Thursday 28th March 2024,
The Black Planet

Albums Reviews

Jimm – In[Can]Decence

Jimm – In[Can]Decence

“Jamais de Trêve”, French for No More Bullhit one could say. Presque. In fact it means «no truce», no compromise, whatever the costs. And it is what we have in fact, pure dose of hard rock, embed w/ a good dose of trash. JIMM is old school all right. The sound itself is not new, [...]

September 30, 2015 Lucifer 0

Witches – The Hunt

Witches – The Hunt

 When Venom and Holy Moses collide, Witches is the result. The French band that is almost unknown, maybe due the lack of releases, although they have a lot of demos. This new album “The Hunt”, self-released, could take the band to the ears of more people. What we find is an exercise of severe thrash [...]

September 29, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Graveyard – Innocence and Decadence

Graveyard – Innocence and Decadence

 The revival of bands with that fading rock blues sound from the 70’s can easily catch an eye in these days where it’s hard to find bands with a huge soul, something really needed when it comes to this genre. The time machine is well tuned when it comes to Graveyard and their new proposal [...]

September 25, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

W.A.S.P. – Golgotha

W.A.S.P. – Golgotha

 “Golgotha” is the return of W.A.S.P. to the great albums and to what they’re unique: to combine 80’s hard rock with that characteristic heavy metal sick kick. Being their most defying album since “The Crimson Idol”, all the tracks are really deep in their meaning, almost if they were being forged for years and left [...]

September 24, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Huntress – Static

Huntress – Static

The witch is back with her pack and brought a new album , “Static” for all the creatures to listen to. Along with it came in a new guitar player Eli Santana, a new drummer Tyler Meahl, and a new bass player Spencer Jacob. Right from the start, the song “Sorrow” makes quite an impact, [...]

September 23, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Besatt – Ímpia Symphonia (EP)

Besatt – Ímpia Symphonia (EP)

 Don’t think that this band hidden a weak record behind a nice cover, what you can find here is a serious exercise of black metal very well written, with the guitar production expected for a black metal album, and lyrics in polish. The trip to hell stars with a very good intro and the howling [...]

September 22, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Hollywood Vampires – Hollywood Vampires

Hollywood Vampires – Hollywood Vampires

 Alice Cooper had the idea of making a covers band, and called some friends to jump on this night flight trough rock n’roll in Hollywood while we take a sip of wine and dust off or best leather jacket. Some of the guests on this trip are Johnny Deep, Joe Perry, Perry Farrell, Dave Grohl, [...]

September 21, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Serrabulho – Star Whores

Serrabulho – Star Whores

The newest release by portuguese party grinders Serrabulho is a record full of puns, fun and grind, starting with the title, “Star Whores”, which is a satirical reference to the cinematic epic saga “Star Wars”. But the references and concept behind this, that translates in the visual and costumes of the group, doesn’t end here. [...]

September 20, 2015 Rita Limede 0

A.c.o.D. – To the Maelstrom

A.c.o.D. – To the Maelstrom

A.c.o.D is determined to put France on the death/trash metal scene. To the Maelstrom, the 3rd long flight of the Marseillais really create a landmark besides their local city club (despite its demise in recent years). The band clearly want to create their space on an all crowded metal genre, very strict to its rule. [...]

September 20, 2015 Lucifer 0

Leaves’ Eyes – King Of Kings

Leaves’ Eyes – King Of Kings

 Liv Kristine and her band are back with more stories about Vikings on their new album “King Of Kings”. The challenge here is to listen from the perspective of a woman, old war heroes and northern myths that usually we listen on other genres, and way the songs were composed makes it different at least, [...]

September 14, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Stratovarius – Eternal

Stratovarius – Eternal

Stratovarius is one of those bands that raises the power metal flag really high up, along with talent and something divine and epic behind their music. So the question, is “Eternal”  up to that standard? Yes, now that the newcomers in the band are already fit to what this band stands for, the songs flow [...]

September 13, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Slayer – Repentless

Slayer – Repentless

 A new Slayer record always shakes the foundations of every metalhead, but this one it’s the first one without one of greatest thrash metal guitars players of all time, the gone but not forgotten brother Jeff Hanneman, and Dave Lombardo on the drums. To fulfill their iconic places came in Gary Holt on guitar and [...]

September 11, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself

Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself

 Seems like bands with that Joy Division basis and 80’s old town club flavor are getting the attention of record labels again. What can we find specifically in Publicist UK and on their first album “Forgive Yourself”? The same old form with a better guitar production, a bit more dark and deeper voice, and the [...]

September 11, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Soulfly – Archangel

Soulfly – Archangel

This band is one of those machines that never goes away, and survives trough the struggle of times, when most of bands fell in a trance of lack of creativity, and just release album after album to keep the band going. Archangel is the new album of Max Cavalera and company, but you can’t find [...]

September 11, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0