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(62:42; Wintergothic Records) Track list: 1. We Believe in Rock 4:32 2. Coming Home 3:27 3. Heartbreak Road 3:11 4. The Flyer 3:20 5. Child of Everdream 4:08 6. Blood Red Vengeance 4:45 7. Princess of the Night 3:22 8. Beneath the Blue 3:58 9. We Wear Black 3:50 10. Angel 4:08 11. Bleeding Heart 3:42 12. On the Run 3:30 13. I Stand Alone 4:34 14. Gasoline 4:19 15. A Love Worth Dying For 3:53 16. Take It Slow 4:04 Line-up: Markus Winter - vocals, bass, guitars, violin, keyboards, synthesizer with: Hugo Ribeiro - drums Carsten Enghardt - drums Michael Donner - keybaords, synthesizer Jasmin Stillger - backing vocals Bianca Stillger - backing vocals Danny Winter - backing vocals Tom Jott - backing vocals Dirk Hardegen - backing vocals Peter Mücke Niels Schön Olaf Wollschläger Rüdiger Lotter Martin Kühn Jan Peter Ploenes German artist Winter has a career as a musician that goes back to sometime in the 1990's from what I can gather, although information about his past endeavours appears

(19:56; Mondo Podre) Track list: 1. Market Panopticon 0:33 2. Esperando demasiado tiempo para acabar igualmente en el infierno 1:14 3. O cadáver negro do sol 1:38 4. Devorados polo kippel 0:56 5. El arte de lo inútil 0:47 6. La Guardia de la Muerte 2:01 7. Baixo a nube de Hiroshima 1:50 8. Dona tus riñones al banco 1:17 9. Je suis la merde 0:27 10. Circo geriátrico 2:46 11. Escravo da mediocridade 1:00 12. Mileurista grindset 0:43 13. Estado de excepcion no declarado 1:20 14. Oio voces que queren queimarme 3:24 Line-up: Espasa - bass Damian - drums Newcorpse - vocals Gon - guitars Miguel - guitars Spanish band Mondo Podre have been around for a handful of years or thereabouts from what I can see, with various promos, EPs and split releases to their name in earlier years. In the spring of 2022 they released their debut album "Necronomia de Subexistencia" which was self released by the band as a digital album, with CD versions and vinyl editions released through a few different

(33:28; Sarmat) Track list: 1. Coldgrinder 3:19 2. Evilution 5:43 3. The Shining of Oneiros 4:11 4. RS-28 3:52 5. Seeds of Uncertainty 3:32 6. You Don't Live in My War 5:39 7. Blackout (Scenario for Tomorrow) part I 3:33 8. Blackout (Scenario for Tomorrow) part II 3:42 Line-up: Daniel Szymanowicz - guitars, keyboards, bass Krzysztof Kopczenski - guitars Lukasz Kobusinski - vocals Krzysztof Klingbein - drums Polish band Sarmat was formed back in 2018, with their line-up solidifying a few years later according to the information present on the metal archives website at least. "RS-28" is the name of their debut album, which was self released in the spring of 2021. Extreme metal is the style explored by this band, and they have chosen to go for a fairly expressive variety of the form. They have one feature that is persistent throughout this album that for some will be a hit or a miss factor, in that the drum patterns tend to be busy and of the machine gun variety, while the r

(36:36; Apollon Records) Track list: 1. Daylight 4:32 2. Maybe It Was Just a Dream 3:41 3. Dancing to the Beat of My Heart 4:09 4. Fall into You 1:00 5. My Mind Is Like a Radio 6:35 6. The Echoes of the Day 3:34 7. Things That We Did 4:01 8. A Certain Sound 5:41 9. Stay Awake 3:23 Line-up: Frank Hammersland - vocals, bass Viggo Krüger - guitars Nicolai Hamre - drums with: Christer Knutsen - piano Yngve L. Sætre - keyboards, synthesizers Vegard Lemme - percussion, keyboards Håvard Funderud - horns Are Ovesen - horns Aksel Øvreås Røed - horns Norwegian band Pogo Pops started out back in 1987, and were an active and popular band until they went on a hiatus in the middle of the 1990's They returned in 2006 however, and have released four studio albums since getting back together again. "Daylight" is the most recent of these productions, and was released through Norwegian label Apollon Records in the late spring of 2022. Indie rock is the name of the game for this production,