Reviews
A thing that i totally don’t like is when bands come out with words like "This record will blow the last rocker from the sofa" and stuff like that and when you listen to the album you don’t get even a bit from what they say. Well here we have "Stoneman" from Switzerland and as i read on the press these guys are the future of the country. "Human Hater" is their third release so far and they play a mix of black/goth/industrial metal. Or this is what they say.
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Killface hail from Ireland and this EP is their first official release. “Faceless” is consisting of 4 tracks of straightforward, old school death/Thrash Metal. And by labeling it “old-school” I mean that this one is far from complicated songwriting or advanced guitar performance, to my ears they sound more like a mixture of Grave with a bit of Destruction, especially on the vocals.
Pleurisy is an already split band and "Seizure" was their last cd before the break, released in 2007 by the Greek "Sleaszy Rider Records". The band formed in 1990, a pretty old band, they play death metal and they’re from the Netherlands.
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\r\nTEN is a UK band which was formed by Gary Hughes, in 1994. After two successful solo releases and having already composed 28 songs for his third, he decided to divide these in two cds, one consisted of ballads and one of heavier tunes. The initial idea was to mix the album in the USA, so for the guitarist position famous guitarists were considered like Doug Aldrich, but when it was decided to record the guitar parts in England, Vinny Burns was called to get the job done.
‘The Golden Bough” is the first complete album of the Germans Atlantean Kodex, that is released in CD. Already uncovering their intentions through their demos and EPs, they have a very specific direction in metal music. Simple, heavy, mid tempo, Epic metal, with complex or weird techniques, nothing new or innovating. And this is exactly why we like them!
The first (if not the only) thing that makes a big impression about Angband is that they come from a country with absolutely no tradition in Metal, Iran.