*Year: 2006
*Genre: Melodic Progressive/Power Metal
*Country: Slovakia
*Format: mp3@VBR221
*Size: 100 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. The Wanting Seed (6:40)
2. Sanity Embrace (7:19)
3. This Integration (4:59)
4. Wish You Could Save Me (Unfinished Dreams part I) (9:03)
5. Castaway (6:49)
6. A Different Place (5:11)
7. Good-Bye to All That (5:23)
8. Letters in the Sand (Unfinished Dreams part II) (6:21)
9. Dividing Lines (epilogue) (4:45)
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Total playing time: 57:00

Sadly, but on metalarea we could found hundreds of Melodic Death Metal bands (and most part is second hand boring shit), but only few Progressive Metal bands (not even shitty ones). At least I have some bands to post.

Castaway plays nice melodic Progressive Metal. The closest similar bands could be Poverty’s no Crime, The Black Symphony, Threshold, Angel Dust.

9/10

Review: http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php...&sid=6&id=11960

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Melodic Metal
*Country: Czech Republic
*Format: mp3@VBR201
*Size: 76 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Killing My Soul (3:49)
2. Pay (3:09)
3. A Little Story (4:22)
4. Emotion (3:31)
5. Never Awake (4:19)
6. Blind Flicker (3:42)
7. Tell Me (2:52)
8. Ad (4:14)
9. Behind Time (3:51)
10. Time (3:56)
11. Where's Tomorrow (3:19)
12. Whole Lies (3:48)
13. Fairy-Tale (4:53)
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Total playing time: 50:00

Nice, catchy Melodic Metal with female vocals and a bunch of popsy hit songs. Musicians themselves called their style AOR/Gothic Metal. To my mind female vocals alone don’t make music “Gothic”. Highly recommended for female vocal fans and fans of Doro, Pretty Maids, Almora.

FROM OFFICIAL SITWE:
“The idea about mixing female vocals, acoustic guitars, hard trashing riffs (what a hell they mean by “trashing riffs” ? BofD), flutes, pianos, cellos and others with sequencer and samples has been in Jarda's head for long time, driving him almost crazy, before he finally met Olga in summer of 2003.”

9/10

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Gothic Rock-Metal
*Country: USA
*Format: mp3@VBR241
*Size: 40 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Overcome (4:28)
2. Nothing Anything (3:01)
3. Power Hungry (3:23)
4. Left Behind (2:30)
5. Reasons (4:26)
6. No Surrender (4:12)
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Total playing time: 22:00

Beautiful Gothic Pop Metal (a la lighter version of Lacuna Coil), with charming female vocals, some male vocals and violins.

For self-produced album sound is simply great!

9/10

http://www.orphonicorchestra.com/

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Gothic Rock / Epic Doom
*Country: USA
*Format: mp3@VBR210
*Size: 92 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Holy Ghost (6:03)
2. Pentecost (4:26)
3. Lucifer (2:46)
4. Prey for Me (5:50)
5. One Way, One Trith, One Life (5:01)
6. Church of State (5:28)
7. Eye of the Needle (3:32)
8. Wolf in the Fold (4:21)
9. Who Mourns for Philadelphia (3:44)
10. King of the Earth (6:16)
11. Antichrist Superczar (10:43)
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Total playing time: 58:00

Stylistically quite interesting album – dark mix of Gothic Rock and Epic Doom, with deep clear vocals. Could be compared with more Gothic Rock oriented Root / Tristitia. Only downside – some great tracks are mixed with some good and mediocre ones.

8.5/10

*Year: 1997
*Genre: Folk Power Metal
*Country: Spain
*Format: mp3@VBR216
*Size: 131 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. En un lugar... (1:44)
2. El Santo Grial (5:10)
3. La Leyenda de la Mancha (4:19)
4. Noche toledana (1:12)
5. Molinos de viento (4:11)
6. Dime con quien andas (5:33)
7. Maritornes (4:20)
8. El balsamo de Fierabras (3:40)
9. El pacto (5:43)
10. La Insula de Barataria (2:58)
11. El Templo del Adios (4:49)
12. Requiem (8:10)
13. Ancha es Castilla (3:43)
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14. El Santo Grial (bonus audio cd live) (5:46)
15. La Leyenda de la Mancha (bonus audio cd live) (4:39)
16. Molinos de viento (bonus audio cd live) (6:19)
17. Maritornes (bonus audio cd live) (4:16)
18. La Insula de Barataria (bonus audio cd live) (3:33)
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Total playing time: 80:00

The best Mago album, remastered in 2006, with bonus live CD.

