| 1. Planet Rock 2K (Down South Mix) |
| 2. Cloudy-Eyed Stroll (Remix) |
| 3. Flipside (Rough Version) |
| 4. Mizzizy Gets Bizzy |
| 5. On Our Way To L.A. |
| 6. Spend The Night |
| 7. Clueless |
| 8. Questions (Rough Draft) |
| 9. Now It's On |
| 10. Bitch Sickness |
| 11. Soldiers At War |
| 12. Cotton Soldier |
| 13. Relish |
| 14. Mitchell Bade (Interlude) |
| 15. Mitchell Bade |
Calm Before the Storm,Tech N9ne,Mizery Muzzick
Calm Before the Storm
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Calm Before the Storm
Paul Brandt Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002N5C Release Date: 2007-01-08 |
Tracks:
- My Heart Has A History
- Take It From Me
- I Do
- 12 Step Recovery
- I Meant To Do That
- One And Only One
- All Over Me
- Calm Before The Storm
- On The Inside
- Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)
Customer Reviews:
excellent.......2007-04-14
Surprisingly Good Album.......2007-02-20
Favorite Singer, Songwriter, and CD!.......2007-01-18
My all time favorite is My Heart Has a History. Paul's range is amazing.
I agree, he is underrated, and underplayed.
one of my best cd.......2004-12-21
Great Cd.......2002-06-08
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Storm Before the Calm
Dekapitator Manufacturer: Relapse ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000R8R6JS Release Date: 2007-08-06 |
Tracks:
- The Storm Before The Calm
- Toxic Sanctuary
- Deathstrike Command
- Run With The Pack
- The Call To Combat
- Eye Of The Storm
- Earthscorcher
- Screams From The Holocaust
- The Scourging
Album Details
Bay Area Thrash Metal Warriors Dekapitator Strike Back with Death Strike #2 the Storm Before the Calm, their Debut for Relapse Records. A Sharper, More Traditional Thrash Metal Attack that their Early Work, "The Storm Before the Calm" Impacts with all the Subtleties of the Armageddon Itself. Nine Nuclear Metal Offensives Bursting with Razor-sharp Staccato Riffing, Nerve-severing Vocals, and Full on Battery of Classic Metal Are Delivered with the Neck-snapping Fury of the Masters of the Genre. Dekapitator Are the Formidable New Leaders of the Thrash Metal Renaissance. Thrash Til Death!
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Calm Before.../Alive Again at Andover
The Rising Storm Manufacturer: Arf Arf ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005Y82X Release Date: 1995-09-01 |
Tracks:
- Don't Look Back
- To L.N./Who Doesn't Know
- I'm Coming Home
- A Message To Pretty
- In The Midnight Hour
- Frozen Laughter
- She Loved Me
- Mr. Wind
- Big Boss Man
- Bright Lit Blue Skies
- The Rain Falls Down
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Slow Down
- I'm Crying
- Signed D.C.
- I'm Coming Home
- A Message To Pretty
- In The Midnight Hour
- My Little Red Book
- Catch The Wind/The Singer Not The Song
- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
- Time Won't Let Me/Respectable
Album Description
First released in 1967, this is the crown jewel of sixties garage, with original copies fetching over $4,000 on eBay. Originals plus savvy covers of The Remains, Rockin' Ramrods, and Love make this a classic. Bonus 1983 live LP Alive Again at Andover.Customer Reviews:
A nice slice of New England garage!.......2007-01-12
In my book the final ten "reunion" songs are not total throwaways but taken for what they are worth, an amateurish uncoordinated goof session, they are certainly listenable. The guys appear to be having a good time, no doubt fueled by a bit of spirits, and that comes through loud and clear.
I would not recommend this to the casual listener but I believe that anyone with a devout interest in 60s garage would find this CD to be attractive from both a musical and historical perspective.
Excellent Garage Record!!!.......2004-01-02
--.......2003-09-13
More than half of this record is made up of covers that are, more often than not, weak. There's a few solid uptempo numbers like 'Don't Look Back' and the group original, 'I'm Coming Home,' with its surf guitar. Their version of the blues standard 'Baby Please Don't Go' is an unusual reading for it sounds as though it was recorded at Sun Studios. However, the one rocker you should really dig is 'She Loved Me'. You may not find a better slice of adolescent hormone celebration than this anywhere. The song rides an insistent wave of fuzz guitar and the drummer fails to understand his limits, but the cake is when the singer repeats the line, "And then she said she loved me" - news which the guitarist immediately celebrates with a guitar run full of such profound naive conviction that it's actually stunning and even heartbreaking - the sonic equivalent of the adrenaline rush and sheer joy that follows the successful courting of a young woman. It's even more effective with the cheap fuzztone he's got because it sounds as though his guitar is trying to take that next step to manhood with him.
