Reviews
\r\nWeigh anchor, hoist the sails!! The Scottish pirates have returned once more to take us on another journey to far away seas and distant shores. Alestorm finally released their third album called “Back Through Time” and they are about to kick your ass! The Jolly Roger is raised on the main mast, cannons are ready to fire and the crew on the upper deck looks thirsty for blood. They will take no prisoners, not this time. Davy Jones will have company this day!
\r\nTombs is a bizzare, frightening case of a band. Struggling with the dark, the light and other terms, unfriendly to the human psychic they can tear your soul apart in "no time". A phrase that does not fit the actual duration of their new creation. Damn, this had to come out in summer?
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\r\nOrigin reaches their fifth album in almost a decade of shredding and brutalising ears in the most brutal of ways. Things are very simple ladies and gents. These guys ain’t fooling around, they never did and as it seems, they never will. So, the question is how much can they evolve with what they do playing so intense, brutal music?
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\r\nMarduk are back and they are pissed, agressive and closed-minded. Just as their hardcore fans would expect them to be. This time they release a 13 minute e.p. that leaves nothing standing when it’s over. "Iron Dawn" is here to remind us of the golden times of Panzer Division Marduk’s unstopable smashing.
\r\n The beginning was pretty adventurous for this Norwegian prog metal band, which had to change its initial name “Apera” to “Above Symmetry”, just about a year after the release of the debut album. InsideOut reissues “Ripples” under the new band’s name on the cover.
Hell, this cover reminded me of other times! Gorerotted, Iron Monkey, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and all that kind of rotten minded people. Now that I mentioned it, the music ain’t that far off. Although the description "technical death metal" on the press sheet is misleading to the bone(yeah, it was a joke!) the content shows its teeth from the begining.
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\r\nIt tends to be something like a tradition for Amorphis to release stunning albums in a row, something like Iron Maiden back in the 80’s! “Beginning Of Times” is continuing the legacy of the exceptional “Skyforger” that was released 2 years ago. The results are equally amazing and I would dare to say that Amorphis have managed to create their own unique sound, so I wouldn’t have been an exaggeration to label their music “Amorphis Metal” since I thing that the term “melodic death metal” is restraining for such a band.
\r\nThey have only released five studio albums so far (including the EP "Fervent Dream"), however they are one of the strongest loves for progsters worldwide; yet they still remain a secret between a few ones.
\r\nHold on, one sec... Morbid Angel...
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\r\nTime to drop our pants. But wait..Nope, I misunderstood.
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\r\nHere we have the greatest fathers of sick Death Metal. Because of this band we’re into death metal.
\r\nWe have the band who’s responsible for turning a line of notes into an idiom just by playing them in a particular way that made ears and souls bleed. And they did it in a way that even today none can surpass them.
\r\n“Ghost” is just the ordeuve; “Deconstruction” on the other hand will totally blow your mind. This is the second album release for this charismatic musician, Devin Townsend (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, programming) coming up in the next few days. The guest list is really huge: