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High Spirits - You Are Here (2014)













Year : 2014
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 103 mb

Bio:

HIGH SPIRITS began in Chicago in early 2009 with a series of fun songwriting sessions and demo recordings. Soon, there were 10 songs recorded, enough for an album. It was released as a plain white-label LP at the first HIGH SPIRITS live show, which was in August of 2009. Only a handful copies sold that night, but the rest sold quickly through the mail to fans all over the world.The demos compilation album was soon released on digipack CD by Cruz del Sur Music and on gatefold vinyl by High Roller Records. During 2010 the band did a lot of shows around the Midwest USA and self-released a 7” single titled “Let’s Rock”. Interest was building for a proper full-length album, and studio sessions began in early 2011. Because the demos collection had been so successful, it was decided that all new songs would go on the album. In May, recordings took a break for the band to do a two-week tour in the USA.Titled ‘Another Night’, High Roller Records released the album on CD and LP in August of 2011, and the response was sensational. The audiences loved it, and the response from the press was fantastic, with the band named top newcomer of 2011 by Rock Hard Magazine.By 2012, demand was “high” in Europe to see the band live. Keep It True Festival soon was in touch to offer a spot on their 2013 bill, and the band happily accepted. But the Rock Hard crew just could not wait that long, so they asked the band to play the Rock Hard Festival in May of 2012. On the same trip, HIGH SPIRITS also played two club gigs in Germany and also Muskelrock festival in Sweden. In 2013 the band returned to Europe, performing in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Belgium before the long-awaited finale at Keep It True. It was all a lot of fun and a big success!At the end of 2013, HIGH SPIRITS began working on the follow-up album ‘You Are Here’, with studio sessions wrapping up in early 2014. The album will be released on CD and LP in Europe by High Roller Records (April 25th) and in North America by by Hells Headbangers (May 13th). The band’s popular namesake song will also be released as a limited-edition 7” single by both labels, each with a different exclusive B-side.To celebrate the album release, HIGH SPIRITS will hit the road in the USA and Canada in April. With other exclusive live appearances planned for 2014 and a European return already announced for early 2015, the coming months are sure to be full of excitement for HIGH SPIRITS and their fans!

Album:

Partying is a sacred act in the heavy metal community; downing beers and staying up until dawn are as much a rite of passage as stealing your first Metallica record. Yet, in the past few decades, it has been hard pressing to find music in the genre that is unabashedly made to be the soundtrack of the debauchery. Gone are the days of party-rock melody lovers like Ratt; instead we have welcomed a new era where extremes in the precision of musical head crushing mean more than those of scoring chicks and not getting any sleep. Where did the good times go? High Spirits may be the answer to the question and the start of a new wave of American happy metal.You Are Here is the bands follow up to 2011s stellar ball of energy Another Night; this time compelety written and played by front man Chris Black. “When the Lights Go Down” kicks the door off its hinges with the bubbling rock and roll sense abilities and metallic crunch of classic Annihilation Time. It’s Blacks crisp voice that ties the tune together reminiscent of Joe Elliot on early Def Leppard work.The driving bass line on “I Need Your Love” drags the song into a full-on burner. As close to a contemporary version of classic Scorpions as we could possibly wish for, “Love” is a time-warp right down to the polished production; full, loud and bursting with life. Black gives birth to a forgotten eighties rock masterpiece with the instant classic “The Last Night” the albums rightful single. “We’ve gone too far tonight and it’s well past the deadline” Black cries to someone we can only imagine is a leather clad babe waiting with a bottle of Jack in her hand. God bless.

Line Up:

Chris (vocals)
Scott (guitar)
Mike (guitar)
Bob (bass guitar)
Ian (drums)

Tracklist:

01. When The Lights Go Down
02. I Need Your Love
03. One Thousand Nights
04. Reminding You Of Me
05. The Last Night
06. Can You Hear Me
07. Gone To Pieces
08. I Will Run
09. High Spirits




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High Spirits - Motivator (2016)













Year : 2016
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 69 mb

Bio:

