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Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (Special Edition 2008)

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Summary:

Artist: Slipknot
Album: All Hope Is Gone
Release Date: Aug 26, 2008
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Nü Metal
Size: 117 MB

Track List:

01.Execute 01:49
02.Gematria (the Killing Name) 06:02
03.Sulfer 04:38
04.Psychosocial 04:44
05.Dead Memories 04:29
06.Vendetta 05:16
07.Butcher’s Hook 04:15
08.Gehenna 06:53
09.This Cold Black 04:40
10.Wherein Lies Continue 05:37
11.Snuff 04:36
12.All Hope is Gone 04:48
13.Child of Burning Time 05:10
14.Vermillion Pt.2 (Bloodstone Mix) 03:40
15.’til We Die 05:46

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091251/3cf3cbe/099_Slipknot_-_All_Hope_Is_Gone_Special_Edition_2008.rar.html

Review:

There comes a time in every band's life where they take off the masks and grow up -- then again, maybe not, as Slipknot have managed to dig deeper without ever shedding their grotesque veils. They're still wearing disguises but they have shed producer Rick Rubin, the metal legend who produced 2004's Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses, giving the nonet just the slightest hint of broader horizons beyond their relentless aggression -- not enough for the band to crossover, but perhaps enough to earn grudging respect from listeners outside of metalheads. Of course, such respect is hardly granted to bands that wear monster maggot masks, so Slipknot's retreat to ugliness on their fourth album -- a move telegraphed heavily by the cheery title All Hope Is Gone -- isn't entirely surprising, nor is it unwelcome as this isn't a regression, it's more or less a consolidation of strengths. Certainly, the album gets off to a throttling start with "Gematria," a cluster of cacophony and for the longest time on All Hope it seems as if Slipknot will never let up on this pressure, as this is an onslaught of densely dark intricate riffs. So effective is this onslaught that when things do get a little softer a little later on, the album threatens to collapse like a soufflé, but that's only because the slower moments emphasize the group's odd tendency to sound like anonymous active rock when they untwist their rhythms and lay off on the double bass drums. Nowhere is this latent tendency for macho schmaltz more evident than on "Snuff," a stab at a power ballad that sounds disarmingly close to Nickelback, a bewildering incongruity that feels even stranger given the album's otherwise merciless attack. One more power ballad like this would be enough to derail the album, turning it into the crossover Vol. 3 never was despite Rubin's flourishes, but All Hope Is Gone as a whole winds up being as bleak and unforgiving as its title.

Frank Sinatra - Nothing But The Best (2008)

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Summary:

Artist: Frank Sinatra
Album: Nothing But The Best
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Genre: Vocal
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Standards, Popular Music Entry
Size: 97 MB

Track List:

01. Come Fly With Me
02. The Best Is Yet To Come
03. The Way You Look Tonight
04. Luck Be A Lady
05. Bewitched
06. The Good Life
07. The Girl From Ipanema
08. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
09. Summer Wind
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Call Me Irresponsible
12. Somethin’ Stupid
13. My Kind of Town
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. That’s Life
16. Moonlight Serenade
17. Nothing But The Best
18. Drinking Again
19. All My Tomorrows
20. My Way
21. Theme From New York, New York
22. Body And Soul – bonus track w/new arrangement

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091249/9c8ffc9/098_Frank_Sinatra_Nothing_But_The_Best_2008.zip.html

Review:

Released to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death, Nothing But the Best is indeed one of the best single-disc compilations ever released on Sinatra. This isn't a career overview, however, since it begins with his inaugural Reprise recordings circa 1960 and surveys the rest of the '60s (including only two tracks not from the '60s). This was the age of Sinatra as the hard-swinging Chairman of the Board, illustrated perfectly by "Luck Be a Lady" and "My Kind of Town." But it was also the age of wistful, middle-aged material like "Summer Wind," "Strangers in the Night," and, of course, "It Was a Very Good Year." And it was also the age when Sinatra had the freedom to record with everyone he wanted to record with, whether it was Count Basie or Antonio Carlos Jobim or his daughter Nancy (the latter on the 1967 chart-topper "Somethin' Stupid"). All of those periods are represented on Nothing But the Best, which takes its place above the best previous Reprise collection, Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years, even though it somehow omits one of his classics, "Love and Marriage." For this compilation, Reprise also commissioned new 2008 remasters of each track, which sound better than any previous, and added a new bonus track: a version of "Body and Soul" with a vocal recorded in 1984 laid over a 2007 arrangement by Torrie Zito and Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer (2009)

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Summary:

Artist: Five Finger Death Punch
Album: War Is The Answer
Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Heavy Metal
Size: 42 MB

Track List:

