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Picture Credit: Max Eve Artwork: Stephen Delorme & Cuyler Goure Max Eve - Vertigo Release Date: September 11, 2012 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 33:40 Genre: Prog Metal Origin: Atlanta (Georgia) , USA Max Eve ’s debut “Vertigo” is an ideal flagship for the Prog Metal genre. On six instrumental tracks, the artist from Georgia presents powerful and sophisticated guitar-dominated music. Each of the songs is defined by an immense versatility and a highly exciting structure. Max Eve understands how to create opulent arcs of suspension and thereby write stunning narratives that do not need any words or vocals. The music on “Vertigo” is an intelligent combination of Classical themes, atmospheric Prog Rock and AOR, and the powerful but melodic force of Heavy Metal. Max Eve masterfully draws a golden line leading through this six-track album, and thus makes the 34-minute album become a coherent oeuvre despite its huge variety – a true masterpiece of eclectic rock and metal! ...

It begins with violent intro that could be from "A Clockwork Orange". Classical music, screams, yelling and moaning. And then the brutality kicks in. Surgery from Poprad, Slovakia have recently dropped an amazing double re-release. The thirteen-track album contains their 2012 album "Descent", their 2010 EP "Pulled by the Rope" and a very special bonus track to which we will come back later. "Descent / Pulled by the Rope" is available via Czech label Support Underground as a shiny digipack CD. The music on the two re-issues throws us back into a time when Death Metal was raw, brutal and straightly hammering through your eardrums. No gimmicks, no high-pitch leads, no bullshit. Just honest, brachial, mincing and heavily rolling Old School Death Metal . As Surgery have gone through some changes in their line-up in the last years, the band has now reformed. In their new formation they are heavily working on spreading the word of Death Metal v...