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Kadavar – Berlin

Kadavar – Berlin

 It is more than known that stoner rock is on charts everywhere you look. It is also quite known that most of the record companies are doing their best to sign up the next big thing, but in a genre that is also known for having bands that go away as fast as they came, [...]

August 28, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Helloween – My God-Given Right

Helloween – My God-Given Right

 New album, new band members, they’re back from the dead! I couldn’t remember when was the last time I enjoyed an album of Helloween that much as I enjoy this one, but seems that My God-Given Right has put the band back on track for good, and it’s Our God-Given Right also to salute the [...]

August 28, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Negura Bunget – Tau

Negura Bunget – Tau

 There are many folk bands out there, and as you can imagine, more black metal bands that you ever thought. Very few can match those ethnical folk elements with the raw black metal riffs and make the sound something enjoyable to listen to. Negura Bunget is one of those rare cases and the new album [...]

August 28, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

AION – Verses Of Perdition

AION – Verses Of Perdition

 “Verses Of Perdition” is the debut release of the swiss black metal act AION. This record goes beyond the music its self, it is a spiritual journey through the desert of emotions and pathway that starts with the perdition of the self and ends in unexistence. The ambience is grim and grey, and it aims [...]

August 28, 2015 Rita Limede 0

Powerwolf – Blessed and Possessed

Powerwolf – Blessed and Possessed

 Bands like Powerwolf , that in a space of 10 years are able to record with a 2 year interval a new album full of quality, power and creativity, are really rare these days. So, let’s focus on the new one Blessed and Possessed. The formula is more than known by the fans of the [...]

August 26, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed

Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed

 If you’re a death metal fan, you know what a name like Nile carries in and what to expect by the time a new album of them comes out. Notice that all your wishes have come true, and the fast brutal sound is once more blasted, and played with the technical mastery that only musicians [...]

August 26, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Myrkur – M

Myrkur – M

 The long waited Long Play of Myrkur – M, finally came out of the darkness. After her first EP, that prepared our senses for a new inspired project that mix a lot ethereal elements with black metal. This one woman band deliver some melodic voices and melodies that came out from the gloomy deeps of [...]

August 24, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Ghost – Meliora

Ghost – Meliora

 One of the bands that is raising up faster that your own shadow, just cast another one into the light called Meliora. We could think that the heavier sound could help the band get more ghouls into them but, that might not be necessarily the case when it comes to this band. The stunning melodies [...]

August 24, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

Motorhead – Bad Magic

Motorhead – Bad Magic

 Celebrating 40 years, Lemmy and company could just launch another best of to rip money out of their fans, but we all know Lemmy and luckly for all of us that was not what he had in mind. 40 years of noise, rock n’roll, thunder and lightning, electricity, a lot of deaf ears, and we [...]

August 24, 2015 Daniel Lemminkainen 0

The Long Escape – The Warning Signal

The Long Escape – The Warning Signal

Continental European prog is alive and well and finding new ways and sounds to strive in all so crowded metal scene. While we’re coming to notice some relative minor bands are trying to come out of the overwhelming influence of legends like Dream Theater and Opeth(such as Periphery), The Long Escape is a recognizable good effort for such [...]

August 12, 2015 Lucifer 0

Gutalax – Shit Happens

Gutalax – Shit Happens

After one full length record and two splits, the czech goregrind group Gutalax, a band I’ve been following for a long time, the band have finally release their second album, “Shit Happens”, which I was very curious to listen to. It comes with 16 tracks, and three of them have special guests, full with flatulent [...]

August 10, 2015 Rita Limede 0

FUNERARY – Starless Aeon

FUNERARY – Starless Aeon

The United States have been providing us with some of the most extreme doom metal of recent years. And FUNERARY is another collective you should catapult directly to the very top of that list. This first full length “Starless Aeon” contains 34 minutes of pure dark energy that will suck your strengths till the very [...]

August 8, 2015 Lucifer 0

FAITH NO MORE – Sol Invictus

FAITH NO MORE – Sol Invictus

Well, it’s a tradition. Every new year we eagerly wait for the great comebackers of the season. This has been already a prodigious year in that aspect. On the alternative genre, Blur has presented their reunion album, and on the (also alternative) metal side, was up to Faith No More to perform that task. For [...]

July 30, 2015 Lucifer 0

NAÏVE – Altra

NAÏVE – Altra

Naïve reminds me a lot of a new wave of Prog-metal that depicted the progressive scene in the early 00’s, to which OSI, Pendulum, Anathema (during their metamorphosis) or mainly Isis were the banner bearers. With a more European approach to it, the toulouseans, march on to their 3rd album with an attitude of resilience. [...]

July 29, 2015 Lucifer 0