...Meanwhile is the tenth studio album by British pop band 10cc. It was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, The Hit Factory, New York, River Sound Studios, New York, Bill Schnee Studio, Los Angeles and Village Recorders, Los Angeles and released in 1992.

Undercover is the 17th British and 19th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1983. After their preceding studio album, Tattoo You (1981), which was mostly patched together from a selection of outtakes, Undercover was their first release of all new recordings in the 1980s. With the advent of the MTV generation, the band attempted to re-invent themselves for a new era.

Scotch - итальянская итало-диско группа, существовавшая в 1982—1987 годах. В 2004 году группа была объединена на один вечер в рамках фестиваля «Дискотека 80-х».

One of Brazil’s finest imports, Hibria, is back at it again with their fresh, invigorating EP, XX. Their current lineup – vocalist Iuri Sanson, drummer Eduardo Baldo, bassist Ivan Beck, with guitarists Abel Camargo and Renato Osório – presented the EP this past Tuesday, commemorating 20 years of the band’s existence. XX provides a perfect dosage of kicking blues licks, soaring power metal vocals, and gripping progressive rock experimentation. Veterans of metal, Hibria have been doing their thing for two decades now… so it’s a real shame that I’m only now discovering their progressive flair. Furthermore, XX is a great testament to their aptitude for creating a unique blend of metal, in all its glory and magnificence.

This is a dense album with lots going on and the band brought in a host of guest musicians and producers to help flesh(god) out their ginormous concepts. Guitarists Ricardo Dias and Vitor Carvalho do some impressive work leapfrogging across genres and styles, managing to craft quality goth, death and black metal riffs to fit the various songs as needed. They aren’t particularly flashy players but they know how to drive a song with a riff. Dias is also credited with the orchestral arrangements, which are omnipresent and generally well executed. They aren’t always as well anchored to the core of the music as with Shade Empire and Septicflesh, but they certainly work. Ernesto Guerra was required to pull off multiple vocal styles to make this all come together and he should be commended for his solid performance. His death roars are respectable and his singing is often quite emotional. Considering he’s a fairly limited vocalist, he really stretched his capabilities and helped put the material over the top.

Equilibrium have crafted an album full of cool, catchy tunes that makes you want to bang your head to the heavy as shit guitars, tap your foot to the big hooks, groove to the rhythm and want to go off reserve like you’re at a European progressive trance gig – all at the same time. There must something in northern European water that brings out almost virtuoso inventiveness, and Equilibrium can comfortably take their place alongside their Scandinavian brethren and fellow creative geniuses such as Vintersorg and Witherscape.