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Crystal Ball - 2020 (2019)

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Crystal Ball - 2020 (2019)

Crystal Ball - 2020 (2019)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Massacre Records, MAS DP1069 | ~ 640 or 192 Mb | Artwork -> 53 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

Fans of 80s Metal, Melodic Metal, and AOR will be very satisfied with 2020. Despite drawing from songs spread across two decades, the fresh recordings and production on these tracks makes for one seriously powerful double disc release…

Crystal Ball - Liferider (2015)

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Crystal Ball - Liferider (2015)

Crystal Ball - Liferider (2015)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Massacre, MAS DP0893 | RU | ~ 520 or 164 Mb | Artwork -> 46 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

When cooking up one of your favorite old recipes, sometimes adding different spices and/or ingredients to the usual mixture will excite your taste buds, and in the end, bettering the original formula. The same can be said for music, and CRYSTAL BALL is a perfect example…

Crystal Ball - Dawnbreaker (2013)

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Crystal Ball - Dawnbreaker (2013)

Crystal Ball - Dawnbreaker (2013)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Massacre Records, MAS DP0844 | ~ 409 or 120 Mb | Artwork -> 67 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

Crystal Ball - Secrets (2007)

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Crystal Ball - Secrets (2007)

Crystal Ball - Secrets (2007)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
CDM 1107-2769 | RU | ~ 414 or 125 Mb | Artwork -> 53 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

To state that the mid-2000s were a time of transition for the European power metal scene would be stating the obvious, but it was a particularly turbulent point for one of its most prolific and conservative affiliates Crystal Ball…

Crystal Ball - Crysteria (2022)

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Crystal Ball - Crysteria (2022)

Crystal Ball - Crysteria (2022)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Fono, FO1701CD | ~ 412 or 128 Mb | Artwork -> 73 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

The album "Crysteria" opens a new chapter in Crystal Ball's history. In its third decade, the band is far from just repeating itself and you can find new, fresh and energetic elements in the music…

Crystal Ball - Déjà-Voodoo (2016)

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Crystal Ball - Déjà-Voodoo (2016)

Crystal Ball - Déjà-Voodoo (2016)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Massacre Records, MAS DP0952 | ~ 430 or 128 Mb | Artwork -> 80 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

With upwards of twenty years in the business, Swiss rockers Crystal Ball are set to release their ninth album, Déjà-Voodoo. It carries the same Power Rock groove as last year’s LP LifeRider, and starts off in a similar fashion by relying mostly on the song titles for every hook. Things change course midway through, however, and the band shines with an outstanding ballad entitled “Home Again”, followed by the complex and riff-driven track “To Freedom And Progress”…

Crystal Ball - TimeWalker (2005)

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Crystal Ball - TimeWalker (2005)

Crystal Ball - TimeWalker (2005)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Nuclear Blast, NB 1496-2 | ~ 360 or 112 Mb | Artwork -> 105 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

This is already the 5th full release by this Swiss combo and like on each of the previous releases the band stays true to their melodic metal sound, which falls in somewhere between that of countrymen Gotthard and Shakra…

Crystal Ball - Hellvetia (2003) [Limited Edition]

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Crystal Ball - Hellvetia (2003) [Limited Edition]

Crystal Ball - Hellvetia (2003)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Nuclear Blast, NB 1183-0/ NB 1203-2 | ~ 409 or 125 Mb | Artwork -> 67 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

After a couple of blatant throwback offerings to the days when heavy metal was joined at the hip with AOR, right down to the campy Sci-Fi oriented album art work that was all the rage circa 1985, former Swiss cover band turned melodic power metal outfit Crystal Ball found themselves in the unique club of Nuclear Blast signed acts…

Crystal Ball - Virtual Empire (2002)

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Crystal Ball - Virtual Empire (2002)

Crystal Ball - Virtual Empire (2002)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Nuclear Blast, 2736163292/ NB 329-2 | ~ 400 or 125 Mb | Artwork -> 78 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

Aside from a brief intro, Virtual Empire contains twelve fantastic songs that range from the touching ballad (Look In My Eyes) to almost power metal like tunes (Hands of God, Blind Side). Each song is highly melodic and there are no fillers or weak songs on the disc. After only a couple of listens, you can look at the track list for this album and remember the melody for each of the songs…

Crystal Ball - Hard Impact (2000) [Japanese Ed.]

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Crystal Ball - Hard Impact (2000) [Japanese Ed.]

Crystal Ball - Hard Impact (2000)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Pony Canyon, PCCY-01505 | Japan | ~ 360 or 109 Mb | Artwork -> 125 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

Another release from power metal's golden age, Hard Impact, the second album from Swiss metallers Crystal Ball, was one of the first attempts to fuse AOR with European power metal, and though bands like Domain and Evidence One went on to release albums that owed a lot to this, it holds up even now…

Crystal Ball - Crystallizer (2018) [Japanese Ed.]

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Crystal Ball - Crystallizer (2018) [Japanese Ed.]

Crystal Ball - Crystallizer (2018)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Massacre Records, RADC-104 | Japan | ~ 486 or 155 Mb | Artwork -> 67 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

Overall, ‘Crystallizer’ is a thrilling blend of power metal and hard rock, and with its sing a long style choruses, you’ll be singing along from start to finish…

Crystal Ball - Hellvetia (2003)

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Crystal Ball - Hellvetia (2003)

Crystal Ball - Hellvetia (2003)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Nuclear Blast, 2736111832/ NB 1183-2 | ~ 369 or 113 Mb | Artwork -> 88 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

After a couple of blatant throwback offerings to the days when heavy metal was joined at the hip with AOR, right down to the campy Sci-Fi oriented album art work that was all the rage circa 1985, former Swiss cover band turned melodic power metal outfit Crystal Ball found themselves in the unique club of Nuclear Blast signed acts…

Crystal Ball - In the Beginning (1999) [Japanese Ed.]

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Crystal Ball - In the Beginning (1999) [Japanese Ed.]

Crystal Ball - In the Beginning (1999)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Pie Music, TOCP-65291 | ~ 349 or 106 Mb | Artwork -> 59 Mb
Hard 'N' Heavy

There is a certain charm to an album like this from a historical standpoint, particularly for anybody who still wanted a more flashy and fun style of metal/rock that cut against the "Alternative" ideal of dumbed down songwriting and morose or mundane lyrics about how much the world sucks, because this is about as clear of a rejection of the decade it was born from that one could find. It embodies the same sort of fantastical escapism that would occupy the early days of lighter, fantasy-oriented bands like Freedom Call and Edguy while also being a bit more retro in character, perhaps most closely dovetailing with the somewhat later reformation and restyled incarnation of Domain…