Tuesday 31 October 2017

CYBER10 Metal Storm VIII - Keepers of the Cross III



Being the only free-download compilation to be produced in 2017, this third volume of Metal Storm keeps the tradition initiated in 2011 of a compilation only with Christian metal bands . Five years after producing the last volume (second) of "Keepers of the Cross" I contacted some old friends and they responded positively about being part of a new compilation, which gave me motivation to put the idea into reality one more time. This volume brings power / heavy metal, symphonic metal, melodic metal, a bit of extreme metal and many tracks were remastered for this compilation. This release is also coming out exactly on October 31st 2017 in a tribute to the Protestant Reformation which completes 500 years.

11 tracks in playlist, average track length: 4:54
Playlist length: 53 minutes 58 seconds 
Playlist files:

1. Holy Cross - The Pillars of the Earth (2:35)
2. Clean Heart - Human Safety (6:47)
3. Blood Covenant - At the Cross (4:09)
4. Lammah - Confiança (5:48)
5. Dynasty of Metal - Goldenland (orchestration version) (6:59)
6. Templo de Fogo - Alguém (5:20)
7. Sacrom - Gloria Al Eterno (7:01)
8. Icewind - Domine Gloria (1:49)
9. Baptism in Death - Preparação Para a Guerra (4:26)
10. Segør - Breath Of Life (5:48)
11. Epic Church - Voyage Through Space And Time (3:16)





Clean Heart (São Paulo)
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Clean Heart was a heavy metal band with some power/melodic influences. Samuel, the soul of the band, was, at the same time, the guitar player and vocalist and their concerts were usually full of energy. This Brazilian band released only a demo album named “Fight In The Name of God” with 4 tracks.


Lammah (Espírito Santo)
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Lammah is Christian Metal band formed in 2011, in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. So far the band has released one album named "A Face de Cristo" (The Face of Christ).


 
Holy Cross (São Paulo)
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Holy Cross is a metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2001. The band released a demo cd in 2002 with the name MEDIEVAL HEART with 3 tracks influenced by gothic and medieval ambience. After just a few concerts, the band stopped playing. Some songs in Portuguese were made, but never recorded. Holy Cross became active again only in 2011, recording a new album named VATERLAND, a release that keeps the band inside of the medieval ambience but now with elements of epic, symphonic and neo-classical metal and still with a gothic touch.

Dynasty (Minas Gerais)
Internationally known by the album "Motus Perpetuus", the band from Minas Gerais, Brazil, was formed in 1996 and after many concerts and some releases it has now in 2017 a new album named "Step by Step" a great heavy/power metal record.


Sacrom (Peru)
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Sacrom (ex-Cadena de Fuego), is a metal band from Peru. The band started in 2001 and they claim to be the first “power neo-classical metal” band in the north of the country. Sacrom has all the songs sang in Spanish and they are still active and playing at concerts.
Blood Covenant (Armenia)
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This band from Armenia was formed in 2001 as Iron Cross, playing death/trash metal. After some changes the name Blood Covenant was adopted and also going more to a  Symphonic Black Metal style. Blood Covenant has Christian themes in all its songs and claims to have done the first black metal release in Armenia.


Baptism in Death (Bahia)
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Baptism in Death comes from Feira de Santana, Bahia, where metal is really underground and this fact makes them unique among other few bands from there. Are clear the band's influences of raw Black Metal and elements of Folk Metal.

SEGØR (Armenia)
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SEGØR (Sergey Areskin) have been the vocalist and guitar player of the Armenian symphonic black metal band named BLOOD COVENANT since 2001 and he releases his solo songs under the name SEGØR.


Templo de Fogo (São Paulo)
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Templo de Fogo was formed in 1998 (Brazil), when ex member of the band Sagrada Cruz decided to start a new project. The band had an evolution as similar to bands like Helloween, first having influences of heavy metal and hard rock then changing to a melodic power metal, always singing in Portuguese (except for the album Judgment). Moisés Missão is the main member of the band, staying since 1998 as vocalist and guitar player of Templo de Fogo. The band recently released the album "O Vidente".


