Katatonia "The Great Cold Distance"

The Great Cold Distance is the seventh full-length album by Swedish metal band Katatonia, released on 13 March 2006. The album was recorded and mixed at Fascination Street Studios, Örebro between May and August 2005.

The album was re-released on March 12, 2007, with two bonus tracks and with the entire album in 5.1 surround sound.

There is also a special Swedish edition of the album, which came in a limited edition box with an exclusive Katatonia poster, a set of Katatonia postcards and an enhanced video of "My Twin". Music videos were also released for singles "Deliberation" and "July".

The album is listed at number 8 on PopMatters' list of the Top Metal Albums of 2006.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Jonas Renkse; all music is composed by Renkse and Anders Nyström, except "Deliberation", co-written by Fredrik Norrman.

1. "Leaders" 4:21
2. "Deliberation" 4:00
3. "Soil's Song" 4:12
4. "My Twin" 3:41
5. "Consternation" 3:51
6. "Follower" 4:46
7. "Rusted" 4:21
8. "Increase" 4:20
9. "July" 4:45
10. "In the White" 4:54
11. "The Itch" 4:20
12. "Journey Through Pressure" 4:21

Total length: 51:51

Kataklysm "Prevail"

Prevail is the ninth studio album by Canadian death metal band Kataklysm, released May 23, 2008 in Europe and June 6, 2008 in North America. Music videos were filmed for the tracks "Taking The World By Storm" and "Blood in Heaven".

Track listing

1. "Prevail" 3:54
2. "Taking the World by Storm" 3:59
3. "The Chains of Power" 3:19
4. "As Death Lingers" 3:30
5. "Blood in Heaven" 5:15
6. "To the Throne of Sorrow" 4:49
7. "Breathe to Dominate" 3:59
8. "Tear Down the Kingdom" 4:21
9. "The Vultures Are Watching" 5:57
10. "The Last Effort (Renaissance II)" 5:01

Total length: 44:10

A bonus DVD was included containing the "Taking the World by Storm" video, a photo gallery and a live performance in December 2007 at DeepRockDrive studios in Las Vegas. The songs were voted for by fans watching the performance online.

1. "Like Angels Weeping (The Dark)"  
2. "As I Slither"  
3. "In Shadows & Dust"  
4. "Crippled and Broken"  
5. "The Ambassador of Pain"  
6. "Let Them Burn"  
7. "Manipulator of Souls"  
8. "The Resurrected"  
9. "Face The Face of War"  
10. "Where The Enemy Sleeps"  
11. "The Road To Devastation"  

Bass player Stéphane Barbe was replaced by François Mongrain from the band Martyr for the performance, as he was home for the birth of his daughter.

Recording information:

Recorded at JFD Studio in Ste-Marthe Sur Le Luc, Quebec, Canada.

Mixed at Audiohammer Studio in Sanford, Florida, USA.

Mastered at West West Side Music in New Windsor, New York, USA.

Kältetod "Reue"

Kältetod is a German Black Metal band formed in 2001. Kältetod translates to "death by freezing".

Reue is their second full-length, released September 22nd, 2010.

Track list:

1. Intro 01:26
2. Vor entflammten Erinnerungen 07:07  
3. Zermürbt durch Reue 07:58  
4. Nur vom Eiswind noch getragen 06:17  
5. Das Lächeln der Verwesung 06:29  
6. In die Glut der Weltenseele 07:41  
7. Grau in grau 06:53  

Total time:  43:51  

“Reue” translates to “Repentant” in English.

Hand-numbered.

Judas Priest "Nostradamus"

Nostradamus is the sixteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, focusing on the 16th-century writer Nostradamus. It is a double album and the band's first concept album. It was originally intended to be released in late 2006 before being pushed back to a 2007 release, and was finally released in June 2008 on Epic Records. It is the band's final album to feature K. K. Downing, before his retirement.

Judas Priest toured with Motörhead, Heaven & Hell, and Testament on the Metal Masters Tour to promote Nostradamus. The band also performed a world tour in 2008 and 2009 in support of the album.

The Nostradamus concept idea originated from manager Bill Curbishley and was pitched to the band while on tour in Estonia in 2005. Guitarist K. K. Downing revealed in a February 2007 interview with Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles that 18 tracks had been recorded with a total length of more than 90 minutes and that there was not much he would like to cut down. Musically, the album contains symphonic orchestrations, including the use of keyboards and choirs, which is unlike anything the band has previously attempted. In November 2007, the band began mixing the album.

