Blind+guardian

Great German 80s Heavy Metal for the first time mastered from the real sources with Bonustracks. Limited Edition to 666 copies. A typical great Karthago Classic! Finally, this masterpiece of classic mid-80's German heavy metal has received the reissue treatment it deserved. Crack Jaw - Nightout is a truly unique album blending the best elements of Euro-metal with very high-end production melodic AOR stylizations. Recorded in 1984 and released in early 1985 on Steamhammer-SPV, from the first track it's apparent that Crack Jaw were a hugely talented band with a very unique and quite cutting-edge sound…

A new band - 6 members, 6 friends - all with huge experience and knowledge from many years in the business and being part of the most successful melodic metal bands: this is SERIOUS BLACK! The line-up consists of Roland Grapow (Masterplan, ex-Helloween), Thomen Stauch (ex-Blind Guardian), Mario Lochert (ex-Visions Of Atlantis), Dominik Sebastian (Edenbridge), Jan Vacik (ex-Dreamscape) and (last but not least) the golden voice of Urban Breed (ex-Tad Morose). SERIOUS BLACK is different to many of the so-called 'all star' bands, because in fact, they are a real band.

Holy Dio: A Tribute to Ronnie James Dio is much better executed than most heavy metal tribute albums, even involving Dio himself, who pens an introduction for the liner notes. Most of the bands are culled from the portion of Century Media's stable that's influenced chiefly by British metal, often with a progressive or Gothic touch, which makes them a perfect fit for the tribute's subject. That doesn't mean all of them deliver - there are still a few performances that are too mannered or enslaved to the originals - but, overall, it's pretty effective for a tribute album. Bands present include Fates Warning, Yngwie Malmsteen, Hammerfall, Axel Rudi Pell, Gamma Ray, and Blind Guardian, among others.