Icewind (Sweden)
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Icewind was a band from Sweden in the Symphonic Extreme Metal style. The band released some demo songs on their Myspace account around 2003.


Epic Church (São Paulo)
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Epic Church is meant to blend faith and reason, tradition and technology, reality and fiction, resulting in songs full of gothic, rock and electronic influences.



Tuesday 24 October 2017

Guerreiros Paulistas - The Best of (2017) + 7 Facts


The project "Guerreiros Paulistas" was initiated in 2006 with some demo songs and from that time on it has released songs about the Culture and History of São Paulo in styles mainly as Rock, Industrial and Neo-Folk and covering historical events from very past, the modern times and and about a possible future in an album of Alternate History. In 2017, "The Best Of" album is released in a possibly ending of the project activities. Below there is the playlist of the album which has songs in new versions or remastered:
1. SP 1932 (paris belfort) 
2. Hino do PRP 
3. I Love São Paulo City 
4. Homenagem à FEB 
5. O Passo do Soldado 
6. El Rey de São Paulo 
7. Guerra dos Emboabas 
8. The March of the Soldier 
9. São Paulo Tradicionalista 
10. Saudades de Iguape 
11. Moda de Viola Paulista 
12. 9 de Julho 

 Comprar músicas do projeto Guerreiros Paulistas no Bandcamp    


Guerreiros Paulistas
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Guerreiros Paulistas was formed in 2006 with the meaning of sharing and promoting the Paulista Culture and History with different styles from Rock to Electronic music. The first demo was released in 2006.

Guerreiros Paulistas' Discography

Avante (2008)
After the demo songs about 2006, "Avante" is the album that puts in practice the ideas had for Guerreiros Paulistas. The album's theme is the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 and all the songs are full of History and Culture.
 
   



We Fight Together (2010)
This is album is named "We Fight Together" because it's not focused only on São Paulo this time, but in Brazil during the World War II as Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) . The album cover has Estaiada Bridge which is in São Paulo City and has as well a flag similar to the one used during the Paulista Revolutin in 1932 but with a soldier, representing all the Paulistas who fought on the Second World War with their Lusophone brothers from other States of Brazil in Italy against the German Army.
   


São Paulo National State (2011) 
Neste CD nós criamos uma História Alternativa (que é um gênero da ficção científica) pra São Paulo e seu mundo ao redor. Em um futuro próximo, os países socialistas latino-americanos ganham força em detrimento da decadência moral européia e norte-americana, que cada vez mais rejeitaram e acabaram por aniquilar sua forma de pensar tradicional com políticas liberais de esquerda e imigrações desenfreadas. No Brasil o ambiente se torna perigoso quando, mais e mais, cresce a tensão entre liberais de esquerda e conservadores. Quando o governo centralizador de Brasília começa a, definitivamente e oficialmente, se aproximar dos líderes socialistas vizinhos, eclode uma reação forte dos conservadores e econômico-liberais (apoiados por alguns setores do Exército, Polícias locais e conservadores norte-americanos). Brasília se desestabiliza e iniciam-se momentos de caos até que finalmente se assina um novo tratado onde se formam os Estados Confederados do Brasil, dando liberdade para que cada Estado tome sua posição sobre incorporar as políticas socialistas ou seguir outros rumos. São Paulo (agora Estado Nacional de São Paulo) e mais alguns Estados da Confederação se mantém não-socialistas e inicia-se um estado de Guerra Fria que dura por volta de 10 anos quando, por fim, os socialistas começam o ataque para terminar de conquistar os Estados não-socialistas que restaram. 
For this album we created an Alternative History (which is a genre of sci-fi) for São Paulo and its surroundings. In a near future, the socialist Latin-American countries gain power over the moral decadence of Europe and the USA that more and more reject and ended up annihilating their traditional way of thinking with left-liberal politics and uncontrolled immigration. In Brazil the ambient get dangerous when the tension between left-liberals and conservatives grows increasingly. When the centralizing government of the capital Brasília gets definitively and officially closer to the socialist neighbour countries a reaction conflict starts strongly initiated by conservatives and liberal-economists (supported by some sectors of the Army, Local Polices and the North-American Conservatives). The capital Brasília destabilizes and moments of chaos start until a treaty is finally signed forming the Estados Confederados do Brasil (Confederated States of Brazil), setting all the States free to decide if they will be socialists or follow another path. São Paulo (now São Paulo National State) and some other States remain non-socialists and then a kind of Cold War start lasting about 10 year when suddenly the socialists start an attack to finish conquering the remaining non-socialist States of the Confederation.
   
