Reviews
\r\nAenaon are, from now on, something more than a underestimated force. My first contact with their music was with the "Phenomenon" mini cd two years ago, when I was impressed with the songs and their ability to compose with a clearly independed thought. So, after a 7 inch split album with Satanochio I see them returning with their very first full length. Man, that brought a big smile across my face!
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\r\n-GENERAL CHAOS- ARE HERE \r\n
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\r\n-General Chaos- are here with their debut album called - Calamity Circus - . This band plays a mix of Death/Rock and Metal and they come from Germany. -GC- were formed in 2008 and two years after they are finally ready with their very first full length. \r\n
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\r\nThe album is great and there are a lot of nice songs that mixes Death and Rock/Metal perfectly. Nice Death n Roll guitars, heavy bass, great drumming and a very good voice. The production is great and the whole album sounds very good. \r\n
\r\n Requiem have been killing humans with their music for the last 10 years using the like father like son way(oldschool!). But unlike kick ass bands like Vomitory who indulge themselves in the same sport, they do not touch the level of the beloved Swedes. This is their fifth full length album(an EP has been released too) and it finds them dwelling on the same floors, more or less. This stagnation is not all that bad to be honest since the band is indeed a dissent act with balls of concrete.
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\r\nDenmark is a country I deeply respect, regardless the type of music exported each time. The musicians hailing from Denmark seem to know all about composing a good song, wether it’s death metal or a pop song. In the case of Essence, it’s all about thrash metal delivered in up tempo mood and a good taste for tasty, analogue sound! In fact, this is something the band is proud enough to mention in the booklet of their cd...
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That’s exactly what I call an AWESOME release! Vicious Rumors are back from the dead with an album that’s far from any expectation! I don’t know what’s going on with the “old guard” lately but I think that they have conspired to blow our brains! “Razorback Killers” is simply their best release in the last 20 years since their last masterpiece was, in my opinion, “Welcome To The Ball” (1991) while after Carl Albert’s death in 1995 the band managed to release some average though slightly indifferent albums.
\r\nPagan’s Mind are back with their fifth studio album, “Heavenly Ecstasy”, a title which is very much related to the happy mood of the songs and the “paradise” aura that surrounds them. The band seems to keep a distance from the Progressive Power Metal style of their previous work; “Heavenly Ecstasy” is more straightforward Euro Power Metal, yet with strong Progressive Power Metal touches.
\r\nOTEP are back with a brand new album, which is entitled “Atavist”.
\r\nWOLF have never disappointed me in their releases, LEGIONS OF BASTARDS is no exception to this and in fact, I find myself extremely happy that my anticipation of their newest release fulfilled all my high expectations and surprised me in a very good way. No they haven’t shifted their style, o the contrary they remain true to their powerful heavy metal style with fully blown melodies and exploding riffs… These sorts of bands are the ones who can sustain the heavy metal sound and the heavy metal scene.
It is common knowledge that Scandinavia is one of the leading forces when it comes to the production of melodic power metal. Symfonia is not a new found band is more an all star project of some of the biggest names in Power Metal that join forces in order to record a power metal masterpiece. So here we have Timo Tolki (x-Stratovarius), Andre Matos (x-Angra), Uli Kusch (x-Helloween), Jari Kainulainen (x-Stratovarius) and Mikko Harkin (x-Sonata Arctica) composing and performing “In Paradisum”. The names alone guarantee a very promising album but is this so for Symfonia?