Shadowside (BRA)

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Shadowside - Inner Monster Out (2012)













Year : 2012
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal , Melodic Power Metal , Female vocals
Country : Brazil
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 167 mb

Bio:

Metal from Brazil with heavy riffs and a powerful female voice!A band with power, energy and intensity. These three words define Shadowside’s career path very well. With 3 albums out, the Band has toured 30 countries, having played in front of a total audience of over 250000 people.

Album:

The Brazilian Metal scene is brilliant and very rich, always attracted me, much more interesting than most of what the European Metal fans long for: this release is another proof of that undeniable fact! Some of my favorite bands are from Brazil… As the mighty trio DR. SIN, which is one of the more criminally underrated ever act, and it’s a darn shame. Others bands like PASTORE / ALMAH / CARAVELLUS / HIBRIA / KATTAH / PARADISE INC. /WIZARDS / MINDFLOW / TERRA PRIMA recently released some fine CDs more than striking and are suggested strongly as next purchases!So it explains why I always gave more than a attentive ear and invariably a good credit to those bands from ANGRA’s country! As a lot of those mentioned groups, the music could be classified under Power Metal with brilliant guitar playing but something is not usual: a very good and energetic production done in Sweden by DREAM EVIL’s guitarist and Studio Fredman owner Fredrik Nordström (ARCH ENEMY / OPETH / PAGAN’S MIND / FIREWIND / EVERGREY). The big difference here is the songbird chick which sounds as an hysteric raging banshee, a little like Leather Leone from the CHASTAIN fame! If I would have to make a comparison, it could be a mix between BENEDICTUM for the fierce metallic guitars and SISTER SIN or SLINGBLADE for the organic and slightly sleaze ambiance! So thank god no-bullshit diva ya da yada here, but a very aggressive timber and a vigorous tone not so far from Finnish SHEAR and their recommended “Breaking The Stillness” release.Some Swedish guests are given even more credibility to the whole as: Björn “Speed” Strid from SOILWORK / DISARMONIA MUNDI / TERROR 2000, .Niklas Isfeldt from DREAM EVIL, and Mikael Stanne from DARK TRANQUILLITY / ex-HAMMERFALL / IN FLAMES. All contributed to the huge title-track that turned out as a very good song.This CD was already released back in the band’s home country in 2011, but I think it deserved to be published in Europe properly. As always the Japanese edition contains 2 bonus tracks, anyway this one is recommended & in my very humble opinion its pretty good.

Line Up:

Dani Nolden - Vocals, Keyboards (ex-Soulspell)
Raphael Mattos - Guitars
Ricardo Piccoli -Bass
Fabio Buitvidas - Drums (Bulletback, Acid Storm, ex-Justness, ex-Pastore, ex-Engrave)

Tracklist:

01. Gag Order 04:37
02. Angel with Horns 04:41
03. Habitchual 03:32
04. In the Name of Love 03:49
05. Inner Monster Out 03:48
06. I'm Your Mind 03:25
07. My Disrupted Reality 04:14
08. A Smile Upon Death 03:22
09. Whatever Our Fortune 03:02
10. A.D.D. 04:12
11. Waste of Life 03:14



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Shadowside - Shades Of Humanity (Japan Edition) (2017)













Year : 2017 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal , Melodic Power Metal , Female vocals
Country : Brazil
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 167 mb

Bio:

Metal from Brazil with heavy riffs and a powerful female voice!A band with power, energy and intensity. These three words define Shadowside’s career path very well. With 3 albums out, the Band has toured 30 countries, having played in front of a total audience of over 250000 people.

Album:

While I didn't care much for Shadowside's turn to a more modern metal sound with 2011's Inner Monster Out, the album garnered more than a little international praise. The album hit high on the charts, and led to more shows. The played in 30 countries, opening for headliners such as Iron Maiden and Helloween. Shadowside had hit the big time. Now six years on the band returns with their fourth long player, Shades Of Humanity, which features a new bass player in former Hammerfall bassist Magnus Rossen. Additionally Rossen wrote two songs with guitarist Andy La Rocque of King Diamond for the album. Shades Of Humanity also has some lyrical themes including "deep subjects such as depression, abortion, the Mariana dam disaster in Brazil, and mankind`s moral values."Musically, Shades Of Humanity basically follows the pattern of its predecessor, venturing into more modern heavy metal. Most of that comes from the sometimes harsh and thrashy riffage, the deep d-tuned bottom end, and Dani Nolden's chosen vocal style. She can easily be harshly hardcore, but then she can be calmer or quickly smoothly melodic. If anything call her vocal style versatile, but when she goes screamo or mannish hardcore, I'm quickly and easily turned off.Nevertheless, with most any Shadowside album I have greater interest in particular songs and their parts or particular individual member performances. For the latter, I dig everything about Raphael Mattos guitar work, specifically his original, creative, and blistering leads across this entire album. Two of the best examples come within Stream Of Shame and Drifter. Which leads us to some of the songs. Those two songs, along with Parade Of Sacrifice, are some of the best here, filled with heaviness, but also melody and groove, and Nolden is a bit more predictable. Another strong track is the final song Alive, a symphonic modern power metal number with Nolden going atmospheric. Conversely, there's some real modern metal harshness with The Fall, Beast Inside, What If, and the crushing Unreality. Excepting the underlying groove and Mattos' fandamntastic guitar solos, I really didn't enjoy any of those songs as a whole. So, in the end, my opinion of Shadowside's Shades Of Humanity, as with previous material, remains the same: intitial curiosity, and then ambivalence, liking only a few songs and dismissing most everything else. However, as a fan, if you liked the last album, you will definitely like this one as well.

Line Up:

Dani Nolden - Vocals, Keyboards (ex-Soulspell (live))
Fabio Buitvidas - Drums (Bulletback, Acid Storm, ex-Justness, ex-Pastore, ex-Engrave)
Raphael Mattos - Guitars
Magnus Rosen - Bass (Avalanch, Planet Alliance, ex-Keegan, ex-Revolution Renaissance, ex-X-World/5, Magnus Rosen, ex-Fullforce, ex-HammerFall, ex-Jorn, ex-Tony Martin, ex-Von Rosen)

Tracklist:

01. The Fall
02. Beast Inside
03. What If
04. Make My Fate
05. Insidious Me
06. The Crossing
07. Stream Of Shame
08. Parade The Sacrifice
09. Drifter
10. Unreality
11. Alive
12. Haunted (Japan Bonus Track)

+ Video "Alive" (Official Video)



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