Reviews
\r\nLife as well as music works in its own mysterious ways. Just when you find yourself sick of all these “Copiers” and uninspired bands releasing one mediocre album after another , the very moment that you feel fed up with all the crap around you and you start believing the rumors that Heavy Metal came to an end cause there are no more albums that will make you bang your head as it was back in the day.
\r\nDescribing Storm King’s music is difficult; it combines elements from grind, stoner, heavy rock, doom, and –mostly- death metal, and they are altogether technical prog oriented. So, I would just recommend to give it a chance and get your own conclusion.
Well… this particular day meant to be a great day for me, but I wouldn’t believe how great it would be. Of course one of the main reasons for having such a great day was the listening of the new Rage album, a band than needs no introduction, 25 years they are serving the classic heavy metal scene with good and better releases but especially for Greek people Rage is one of the most beloved bands out there.
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\r\nSwedish blacksters - Dark Funeral- are back with their fifth official release and the news are great for all of their fans. The band changed the drummer and they are back with the second full length album via Regain Records with a very mature album full of hate, dark atmosphere, hellish blast beats and raging Black Metal vocals. \r\n
\r\nEdge of Serenity hail from Holland and they serve the genre of melodic death metal, though to be honest I think that they are too experimental to be labeled as such. Formed in 2006 under the name of “Age of Anger” they released a demo and in 2008 they changed their name into “Edge of Serenity” while this year they released their debut album “The Chaos Theory”.
Sweden… a special country concerning many things, one of these of course is Sweden’s music scene. This scene gave born to bands cornerstones of Heavy Metal such as Heavy Load, Candlemass, Count Raven, etc but also to bands that today play the music of yesterday i.e. In Solitude, Portrait and the the music of the day before yesterday like Witchcraft, Burning Saviours (RIP). So from one of the most important music scene we have the first album of S:t Erik.
Tales Of Dark hails from Serbia and this is their second release, entitled “Perdition Calls” and believe me they do teach to many bands out there how to play Doom / Goth metal influenced by the masters of the genre , but also adding some of their own personality in the outcome!
\r\nThe most of the album sounds monolithic, with some “dreamy” parts mostly due too Jovana’s female vocals and some acoustic parts in the compositions.
“Broken Leaf” is the title of the debut album by the Belgian outfit, My Lament. By the first listening of the album I got the feeling that this must be a long lost album made by My Dying Bride between the “Turn Loose The Swans” and “The Angel And The Dark River” era. That was of course my first thought, after taking a closer listening to the album things became clearer in my mind.