Visions Of Atlantis

Mindy McCready was remembered for her talent and struggle at a memorial service on 6th march 2013 in Nashville. Friends, family and members of the musical industry attended the service held in the Cathedral of the Incarnation, recalling the life of the troubled star, who gets suicide last month at 37 years old.

Three of the Mindy’s recordings was played during the service, including rendition of Garth Brooks “The Dance”, singers White, Morgan and Bramlett also performed a mix of traditional hymns and contemporary spiritual-themed songs. Morgan sang “Ave Maria” and Bramlett delivered an acoustic version of “How Great Thou Art”.

Mindy’s friend and publicist, Kate Atwood, said that “Mindy was cleaver. She was witty. She was a lady. She was a wildcat ….. Music was her therapy, her life, her escape, her victory and her tragedy.”

Lorry, her former RCA labelmate shared that the two of them who attended many parties thrown by the record company in the 1990s, were once reprimanded by the head of the label for wearing outfits which too skimpy and for indulging in too much tequila and dancing on the bar.

Lorrie said that “we became instant friends because of having a lot in common, music and heartache. Mindy was a bright star in our lives, but nothing that bright burns forever”.

Her former band member and friend Jimmy Nichols said about Mindy, “Her outward strength hid a vulnerability that percolated from deep within. She had a deep faith in GOD, but she also felt GOD is the one who let her down.”

He also noted that her musical life was much shorter and she remained in the headlights for the difficulties she had been facing after her success. Her career in the industry was much short, two years, and within this time, she had become a very familiar and popular face in the industry.

If you are a lover of black metal song, then you might have heard of “Summoning”. Personally the Austrian band is one of my favorites and I love the vocal and the music compositions they created with their past 6 albums.

They took their inspiration from J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle-earth methodology and composed some of the legendary songs like “Land of the dead”. “Might and Glory”, “Elf-stones”, and “The Fight of the Najgul” were some of their greatest creations.

The Austrian band was formed in 1993 and since the day of their formation, they have released 6 albums to the market. One year ago, the band announced that they have been trying hard to compose their seventh album.

It has been almost a year the fans are waiting for the new one, but didn’t receive any updates on the progress. However, the band has now issued a new update about the upcoming album. The name of the new album is “Old Mornings Dawn” and they even completed the cover.

In December 2012, they recorded all the guitar riffs for the “Old Mornings Dawn” and Protector recorded already his vocal lines. The vocal parts have also been completed in the last month.

Recently, they publish in their website that they are a slowly coming to an end. They also finalized the booklet, sound and two bonus songs. A one minuet teaser will be available soon and the album will probably be released in March or April.

To me, this is great news as I have been waiting for their new album for so long. If you love metal song, they I would say you won’t be disappointed with their new album because they did some great songs in the past.

Have you ever heard about Lilman Arteaga? He’s one of the most popular pintsize rappers from Brooklyn. Not so long ago, no one knew him. But after his first music video Pull Ya Pants Up he got huge popularity among rap music lovers. His first video featured Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and when it released in the summer, it went viral. Till now more than 107,000 visitors loved this video. In the video he represented today’s trend of guys wearing their pants sagging.

After the huge hit of his first hilarious video, he started working with his second song. The song is entitled as ‘Stop da Violence’. The lyric of this song addresses the issues and dangerous effects of gun violence, domestic torture and bullying. The video will show us the bad impact of violence and request to stop it. A group of school children is appealing to put the gun down and stop this dangerous violence throughout the video.

On the 14th December, a shooting took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. 20 school students and six teachers were killed in this tragic shooting. In his ‘Stop da Violence’ music video, Lilman wants to pay a tribute to these ill-fated students and teachers. At the end of the video he included a tribute for them.

It’s very important for the youngsters to know what’s happening around them. As a young person, Lilman can easily reach to other youngsters and share his thoughts. He got a large number of fans most of them are young so he easily can reach them through his music and give them the proper message. He intends to meet with the president and share his plan about stopping violence and creating a change. Through this music video he is hoping to reach more young peoples and make a stand against violence.

Alternative power metal band Imagine Dragon strikes again. After their greatest hit ‘It’s Time’ this alternative band has again released their new music video. After releasing ‘It’s Time’, Imagine Dragons got huge popularity through young generations and alternative rock song lovers. The band officials are expecting their newly released music video will attract lots of fans and it’ll create a positive impact for their follow-up single ‘Radioactive’.

If you listen to the lyrics you’ll think of dark and broken world but watch the video and you’ll get something else. This Las Vegas based band has decided to take a different path so they added unique mixture in their video. They introduced a fantastical world of puppet fights to their fans with La Bamba actor Lou Diamond Phillips. They intend to reach to their fans in a new way and the actor performed outstanding to represent the main theme.