9.5/10

For me there isn't any difference between old and new files, so the tactics should be the same.

If someone wonder, why people with non-Russian IP's don't like ifolder, try to download old file We should do the same with all files on ifolder

I discovered in last week, that file download speed is random - I mean when I download some 6 files 2-3 have normal speed (in Kbps) others have speed in Bps, so I try to download them once more (I refresh original link, click once more on advertisement and wait until the new download link is generated, then try to download again). Sometimes it works in first try, sometimes in second.

And use download manager, it improves speed very significant. Best choice is Russian Download Master, but as it couldn’t find my proxy after changes made at my work, I use Free Download Manager now - and it’s quite good too.

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Heavy/Power Metal
*Country: Germany
*Format: mp3@VBR255
*Size: 233 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Metal is Forever [2004] (4:47)
2. Chainbreaker [1998] (4:17)
3. Seven Seals [2005] (3:54)
4. Nuclear Fire [2001] (4:22)
5. Final Embrace [1999] (5:07)
6. The Healer [2004] (6:39)
7. Rollercoaster [2005] (4:28)
8. Armageddon [2002] (4:04)
9. Angel in Black [2001] (3:57)
10. Under Your Spell [1999] (5:34)
11. Evil Spell [2005] (4:31)
12. Running in the Dust [1998] (4:39)
13. Suicide and Mania [2004] (4:03)
14. Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove [2001] (5:17)
15. Fear [2002] (4:19)
16. Tears of Rage [1998] (6:47)
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17. Out in the Fields [Gary Moore cover] (3:57)
18. Kill the King [Rainbow cover] (4:33)
19. Speedking [Deep Purple cover] (4:02)
20. Die Young [Black Sabbath cover] (4:05)
21. Metal Gods [Judas Priest cover] (3:38)
22. Breaker [Accept cover] (3:30)
23. Seek & Destroy [Metallica cover] (7:11)
24. Two Minutes to Midnight [Iron Maiden cover] (6:01)
25. The Rover [Led Zeppelin cover] (4:44)
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Total playing time: 119:00

[more=Info]Some months ago there was lame web rip of this album in some places (including metalarea.org), where songs were simply collected from different albums, in 4 different bitrates (including 128kbps) and in 3 codec’s. Even I could do this shit better, because I have all PF albums in VBR, harder part could be covers, but I guess I have them all somewhere.

Whatever, great compilation, 2-3 tracks from all (6) albums of their 8 year career. As always, some great tracks are missing, but as compensation, all tracks are remastered, and as nice bonus – 2nd CD have all PF covers from Horrorscope EP and tributes

9.5/10[/more]

*Year: 1998
*Genre: Heavy Metal
*Country: England
*Format: mp3@VBR215
*Size: 174 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. War Pigs (8:27)
2. Behind the Wall of Sleep (4:06)
3. N.I.B. (6:44)
4. Fairies Wear Boots (6:19)
5. Electric Funeral (5:01)
6. Sweet Leaf (5:07)
7. Spiral Architect (5:40)
8. Into the Void (6:31)
9. Snowblind (6:07)
10. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (4:36)
11. Orchid / Lord of this World (7:06)
12. Dirty Women (6:29)
13. Black Sabbath (7:29)
14. Iron Man (8:20)
15. Children of the Grave (6:30)
16. Paranoid (4:29)
17. Psycho Man (new studio recording) (5:19)
18. Selling My Soul (new studio recording) (3:09)
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Total playing time: 108:00

[more=Info]My favourite live album of BS is “Live Evil” with Dio, but this one is quite good. Bad that DVD that was made next year was fucked up and therefore this great band don’t have a good quality live concert on DVD

The track Iron Man from this album was given a Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance" on February 23, 2000. Selling My Soul uses a drum machine.

Tony Iommi – Guitars
Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals
Geezer Butler – Bass
Bill Ward – Drums
Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards

CD1 9.5/10 & CD2 8.5/10 [/more]

Same shit with Ifolder for a month - speed is counted in B/s. For big suprise yestarday I downloaded one file with 1.8 MB/s speed, 2 files with ~35KB/s, but rest ~50B/s and with pauses.

People with non-Russian IP should do that way:

1.Close advertisment


2.Go to next page to choose advertisment


3.Click on ANY advertisement:


4.You will get page like that, where clock is counting down seconds, showing when you could get the link


5.If you are blocking pop-ups, you should press there:


6.Now you should enter number, to get download link. Uf!