HIGH SPIRITS began in Chicago in early 2009 with a series of fun songwriting sessions and demo recordings. Soon, there were 10 songs recorded, enough for an album. It was released as a plain white-label LP at the first HIGH SPIRITS live show, which was in August of 2009. Only a handful copies sold that night, but the rest sold quickly through the mail to fans all over the world.The demos compilation album was soon released on digipack CD by Cruz del Sur Music and on gatefold vinyl by High Roller Records. During 2010 the band did a lot of shows around the Midwest USA and self-released a 7” single titled “Let’s Rock”. Interest was building for a proper full-length album, and studio sessions began in early 2011. Because the demos collection had been so successful, it was decided that all new songs would go on the album. In May, recordings took a break for the band to do a two-week tour in the USA.Titled ‘Another Night’, High Roller Records released the album on CD and LP in August of 2011, and the response was sensational. The audiences loved it, and the response from the press was fantastic, with the band named top newcomer of 2011 by Rock Hard Magazine.By 2012, demand was “high” in Europe to see the band live. Keep It True Festival soon was in touch to offer a spot on their 2013 bill, and the band happily accepted. But the Rock Hard crew just could not wait that long, so they asked the band to play the Rock Hard Festival in May of 2012. On the same trip, HIGH SPIRITS also played two club gigs in Germany and also Muskelrock festival in Sweden. In 2013 the band returned to Europe, performing in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Belgium before the long-awaited finale at Keep It True. It was all a lot of fun and a big success!At the end of 2013, HIGH SPIRITS began working on the follow-up album ‘You Are Here’, with studio sessions wrapping up in early 2014. The album will be released on CD and LP in Europe by High Roller Records (April 25th) and in North America by by Hells Headbangers (May 13th). The band’s popular namesake song will also be released as a limited-edition 7” single by both labels, each with a different exclusive B-side.To celebrate the album release, HIGH SPIRITS will hit the road in the USA and Canada in April. With other exclusive live appearances planned for 2014 and a European return already announced for early 2015, the coming months are sure to be full of excitement for HIGH SPIRITS and their fans!

Album:

Ever notice how we at AMG Conglomerated Blogworks, Ltd. spend our time bitching and carping about album length and the need for slavish adherence to the 45 Minute Rule? In an age when even EPs are running close to 40 minutes, it gets pretty hard to to uphold the “less is more” banner and remain a defender of editing and artistic restraint. Then in our darkest hour, Chris Black arrives with his High Spirits project and drops a glorious 30 minute slab of hard rocking, gob-stopping joy on our doorstep and before you know, all our elitist blather is vindicated, validated and self-actualized! Exhibit A is Motivator – the third album of shamelessly hooky, ear-infesting guitar rock from the man who also graced us with Dawnbringer and played a key role in Pharaoh as well.If you’re unfamiliar with High Spirits, you deserve a syncopated bell shaming. Taking a 70s guitar rock style akin to Thin Lizzy and Foghat (yes, Foghat!) and mixing it with NWoBHM influences, High Spirits crafts short, energetic, insanely addictive little anthems which rattle around in your head for weeks. Motivator consists of 8 straight-forward tracks of pure rock fury, each guaranteed to make an impression on the first spin. After a brief instrumental intro, “Flying High” does exactly that, taking off with speedy riff-work and the ever improving singing of Professor Black. It’s such a simple sounding, accessible tune, yet I’m under no illusion such songs are easy to craft, and this is just one of 8 such winners, each running between 3 and 4 minutes of concise awesomeness.“Reach for the Glory” takes a riff similar to Maiden‘s “Aces High” and uses it to rock your socks off and “Haunted by Love” delivers a weird little anthem about lost love and heartache that still makes you want to chug beer and shove friends into a pool. The highlight is the impossibly catchy “Do You Wanna be Famous,” which you’ll love immediately even if it isn’t particularly heavy. It reminds me of a less edgy Audrey Horne and I can’t seem to stop spinning it. That same Audrey Horne vibe crops up in closer “Thank You” and it’s hard not to love the simple, happy-go-lucky lyrics about gratitude toward one’s friends. This one is sure to trigger many a sloppy bro hug around the keg and that’s okay!And here’s the best part: Motivator feels like it ends too soon! Imagine that. The music cuts out and you’re left wishing for 2 or 3 more saucy tunes to get tanked with. The album flies by like the airliner on the cover and in a blink of an eye the good times are over, requiring immediate replay. How many recent albums can make the same claim? Exactly. Downsides? The aforementioned “over too soon” gambit, but I can’t really knock them for leaving us wanting more.Chris Black handles all instruments and vocals, but you wouldn’t think it was a one-man band. It has a lively, warm energy you’d likely attribute to friends jamming and having fun, but those friends are Chris, himself and he. The strength of High Spirits has always been the bouncy, catchy riffs and Motivator has more than its share of them. The Thin Lizzy influence is still there along with Maiden and other NWoBHM influences, and though the style is more hard rock than metal, it still has that crucial edge and essential energy. Rarely are riffs this fun and engaging and every song is a blast to blast. Chris has grown a lot as a vocalist over the years and I’ve come to love his rock n’ roll singing style on the High Spirits albums. He isn’t wailing or roaring but he sounds like he’s having a grand olde time and that rubs off on the listener.Mr. Black isn’t trying to prove anything or show how kvlt he is. He just writes catchy hard rock with a metal attitude, does it well and never overdoes it. He’s on to something here and Motivator should motivate other acts to follow his timely example. Less IS more!