Front man Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, drummer Daniel Platz-man, manager Mac Reynolds and Phillips seemed beyond content with the results in an exclusive behind-the-scenes snap of the Upstate New York shoot.

In an interview with MTV, the band manger Reynolds explained why they didn’t walk through the traditional way. He stated, ‘A lot of people probably see a post-apocalyptic world when they hear ‘Radioactive,’ understandably, but we wanted to deliver something that was maybe a little different from that’.

Before shooting this video the band officials read tons of scripts from different talented directors and they choose one that stood out to them in particular. The script puts into visuals the general theme of the song. This is an empowering song about an awakening and they are successful to give their message to the fans in an extra-ordinary way.

We all heard a saying that a picture is worth thousand words. Truly a moment can describe the whole event. So much is a music video created entirely out of still photos worth? Yes, I am speaking the truth. An indie band from Mexico City named “The Plastics Revolution” created a music video for their song using only still pictures taken on Instagram.

We all know more or less about Instagram, it is a photo sharing app that lets you create stunning images directly from your smartphone. This app is not widely used for social media tool or as a photography application. But suddenly I think this music video utilized this app pretty well.

The four minute video of the song named “Invasion” took about five months to produce from start to finish. This video comprises of still images only from Instagram and it was coordinated or you can say directed by Arturo Perez, a San Francisco photographer. This idea of using Instagram first came into mind of Perez, he said “The initial idea came because I really like Instagram. I think it’s a way to be creative all the time.”

The lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Julio Gudino said the six members of The Plastics Revolution, who are also close friends wanted to collaborate with a photographer they personally aware of. The production process of this music video was very lengthy one. The photos are taken by Perez by a SLR camera and then into his computer and next to his iPhone. After that each photo was uploaded to Instagram and passed onto various filters and edits. Finally, to produce the stop-motion cinema effect the images were streamed and edited together. Perez took 45,000 photos in total but cutting it down to 1,905 still pictures to create an aesthetically pleasing stop-motion music video.

If you are a music lover and want to check the latest hits what are people enjoying right now then take a deep look. Here I’ve collected the latest hits. These are the best current hottest videos. Check it and find out what music are attracting the today’s listeners.

We Are Young: It’s one of the best pop songs in recent time. From the pop band FUN this song has become a breakthrough. Just after the release it attracted pop lovers and is going to be one of the best songs of the year. The music video uses slow motion in such a way that seems to fit perfectly the music.

Good Girl: The music video of “Good Girl” is an amazing clip. Through the video, we can see the depictions of both bad and good girl. It focuses on the star and present the singer, Carrie Underwood, at the most visually positive way possible.

Oblivion: Canadian singer plus songwriter Claire Boucher alias Grimes who have had great success in recent days. This song is based on the songwriter. The video is humorous and somewhat disturbing.

Climax by Usher: It was directed by Sam Pilling who is considered as one of the rising video director. It’s being considered as one of the greatest work of the director. On the other hand, Usher is a great entertainer and he knows how to keep the attention of the people.

Somebody That I used to Know: In the lyric an artistic relationship has been represented. It’s composed by Gotye and featured by Kimbra. This song really has been a breakthrough for the singer. Though the video begins with Gotye naked but you’ll love it.

It’s really tough to list the most expensive music videos that has ever made. After quite research we find out and verified from several sources and made a list for 5 most expensive music videos. Here’s the list goes:

1. Scream: Michael Jackson featuring Janet Jackson made this video in 1995 which cost approximately $7,000,000 ~ $10,399,914. Michael Jackson is one of the most favorite music artists of all time. This music video of his and his sister’s features doing futuristic leisure activities whilst screaming and singing in a space station. This video won Best Short Form Music Video award of MTV in 1995.

2. Express Yourself: This amazing music video by Madonna cost $5,000,000 ~ $9,129,879. It was released in 1989 has got the second position in most expensive music video list. Anyone can debate which was Madonna’s best time 80’s or 90’s. But especially this music video is one of the most amazing creations of her. It was directed by famous director David Fincher.

3. Die Another Day: Madonna strikes again. The third place of this list goes to her Die Another Day which cost $6,100,000 ~ $7,677,421. This video was originally aired on 14th November, 1991 and was directed by Jhon Landis.

4. Estangled: The Fourth place goes to Guns N’ Roses music video. This music video was directed by Andy Morgan which cost $6,435,384 to product. It was originally aired on December 1993. There’re numerous spectators of Guns N’ Roses across the world and to them it was an amazing gift by their beloved band.