In November 2007, singer Rob Halford indicated that it was still undecided whether it would be a double-disc set or not. In April 2008, it was confirmed that the album would be released as a double-CD/triple vinyl LP.[

"Nostradamus" sold 42,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 11 on The Billboard 200 chart. This was the band's highest-ever chart position in the US before being surpassed by Redeemer of Souls in 2014, when it took the No. 6 position. According to Billboard.com, the album was released in Europe on 16 June 2008 and 17 June in United States. Three configurations of Nostradamus have been issued. The most common is a regular jewel-cased double CD, but there is also a "CD deluxe hardbound version", which features a 48-page booklet, while a "super deluxe version" includes three vinyl records (in addition to the CD deluxe packaging, plus a poster).

The title track was released on 12 April 2008 as a free download on Judas Priest's website through Epic Records. The second single "Visions" was released on 4 May 2008.

The title track was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards. The song "Visions" was also nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Hard Rock Performance.

The band has repeatedly made mention of a desire to perform the album in full, as part of a theatrical production, but the idea was scrapped, possibly due to the album's lukewarm reception by fans. Only two of the albums songs were performed live on the subsequent tour, "Prophecy" and "Death", with the former reappearing in the setlist in 2011-12.

Sputnikmusic said that with Nostradamus the band "has cast away both speed metal and hard rock in favour of a more symphonic metal approach", with the album having a "greater emphasis" on synthesizers, but not in the unsatisfying manner of their 1986 album Turbo. The reviewer said he thought it was "painfully obvious" that the band had been struggling to work in an unfamiliar style. Allmusic said that the album represented "epic metal" of the sort previously produced by Iron Maiden in 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. The album was seen to contain Spinal Tap-style clichés such as "melodramatic spoken interludes". "Dated" synthesizer string sounds added to the sense that the band was seeking filler material to make a double album, which "should have been" trimmed down to a single album. The album has sold over 100,000 copies in the US and 500,000 copies worldwide as of 2009.

Nostradamus centres on the life and times of the seer. The first disc details various forecasts he has about the future and the end of the world.

Track listing

All tracks are written by K. K. Downing, Glenn Tipton and Rob Halford.

Disc one

1. "Dawn of Creation" 2:32
2. "Prophecy" 5:27
3. "Awakening" 0:53
4. "Revelations" 7:05
5. "The Four Horsemen" 1:35
6. "War" 5:05
7. "Sands of Time" 2:37
8. "Pestilence and Plague" 5:09
9. "Death" 7:34
10. "Peace" 2:22
11. "Conquest" 4:42
12. "Lost Love" 4:28
13. "Persecution" 6:34

Disc two

1. "Solitude" 1:23
2. "Exiled" 6:33
3. "Alone" 7:50
4. "Shadows in the Flame" 1:10
5. "Visions" 5:24
6. "Hope" 2:10
7. "New Beginnings" 4:57
8. "Calm Before the Storm" 2:05
9. "Nostradamus" 6:43
10. "Future of Mankind" 8:30

Recording information:

Recorded at The Old Smithy Studio, UK.

Mixed at Bauwhaus Amsterdam.

Mastered at Bawhaus Amsterdam and at Amsterdam Mastering.

Judas Priest "Living After Midnight (Single & Video)"

"Living After Midnight" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally featured on their 1980 album British Steel, which was their first gold album in the United States selling more than 500,000 copies (and eventually went platinum for selling at least 1 million). The song speaks to the hedonistic, rebellious spirit of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and is among the band's most popular songs.

The song title came about when Glenn Tipton awakened Rob Halford with his loud guitar playing at 4 AM, during the band's stay at Tittenhurst Park to record British Steel. Halford commented to Tipton that he was "really living after midnight", and Tipton replied that Halford's comment was a great title for the song he was working on.

On live performances, the line, "I took the city 'bout one a.m.", is sometimes changed to the particular city or venue the band is performing. For example, on the DVD Rising in the East, lead vocalist Rob Halford sings, "I took the Budokan 'bout one a.m.", in reference to the stadium in Tokyo, Japan, that hosted the concert. On the Westwood One recordings from the 1983 US Festival Halford recites, "I took some acid about 1 a.m ..."

