Recorded live at the Paramount Theatre in Huntington, New York on February 15, 2013, Dark Roots of Thrash, a riff on the name of the thrash legends' 2011 tenth studio album Dark Roots of Earth, offers up 18 blistering live cuts spread over two discs, including longstanding Testament classics like “Burnt Offerings,” “Apocalyptic City,” “Disciples of the Watch,” and “Into the Pit,” and current fan favorites such as “DNR (Do Not Resuscitate),” “True American Hate,” and “Native Blood.”..
Joe Stump is certainly not an easy listening experience. In the expanding universe of guitar virtuosos he's the one that definitely stands out when it comes to composing music. The Dark Lord Rises is a prime example of it…
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are one of the earliest, most commercially successful, and enduring synth pop groups. Inspired most by the advancements of Kraftwerk and striving at one point "to be ABBA and Stockhausen," they've continually drawn from early electronic music as they've alternately disregarded, mutated, or embraced the conventions of the three-minute pop song. Outside their native England, OMD are known primarily for "Maid of Orleans" and the Pretty in Pink soundtrack smash "If You Leave," yet they scored 18 additional charting U.K. singles in the '80s alone. These hits supported inventive albums such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980), Architecture & Morality (1981), and commercial suicide-turned-cult classic Dazzle Ships (1983)…
Dark Horizon were born in the September 1996, as a power metal cover band. After several local live-exhibitions, in 1997 the band decided to write their own songs and began to create riffs and lyrics for a fantasy concept-album which contained eight songs. Four of these were recorded in May 1998 into the demo-tape “Legend in opera”, that received good reviews and approval from the specialized press…