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We are in the home stretch with only three genre's remaining. Since Alternative we have met the final bar of 7 entries, and by the end of the wrap we will almost triple that amount. Hard Rock has 10 entries this quarter. The Loud Stuff represents.
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
Amongst The Giants - Obscene
Evanescence - Synthesis Live
Fight The Fury - Still Breathing EP
Innerwish - Inner Strength
Innerwish - Silent Faces
Leah - The Quest
Memphis May Fire - Broken
P.O.D. - Circles
Righteous Vendetta - Reignite: The Fire Inside
Silent Planet - When The End Began
The Innerwish albums are re-releases from 2004 and 2006. The Ladies are well represented with Celtic Metalist Leah and Amy Lee represented. And we even have a return from P.O.D., a legend of sorts. Pop is next. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.
The end of a year and the start of the next. It's a special time. We are in the swing of things here at Night Beat HQ. I think Youppi got into the spiked eggnog at the Christmas Party. Wearing a lampshade and singing Frere Jacque non stop. Oh well. Here's to the New Year.
Christmas Music (Non-Eligible)
Alan Cox - O Holy Night (Acoustic) (Single) 4.25 Emeralds
Finding Favour - Christmas on the Radio (Single) 4.25 Emeralds
Jada Mayson - Son of God, Son of Mine (Single) 4.75 Emeralds
Rachael Nemiroff - Joy To The World (Wondrous Love) (Single) 5 Emeralds
Cindy Cruse Ratcliff - Glorious EP 4.75 Emeralds
The Royal Royal - Ding Dong Merrily On High (Single) 4.75 Emeralds
Smalltown Poets - Carol of The Bells 5 Emeralds
Christmas 2018 is now over. On to the regular stuff. We begin with the songs.
The Singles Scene
Meredith Andrews - A Million Saints 5 Emeralds
Demon Hunter - On My Side 4.75 Emeralds
Demon Hunter - Peace 4.75 Emeralds
Elias Dummer - Heartbeat 4.75 Emeralds
Hillsong United - Good Grace 5 Emeralds
Peabod - Anti-Social 4.75 Emeralds
Sadie Robertson - One (ft LO Worship) 4.75 Emeralds
Switchfoot - All I Need 4.75 Emeralds
On to the albums. Even in the Spirit of Christmas we can't give everyone passing grades.
Missing The Mark
Ty Brasel - Destined for Greatness 3.75 Emeralds
Man of Faith - Insomniac 3.50 Emeralds
Spirit Fit Music - Worship Workout Hits, Volume 3 3.50 Emeralds
Spirit Fit Music - Worship Workout Hist, Volume 3 (Instrumentals) 3.75 Emeralds
Only one comment. Those workout musics inspired me to give up working out. On to the good music.
Pure Platinum Perfection
Celldweller - Remixed Upon a Blackstar Instrumentals 5 Emeralds
Color Theory - The Majesty of Our Broken Past (Instrumetals) 5 Emeralds
Eowyn - Just Believe 5 Emeralds
Hammock - Universalis 5 Emeralds
Andy Hunter - Presence, Volume 3 5 Emeralds
Scandroid - The Darkness 5 Emeralds
A very good showing for the end of the year. We give and receive the best here at Night Beat HQ. All we can say is WOW. And we bring things to a close with the middle ground.
Semi Precious Metals
Canon - Home 4.75 Emeralds
CRC Music - Greater Than All, Part 2 EP 4.75 Emeralds
High Street Hymns - High Street Hymns 4.50 Emeralds
Righteous Vendetta - Reignite: The Fire Inside 4.75 Emeralds
3C Live - Good To Me (Live) 4.75 Emeralds
2018 is in the bag. Have a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year everyone. We will be taking a short break for Christmas, but we hope to have our best of 2018 out before the New Year turns. If we don't, we will see you in 2019. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.
Welcome Back to an all new edition of Music Video Monday. We will be moving all around the genres from now on. We have four Music Videos this week. First up is a bit of Metal. Heavy Metal in the form of Righteous Vendetta. This is The Fire Inside. Slowing it down just a tad. This is Five Iron Frenzy, one of the SKA bands. This is Zen and The Art of Xenophobia. Moving on to Alt-Rock. This is Scott Stapp, former lead singer of Creed. This is Slow Suicide. Finally we move on to Hip Hop. This is a rising new duo from Diverse City Seth and Nirva. This is Whole World. Next Monday we will have three videos, with not an Irish Tune among them. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.
Welcome Back to an all new edition of Music Video Monday. No holiday this week (knock on wood). And the rugrats are back in school. So, things are back to normal.We are in a Headbanging Mood this week, so let's hit you with some heavy metal videos. We begin our day with a Vendetta. Righteous Vendetta, that is. This is This Pain. Next up we go to a legend. Stryper is with us, and there is No More Hell To Pay. Impending Doom is upon us, though, as it is Doomsday. And we close with a Lyric Video from Stryper Frontman Michael Sweet. This is The Cause. That does it for this week folks. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.
Welcome to the latest edition of Music Video Monday, where we at The Night Beat endeavor to bring you the best music videos from among the CCM (at least how I define it) world. We begin with a concept video by Close Your Eyes entitled Carry You off of their album Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts. It's a reminder that Love Survives All, Even Death.We move on to a Live Concert Video. Thrash Fans rejoice. This is As I Lay Dying and Paralyzed, off of their album Decas. This one goes down as a Hybrid Live/Concept, but we keep it hard. This is Righteous Vendetta and John The Revelator off of Lawless
Back to Concert Video, though done outside, so I guess it goes as Hybrid as well. Beware the Wolves at the Gate and their Heralds. This is off We are The Ones.
We finish with a Concept Video, though I would say it is interesting. Their was an old Minolta Camera ad campaign that said "From the Mind of Minolta". Let's just leave this as "From the Mind of A Plea For Purging". This is Heart of A Child off of The Life and Death of A Plea For Purging.I had originally planned to combine Hard Rock and Rock into One Post, but as I started looking I found too many videos to make that feasible. Next Monday we will continue with Rock. Among other things, it will be Amy Lee time once again. Until then I am Awaiting Your Reply.
