understand that the world is moving forward and abuses of technology to work against the creative process are something we can't facilitate. Pardon the rant and keep on enjoying the music - BOYCOTT pirate sites and blogs! Mario de Riso Head of Label Management / Legal Affairs Frontiers Records

yeah, there's been a few at the beginning of 2016. It's hardly surprising though - the sad thing is that stars from (the majority) of our youths are now in the 60-70 age range (or above) which means they are gonna keep on dropping :-( RIP

The word 'redefining' always scares me

Yeah im with you but its useful for samples.

Where you sampling this? If you to to US itunes there are 90 second samples. The sample of 'Cars & Guitars' kicks freakin arse...excellent solo....in an instrumental, I know it sounds weird but its constructed like verse chorus. Other samples didnt grab me except 'Stay' which is that Rebecca Lou bird who sings on 'Go Down' - 'Stay' sounds great. Not sure the album is worth it though for 3 tracks and an instr. Might hit UK itunes when it appears for those tracks only. Cheers

mistake.

Wasnt overly impressed with the balance of songs on the album - BUT dude, put some lyrics to 'Cars & Guitars'....man what a cracking instrumental. If this was a full song with great lyrics (you know Steel Panther style!) I have no doubt it would be in my top songs of the year. Yum. Could call it 'Cars & Topless Chicks' or something ;-) In fact he should donate this music to Michael Starr.

Yeah the full version would be great ;-)

Like Issa? You guessed it

Nordic Union.

Yeah if they can sing ;-)

Dave is spot on here....I could list on the fingers of both hands the number of bands with female lead vocals actually worth owning / listening to.

HEAT - We Will Never Die

At the end of the day its a matter of taste - Dave obviously doesn't think The Darkness suck. But to say that some bands come out and release stuff year after year is hardly correct or fair in fact. Just look at Khymera - their 'A New Promise' album was 2005....'Greatest Wonder' was 2008 so its been 7 years since they last released an album under the Khymera name...............obviously Dennis Ward is involved in other musical projects and production, but I reckon a lot of thought went into the songwriting etc for the last Khymera album and it shows - its an excellent melodic rock release. Certainly not dime a dozen, and one which will be spun by me for many years to come. I have to say that the 3 albums in question compare favourably or are certainly not that far behind Treat and Magnificent - in fact I think I rated Treat at 87% and these albums would certainly be scoring 85-90%. Hey but to each their own.

Love this band. All 3 of their albums are excellent imo. Glad ive seen then live too. Just a great live act....the guitarist is amazing.

Bands like Khymera, Find Me and Art Nation are definitely NOT dime a dozen. I wish they were. They are among the very best recording in genre right now.