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DAMNED SPRING FRAGRANTIA – DIVERGENCES
You don’t have to wait very long for Damned Spring Fragrantia‘s debut album Divergences to give you a hefty kick in the chest. About 43 seconds, in fact. There is something of a trend at the moment for the first track on an album to be a short introduction. Standard protocol appears to dictate [...]
Read more →CHILDREN OF BODOM – HALO OF BLOOD
For those who do not keep up with Finland’s Children Of Bodom, the band faced a major setback last summer when frontman and lead guitar player Alexi Laiho was hospitalized for a rather severe stomach infection, which resulted in the cancellation of several European festival dates. This news, to many fans, seemed like a potential [...]
Read more →BEISSERT – DARKNESS:DEVIL:DEATH
Chances are you haven’t heard of Beissert, a German five-piece of melodic-death-power metal. Perhaps it’s time for that to change. The band (from Dresden which is in the eastern federated state of Saxony, within ‘Germanland’), first released a demo in 2005. Initially their style was on the cheesy end of the metal spectrum, yet [...]
Read more →ORPHANED LAND – ALL IS ONE
Orphaned Land is a five piece progressive symphonic metal band hailing from Israel. They are characterized by ambitious arrangements and melodies that are greatly influenced by their homeland. Additionally, their lyrical content tends to deal with the religious culture of their homeland, the stories therein, and promoting unity and peace between all Abrahamic religions. [...]
Read more →THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER – EVERBLACK
Of all the possible directions that US melodic death metallers The Black Dahlia Murder could have jumped to after their much-hailed previous release Ritual, pushing towards an even more sinister and hellish sound didn’t seem to crop up in the fans’ expectations. Their sixth album Everblack continues with some familiarity of the band’s well-established latter-day [...]
Read more →ENOCHIAN THEORY – LIFE… AND ALL IT ENTAILS
According to the all-knowing Wikipedia, the word “Enochian” was coined in the sixteenth century as the name for the language of angels. Of course, by any logical measure, this is fictional hogwash – but taking it with a pinch of poetic licence, and a listen to the re-released second album Life…And All It Entails, it’s [...]
Read more →VOLBEAT – OUTLAW GENTLEMEN AND SHADY LADIES
In their native Denmark, Volbeat are huge. As a simple illustration of their size, they are playing Copenhagen’s Forum later this year, which boasts a capacity of 10,000. Other bands slated to grace this stage between now and then include Kiss, Neil Young, Nickelback and Black Sabbath. But only Volbeat, back with fifth album Outlaw [...]
Read more →WHITE WIZZARD – THE DEVIL’S CUT
White Wizzard have been the focus of a fair amount of scrutiny from some metal blogs lately – scrutiny of the good kind. The Los Angeles-based trad-metal band have gone through quite a few lineup changes since its inception and even since its debut album, most of it due to bassist and band-leader Jon [...]
Read more →CARDINALS FOLLY – STRANGE CONFLICTS OF THE PAST
With all my waxing lyrical about how generally great the albums I’ve been exposed to since I started writing for this site are, it was inevitable I wouldn’t be able to keep riding that wave forever. Strange Conflicts of The Past, an album collecting rare or otherwise not readily available past releases from Finnish [...]
Read more →YEARS OF TYRANTS – LEADING THE BLIND
Since the explosion of deathcore acts in the early-to-mid-2000s, a variety of bands have tried their hand at bridging the gap between the more brutal end of technical death metal and the more technical end of deathcore. One such intrepid act is France’s Years of Tyrants, offering their own take on this hybrid with Leading [...]
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