Pop/Metal Mashups Vol.15- Back to Black

Title: Pop/Metal Mashups Vol.15- Back to Black
Size: 89mb
Description: New Western Pop Metal Renditions from Youtube.

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?l9d5ss03twcbra7

What's this?
After a bunch of experiments with Jpop, anime tunes, and internet memes, we're back to Western pop mashups. And yes, I took another week and some odd days off again from posting. I don't have all that much left aside from one Classical Metal album and 2 more mashup compilations. Maybe I'll do some scouting later today for some more new stuff.

Review
Well, turns out I'm still sick of this shit. It's got some good renditions, as usual, but it's not nearly as funny or interesting as it once was. However, there are some new additions here that weren't on previous collections, like Beyonce, Sugababe, Salt-N-Pepa, Miley Cyrus (wut), Nicki Manaj (ew), and Celine Dion (huh). There are some other ones too.

The metallers are quite capable in most of these, and if you liked earlier collections, this will fit in pretty well with them. Final message: Jessica Jung > Beyonce Knowles. By a lot :)

GREY SKIES FALLEN - Two Way Mirror

Title: GREY SKIES FALLEN - Two Way Mirror
Size: 55mb
Description: Third release by this Progressive/Death Metal Band

Download:
http://www.greyskiesfallen.com/

Third one.
Took the last couple days off to compile some more. Not sure if I'm happy with what I have atm, gotta re-listen to it all and make sure it's up to par. Anyways, here's another GSF album in the meantime.

Review
I find this one to be the most progressive of the three I've posted. If there's one thing this band has dedicated itself to, it's staying fresh and changing it up every now and again. It's varied and diverse. I like that they blend the sort of Grungy nineties sound with death metal stylings too. Anyways, I recommend it.

Classical Metal Vol.11

Title: Classical Metal Vol.11
Size: 114mb
Description: More Classical Music with Metal Instrumentals

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?w2ddpn1z5t0mcmc

Grab it while it's still there.
The site I found these links from went down, apparently, so who knows how long this will stick around. You'd better grab it while ya can. I found more links on 4shared, but I'm not sure if they work and I don't really trust that provider to begin with.

Review
Exact same story as the previous volume. I can't even add anything else about it. A few good ones scattered about, the rest we've heard dozens of times and there are some that aren't even metal to begin with.

INNERSIGHT - The Euphoric Solitude

Title: INNERSIGHT - The Euphoric Solitude
Size: 50mb
Description: Fifth album by this incredible moniker

Download:
http://innersight.hu

Yes, I skipped posting their fourth album.
The reason being that it isn't even remotely a Metal album. Not even a guitar to be heard. It's good for what it is though, so you can still pick it up at the same location if you like. It's called "Movement", and it mostly seems like movie music, sorta ambient and stuff. Anyway, here's the fifth one.

Review
This is seemingly the first real follow-up to the first album. It's very reminiscent of it, in my opinion, but it has the added female vocals overtop for a decent change.

The verdict? Splendid. An amazing trip through and through, and it has to be heard to be believed. This could be a great starting point for anyone who's looking to get into this band. It's technical, beautiful, and yet highly accessible.

Pop/Metal Mashups Vol. 14- Clap Your Sistar in the Chocolate Love

Title: Pop/Metal Mashups Vol. 14- Clap Your Sistar in the Chocolate Love
Size: 106mb
Description: Another Kpop Metal renditions cd from youtube.

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?546roptpybc3ucp

Overdue.
I've had this one ready to upload for quite a while now, but as previously stated, I've been majorly slacking this week with this blog. I'm trying to remedy this right now as I'm listening to the next INNERSIGHT album, which is awesome so far. Anyway, this is the second last complete pop/metal mashups volume I have at the moment, although I'm in the midst of compiling two more.

Review
While not quite as great as the previous kpop one, this definitely has some gems in it. Most are done by JTLeung. If you liked the other kpop metal renditions, you need to pick this up no questions as well.

That's really all that can be said. For those who need more kpop stuff, I'll have something different in store for you a little later.

VALKYRIA - Epica

Title: VALKYRIA - Epica
Size: 99mb
Description: First official album LP from Valkyria.

Download:
http://www.valkiria.it/mp3.htm

Been a while...
Yep, I've been slacking. It seems that the free metal albums site has changed this past week, so hopefully the past links to there are still working alright. Anyways, here's the first LP by Valkyria.

Review
I can't say that the production quality is much (or even any better) than their previous demo release. In fact, this feels more like a second full release.

Despite the rather low quality of the sound, it's still pretty good. Very progressive, very melodic, very diverse, and sometimes very beautiful.

What's interesting here is that they've re-recorded some tracks from it and released them as the "new version", so that's available there too. I didn't check it out, even though it's probably better, I somehow prefer original versions.