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Wreckage

Wreckage is the name of more than one artist. 1) Wreckage was a Belgian thrash band with two demos: Sight the five from 1994 and Confusedfrom 1996. They are currently split up. 2) WRECKAGE is the band of TONY LESTAT from the USA, who was a very active man in the late 80s/early 90s Gothic-scene in the USA. His bands LIKE WRECKAGE and the follow-up WRECKAGE were very active and here we get a fine collection of rare and unreleased tracks of typical US-Death-Rock at its best.

Read more about Wreckage on Last.fm.

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Blackmore's Night

Blackmore's Night is an English Renaissance-inspired medieval folk rock band led by UK guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (electric and acoustic guitars) and Candice Night (lyricist and lead vocals). The origins of the band lie in 1990 when Candice was working at a local New York rock music radio station, and as part of her work first encountered Ritchie (now ex-Deep Purple/Rainbow guitarist), then with Deep Purple, at a soccer game he was playing in. The two became romantically entwined and discovered that they shared a passionate interest in the Renaissance.

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Evanescence

Evanescence is a grammy-winning band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody (who left in 2003). After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, in 2003, which sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and helped the band win two Grammy Awards. A year later, Evanescence released their first live album, Anywhere But Home, which sold more than one million copies worldwide.

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The Dash

The Dash were a german rock band formed in 1998 in the low lands of the Rhine, consisting of Oliver laarmanns (guitar/background), Manfred ludewig (bass), Karl schillings (vocals) and Sascha tiebeke (drums/background). They released the 5 track EP "Roundabout" in late 1998.
The Dash is also a Finnish grunge metal band formed in 2003 consisting of band members: Lauri Koski (vocals, guitar), Jarkko Hassinen (bass, vocals), Tony Suominen (drums) and Samuli Väänänen (guitar).

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The Elements

There are several artists known as The Elements:
1. The Elements was an 80's band formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire. In December 1982. The Elements evolved into the post-punk/goth group Skeletal Family (http://www.last.fm/music/Skeletal+Family). 2. a four-piece from Birmingham formed in 2001. They are an indie band heavily influenced by rock 'n' roll. They have toured the UK supporting such artists as Paul Weller and The Bluetones. 3. Christian hard-rock/prog metal band from Slovakia. They've released two albums so far, Out of the Dark and Inner Fight for Freedom.

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Fields of the Nephilim

Fields of the Nephilim is a gothic rock band, active throughout the 1980s. They formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK in 1984. Carl McCoy, Gary Whisker, Tony Pettit and brothers Paul Wright and Alexander 'Nod' Wright were the starting lineup. Peter Yates joined by the time of their first release, replacing Gary Whisker. The band's name refers to magnetic fields and the biblical Nephilim race. Their sound was innovative in the gothic scene, incorporating heavy metal elements to make a hard, bass and guitar driven sound underneath McCoy's growled, doom metal-esque vocals.

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Kirlian Camera

Kirlian Camera was founded by the keyboardist/vocalist Angelo Bergamini in Parma, Italy in Spring 1980. The band really was born in 1979, called Suicide Commando, but this name was dropped for the existence of a namesake band. So, when Bergamini started to interest to paranormal phenomena, he knew about a special device invented by Semion Kirlian to take photos of the aura of the human body and from this took the name of the group, suggested by Mauro Montacchini.

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The Caves

A German Gothic Rock band active in the mid 90s. The Cure seems to have been one of their big influences, especially in vocals. They released two albums. Drifting In Visions in 1994 and Sue in 1995.

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Mandragora Scream

Mandragora Scream's Project was born in 1997 from an idea by Morgan Lacroix, who realized in 1999 a demo CD "Promo Track 99" in the New Sin Studios in Italy.
During the summer of 2000, Mandragora Scream (Morgan Lacroix) finally became a group. Morgan Lacroix and Terry Horn started together their journey and between the years 2000 and 2001 they realized their first album "Fairy Tales From Hell's Caves" (released by Nuclear Blast).

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