'She Loved Me' aside, the big news on this record is the original folky ballads the band wrote themselves. 'Frozen Laughter' is the jewel of the bunch with its lyrics adapted from T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and hazy atmosphere. The "Honey, is that you?" spoken intro and tape cut-up at the end are both brilliant. 'To L.N./Who Doesn't Know' (outstanding title) displays an extremely sophisticated melodicism that's the all the more amazing considering that these are the same guys who did 'She Loved Me'. 'The Rain Falls Down' is good as well.
The final ten tracks on this release consist of a live gig the band did at their fifteen-year high school reunion in 1982 and its inclusion was extremely ill-advised.
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Calm Before the Storm
Dare Manufacturer: Mtm Music & Publish ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000250ER Release Date: 1998-05-01 |
Tracks:
- Walk On The Water
- Some Day
- Calm Before The Storm
- Rescue Me
- Silence Of Your Head
- Rising Sun
- Ashes
- Crown Of Thorns
- Deliverance
- Still In Love With You
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Calm Before the Storm
Venom Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000JKG7 Release Date: 1999-07-27 |
Tracks:
- Black Xmas
- Chanting of the Priests
- Metal Punk
- Under a Spell
- Calm Before the Storm
- Fire
- Krakin Up
- Beauty and the Beast
- Deadline
- Gypsy
- Muscle
Album Description
Remastered 1999 reissue of their 1987 album, which features the last recordings with Cronos on vocals before the band split. 11 tracks, including 'Black Xmas' and 'The Chanting Of The Priests'.Customer Reviews:
Experimental, but not without many faults.......2005-05-25
With this release, Venom (or what I've read from interviews, Cronos) decided to do some experimenting. Unlike Possessed where the music sounded worn-out, redundant and de-evolved, Storm does the total opposite and goes too far into left field and in the process Venom alienated a lot of their fans. Cronos and crew threw most of their "black metal" sound out the window for a more upbeat traditional simplistic thrash sound.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind when bands experiment (unless its Metallica). Without bands changing their sound or experimenting, we wouldn't have stellar albums like Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son or Judas Priest's Painkiller. But Venom's experiment...well...I guess it might have been better if the songs overall were better.
What really hurts album is the songs aren't that great. The new "sound" might have been more stomach-able if it produced some killer tracks. The only real standouts are Black X-Mas, Chanting of the Priests, and the title track, but that's about it. These songs are only memorable because of some catchy courses and some good rhythms. Black X-Mas, probably the albums best track, is far too short clocking in at just under the 3 minute mark. This only adds salt to an already open wound.
The rest of the songs are just simple and unmemorable. Metal Punk is an attempt at a "punk" metal song, and it fails. Under a Spell, Krakin' Up, Beauty and the Beast, Deadline, Gypsy, and Muscle all suffer from mediocrity with poor to silly lyrics and a considerable lack of good guitar solo's. It's sad to say but after listening to this album, I can see where Venom sorely misses Mantas's guitar talent and song writing abilities. Many people might be unaware but Mantas was responsible for most of Venom's more memorable and kick-ass songs from their earlier releases and without him, the band seems lost.
The one really good thing is that Venom finally got decent production as there is no comparing the production of Storm and Possessed when it comes to production quality. Sadly, just because an album has decent production doesn't necessarily make it good, as with the case here.
Fans retaliated against the album and Cronos knew it, so he took Mantas's replacements and jumped ship to record some solo albums where he would continue to refine this new "sound", and I have to admit, he did craft the sound better in his solo efforts (He would even re-record the song "Fire" for his solo compilation creatively titled "Venom")
Will die hard fans like this CD? Most probably won't but there are a few fans like me that will find at least a few songs too like here.
Calm Before the Storm...another entry into Venom's interesting and complex history as a heavy metal band. More interesting entries would come later....
