Reviews

October 20, 2009

\r\nI’ll have to admit that it’s a strange fact that Zero Illusion’s first cd reached our headquarters about 8 months after it’s official release. I thought that such a delay could justify a lack of professionalism and quality in this band’s work and luckily I was proven 100% wrong. After the first hearing of their album I made a short reasearch of what has been written for them internationally and in Sweden. The band has been characterised as "the new Swedish hope". I can tell you, whoever told those words, was absolutely right. \r\n

October 19, 2009

\r\nOne more album from the swedish veterans, StoneLake which is characterised by a great level of professionalism and creativity. Their 20 years experience is a fact well known and proven in their new album as Peter Grundstrom and Jan Akesson show us, unlike other bands of this genre, how someone can make heavy metal music in the year 2009 without repeating any of the staff we already know. Another fact that shows us their consistency is that since 2006 they release one album per year. This isn’t something any band can do. \r\n

October 19, 2009

\r\nI’ll begin this review with a simple question, can someone tell me what is the year we’re into??? Listening Dynazty’s debut "Bring The Thunder", I can tell you that the time machine has just been invented and we live in 1987. Hard rock AOR seems to make an unexpected comeback in today’s music reality and Dynazty make a strong debute with their first work called "Bring The Thunder". The band finished their work in 2007 and it’s out now, two years later.

October 18, 2009

\r\nEven though Mindead’d cd is on the market since 2008, we just received it. However, I think that it worth mentioning a few things about it because it’s a pretty good album.
\r\nTo be honest, I hadn’t heard of them before, even though they are in the music scene for many years and they have already released 2 EPs. “Abandon all hope” is the title of their debut album, which contains 11 tracks of modern metal with many metalcore elements. Mindead’s music style can be related to bands such as KORN, Soulfly, Machine Head and Sevendust.

October 18, 2009

The Quietude Plains” is the second effort of Ablaze In Hatred, a Finnish outfit that blends doom / death metal genre with melodic lines
\r\nI Found many good  atmospheric parts with good simple melodic lines in the album that for sure, deserve to be mentioned, but unfortunately the rest of the album is slow and nihilistic and the long compositions of A.I.H. make the album to sound really boring  and after it finishes not even a single melody remains in your mind.

October 18, 2009

Vorum is a Finnish Death metal outfit, and their latest release “Grim Death Awaits” is their latest demo effort that has been officially released as MCD via Woodcut Records.

October 18, 2009

The German outfit Nocturnal exists under this name in the scene for about 10 years, but only made it to release two full length LPs with the latest effort having been released a couple of months ago. Five years have passed since their first LP “Arrival of the Carnivore” but have also released a great amount of releases all these five years in 7” format, split releases and E.Ps.

October 18, 2009

Black Oath is another group that continues the classic occult doom metal tradition of the Italian sound, a sound that can be considered as “classic” already. Of course in this release the influences by the masters of this specific sound, for instance Paul Chain, Black Hole, Zess, Jacula amongst others, are audible. In this MCD release the band provides us with 25 minutes of atmospheric, doom metal, with a dark, creepy and claustrophobic atmosphere with some heavy keybord sound and grim aesthetic.

October 18, 2009

The Occult Doom Italian outfit Abysmal Grief, a couple of weeks ago released the “teaser” of their new LP, the 7” single “Samhain Feast” that features two new tracks, the same titled and the track “Grimorium Verum” that has been released for the first time, ten years ago, on the band’s “Mors te Audit” demo tape, but since only 13 copies made, the song must be considered as a new one.

October 15, 2009

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\r\n-THE RED CHORD- ARE BACK \r\n

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\r\nU.S. technical Deathsters - The Red Chord - were formed in 1999 and they have released one Demo and three full length albums. They are now back, two years after their last great album, with their fourth full length album that is going to be loved by their fans and every fan of technical Death metal. \r\n

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