Live Sounds...

Cristina (Lacuna Coil) + Paradise Lost

Para breve...

Lusitanian Sounds... Destroyers Of All

Ora aqui está uma descoberta interessante e que suscita o nosso orgulho lusitano na região centro do nosso país: Destroyers Of All. 

Fundindo o thrash e o death, "Into the fire" dá nome tanto ao EP de estreia como à faixa do vídeo que aqui vos deixo.

"Oriundos de Coimbra e nascidos em 2011, os Destroyers of All são o resultado da vontade comum de explorar uma sonoridade diferente daquelas que os seus elementos haviam feito até então. Compostos por João (Voz), Alex e Guilherme (Guitarras), Bruno (Baixo) e Filipe (Bateria)."

Retirado do  facebook da banda Destroyers Of All

E os primeiros concertos já estão marcados:

Fresh Sounds... Amon Amarth

Os Amon Amarth voltam com um novo álbum este mês. Mais do mesmo death metal melódico com temática viking a que já nos habituaram... mas quem é que resiste? \m/

Live Sounds

A sonhar com concertos enquanto o trabalho e os problemas me apertam... Há que pensar nas coisas boas da vida para sobreviver.

What my feelings sound like...

"Walking right into the sun

No fear of the ending

Find the new beginning

Over another lonely star"

Tarja Turunen

Into the Sun

What my feelings sound like...

"Come here

I've paid for you

I have sold my weakness too

Come here

I split my heart  in two

But you don't have it in you?

Do you?"

"Leaders"

Katatonia

What my feelings sound like...

This music was quite inspiring during a day of exhausting writing work (and I already woke up tired and with headache...).

"If love be revealed

In the spark of an eye

Could all be redeemed

In the sea of time"

"In Other Worlds"

Azam Ali

What my feelings sound like...

"I don't know where this fear comes from
This fear of failing, fear of letting everyone and myself down..."

"'Cause if I don't follow my heart this time

I'm gonna forget what this life is all about

I'm gonna take that path... I'm going in on my own

I'm gonna  take that fear and wear it like a crown"

"Wear it like a crown"

Rebekka Karijord

Sound Clip... Trees of Eternity

Trees of Eternity is the collaboration project between the Finnish guitarrist Juha Raivio (from Swallow the Sun - amazing doom metal band that you should check out if you don't know them yet!) and Aleah (she sings on the two latest Swallow the Sun albums... they are mandatory if you like doom metal!). They describe their music as "down-tempo, doom/death inspired melancholia with ghostly female vocals".  If you are getting curious about this band and you want to hear it, prepare yourself for depressive and deep loss lyrics, sad acoustic melody and an amazing and unique voice. It is like a sweet whisper that seems to exist only inside our conscience and not in our own reality telling us about our biggest fears, our greatest disappointments, our worst pains... and this experience is not painful at all. On the contrary, you will certainly find yourself mesmerized with this. You need to hear it to know what I mean. I get goosebumps when I hear their music...

"To know her is to see

That nothing is as it seems"

"Sinking Ships"

Trees of Eternity

What my feelings sound like...

Today I need to hear those lame self-esteem songs, i.e., those who tell you: "hey... you can do it!!". It's so damn hard to believe in myself. :S It's so damn hard to go on when you simply don't know what you are really up to... I've always been able to find a way out. This time it won't be different. I just need a few lame songs like this one from Edenbridge (see the video below) to gain a little of self-esteem. Does it work? No... but let's pretend it does. In the meanwhile, I'm talking about another band here. Maybe not a good one... Who cares? Who am I to say if it is a good band or not? Can you see how bad is my self-esteem today? This blog is all about me saying what I think about sounds and all the stuff related to it and today I am lacking in confidence. -_- Damn!!! Well... back to the band... I never really liked Edenbridge (so... why are you mentioning it?). It's not that I can't hear it... Oh no... Edenbridge is totally hearable (if saying it like this makes any sense). The thing is Edenbridge does not stand out (like most symphonic metal bands... or maybe I just don't like symphonic metal anymore and today I feel like writing about it and being  extremely confusing at the same time). However, I do feel like hearing "Higher" as it sounds like a good lame self-esteem song. And the video has that medieval scenery that I love... Guilty on that!

"Give a little try,  give a little more try

Never fall in line for a fleeting moment

Be and end all, I am aiming high

Climb a little higher"

"Higher"

Edenbridge

Sounds in my playlist... Ankhagram

I have been under a lot of stress lately and I've been needing something slow and heavy to keep me sane while working. Ankhagram has been a very good choice. Their last album "Thoughts" has been truly inspiring. Does atmospheric funeral doom death sound attractive for you? If so, try the song in the video. =)

Sounds on the radio... Café Europa

Today I'm starting a new tag: Sounds on the radio... I've been listening to a lot of online radios lately and I've noticed that some of them are very underrated. Although my webspace is underrated as well (cof cof cof cof :X), I've decided to share them and I'll be presenting the first one today which is Café Europa.

So sit, take a coffee (don't offer me one, because I hate coffee, but thanks anyway), go to this website and listen to all the program radios that you will find there... They worth your time (believe me!). They will surely keep you in the good company with neofolk, folk and martial sounds (and more similar genres). 

Café Europa plays every monday from 20h to 22h on a local radio in Portugal (R@dio Ás from Aveiro). Therefore, once a week, a different program will be upload on this website: 

http://www.cafeeuroparadioas.blogspot.pt/

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Live Sounds... Santa Maria Summer Fest

I have so many things to do... I should be off for any plan that does not include work during the present year... However, there are so many amazing festivals in Portugal that I would love to go... Maybe I should attend Santa Maria Summer Fest... I bet that no one in my laboratory will miss me during two sunny days of June. :P It will be amazing to see Process of Guilt and Gwydion live again!! \m/  And maybe I will make peace with Holocausto Canibal (or maybe not... who cares... usually every crowd loves them live, except me).

Sound Clip... Dordeduh

Extremely addicting folk metal sound from Dordeduh... Consider yourself warned!

"Dojana"

Dordeduh

Live Sounds...

I've seen Forgotten Tomb and Inverno Eterno live and I am looking forward to see them again (and also Isole and Ereb Altor are amazing bands that I would love to see for the first time...).

Sound discovery... Ne Obliviscaris

I met this band long ago with their demo "The Aurora Veil" (released in 2007), so it cannot be considered a discovery. However, it was definitely a rediscovery!! After hearing their 2012 album "Portal of I" today, I realized why I used to like progressive metal so much. :) Lately, this kind of music has not been catching my attention as it used to in the past. I'm glad I have stumbled upon this fantastic album (I wish it had happened sooner, but... better later than never). I definitely recommend it. Besides good quality progressive death metal with good growls and clean voices, this band also uses a violin that perfectly fits their sound.

What my feelings sound like...

Às vezes é melhor deixar que o "decorrer das coisas" nos leve ao que tiver de ser... Valerá a pena lutar contra o que não depende de nós? Houve tempos em que acreditei que sim... Neste momento, acho que podemos fazer planos, traçar metas, lutar para que as coisas aconteçam, mas no último momento concluímos que afinal tivemos sorte se o "decorrer das coisas" nos levar ao que queremos atingir. Portas que pareciam sempre abertas a fechar com cadeado e janelas a abrir para escapar como tiver de ser...

"Flutuo, consigo deslindar o meu gosto sem esforço

Balanço é o que a maré me dá e não contesto

O meu destino está fora de mim e eu aceito

Sou eu despida de medos e culpas, confesso

(...)

Só para não te ouvir dizer que as coisas vão mudar amanhã"

Susana Félix

"Flutuo"