It should also be mentioned that Storm has been re-released numerous times sometimes under different tiles and covers. Make sure to steer clear of the versions released under the names Metal Punk and Beauty and the Beast as they are cheap issues with silly cover art and considerably lower sound quality. Either get the original Neat Records release with the original lightning bolt cover or the Deadline re-issue with some sort of weird man/cat creature on the cover.
MIND BLOWER !!!!!!!!!.......2004-10-27
MANTAS left the band and was replaced by two extremely competent lead guitarrists.The 2 first tracks are excellent but traditional heavy metal style,exciting but kinda dissapointing compared to previous albums.From track 3¨Metal Punk¨on,all hell breaks loose
and the music starts whipping you in pure thrash fashion,of a very unique and particular style-new Venom-we could call it.It's
so intense and fast paced you won't believe your ears.The sound,unlike all previous albums,is increbible,almost pefect and featuring dynamics to spare !!! The new guitarrists'technique is
polished AND dirty at the same time,and Abbadon is at his best on the drums,that sound like a machine gun !!!
This release won't dissapoint either old or new fans,I just won't ever figure why it is so underrated,really beats me.It is,in my humble opinion,one of the best trash metal albums of all times.
Not Venom's best, but still an O.K. album.......2004-06-06
A REALLY different Venom........2003-06-08
Venom's low point.......2002-06-11
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New Classics for Guitar and Cello
Manufacturer: Valley ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009WW56 Release Date: 2003-07-22 |
Tracks:
- Minstrel's Courtyard
- Parisian Waltz
- Theme For Two Friends
- Great Blue Heron
- Toronto
- Arioso
- Calm Before The Storm
- Song For Liona
- Living Out A Dream
- Little Sister's Child
- Waiting For Matthew
- Estudio Brillante
- Recuerdos
Product Description
1. Minstrel's Courtyard
2. Parisian Waltz
3. Theme For Two Friends
4. Great Blue Heron
5. Toronto
6. Arioso
7. Calm Before The Storm
8. Song For Liona
9. Living Out A Dream
10. Little Sister's Child
11. Waiting For Matthew
12. Estudio Brilliante
13. Recuerdos
Format: CD
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Storm Before Calm
Primordial Manufacturer: Karmageddon Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000A1OF0K Release Date: 2005-07-11 |
Tracks:
- Heretics Age
- Fallen to Ruin
- Cast to the Pyre
- Suns First Rays [Instrumental]
- What Sleeps Within
- Sons of the Morrigan
- Hosting of the Sidhe
Album Description
UK pressing of the fourth album from the epic dark metal band includes the original 7 tracks plus the bonus track 'The Burning Season'. Karmageddon Media. 2005.
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Storm Before Calm
Primordial Manufacturer: Hammerheart America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006LSM0 Release Date: 2002-10-01 |
Tracks:
- The Heretics Age
- Fallen To Ruin
- Cast To The Pyre
- Suns First Rays
- What Sleep Within
- Sons Of The Morrigan
- Hosting Of The Sidhe
Customer Reviews:
An outstanding example of dark metal!!.......2002-12-07
Primordial's contribution to the world of melodic Black Metal is one that I stress should not be overlooked. They make it all seem exciting and novel again. Their approach is mature, progressive, enthusiastic, and intensely emotional. Even the fastest and most aggressive parts are infused with a hypnotic beauty that not only tugs at the strings of the heart but also quickens the pulse into throbbing, euphoric overdrive. The listener is hard pressed to resist the band's majesty and not be carried along into their misty gray world. Nemtheanga's voice provides the final pinch of pain and suffering to the near overwhelming grandeur of the driving anthematic music. From a soaring venomous rasp to his frequently employed near guttural groans make for an honest, genuine expression of primal passion. Some vocal purists might wince at Nemtheanga's regular tendency to slip out of key, but for whatever reason, it works and has the same profoundly distressed effect that worked so well for the early Anathema releases (both the Darren White period and when Vince Cavanagh first approached the mic on "The Silent Enigma") The emotion is raw and riddled with a convincing anguish, rather than the blind manufactured rage that seems to fuel most aggressive metal vocalists. There is vulnerability here, as opposed to inflated machismo.