01 - Dying Breed
02 - Hard To See
03 - Bulletproof
04 - No One Gets Left Behind
05 - Crossing Over
06 - Burn It Down
07 - Far From Home
08 - Falling In Hate
09 - My Own Hell
10 - Walk Away
11 - Canto 34
12 - Bad Company
13 - War Is The Answer

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091248/5736f9f/097_Five_Finger_Death_Punch_-_War_Is_The_Answer_2009.rar.html

Review:

Five Finger Death Punch stormed rock radio in 2007 with "The Bleeding" (from debut album The Way of the Fist), a powerful, emotionally tense track that matched vintage Metallica-style thrash with a throat-shredding chorus more typical of late-aughts metalcore. The Los Angeles-based band's sophomore disc, War Is the Answer, mines much of the same territory as that breakout song, keeping the flame of the classic '80s Four Horsemen sound alive with snap-tight chugga-chugga guitar rhythms, minor-key, classical music-inspired clean/acoustic passages, and vocals dripping with a James Hetfield-approved combination of sensitive angst and macho defiance. First single "Hard to See" backs a catchy, harmony vocal-laden melody with a syncopated groove so rhythmically engaging it could almost be called funky, while the closing track, "War Is the Answer," takes a headbanging riff seemingly straight out of the Anthrax songbook and uses it to drive home one of several ultra-aggressive sentiments ("To me you're just a cancer/War is the answer"). Elsewhere, Five Finger Death Punch delve into somewhat more diverse sonic territory; "Bulletproof" pairs a throbbing industrial feel reminiscent of late-period Ministry with Yngwie Malmsteen-esque melodic shred guitar solos and a vocal hook that recalls the '80s pop-prog of Asia and GTR, while "Far from Home" is a straight-up power ballad, complete with dramatic strings and a soaring chorus that could sit on a compilation album right alongside any big lighter-waver, from Staind's "It's Been Awhile" to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."

Leona Lewis - Echo (2009)

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Summary:

Artist: Leona Lewis
Album: Echo
Release Date: Nov 17, 2009
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Pop, Pop Idol, Contemporary R&B
Size: 79 MB

Track List:

01. Happy 4:02
02. I Got You 3:47
03. Can't Breathe 4:15
04. Brave 3:38
05. Outta My Head 3:40
06. My Hands 4:13
07. Love Letter 4:02
08. Broken 4:04
09. Naked 3:50
10. Stop Crying Your Heart Out 4:10
11. Don't Let Me Down 4:36
12. Alive 3:29
13. Lost Then Found (Featuring OneRepublic) 11:09

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091247/04262f1/096_Leona_Lewis_-_Echo_(2009).zip.html


Review:

The goal of Leona Lewis' 2007 debut, Spirit, was to prove that an X Factor winner could be a phenomenon not just in the U.K., but in the rest of the world. The goal of her second album, 2009's Echo, is to prove that success was no fluke, to build upon "Bleeding Love" and turn Lewis into an actual diva. Certainly, Echo in any of its incarnations -- its song listings are tailored for individual markets, with the U.K. getting a cover of Oasis' "Stop Crying Your Heart Out," while the U.S. gets a second song co-written by Justin Timberlake -- uses the chilly, synthesized "Bleeding Love" as its foundation, creating a sheet of sound equal parts Euro-pop and modern American R&B. As opposed to the often-stuffy Spirit, this is proudly modern, and if the sounds emanating from the two sides of the Atlantic might seem to be aesthetically opposed, they're both producer-driven music constructed layer by layer from rhythm to the vocal, where the overall sound matters more than what's being sung. Which isn't to say that Lewis doesn't sing the hell out of the songs on Echo: she has an uncanny gift for hitting impossible notes without seeming as if she's grandstanding. In fact, there's nary an ounce of diva in Lewis, she seems to enjoy singing for the sake of it, which helps her out on an album like Echo, where the melodies are elliptical, not catchy, designed to showcase range, not to stick in the head or evoke emotion. Similarly, the productions are designed to hop into as many different formats as possible -- rhythmic enough for clubs, glassy enough for radio -- and they get by on feel, not feelings, with whatever heart in the music coming from Lewis, who is glad to sing, refusing to become the diva her legions of handlers so clearly want her to be.

