Compact Discs: Release Date: Mar 24, 2008
Label: Kemado
Genres: Heavy Metal, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal
Number Of Tracks: 10
The riffs are huge, the rhythms are sneaky and brutal, and the “guitarmonies” are effortless, due with little doubt to the band’s epic touring schedule.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: May 12, 1992
Label: Def American
Genres: Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, Southern Rock, American Trad Rock
Number Of Tracks: 10
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is the best expression of the Crowes’ ability to take a classic, tried-and-true sound and make it their own.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Apr 15, 2008
Label: Sony BMG
Genres: Cello Metal
Number Of Tracks: 11
Despite a few issues with guest musicians, Apocalyptica continue to awe listeners with its blend of classical-metal on Worlds Collide.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Apr 29, 2008
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genres: Metal, Thrash
Number Of Tracks: 11
Metallica might have turn their backs on the sound that originally brought them notoriety years ago but fellow Bay Area bashers, Testament have returned with a new set of blazing thrash metal!

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Bass Effects: Turn up the heat with the Bass Blowtorch, a revolutionary new concept in bass overdrive from MXR Bass Innovations. Fire it up for the hottest bass sounds this side of Hades, anything from the traditional tube-like growl to scorching high gain distortion. By focusing the overdrive in the midrange frequencies, the Bass Blowtorch lets you retain low end thunder and high-end sizzle while distorted mids blaze a path through even the densest mix.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Feb 18, 2008
Label: In At The Deep End
Genres: Metal
Number Of Tracks: 7
The quintet manage to bring an epic, technical and melodic feel to the old school Thrash sound, combining incredible guitar solos and bloodlust vocals.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Sep 17, 2007
Label: Ninja Tune
Genres: Neo-Soul, Dance-Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Number Of Tracks: 10
Great Vengeance and Furious Fire is too uneven to be great, but its handful of fantastic singles makes for an extremely promising debut.

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Guitar Amplifiers: The HCM30R features a single channel with footswichable gain, three band EQ, Max button, CD line input, footswitch socket, external speaker socket and Headphone socket.

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Guitar Effects: This unique stereo chorus delivers a clean chorus sound with crystal-clear highs and a unique stereo effect, variable between the left and right speakers. An EQ function adjusts the tonality of the chorus sound.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Apr 29, 2008
Label: Universal
Genres: Rock
Number Of Tracks: 10
It’s not an album that you can pick out a favorite track and discard the rest; it’s definitely an album that is meant to be consumed in its entirety.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Nov 28, 2007
Genres: Rock
Number Of Tracks: 8
Their sound is dynamic and experimental, drawing influence from many genres to create a style all our own. With moody angst ridden lead vocals & dynamic backing vocals the sound is edgy, dramatic, & melodic.

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Guitar Effects: The Budda wah is hands down the one of the finest wah pedals ever made. Fully depressed, the highs have been rolled off to a frequency that isn’t piercing like many wahs. The overall tone sweep concentrates on a tight and focused range with outstanding vocal like quality.

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Compact Discs: Release Date: Apr 8, 2008
Label: SPV/Steamhammer
Genres: Symphonic Metal
Number Of Tracks: 25
Kamelot’s flawless stage show is the main feature on the 2-disk re-release of Ghost Opera.

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Bass Amplifiers: The Bassman 250/210 is an elegant bass amp designed to deliver 250 watts of full power through a compression driver horn and two great-sounding 10” Fender Special Design Eminence USA PRO speakers.

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Electric Guitars: Things are nice and simple here: master tone and volume, a 3-way lever switch and through-body stringing. The latter is one of the oldest methods of retaining string stability, check out that Fender Tele some time, but here it allows the strings themselves to have a tighter tension as there’s more actual wire present.

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