Though Primordial is by no means a simple band, they do not bother with virtuosity for virtuosity's sake. Their music is genuine, precise, progressive, and terrifying in its grandeur. It is the importance and coherence of atmosphere that shapes how the music is structured and what is necessary to make the songs strong and memorable, and what brings them to life. The Black Metal aspects come straight from the early old school days of the genre's infancy, but are filtered and cleaned up to present a crisp, clear production (I might suggest a comparison to the guitar stylings Opeth and Katatonia in a frenzied, manic state or perhaps Burzum with melody). Basically, they make Black Metal listenable, while remaining faithful to the necessary aggression and confrontational elements that are part and parcel to the purest examples of the genre.
I cannot say enough good things about this release. I decided to avoid highlighting the strengths of individual tracks, simply because "Storm Before Calm" is comprised of seven tightly structured songs that work in unison to present a complete continuous work. It is best to be absorbed as a whole and I hope that fans of elite, high quality dark metal music of all kinds do not wait as long as I did to begin a relationship with this indisputably talented band. Metal fans would be wise to purchase this release immediately!
*extracted from my review at StarVox.net
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Calm Before the Storm
Poet Name Life Manufacturer: Immergent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009UVBJ0 Release Date: 2005-07-12 |
Tracks:
- She Got Me
- See You Live
- Phuture
- You & I
- Rain
- Get Down Tonight
- So Into You
- Off The Wall
- Bive Eternis
- Shaddow Ninja
Album Description
As the DJ for the Black Eyed Peas, Poet Name Life has established himself as one of the newest members of Los Angeles' music elite. His first full-length album, Calm Before The Storm, features tunes embodying a dynamic and futuristic musical collision between worlds of live instrumentation, free-form jazz, club-moving, head-bobbing, hip-hop, and loungy, tweaked out electronics. Poet innovatively combines spacey Moog riffs, stripped-down turntablistics, hard drumbeats, and the lush instrumentation of live musicians.Customer Reviews:
Poet is amazing!.......2007-06-18
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The Calm Before the Storm
Tech N9ne Manufacturer: Midwestside Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000051XS3 Release Date: 2006-03-21 |
Tracks:
- Planet Rock 2K (Down South Mix)
- Cloudy-Eyed Stroll (Remix)
- Flipside (Rough Version)
- Mizzizy Gets Bizzy
- On Our Way To L.A.
- Spend The Night
- Clueless
- Questions (Rough Draft)
- Now It's On
- Bitch Sickness
- Soldiers At War
- Cotton Soldier
- Relish
- Mitchell Bade (Interlude)
- Mitchell Bade
Customer Reviews:
Tech N9ne - The Calm Before the Storm Volume 1.......2006-10-05
1. Planet Rock 2K [Down South Remix] - 4.5/5
2. Cloudy-Eyed Stroll [Remix] - 4/5
3. Flipside [Rough Version] - 4/5
4. Mizzy Gets Bizzy (Featuring Don Juan) - 4/5
5. On Our Way to L.A. (Featuring Don Juan) - 4/5
6. Spend the Night (Featuring Rocky Money & Paul Law) - 5/5
7. Clueless (Featuring Larone Burnette & Sole) - 4/5
8. Questions [Rought Draft] - 4.5/5
9. Now It's On (Featuring Lejo) - 4.5/5
10. B**** Sickness (Featuring Phats Bossilini & Rame Royal) - 4/5
11. Soldiers at War (Featuring Don Juan, Big Scoob, Short Nitty & L.V.) - 4/5
12. Cotton Soldier - 4.5/5
13. Relish - 5/5
14. Mitchell Bade (Interlude) - No Rating
15. Mitchell Bade (Featuring Bakarii) - 5/5
Overall:
61/70
4.5 Stars
Very solid debut from Tech. He kills every single track with his gruesome lyrics and his sick, crazy flow. A must have for any rap fan!
Got Cash?.......2005-05-25
He is the best!.......2004-01-18
TechN9ne.......2003-06-07
True Mid West Rap.......2001-04-21
Rap Music:
- Clear & Present Danger
- Countryman [Import]
- Dead Presidents [Explicit Lyrics]
- Devious
- Dirty Harriet [Clean]
- Dirty Trunks [Explicit Lyrics]
- DJ Red Alert's Propmaster Dancehall Show
- DJ Red Alert's Propmaster Dancehall Show
- Do You Feel Me [CD-single]
- Down South Bounce [Explicit Lyrics]
Recommended Music:
The Best of Sue Medley [Import]
Bach: The English Suites, Nos. 1-3; Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue
Blue Billie [Import] [Original recording remastered]
A Proper Introduction to Cowboy Copas: Signed, Sealed and Delivered