          


 Identidade Paulista (2014)
This is the most experimental album we've done until the moment due to the daring (maybe dangerous) mixture of styles. Because of its title "Identidade Paulista" (Paulista Identity) we bring some elements of folk music and we work with facts that form such Identity. Versions of songs and historical audio are also included because they are our typical mark. The cover is an altered version of the "Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog" of the German Romanticist painter Caspar David Friedrich from the 19th Century.
   



Histórias de São Paulo (2016)
Histórias de São Paulo é um EP com algumas faixas bonus e outras idéias do projeto em uma forma de comemoração pelos 10 anos de Guerreiros Paulistas. Por ser uma mistura de faixas os estilos estão bem variados, contendo rock, neo folk, ambient e a sempre presente influência eletrônica. 
Histórias de São Paulo (Stories of São Paulo) is an EP with bonus tracks and another ideas in a form of commemoration for the 10 years of Guerreiros Paulistas. Because the album is a mix of tracks, the styles are too varied, containing rock, neo folk, ambient and as always an influence of electronic music. 
   



Guerreiros Paulistas (compilation 2017)
This is a compilation of the best songs made by the project, some in new versions and some others remastered.
     

7 FACTS ABOUT GUERREIROS PAULISTAS
7 FATOS SOBRE OS GUERREIROS PAULISTAS


Aqui mostraremos alguns fatos sobre esse projeto musical e cultural chamado Guerreiros Paulistas.
Here we highlight some facts about this music and cultural project named Guerreiros Paulistas.


1 - Guerreiros Paulistas é o primeiro projeto musical em todo país a ter um CD de História Alternativa. Confira aqui (Guerreiros Paulistas - São Paulo National State). 
1 - Guerreiros Paulistas is the first music project in the whole country to have an album of Alternative History. Check it here (Guerreiros Paulistas - São Paulo National State) 

2 - Guerreiros Paulistas foi o primeiro projeto a usar História e o tema Paulista em uma faixa no estilo Industrial. Confira aqui (Guerreiros Paulistas - 9 de Julho) 
2 - Guerreiros Paulistas is the first project to use History and the theme of São Paulo in an Industrial track. Check it here (Guerreiros Paulsitas - 9 de Julho)

3 - O audio da faixa "Desfile em Cruzeiro" é um audio real da banda da Polícia Militar Paulista desfilando no 9 de Julho de 2008. Ouça aqui
3 - The audio in the track "Desfile em Cruzeiro" is an actual audio of the Paulista Military Police at the parade of July 9th in 2008. Check it here

4 - Guerreiros Paulistas é o único projeto musical no país que é claramente Cristão e anti-marxista, isto é, conservador.
4 - Guerreiros Paulistas is the only music project in the country that is clearly both Christian and Anti-marxist, that is, conservative.

5 - Guerreiros Paulistas foi o primeiro projeto musical a fazer uma homenagem à ROTA. Ouça aqui
5 - Guerreiros Paulistas was the first music project to make a tribute to ROTA. Check it here

6 - Guerreiros Paulistas foi o primeiro projeto musical a fazer uma homenagem à FEB (Força Expedicionária Brasileira). Ouça
 aqui
6 - Guerreiros Paulistas was the first music project to make a tribute to FEB. Check it here

7- O projeto Guerreiros Paulistas foi trilha sonora de um jogo de computador chamado "São Paulo Contra o Crime - A Frente Única Paulista", uma versão Paulista para o jogo Streets of Rage, baixar aqui
7- The project Guerreiros Paulistas was part of the soundtrack of a computer game named "São Paulo Contra o Crime - A Frente Única Paulista", a Paulista version for the game Streets of Rage, download here.