Hidden Treasures is an EP by American thrash metal band Megadeth,released on July 18,1995,via Capitol Records. The album features songs that originally appeared on film soundtracks and tribute albums. Four of the tracks were released as singles,and three have received Grammy Award nominations for Best Metal Performance. Despite having garnered mediocre or negative reviews,the material on the EP has been credited with helping expand the group's MTV audience in the early 1990s.
Underworld are a British electronic music group formed in 1987 in Cardiff,Wales and the principal collaborative project of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith. Prominent former members include Darren Emerson,from 1990 to 2000,and Darren Price,as part of the live band from 2005 to 2016.
Hideto Takarai,known by his stage name Hyde,is a Japanese musician,singer-songwriter,record producer,and actor. Best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel since 1991,he is also the lead vocalist of Vamps and has a solo career.
Ivy was an American indie pop band composed of Andy Chase,Adam Schlesinger,and Dominique Durand. They were active between 1994 and 2012.
Deadwing is the eighth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree,released in Japan on 24 March 2005,in Europe on 28 March,and in the US on 26 April. It quickly became the band's best selling album,although it was later surpassed by Fear of a Blank Planet. The album is based on a screenplay written by Steven Wilson and Mike Bennion,and is a ghost story. Wilson has stated that the songs "Deadwing","Lazarus","Arriving Somewhere but Not Here","Open Car",and "Mellotron Scratch" were originally intended for the film soundtrack,but when the project failed to find funding they were instead recorded for the next Porcupine Tree album. The album versions of "Lazarus" and "Open Car" essentially remain Wilson solo tracks onto which Gavin Harrison overdubbed drums.
Diary of Dreams is a German darkwave band. The lead singer and founding member Adrian Hates has produced most of the albums by himself or with minimal help from others. He rarely uses a full band,except when on tour.
"Shelter from the Storm" is a song by Bob Dylan,recorded on September 17,1974,and released on his 15th studio album,Blood on the Tracks,in 1975. It was later anthologized on the compilation album The Essential Bob Dylan in 2000.
Roentgen Stories is a DVD collective of four promotional videos (PVs) by popular Japanese rock vocalist Hyde. Released November 3,2004 by Ki/oon Records and Haunted Records.
"Season's Call" is the Japanese singer,Hyde's seventh single and second single from his album Faith,released 22 February 2006. This is the second single co-produced by Hyde and K.A.Z and has a bonus track "Unexpected (Dist.)",a rock version of the first track from Hyde's first solo album Roentgen (2002).
Black Cherry is Koda Kumi's fifth studio album and first original album since secret (2005). It charted at No. 1 on Oricon,continuing the artist's streak and staying at No. 1 for one month. It remained on the charts for sixty weeks. It was released in CD,CD+DVD and CD+2DVD,with the latter being a limited edition that carried her movie debut Cherry Girl. The entire film's score was from the album.
"Angel Baby" was a 1960 single by Rosie and the Originals. The group recorded the song independently on a two-track machine,located in a facility in the small farming community of San Marcos,California. At the time,lead singer Rosie Hamlin was only 15 years old. She had written the lyrics for "Angel Baby" as a poem for "[her] very first boyfriend" when she was a 14-year-old student at Mission Bay High School in San Diego,California.
Light at the End of the World is the thirteenth studio album by English synth-pop duo Erasure,released on 14 May 2007 by Mute Records. The album's release was announced on the band's website on 26 January 2007 in a video message from members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell. It reached the UK top 30 upon its release.
The music of the Kingdom Hearts video game series was composed by Yoko Shimomura with orchestral music arranged by Kaoru Wada. The original soundtracks of the games have been released on three albums and a fourth compilation album. The soundtracks to the Kingdom Hearts games feature several musical pieces from both Square Enix and Disney works,including such pieces as "Mickey Mouse Club March" by Jimmie Dodd,"This Is Halloween" by Danny Elfman,and "One-Winged Angel" by Nobuo Uematsu. They also feature several vocal songs,the most notable being the four main theme songs:"Hikari","Passion","Chikai",and "Face My Fears." The two themes were written and performed by Japanese American pop star Hikaru Utada;in addition to Japanese,English versions of the first three songs were produced,titled "Simple and Clean","Sanctuary",and "Don't Think Twice",respectively.
"Countdown" is the sixth single by Japanese singer Hyde,and the first single from his third solo album Faith.
Two Tragedy Poets is the fifth studio album by Italian folk/power metal band Elvenking. It was released through AFM Records on November 14,2008. The album is mostly acoustic;it includes acoustic versions of two older tracks,"The Winter Wake" and "The Wanderer",both from The Winter Wake. The Japanese edition also includes a remake of "Skywards",originally released on the album Heathenreel. Although Elvenking's website says otherwise,instead of "The Wanderer " being a digipack bonus track,it's "My Little Moon".
Dreamin' My Dreams is the fifth studio album by English singer Marianne Faithfull. It was released in 1976 by NEMS Records and it is Faithfull's first and only record of country music. The album was re-released two years later in 1978 as Faithless. The main differences between the two albums are:the album art and Faithless including four more tracks and some tracks rearranged. The musicians on both versions of the album are The Grease Band. It was Faithfull's first released album in almost a decade.
Highest Hopes:The Best of Nightwish is the fourth compilation album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Their first,Tales from the Elvenpath,was considered incomplete by many fans as it contains only tracks from Oceanborn,Over the Hills and Far Away,Wishmaster and Century Child,leaving out Angels Fall First. This compilation,though,contains songs from all previously released Nightwish albums,plus a live cover of Pink Floyd's "High Hopes".
"Soldier of Fortune" is a rock ballad written by Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale and originally released on Deep Purple's 1974 album Stormbringer. Although Deep Purple has never released the song as a single and it has never placed on the record charts,it has developed a cult following over the years and has been covered by many artists and bands.
Metal Queen –B-Sides &Rarities is a double CD compilation album released in 2007 under the label No Remorse Records,containing songs of the German hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It is unclear if this is a fully licensed compilation,an unofficial release or even a pirated publication. The album is not present in the discography section of Doro's official site and Discogs lists the album as an "unofficial release pretending to be released under No Remorse Records label". On the contrary,Encyclopaedia Metallum lists it as an official compilation.
The Digitalian is the thirteenth studio album of the Japanese boy band Arashi. The album was released on October 22,2014 under their record label J Storm in two editions:a first press/limited edition and a regular edition. The regular edition comes with a 32-page photo lyrics booklet,while the limited edition comes with a 60-page photo lyrics booklet and a bonus DVD with a music video and making-of for "Zero-G". The album sold over 660,000 copies in its first week and became the third best selling album of 2014 in Japan. With more than 780,000 units sold,the album was certified for Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