The music video, directed by Julien Temple and shot live at the Sheffield City Hall, begins with drummer Dave Holland playing an invisible drum kit. During the guitar solo, fans on the front row play along with their cardboard guitars (which were the prominent fan symbols of the new wave of British heavy metal movement).

This song has been covered by The Donnas on their album The Donnas Turn 21 (2001), by Saul Blanch on the tribute album Acero Argentino: Tributo a Judas Priest (2006), by L.A. Guns on Hell Bent Forever: A Tribute to Judas Priest (2008) and by Iron Savior as a bonus track on the Japanese release of their Condition Red (2002) album.

It was covered by Disturbed on the Tribute to British Steel (2010) CD by Metal Hammer UK music magazine, incorporating the opening drum salvo from "Painkiller". It also appears as one of the bonus songs available with some distributions of Asylum (2010), and also features on their B-sides compilation album The Lost Children (2011).

The guitar solo in the song is played by Glenn Tipton.

Side A

1. Living After Midnight 03:31   

Side B

1. Delivering the Goods (live) 04:06   

Total time:  07:37  

Judas Priest "You've Got Another Thing Comin' (Single & Video)"

"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally released on their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance and released as a single later that year. In May 2006, VH1 ranked it fifth on their list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs. It became one of Judas Priest's signature songs along with "Electric Eye" and "Breaking the Law", and a staple of the band's live performances. "You've Got Another Thing Comin" was first performed on the opening concert of the Vengeance World Tour at the Stabler Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on 26 August 1982 and had been played a total of 673 times through the 2012 Epitaph Tour.

The song reached No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it Judas Priest's only charting song in the United States. The song is written in the key of F-sharp minor.

Guitarist K.K. Downing on the song:

“You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” was without doubt the song that broke Judas Priest in America. By the summer of 1982, it wasn’t just getting heavy rotation in our stronghold areas of St. Louis and San Antonio. That song was everywhere. You couldn’t turn on a rock radio station anywhere in North America without hearing it. Bizarrely, it almost didn’t make it onto the album Screaming for Vengeance. It was only when we’d reached Florida for the final mixing of the album that the pieces of a track that we’d had lying around without ever committing to fully finally fell into our laps. And when it did, the song’s appeal seemed like the most obvious thing ever. “How did we miss it?” Tom Allom said. “I don’t know. But you could just imagine putting this on, getting in the car with the sun shining, and then blasting down a freeway,” Rob replied: “That’s it!” we all agreed. “It’s got all the elements of driving song. ”We hadn’t been aware of that intangible ingredient when we wrote it, of course. But there’s no doubt that it had the kind of beat and tempo that, even if you were driving and going just thirty miles per hour, when you heard that duh-duh-duh-duh intro, you’d be simply compelled to accelerate. On top of that it gave you a happy, carefree feeling that was just so undeniable. Better still, everything about America at that time seemed to revolve around the ethos of “get in the car, turn up the stereo, and drive.” It was the ideal song for the time.

"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" has charted in two countries in United Kingdom and in United States. In the United Kingdom it peaked at No. 66 in the UK Singles Chart and in the US, it reached No. 4 on the Billboard rock chart.

Wayne Parry of the Associated Press called it, along with "Hell Bent for Leather" and "Living After Midnight", one of the "standards against which other metal tracks are measured".Greg Prato of AllMusic wrote that the song was what finally broke Judas Priest into the mainstream in the United States.

According to Steve Huey, also of AllMusic, "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is the band's signature tune.

• The song shows up on several video games, for example, it is featured on the jukebox of the first level of Prey; in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's radio station V-Rock; as downloadable content for Rock Band series (alongside the rest of the album Screaming for Vengeance), Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2; and a cover version is featured in Guitar Hero. It is also featured in 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K9 and EA Sports' NHL 12.
• The original song is also featured in the 2011 comedy film, Bad Teacher.
• The song was featured in a 2013 episode of Californication.
• The song was featured in a 2018 episode of "9-1-1 (TV series)"

Side A

1. You've Got Another Thing Comin' 05:10   

Side B

1. Exciter (live) 05:38   

Total time:   10:48