Three Days Grace - Life Start Now (2009)

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Summary:

Artist: Three Days Grace
Album: Life Start Now
Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal
Size: 100 MB

Track List:

01. "Bitter Taste" - 4:00
02. "Break" - 3:13
03. "World So Cold" - 4:03
04. "Lost in You" - 3:52
05. "The Good Life" - 2:53
06. "No More" - 3:45
07. "Last to Know" - 3:27
08. "Someone Who Cares" - 4:52
09. "Bully" - 3:38
10. "Without You" - 3:33
11. "Goin' Down" - 3:05
12. "Life Starts Now" - 3:08

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091246/ff8dc10/095_Three_Days_Grace_-_Life_Start_Now(2009).rar.html

Review:

The third studio album from Canadian arena rockers Three Days Grace treads familiar ground, presenting 12 slabs of the kind of reliable, accessible and serviceable hard rock that will always have an audience. 2006's One-X dealt heavily with vocalist Adam Gontier's personal demons, a theme that continues on Life Starts Now, albeit with a hint of sunlight. With a sound that lands somewhere in between Breaking Benjamin, Collective Soul, and Godsmack, (Gontier sounds like a less volatile Trent Reznor) Life Starts Now treats the well-worn metal themes of anger, isolation, heartache, and redemption with the kind of begrudging respect they deserve, pumping out a competent flurry of fist-bump anthems ("Break," "Bully") and world-weary, midtempo rockers ("World So Cold," "Last to Know" that are so painfully earnest that one can almost hear director Michael Bay pitching them to the studio for inclusion on the soundtracks for his next ten Transformers sequels.

B.G. - Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood (2009)

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Summary:

Artist: B.G
Album: Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood
Release Date: Dec 8, 2009
Genre: Rap
Styles: Dirty South, Southern Rap
Size: 83 MB

Track List:

01 - Fuck The Game Up (Produced By Mista Raja & Sef Millz)
02 - I Swar (Feat. Gar) (Produced By Sir Stephen Breaux)
03 - Nigga Owe Me Some Money (Feat. Soulja Slim, Lil Boosie & C-Murder) (Produced By KLC)
04 - Fuckin U Right (Produced By Bass Heavy)
05 - My Hood (Feat. Gar & Mannie Fresh) (Produced By Mannie Fresh)
06 - Hit The Block & Roll (Produced By KLC)
07 - Like Yeah (Produced By Savage)
08 - Fuck Thang (Feat. Matravious Cooks) (Produced By Savage)
09 - Back To The Money (Feat. Magnolia Chop) (Produced By Oddz.N.endz)
10 - Ya Heard Me (Feat. Lil Wayne, Juvenile & Trey Songz) (Produced By Cool & Dre)
11 - Chopper City Is An Army (Produced By Cool & Dre)
12 - My Wrist Game Is Sick! (Produced By Savage)
13 - Gutta Gutta (Feat. Gar) (Produced By Dupree & Joe Lindsay)
14 - Keep It 100 (Feat. Magnolia Chop) (Produced By Oddz.N.endz)
15 - Under Surveillance (Produced By Bass Heavy)
16 - 4 A Minute (Feat. T.I.) (Produced By Scott Storch)
17 - I Hustle (Feat. Young Jeezy) (Produced By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091245/0acff5e/094_B.G._-_Too_Hood_2_Be_Hollywood_(2009).zip.html

Review:

Executive produced by T.I. and featuring tracks from Cool & Dre, Mannie Fresh, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, and Scott Storch, Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood is a comeback album of sorts, one that reminds the mainstream hip-hop world that B.G. was once right up there with his Hot Boys cohorts Lil Wayne and Juvenile. The title is no lie as B.G.’s whiny style is designed for the streets, but everything old is new again as Mannie Fresh proves once again he’s one of the few producers who can bring the rapper crossover potential. Their collaborative cut “My Hood” is the hook-filled and memorable number B.G.’s post-Cash Money career has been missing, but with the T.I. and Scott Storch trunk-rumbler “4 a Minute” appearing late in the fourth quarter, the album has two radio-worthy numbers, good cause for the Louisiana faithful to celebrate. If the three gutsy takeover tracks that kick off the album never end up on radio’s playlist, they’re the kind of hard-hitting stuff B.G. fans crave, and when the two missing members show up for “Ya Heard Me,” the Cool & Dre-produced cut becomes another Hot Boys reunion worth hearing. It’s overstuffed, but after just a little trimming, Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood turns out to be one of B.G.’s stronger full-lengths.

Aventura - The Last (2009)

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Summary:

Artist: Aventura
Album: The Last
Release Date: Apr 14, 2009
Genre: Latin
Styles: Dominican Traditions, Tropical, Bachata, Latin Pop
Size: 102 MB

Track List:

01- Intro
02- Por Un Segundo
03- Yo Quisiera Amarla
04- El Malo
05- Dile Al Amor
06- Su Veneno
07- Tu Jueguito
08- Spanish Fly (Feat. Wiclef Jean & Ludacris)
09- Peligro
10- La Tormenta
11- El Desprecio
12- All Up 2 You (Feat. Akon,Wisin & Yandel)
13- Skit
14- La Curita
15- Princesita
16- Su Vida
17- Soy Hombre (Feat. Arturo Sandoval)
18- Gracias

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091243/3489263/093_Aventura_-_The_Last_2009.rar.html

Review:

