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111 GREAT BANDS FROM TURKEY

FULL LIST, VIDEOS (TUM LİSTE VE VIDEOLAR)
http://istanbulmusic.blogspot.com/2011/03/best-turkish-bands.html

1. MFÖ - Pop/Rock
2. Mogollar - Anatolian Pop, Rock
3. Nekropsi - Progressive Rock, Post Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUz6wUChkrU

4. Replikas - Experimental Rock
5. Pentagram - Heavy Metal
6. Yeni Türkü - World Music, Folk Pop
7. Yansımalar - World Music, Instrumental, Traditional Turkish Music
8. Modern Folk Üçlüsü - Anatolian Rock
9. 3 Hurel - Anatolian Rock
10. Bunalimlar - Anatolian Rock
11. Baba Zula - Psychedelic Folk, Experimental
12. Apaslar - Anatolian Rock
13. Kaygisizlar - Anatolian Rock
14. Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - Instrumental, Turkish Classical Music
15. Grup Yorum - Protest, World Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDkS04C0qwA

16. Dervisan - Anatolian Rock
17. Edirdahan - Anatolian Rock
18. Edip Akbayram & Dostlar - Anatolian Rock
19. Dr. Skull - Heavy Metal
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10. Megadeth's Endgame
While not my favorite Megadeth album, Endgame is miles better than I thought they (Dave) could achieve at this point. The riffs are original and the solos are pretty nice, surprisingly.

9. Diabolical Masquerade's Nightwork
This band kind of started me on metal, oddly, and this album remains to be one of my favorite black metal releases. It's eerie with wonderful keys. I especially recommend this to fans of avant garde bm bands like Sigh.

8. Diablo Swing Orchestra's The Butcher's Ballroom
Most fans of experimental metal are probably familiar with DSO and their operatic swing metal or whatever, but if you're not, definitely check them out.

7. Mirrorthrone's Carriers of Dust
Another stunning extreme avant-garde release from my favorite Cochet project.

6. Almora's Kalihora's Song
Almora is one of the best known Turkish symphonic metal bands who sound similar to Haggard but with clean vocals and more metal and folk influences. …

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1.Dede Efendi - Turkish Classical - 1778 born composer, developer of many Turkish music forms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnDMKLaLp30

Russian Red Army Choir and Ottoman Army Choir performing Dede Efendi composition in Moscow.

2.Sezen Aksu - Pop, Psychedelic Pop - Little Sparrow of Turkish Pop and teacher of Tarkan, Sertab Erener, Levent Yüksel and many other Pop singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4GZdBP7ZWQ

Oud intro makes song fascinating for people who like both slow pop music and also oriental instruments.

3.Tanburi Cemil Bey - Turkish Classical, Tanbur Virtuoso - Greatest Tanbur Virtuoso of the history

4.Erkin Koray - Anatolian Rock, Rock'n Roll - First person to ever play Rock'n Roll in Turkey

Listen "Sevince" by Erkin Koray

http://yenisafak.com.tr/resim/site/erkinkoray055692f4055692f5by.jpg

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Power Radio

Power metal is today associated with an epic sound tempered by characteristics of speed metal, power metal's musical forerunner. Power metal's lyrical themes, though as varied as metal itself, typically focus on fantasy and mythology (eg. , Rhapsody of Fire, Blind Guardian, Falconer , Domine, camaraderie and hope (eg. DragonForce, Stratovarius, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Lost Horizon, Highland Glory, Sabaton), personal struggles and emotions (eg. X JAPAN, Primal Fear, Sonata Arctica, Evergrey) war and death (eg. Manowar, Sabaton, Iced Earth) or combinations of the listed themes. The prevalence of these lyrical themes span across the many languages power metal is performed in (eg. Angra (Portuguese), Darksun (Spanish). Many typical metal themes such as anti-religion and politics are comparatively rare but not unheard of.

Power metal is highly focused on the vocalist, with "clean" vocals being much more prevalent than the growling vocals often associated with death metal and black metal. …

Ruhumu biraktim sert rüzgarlara
Sarkimi söyledim hür kartallara
Kalbimi biraktim kör zindanlarda
Ve bir savasci gibi durdum karsinda

Hadi hapset beni kudretin yeterse
Ördügün oyuncak duvarlar icinde
Benzemez senin boyali kahramanlarına
Iyiler siyah giyer,bunu unutma!

Benim özgürlüge acilmis kanatlarim var!
Sonsuzluga cikan zamansiz kapilarim var!
Senin bes para etmez kurallarin varsa,
Benim inandigim ölümsüz masallarim var! Almora

HeavyRaptor will soon release MetalAd 2,
but there are still a lot of metal bands without logos.

With this journal, I kindly ask anyone who can provide me the logos of these bands:
MidnattsolKrypteriaDarkwellStream of PassionPenumbraDelainAmberian DawnGallhammerSeraphimCircus Maximus

Those are just a few... from my own chart, if You have logos for other bands that don't exist in MetalAd, just submit them in this journal (note that HeavyRaptor is quite strict, he doesn't accept nu metal and metalcore bands, for example).

Logos must be 160 pixels wide (any height) and in duotone white-on-black and black-on-white colors.

Examples:
http://metalad.knorf.de/?user=Fulvian&chart_type=3month&amount=1&bg=white
http://metalad.knorf.de/?user=Fulvian&chart_type=3month&amount=1&bg=black
http://metalad.knorf.de/?user=Fulvian&chart_type=overall&amount=1&bg=white
http://metalad.knorf.de/?user=Fulvian&chart_type=overall&amount=1&bg=black
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http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=aSAlMjqiwiU

Mariangela Demurtas, aged 25, from the island of Sardinia, Italy, is the singer Tristania was looking, but did not dare hope, for.

The band was focusing on voice and talent when they went out looking for a new singer half a year ago. After a thorough search and many audtions, little did they know they would get all that, and more, in the form of Mary.

She's all about music - and metal to the bone. She has performed with several Italian bands, before finally joining up with Tristania. She lists her musical influences to include Janis Joplin, Diamanda Galas, Lisa DalBello, Lauryn Hill, Skin, Chris Cornell and Jeff Buckley.

An educated linguist, she has already moved to Norway and settled in Tristania's home town of Stavanger. Although this is not her first time living abroad (she studied for a year in the Dominican Republic at the age of 16), it's living proof of the dedication she brings to Tristania.

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The album My Winter Storm, by Tarja Turunen, is under pre-sale now. The price is EUR 19.99. The official date of launch is 16/Nov.
The album can be bought here: http://www.emp.de/bin/shop.php?prog=shop&mid=&article=433419&funktion=PRODUCTINFO&bildrub=search&LANG=DE

http://www.emp.de/ACfrG/productimg/4/433419.jpg

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The single All I Need, by Within Temptation is going to be realesed in November 12th, containing these tracks:

5-track digipack:
1. All I Need (single version)
2. All I Need (album version)
3. The Last Time (demo version)
4. Frozen (demo version)
5. Our Solemn Hour (demo version)

2-track:
1. All I Need (single version)
2. All I Need (album version)

http://www.within-temptation.com/images/newsimages/AINcoversmall.jpg


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digitalmusician.net presents a new remix competition from 15th September in cooperation with Italian heavy rock band Lacuna Coil.
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