Albums Reviews

 “The Quest For A Morning Star” is a compilation/album of soundtrack themes created by the very well known graphic artist and musician, Costin Chioreanu, to support and raise funds for the victims of the tragedy at Collectiv Club, Bucharest.These soundtrack themes were originally created for various art movie exhibitions, fitting very well in this compilation/album [...]

 Dear Avantasians, we were the lucky ones to begin the new year with another fantastic masterpiece from the headman Tobias Sammet, “Ghostlights”. A whole lot of guests participate in this angelrock opus that has a little bit of everything like symphonic and power metal, rock ballads, and some 80’s synth, crafted with musicians likeSaschaPaeth, Michael [...]

 Probably fueled by the last old school Vader songs tour with Venom Inc and Witches, the Polish group decided to open the vault, and bring up to the light some of most unknown songs that inspired the band, which makes this covers album quite interesting to dig in. The typical Vader sound is intact as [...]

My first contact with From Grotto reminded me a lot of of Roger Water’s voice in Pink Floyd during the late 70’s. In fact, it seemed for a while like, when the first verses of «The Floating Head» came echoing, «One of My Turns» B-Side was on. That being said, it isn’t odd, if you [...]

«Pour ceux qui sont audacieux, l’enfer vous attend». Like a call for the ultimate battle, but in very ghetto kind of way, the suburban french metal band, play «le balon fort et resserrent les rangs». Proudly «fier» of their roots, 91 All Stars despite being ressembled to a basketball team straight from Brooklyn, they prefer [...]

 Along with other new bands that bring fresh blood to a genre that has few room to evolve, Evil Invaders release their first record called “Pulses of Pleasure”. What we could expect pulsing from the Belgian group is a natural reverence of 80’s old school thrash / speed metal, very classy but with longer tracks [...]

 It’s been almost 4 years since the last record, the triumphant return of one of the strongest Norwegian black metal bands, was more than waited by the fans, and they delivered another crushing record called “Antiliv”. In terms of sound, if follows up exactly where “Legion Helvete” was left, and we can hear lyrics both [...]

The Local Band, came together one day when Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom guitarist) and Jussi 69 (The 69 Eyes drummer), luckily for us, were sitting on a bar having a drink and had this idea of forming a project where they could have as much fun as they could without any compromise. The idea was [...]

 If prog could be even more alternative, Brainsqueezed would be the perfect match. Well if one considers Brainsqueezed to be prog in the 1st place. The independant project of unknown, but not less illustrious, Sebastien L. took form along 2015. And he seems quite passioned about L7. If you could put it simply, Brainsqueezed is [...]

 The return of Helheim with their new album “Raunijar” points on a new direction in terms of sound. The raw black metal guitars are there, but this time they wanted to combine other elements like ethnic and Nordic folk within a progressive sound. The skaldic track “Helheim 9” opens the record, and it’s the preparation [...]

 People discuss which the modern musical genre is the most persistent, the most surviving. Curiously few of those see Prog rock that way. It has even labeled as old fashioned, and attached to the idea that Sex Pistols so often conveyed the boring old farts. The thing about Prog that is profoundly exciting, and brings about [...]

 After an acclaimed EP and Split, french black metallers VI, a project made from members of Aosoth, Antaeus and Merrimack, have finally release their awaited debut record, via Agonia Records, a label that has brought us a number of black metal pearls from the underground in the past couple of years. “De Praestigiis Angelorum” has [...]

 Picking a bunch of songs, so different in nature, and making them sound as if they are your own, that’s always an exciting concept; it’s the outcome that may turn out outrageously disappointing. Like this “Skeletons”. Mr. Glenn Danzig made a hell of a job murdering some classics here. Although his deep, baritone voice is [...]

“The Great Escape” is the first full-length of the Bordeaux-based band An Ocean of Void. They play an atmospheric prog-metal that should please the genre listeners. Their press release recommends them to fans of Ghost Brigade, Russian Circles, Cult of Luna and Pink Floyd, but while they borrow some space rock moments from Pink Floyd and are [...]