Aventura didn't become the kings of bachata by deserting their large and devoted fan base to cater to the mainstream, and it's no different on The Last — despite the fact that the album includes features for a parade of crossover suspects: Wyclef Jean and Ludacris on one track, plus Akon and Wisin y Yandel on another. No, the lead track on The Last — the number one Latin hit "Por un Segundo" — is straight bachata, rhythmic and sweet, and there happen to be plenty of tender ballads to follow it. Not only that, but the crossover features are held to the last half of the album, where Wyclef Jean produces his own surprisingly sugary "Spanish Fly," and Akon and Wisin y Yandel appear on the Auto-Tuned reggaeton track "All Up 2 You." As usual, the band is anchored by Santos brothers Lenny and Max, along with longtime collaborator Eric "Bori" Rivera. Consolidating the quartet's power, The Last became Aventura's biggest album hit yet, reaching number five on the charts.

Skillet - Awake (2009)

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Artist: Skillet
Album: Awake
Release Date: Aug 25, 2009
Genre: Religious
Styles: Contemporary Christian, Alternative CCM, Christian Rock, Gospel, Post-Grunge
Size: 95

Track List:

01. Hero 03:06
02. Monster 02:58
03. Don't Wake Me 03:55
04. Awake And Alive 03:31
05. One Day Too Late 03:40
06. It's Not Me It's You 03:24
07. Should've When You Could've 03:31
08. Believe 03:50
09. Forgiven 03:39
10. Sometimes 03:28
11. Never Surrender 03:30
12. Lucy 03:38


Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26392277/7b9ea77/092_Skillet_Awake_(2009).rar.html


Review:

The highest-charting Christian album on the Billboard charts since 2006, Awake could be tagged as Skillet's mainstream breakthrough on that fact alone. Certainly, the band's monster modern rock does sound like it could slip onto on active rock playlist -- maybe not quite in 2009, but earlier in the decade, when metallic rockers heavy on the guitar downstrokes, and power ballads with chant-along vocals were relatively common. That's not to say that Skillet sounds out-of-step with the times -- there's still a gleam to the Howard Benson production that sounds modern -- and they do mange to imprint their own identity on this sometimes-generic brand of contemporary rock, thanks to their communal vocals, with male and female voices trading off, and skyscraper hooks. Skillet also don't always focus solely on religion, as many of their songs are grounded in inspirational positivity, so that's another reason why Awake finds the band poised to break into the mainstream.

Orianthi - Believe (2009)

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Artist: Orianthi
Album: Believe
Release Date: Oct 26, 2009
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Guitar Virtuoso, Contemporary Pop/ Rock
Size: 78 MB

Track List:

01. According To You 3:20
02. Suffocated 3:03
03. Bad News 3:10
04. Believe 3:40
05. Feels Like Home 4:16
06. Think Like A Man 3:37
07. Whats It Gonna Be 2:49
08. Untogether 3:53
09. Drive Away 4:17
10.Highly Strung 4:08
11.God Only Knows 3:55

Link Download:

http://hotfile.com/dl/26091241/c4efcb9/091_Orianthi-Believe-2009.zip.html

Review:

With her mind-blowing mix of heavy metal guitar prowess and bluesy, soulful vocals, Orianthi will draw some justifiably well-earned comparisons to such giants of rock guitar as Jimi Hendrix and her own idol, Carlos Santana, on her 2009 sophomore album, Believe. That said, her style hews closer to the more finger-frenetic pyrotechnics of such '70s and '80s icons as Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai. Throw in her ability to sell a lyric and carry a strong melodic vocal phrase while also throwing down some devastating slabs of heavy metal riffage, and she starts to look a heckuvalot like the fantasy love child of Prince and Lita Ford. What's even more delicious is how, at face value, Believe fits nicely next to studio-crafted -- albeit stylistically successful -- albums by Disney teen rock acts like Ashley Tisdale, Demi Lovato, and Miley Cyrus, the difference being that while those pretend-rock teen divas get backed by studio musicians, Orianthi IS the backing musician. She is the real rawk deal and Believe soars on her mighty metal talents. And it's clear from the get-go that Orianthi and her producers get the joke. The anthemic leadoff track, "According to You," begins innocently with a few seconds of Orianthi cooing over a lite keyboard part before her chugging power chords and gutsy vocals quickly set the tone for the rest of the what's to come. Two minutes in and Orianthi has not only delivered one of the poppiest, catchiest radio-friendly trax this side of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone," but she's also launched into the first of several balls-out, fire-shooting-out-her-fingers, ripping-your-shirt-off metal solos featured on Believe. Before this album, Orianthi was best known as the guitar virtuoso picked to perform with Michael Jackson on his farewell tour before he passed in 2009, and after listening to Believe, it's clear that Orianthi was not only well deserving of that accolade but that her abilities far outdistanced a role as a backing musician. For rock fans awaiting the return of seriously fun, seriously rocking pop-metal, THIS is it.