5. Victory: The fifth most expensive music video is from Puff Daddy. Victory was aired on 31st March 1998. It cost $3,849,898 and was directed by Marcus Nispel. It features The Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes.

Orden Ogen, the German power metal band has announced the release and track list of their upcoming album “To the End”. According to the band manager the release date of this album been fixed and it’ll be 26th Oct. of this year. This album will feature “Angels War” and “Mystic Symphony”. These two songs will be familiar to the fans. Orden Ogen has decided to re-record these two songs in the studio. These two songs have been performed by the band in several open air program but never been included in any of their previous album.

Band’s guitarist and vocalist Seeb Levermann is excited about the featured songs and said, “It was an easy decision to have both tracks featured on an official Orden Ogan album finally.’The Mystic Symphony’ is from one of our very early demos, while ‘Angels War’ was part of our self-released “Testimonium A.D.” recording from 2004. Since eight years now, both songs are part of our live set because the reactions have always been very good. And of course fans ever since kept asking where they could get these tracks. When we started working on ‘To The End’, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to ‘legitimize’ the two songs and make them a part of the new album.”

Legendary artist Andreas Marschall designed the cover network for ‘To the End’. They have already worked for four albums in the past years and they wanted to keep it going. Orden Ogen wants everything to be real and handmade and it suits perfectly with Marschall’s art work.

This album will contain ‘The frozen few, To the end, The things we believe In, Land of the dead, The ice kings, Till the stars cry out, This world of ice, Dying paradise, Mystic symphony, Angels war and Take this light’ total 11 tracks.

Orden Ogen, the German power metal band has announced the release and track list of their upcoming album “To the End”. According to the band manager the release date of this album been fixed and it’ll be 26th Oct. of this year. This album will feature “Angels War” and “Mystic Symphony”. These two songs will be familiar to the fans. Orden Ogen has decided to re-record these two songs in the studio. These two songs have been performed by the band in several open air program but never been included in any of their previous album.

Band’s guitarist and vocalist Seeb Levermann is excited about the featured songs and said, “It was an easy decision to have both tracks featured on an official Orden Ogan album finally.’The Mystic Symphony’ is from one of our very early demos, while ‘Angels War’ was part of our self-released “Testimonium A.D.” recording from 2004. Since eight years now, both songs are part of our live set because the reactions have always been very good. And of course fans ever since kept asking where they could get these tracks. When we started working on ‘To The End’, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to ‘legitimize’ the two songs and make them a part of the new album.”

Legendary artist Andreas Marschall designed the cover network for ‘To the End’. They have already worked for four albums in the past years and they wanted to keep it going. Orden Ogen wants everything to be real and handmade and it suits perfectly with Marschall’s art work.

The track list of this new power metal album is:

? The Frozen Few
? To The End
? The Things We Believe In
? Land Of The Dead
? The Ice Kings
? Till The Stars Cry Out
? This World Of Ice
? Dying Paradise
? Mystic Symphony
? Angels War
? Take This Light

Lots of fans are searching everyday for power metal albums. Power metal songs contain lot variety than traditional rock or melodious songs. Amazing guitar solos, excellent melody and moreover unique nature drags the bewitch fans. In here, we will discuss about record breaking top 5 albums of all time from power metal bands.

1. Wintersun (2004): is the best creation of power metal band Wintersun. With eight amazing tracks this album is the top in the most favorite power metal albums list. Fans love the outstanding composition and guitar playing. Only one man, Jari Mäenpää behind the bass, keyboard and microphone plays magnificently and wins the heart of million.
2. Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II (1988): is the third album composed by German power metal band Helloween. Soon after the release, it gained huge popularity in Asia, Europe even United States. Album contains nine tracks with two solos “Dr. Stein” and “I Want Out”. This album went bullion in Germany and reached #108 in the US.
3. Imaginations from The Other Side (1995): is the fifth studio album of Blind Guardian. It was the first album of this power metal band to spawn off any singles, in form of “A Past and Future Secret” and “Bright Eyes”. With bonus tracks and videos this album was re-composed and re-released on 15 June 2007.
4. The Black Halo (2005): is the seventh full length album from symphonic metal band Kamelot. Based on Goethe’s Faust, this concept album was released on March 15, 2005 from Steamhammer Records. On the spring of 2009, this album was released on vinyl with eighteen tracks.
5. Land Of The Free (1995): from German power metal band Gamma Ray it is the fourth studio album. It is first album of Gamma Ray with Kai Hansen as the lead vocal. Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween) and Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) appeared as guest vocalists in it. In 2003, the album was re-released with different cover and expanded track-list.