Free download of songs at AFM V.I.P. Area

Wow, a new month has already begun! So that means checking out what should be up next. It also means looking for what to spend on the money. The costs for life have increased in my eyes over the last years. But surely no one wants to live without music, right? ;-) So what to do if you want to listen to some new stuff?

One solution I ran across is the V.I.P area on the AFM-Records website. The label is well known for having a lot of bands under their banner that are smaller or are on the way to get bigger including acts like Brainstorm, Fear Factory, Mob Rules, Sinner and the like. So clicking on the link will take you to the mentioned V.I.P. area. All you need to do there is to register shortly with a valid Email adress and the activation code that is displayed at the welcome page. Once registered by verifying the registration by clicking the activation link in the email you'll receive you're in!

After that you only need to login with your registered E-Mail adress and will have access to the possibility to download complete songs from the AFM rooster for free. There's one more good message: the label refreshes the song selection after some weeks. So as the time passes by all you need to do is to come back to the V.I.P. area, login again and you'll see a new track selection for download. Nice, right? :-) At the moment I'm typing these lines the label offers the following tracks for download:

1. Iron Savior - Burning Heart04:39
   
2. Words Of Farewell - Beauty In Passing04:53
3. Silent Force - Caught In Their Wicked Game04:40
4. Crystal Viper - Prophet Of The End05:36
5. Ektomorf - Numb and Sick04:42 
6. Lake Of Tears - Taste Of Hell (live)03:53 
7. Rhapsody Of Fire - Rising From Tragic Flames06:16
8. Truth Corroded - They Are Horror03:22 
9. Black Messiah - Jötunheim06:57 
10. Iron Mask - Rock Religion04:38 
11. Epysode - The Arch05:15 
12. Human Fortress - The Chosen One04:55 
13. Eden's Curse - Break The Silence04:38 
14. Onslaught - Chaos Is King04:06 
15. Vanishing Point - Distant Is The Sun04:47

Great! My choice feel on the tracks from Iron Saviour, Silent Force, Crystal Viper, Ektomorf, Rhapsody of Fire and Vanishing Point. Have to say all of the songs rocked so far, but especially the one's from Crystal Viper and Rhapsody of Fire found my sympathy. 

Like the old-school sound on the Crystal Viper track while the Rhapsody of Fire track turned out surprisingply variable. Very different and more direct compared to the stuff they did put out the last time. So which tracks did you choice for download and did you enjoy listening to them? 

And do you know more labels that do offer such a service? If you do, please drop me a line here in the comments section or let me know through Email. Please check out my profile to see my Email adress. Thanks!

Crystal Viper streaming the entire album "Possession" on youtube

Yeah, the title of this post says it pretty much it all. Crystal Viper are back with a brand-new album and have kindly set up the whole new record for free listening on youtube. Just listened to the very first track and it kicks a lot of ass. Had a lot of fun listening to this. Thankfully a youtube user made a playlist of the whole record so I put it here up for comfortable listening.

Crystal Viper "Fight Evil With Evil" - Free Halloween download single

Happy Halloween! Here’s a gift for all of you, the FREE Crystal Viper download single! Featuring very special guest: Harry Conklin of Jag Panzer / Satan's Host / Titan Force!

Pick your download now directly from this location.

The song is titled "Fight Evil With Evil", and is taken from the forthcoming studio album "Possession", (out on Friday, December 13).

U.D.O. / AFM Metal Festival

After the band 'Symphorce' (see my very first post here on the blog titled 'Today is day one') called it quits (I am very sad about this,they had such great songs but too few people knew them I am afraid) I feel more than ever the urge to support Heavy Metal underground bands.

Besides the Metalshock festival there's another underground festival coming up this year. It's the AFM Festival,celebrating the 15 years anniversary of the AFM Records Company. There will be 15 bands playing all day long at Markthalle Hamburg, Germany on 26th of November 2011. Bands performing will be Crystal Viper,Mob Rules and U.D.O. and many,many more. Tickets are sold on a low price plus every visitor gets a free 3- CD label sampler with classics and even unreleased tracks. You can pick up more info and order your ticket at

http://www.metaltix.com/item_detail.php?item_nr=27839&shop_lang=en

Update 10/13/2011: Mailorder Nuclear Blast currently has a special offer for this festival. In addition to ticket and 3-CD you'll receive a festival shirt in XL size at a very little add to the standard price. Here's the direct link to the online shop item:

http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/products/tickets/indoor/ticket-ts-xl/afm-records-15-years-metal-addiction-festival-hamburg-26.11.2011.html

Update 10/30/2011: EMP Merchandising features this nice package now as well,same offer and price as Nuclear Blast. Here's the direct internet-shop link:

http://www.emp.de/lis_AFM%20Records_bandbrand/

Update 10/26/2011: A trailer for this event has been released. Watch it here




U.D.O. may already be known by some of you since they do feature ex-Accept members Udo Dirkschneider on vocals and Stefan Kaufmann on guitars. The band constantly puts out classic solid metal albums in the good tradition of the style of the 80's but always adding some fresh elements of today like modern production or hacked riffing. Most of all they do create great metal hymms to sing along to. But check out for yourselfs.

Heavy Metal Heaven

Find more details and songs from U.D.O. at the official website of the band

http://www.udo-online.de