Aventure – Totdat De Wachter Heeft Gezongen – Songs from the Gruuthuse Manuscript (Ca. 1400) And Instrumental Connections (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:32 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
The poems and songs of the Gruuthuse Manuscript originated in Bruges around 1400, and the collection is named after the later owner, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. The songs form the most well-known part of the collection: love songs, bawdy songs and drinking songs. The Gruuthuse Manuscript contains the largest collection of Dutch language songs from the medieval period, and it is the largest collection of songs with music notation. The form of the songs also attests to the fact that these songs were intended for connoisseurs. The poet uses formes fixes, the canonized forms of French songs of the late medieval times: ballades, rondeaus and virelais, and the wide variety of the forms used is remarkable.
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Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:39 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records (US1A)
The Stage is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. It is a concept album about artificial intelligence and self-destruction of society. It was released on October 28, 2016 after a live stream event on the band’s Facebook page. The Stage is the first Avenged Sevenfold album to feature Brooks Wackerman on drums, who joined the band in 2014, but wasn’t revealed as Arin Ilejay’s official replacement until Illejay’s departure in 2015. The Stage is also the band’s first album to be released through Capitol Records. It is also the band’s longest studio album at 73 minutes and 35 seconds, thus beating City of Evil by almost a minute. The album also features their longest song to date, “Exist”, with a run-time of 15 minutes and 41 seconds.
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Avenged Sevenfold – Live At The GRAMMY Museum® (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 31:13 minutes | 395 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records (US1A)
Avenged Sevenfold may be ramping up to the release of The Stage deluxe edition on Dec. 15, but believe it or not there will be yet another Avenged offering coming to fans just prior to that. The group just announced plans for an acoustic set, dubbed Avenged Sevenfold Live at the Grammy Museum, that will be released this Friday (Dec. 8). Avenged Sevenfold appeared at the Grammy Museum earlier this fall around the time of the Loudwire Music Awards. Their new digital-only release includes 11 tracks, with a mix of introductions and song performances. Speaking of Avenged Sevenfold’s Grammy association, the band just received their first ever Grammy nomination in the Best Rock Song category for “The Stage.” They face competition from Metallica’s “Atlas, Rise!,” K.Flay’s “Blood in the Cut,” Nothing More’s “Go to War” and Foo Fighters’ “Run.” The winners will be announced during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards taking place June 28 in New York.
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Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:21 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Rock, Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
Produced by Mike Elizondo, Hail To The King is the follow up to the band’s 2010 release, Nightmare, which debuted at Number One on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, Hard Rock Chart and Digital Chart.
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Avenged Sevenfold – Diamonds in the Rough (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:49 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
Originally released on CD in 2008 as part of a co CD/DVD release with ‘Live in the LBC’. A compilation of B-sides recorded during the making of the band’s self-titled 2007 debut, rarities, covers and other non-album tracks, this version of ‘Diamonds In the Rough’ also features a never before heard track. ‘Set Me Free’ is lifted from the band’s sessions for their album ‘Hail to the King’. The album also includes another 4 tracks (‘4:00 AM’, ‘St James’, ‘Lost It All’ and ‘Paranoid’) that didn’t appear on the original CD release.
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Avatar – Avatar Country (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:23 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Century Media
Avatar started out in 2001 as a fairly generic melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Over time they’ve branched out with more alternative influences emerging in their sound. They’ve also made a name for themselves with their theatrical circus themed live shows. Things seem to be looking bright for Avatar, they’ve recently won the “breakthrough artist” metal hammer golden god award due to the success of ‘Feathers and Flesh’ it’s important that ‘Avatar Country’, which releases on January 12th, 2018, carries on the positive momentum.
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Avantasia – Moonglow (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:37 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
Moonglow is the eighth studio album from Tobias Sammet’s symphonic metal project Avantasia and follows 2016’s Ghostlights. Originally conceived as a solo album by Sammet, it quickly became a full-fledged Avantasia release, combining elements of world music with Sammet’s richly produced symphonic and operatic power metal. ~ Rich Wilson
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Ava Luna – Moon 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:53 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Art Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl
On Moon 2 Ava Luna’s de facto band leader Carlos Hernandez steps back, leaving space for the rest of the band members to step up and step into roles they hadn’t occupied on previous albums. Felicia Douglass (now a touring member of Dirty Projectors) worked with percussion and sampler, Julian Fader experimented with synths, nearly every band member ran the computer during recording sessions, and Becca Kauffman (aka performance artist Jennifer Vanilla) composed her first song for the group “On Its Side the Fallen Fire,” a deeply layered orchestral piece of Kate Bush grandeur meets Julia Holter reverie. Compared with previous Ava Luna albums, Moon 2 has fewer sharp turns into dissonance, fewer celebratory guitar parts, none of Hernandez’s signature screams. Nevertheless, the infectious buoyancy of “Deli Run” and “Walking With an Enemy,” are warm and bright, and songs like “Centerline” and “Phoebe (Set it Off)” venture confidently into pop territory. The title track, painting the elation and tumult of a crush, is set against a swaggering reggae bassline and warbling Kraftwerk synths. “It’s like, every sci-fi movie has a nightclub,” says Kauffman. “These are the songs in that nightclub.”