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Suomi Metal
*Country: Finland
*Format: mp3@VBR233
*Size: 15 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Punainen Viiva (4:58)
2. Pohjoisen Taivaan Alla (3:13)
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Total playing time: 08:10

In 2006 Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus split and Timo Rautiainen, together with Nils Ursin and some Finnish metal superstars, formed new band – musically the same as previous one – this unique Soumi Metal sound (mix of Heavy Metal / Gothic Metal / Modern Metal / Melodic Metal).

This single is quite similar in sound to Viikate – melancholic Heavy / Gothic Metal.

Timo Rautiainen - Vocals, Guitar (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, ex-Lyijykomppania)
Peter Engberg - Guitar
Alexander Kuoppala - Guitar (ex-Children of Bodom)
Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards (Nightwish, For My Pain..., Furthest Shore, ex-Nattvindens Gråt, ex-Darkwoods My Betrothed)
Nils Ursin - Bass (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, ex-Paraxism, ex-Sethian, Where Victims Lie)
Jussi Lampi - Drums (Wanna-Bees, Bodyguard, Pink Flamingos)

Jussi Lampi is a famous finnish actor.

8.5/10

P.S. If someone have Sarvivuori (2006) or Sinulle (CDS, 2006), post them please.

http://www.timorautiainen.com/

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Suomi Metal
*Country: Finland
*Format: mp3@VBR235
*Size: 29 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Uskonnonpastori (4:24)
2. Intro (Ankkarock 2006) (1:43)
3. Meille Niin Rakas (Ankkarock 2006) (5:11)
4. Tulkaa Kotiin (Ankkarock 2006) (4:46)
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Total playing time: 16:00

In 2006 Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus split and Timo Rautiainen, together with Nils Ursin and some Finnish metal superstars, formed new band – musically the same as previous one – this unique Soumi Metal sound (mix of Heavy Metal / Gothic Metal / Modern Metal / Melodic Metal).

Title track is real killer. Live tracks are simply beautiful.

Timo Rautiainen - Vocals, Guitar (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, ex-Lyijykomppania)
Peter Engberg - Guitar
Alexander Kuoppala - Guitar (ex-Children of Bodom)
Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards (Nightwish, For My Pain..., Furthest Shore, ex-Nattvindens Gråt, ex-Darkwoods My Betrothed)
Nils Ursin - Bass (Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, ex-Paraxism, ex-Sethian, Where Victims Lie)
Jussi Lampi - Drums (Wanna-Bees, Bodyguard, Pink Flamingos)

Jussi Lampi is a famous finnish actor.

9.5/10

P.S. If someone have Sarvivuori (2006) or Sinulle (CDS, 2006), post them please.

http://www.timorautiainen.com/

*Year: 2006
*Genre: Kinder garden Metal (Heavy Metal / Melodic Death Metal)
*Country: Finland
*Format: mp3@VBR238
*Size: 12 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Appelsiinijaffaa (3:01)
2. Nainen (3:27)

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Total playing time: 06:30

First thing that turned my attention to this band – all band members were 10 years old … As good surprise they could play well and manage to compose some solid songs. Style is mix of Heavy Metal and Melodic Death Metal, with some Punk Rock touch on the first song.

Check up review (http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=132723) – there are some interesting thoughts about Finland’s metal scene.

8.5/10

http://www.mom.fi/

This is closer to Folk Rock

*Year: 1990
*Genre: Technical Thrash/Speed Metal
*Country: Sweden
*Format: mp3@CBR 192 кбит/с
*Size: 54 Мб

Tracklist:
1. Prelude (1:08)
2. Toxic Threat (4:10)
3. Prime Evil (4:23)
4. Home Sweet Home, Ward Sweet Ward (3:47)
5. The House of Lies (5:09)
6. A Temple for the Soul (1:38)
7. The Eternal Nightmare (4:25)
8. At the Edge of Eternity (13:17)

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Total playing time: 38:00
Very good and original band. Their music technical but also melodic and quite accessible.

9/10

The best Metallica tribute I heard (Metal Militia, Metallic Assault, A Tribute to the Four Horsemen). First I was quite sceptic about mostly unknown Russian bands, but almost every cover is interesting. Not a single is played exactly like on original (or worse) like on most of other covers.

There is working download links:

http://doci.nnm.ru/black/14.02.2006/flametal_the_elder_2005/

*Year: 2002
*Genre: Dark Folk
*Country: Germany
*Format: mp3@VBR
*Size: 12 Мб.

Tracklist:
1. Kein Hirtenfeuer glimmt mehr (2:31)
2. Das blau-kristallne Kammerlein (1:31)
3. Einsam, verlorn, den lieben Entrissem (3:54)
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Total playing time: 08:00

Great stuff! This is not pure Thrash as on previus CDs, but some sort of Power/Thrash.
9/10