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EVENLINE – Dear Morpheus

EVENLINE – Dear Morpheus

I guess that there’s some nostalgia to the bands that emerged the late 90’s, and early 00’s, specially in a melodic kind of way. Reminds of Creed and all other Mike Tremonti Ventures. And Disturbed (but softer). Well, Evenline are Creed, but in a modern kind of way, with their own approach. More like in a [...]

March 19, 2016 Vasco Baptista 0

Reckless Love – InVader

Reckless Love – InVader

 Reckless Love are back! After the single “Keep It Up All Night”, that it’s available on single and as UK bonus track of the album, the Finnish band returns with their 4th record “InVader”. Hard rock, 80’s sleaze, and radio hits is what the band used to us in the previous records, and they didn’t [...]

March 14, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Pristine – Reboot

Pristine – Reboot

 Retro rock bands nowadays are coming up like cherries a bit from all over the place. Altough there’s bands that have something more within them, something special or unique, and Pristine is one of those bands. The Norwegian group is back with their new album “Reboot”. It’s a great presentation if the listener don’t know [...]

March 12, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

CULT OF ERINYES – Transcendence (EP)

CULT OF ERINYES – Transcendence (EP)

In a time where ritualistic and liturgical intros are dominant among Black Metal releases it felt somehow refreshing when Belgian CULT OF ERINYES’s latest EP started playing. The furious and epic beginning of the first ”Degrees of Solitude” turns out to be the fastest section of this effort. It’s a coordinated speed since the beginning.   Besides this [...]

March 10, 2016 Lucifer 0

LUTECE – From Glory Towards Void

LUTECE – From Glory Towards Void

 At the 3rd Flight, LUTECE, a promising black metal band, presents us w/ their doomsday nightmare à la tronçonneuse. And, despite the semmingly epic proportions, this is actually a one-man show, coming out from one man’s head. Denosdrakkh, is the satan’s acolyte form the hell breaks, loose. And that has been the devil’s intent since [...]

March 10, 2016 Vasco Baptista 0

Skuggsjá – A Piece For Mind & Mirror

Skuggsjá – A Piece For Mind & Mirror

 When we put together two of the best Nordic musicians together (Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson) in a project like Skuggsjá, we can expect the fusion of two distinct worlds and two different ways to make music about Viking roots and Norse traditions. This project is the result of that combination for 2014’s [...]

March 8, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Steel Panther – Live from Lexxi’s Mom’s Garage

Steel Panther – Live from Lexxi’s Mom’s Garage

 Steel Panther is the 80’s “sex, drugs and rock n’roll” revivalism, the risk to go acoustic against all odds, an audience of one hundred women, low budget to end up in Lexxi’s garage, having free cookies and beer, or just it was a good idea to play there… it could be any of those reasons [...]

March 7, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens

Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens

 Almost 3 years in between, Omnium Gatherum returns with their characteristic melodic death metal new album “Grey Heavens”, a sound that Finnish bands have mastered so well during the years, and certainly this band contributed to it. Mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö, the record is what we can expect from the genre, a balance [...]

March 4, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Bombus – Repeat Until Death

Bombus – Repeat Until Death

 Good dirty rock n’roll influenced by metal, is not easy to find, nor a task that every band is up for, but luckily for all of us, we have Bombus. They’re back with “Repeat Until Death” after the great “The Poet and the Parrot”. So will we repeat this record until death? We have a [...]

March 3, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Destroyer 666 – Wildfire

Destroyer 666 – Wildfire

 The triumphant return of one of the most blaspheme thrash metal bands happen with “Wildfire”, the new record of the Australian legends Destroyer 666, almost 7 years in between the last release. We can hear on this new album to what the band is known for with a better drum production, but still with fast [...]

March 2, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn

Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn

 Entombed was one of bands that began the Swedish death metal movement in the final of the 80’s / beginning of the 90’s, is back with “Dead Dawn”, following the characteristic sound that the band helped so much to put on the highlights of the scene, but few can make it as them. After rename [...]

March 1, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

GREY HEAVEN FALL – Black Wisdom

GREY HEAVEN FALL – Black Wisdom

From distant Russia sometimes we receive some interesting proposals. That’s a fact. Their cold heritage is always a feeling that some bands are able to transport to music. But, taking this into consideration, when listening for the first time to GREY HEAVEN FALL’s second full length we got astonished by the complexity of their somber [...]

February 27, 2016 Lucifer 0

Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression

Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression

 There’s few words to say that were not said before when it comes to comment something about a master of rock n’roll like Iggy Pop. So what makes this new solo release, the seventeenth studio album, so special? First of all, what we find is new band members that joined in the crazy trip that [...]

February 23, 2016 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

BARONESS – Purple

BARONESS – Purple

10 years ago, sludge was the promising new member of the metal family, with a fresh new approach, and ideas to the heavy affinities. 10 year after, Sludge seems to be loosing its grip… or evolving? Baroness were considered to many, the remaining hardliners of sludge, whereas Mastodon were moving away from the traditional sonority. [...]

February 22, 2016 Vasco Baptista 0