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Auvinen – Akkosaari (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:31 minutes | 425 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Editions Mego
Johannes Auvinen is regarded among the best to ever wield a 303, but here commits his love for classic European synth music in a convincing style that holds up to comparison with inspirations ranging from Ash Ra Temple’s Jenseits to the iciest contours of the Sähkö label.
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Autumn Of Communion – Zosimus Alchemista (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:26 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Enhancing
Mick Chillage and Lee Norris come together as Autumn Of Communion. Between them, their music stretches into the deepest roots of modern ambient music. Zosimus Alchemista the type of music that breaks down boundaries and epitomizes the true early 90’s ambient sound and arguably, Autumn Of Communion is the purest distillation of their combined work.
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Autumn Of Communion – Data Space Bass (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:00 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Enhancing
How they manage to expertly juxtapose glassy tones with rich sub bass is quite a knack that not many carry off successfully, especially with actual melodies rather than the usual staccato arpeggios which can tire your ears quickly. “Just released on the Fantasy Enhancing label is the new Autumn Of Communion album “Data Space Bass” displaying seven tracks of genre defying electronica. Possibly our most diverse deep & mysterious coherent album to date?” – Autumn Of Communion
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Autry Inman – RCA & Epic Singles (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:39 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
b. Robert Autry Inman, 6 January 1929, Florence, Alabama, USA, d. 6 September 1988. An early prodigy, Inman played guitar at the age of five and at 12, he formed his band, the Alabama Blue Boys. He played on various local radio stations and in the mid-40s, he began to appear on the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree. He appeared on the Grand Ole Opry in 1947, where he became friendly with Cowboy Copas. He played bass for Copas’s Oklahoma Cowboys in 1949 and 1950, before spending the next two years playing with George Morgan. In 1953, recording for Decca Records, he enjoyed a number 4 country hit with “That’s All Right”, but failed to achieve a follow-up hit with the label. He made further recordings for RCA-Victor Records (1958-60), United Artists Records (1960) and Mercury Records (1962), without finding chart success (in 1961, he formed his own Lakeside label and released a live album). In 1963, his Sims recording of “The Volunteer” made the Top 25. He recorded two risqué live albums for Jubilee the following year and eventually returned to the charts in 1968, with “The Ballad Of Two Brothers”, a patriotic narrative delivered over strains of the “Battle Hymn Of The Republic”. It reached number 14 in the country charts and also crossed over to become a Top 50 pop hit. He appeared in two films, A Face In The Crowd (1957) and Music City USA (1966), and released further albums, but achieved no further chart success.
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Author & Punisher – Beastland (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:45 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Relapse Records
Industrial metal visionary Author & Punisher delivers his sixth full-length recording and Relapse debut Beastland. Drawing inspiration from his career as a mechanical engineer, Tristan Shone (the creator and sole artist behind Author & Punisher) forged a relationship with design, sound, and fabrication that ultimately yielded his hand-built “Drone Machines” which mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made “precision machinery.” A robotic experimentation in industrial metal, noise, doom and drone, Author & Punisher recalls Nine Inch Nails channeling Godflesh, traversing through dark, uncompromising, and often disturbing soundscapes with occasional detours into rich melodies and splinters of light. Armed with newly built “Drone Machines” and a new label, Beastland is Author & Punisher’s career-defining statement and a powerful listening experience that further blurs the line between man and machine.
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Autechre – SIGN (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:32 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records
Autechre albums are like language immersion programs: At first they don’t make sense, but listen close and familiar shapes emerge. Not that SIGN is accessible per se: We’re still talking about something closer to computer programming than what most people would consider music. But for a group that can be almost mythically forbidding (2016’s four-hour-long—and 12-hours-dense—elseq), SIGN is almost pop. Thirty years in and the UK production duo’s roots still show: Hip-hop on “M4 Lema,” house on “psin AM,” far-out synth soundtracks on “F7” and “Metaz form8.” But it all remains deconstructed and once removed. Most music depends on memories of something you’ve heard before. With Autechre, you can feel your brain stretch as you listen. Normally they sound like they’re pushing forward or settling in. With SIGN, it’s both.
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Autechre – PLUS (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:52 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records
Autechre have surprise released their second album of the month. PLUS, released digitally at 11 a.m. Eastern on Warp, follows SIGN, the uncharacteristically accessible LP they released on October 16.
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