Written, produced, and performed by Chris
Recorded by Chris, Morgan, and Matt
Mixed by Matt
Mastered by Collin

Line Up:

Chris Black - All instruments, Vocals (Aktor, Dawnbringer, Metalusafer, Pharaoh, Superchrist, ex-Sculptured, ex-Final Prayer, ex-Nachtmystium)
Bob Scott - Bass (Züül)
Scott Hoffman - Guitars (\Dawnbringer, ex-Edenrot, ex-Winterlong)
Mike Bushur - Guitars (Oblong Box, Züül)
Ian Sugierski - Drums (Moros Nyx, Wastelander, Dawnbringer (live), Superchrist, Wolfbait, Cemetery, Overnight Sensation, Red Swan, ex-Blue Snaggletooth, ex-Dr. Röck, ex-The End Times, ex-The Meatmen)

Tracklist:

01. Up And Overture
02. Flying High
03. This Is The Night
04. Reach For The Glory
05. Do You Wanna Be Famous
06. Haunted By Love
07. Down The Endless Road
08. Take Me Home
09. Thank You




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High Spirits - Safe On The Other Side (2023)











Year : 2023
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 95 mb

Bio:

HIGH SPIRITS began in Chicago in early 2009 with a series of fun songwriting sessions and demo recordings. Soon, there were 10 songs recorded, enough for an album. It was released as a plain white-label LP at the first HIGH SPIRITS live show, which was in August of 2009. Only a handful copies sold that night, but the rest sold quickly through the mail to fans all over the world.The demos compilation album was soon released on digipack CD by Cruz del Sur Music and on gatefold vinyl by High Roller Records. During 2010 the band did a lot of shows around the Midwest USA and self-released a 7” single titled “Let’s Rock”. Interest was building for a proper full-length album, and studio sessions began in early 2011. Because the demos collection had been so successful, it was decided that all new songs would go on the album. In May, recordings took a break for the band to do a two-week tour in the USA.Titled ‘Another Night’, High Roller Records released the album on CD and LP in August of 2011, and the response was sensational. The audiences loved it, and the response from the press was fantastic, with the band named top newcomer of 2011 by Rock Hard Magazine.By 2012, demand was “high” in Europe to see the band live. Keep It True Festival soon was in touch to offer a spot on their 2013 bill, and the band happily accepted. But the Rock Hard crew just could not wait that long, so they asked the band to play the Rock Hard Festival in May of 2012. On the same trip, HIGH SPIRITS also played two club gigs in Germany and also Muskelrock festival in Sweden. In 2013 the band returned to Europe, performing in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Belgium before the long-awaited finale at Keep It True. It was all a lot of fun and a big success!At the end of 2013, HIGH SPIRITS began working on the follow-up album ‘You Are Here’, with studio sessions wrapping up in early 2014. The album will be released on CD and LP in Europe by High Roller Records (April 25th) and in North America by by Hells Headbangers (May 13th). The band’s popular namesake song will also be released as a limited-edition 7” single by both labels, each with a different exclusive B-side.To celebrate the album release, HIGH SPIRITS will hit the road in the USA and Canada in April. With other exclusive live appearances planned for 2014 and a European return already announced for early 2015, the coming months are sure to be full of excitement for HIGH SPIRITS and their fans!

Album:

Like its predecessor, 2020’s Hard to Stop, the latest from HIGH SPIRITS was recorded by bandleader Chris at his home studio in Chicago, and then mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound. "Things always sound different from the inside" says Chris, "and it’s foolish to generalize. But I think whereas Hard to Stop put my German and British influences in front, Safe on the Other Side seems to favor my American and Scandinavian influences. More importantly though, this is a HIGH SPIRITS album all the way, and you’ll be able to feel that instantly when 'In the Moonlight' hits you!"

Line Up:

Chris Black - All instruments, Vocals (Aktor, Dawnbringer, Metalusafer, Pharaoh, Superchrist, ex-Sculptured, ex-Final Prayer, ex-Nachtmystium)
Bob Scott - Bass (Züül)
Scott Hoffman - Guitars (\Dawnbringer, ex-Edenrot, ex-Winterlong)
Mike Bushur - Guitars (Oblong Box, Züül)
Ian Sugierski - Drums (Moros Nyx, Wastelander, Dawnbringer (live), Superchrist, Wolfbait, Cemetery, Overnight Sensation, Red Swan, ex-Blue Snaggletooth, ex-Dr. Röck, ex-The End Times, ex-The Meatmen)

Tracklist:

01. In the Moonlight
02. Til the End of Time
03. Lonely Nights
04. One Day Closer
05. Anything You Need
06. (There Will Be) Magic Tonight
07. Loving You
08. Please Don’t Leave Me Behind
09. Memories
10. Good Night




Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/