Reviews
\r\nI don’t think that when a basic member leaves a band, its work should be a reference point nor compared to the band’s present work all the time. After all, who knows for sure what might have happened if that member had remained in the band, or how things might have turn out. So, I wouldn’t like to focus on Τimo Τolkki’s absence rather than on the fact that Stratovarius were once in a creative delirium, composing the one great song after the other, but now they fail on doing the same.
\r\nΙ can’t understand what happened with great bands to release cover-albums?For example Manowar adapt themselves with Battle Hymns MMXI and the Stryper’s new album to covering all great bands who influenced Stryper. It may be you described me fairly caustic to saying that this is another cash-in covers/tribute album. I will stand by my original thought that this is just an album to fulfill their contract with Big3. Nothing more Nothing Less.
\r\nTIME FOR SOME REALLY SCARY TALES \r\n
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\r\nLegendary Murder Metalheads , -Macabre- are finally here with their new full length album. It’s the fifth album for these veterans from Chicago and to be honest I was waiting for this release many years now. The last full length album they released was in 2003 and since then the band released a DVD and an EP. Finally, the band returned with 14 tracks full of scary murder tales. \r\n
A Couple of years ago when I happened to take a good listen to the “Nine Inch Of God” from this long forgotten British outfit, Deep Switch, I got the feeling that this album was criminally underrated. My surprise was even bigger when I got this re- release on Shadow Kingdom Records, on Double CD with the second CD featuring all of the demos by the band
\r\nDeep Switch were from Norwich , UK and managed to release only one album ,this one in 1986, plus two demo tapes that are featured on the second cd of the re release.
It’s widely known, that the us label Shadow Kingdom keeps on re releasing some long out of print albums, so the time has come for the re release of the second album “Never Comes Silence” by the Legendary Maryland doom metal outfit, Revelation.
\r\nThe album originally was meant to be a demo release but in 1992 has been released as a full length album by Hellhound Records. I Consider “Never Comes Silence” a better album than the bands debut album and along with their 1995 release “Yet So Far” their best albums.
\r\nTHE LEGION IS BACK\r\n
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\r\nDutch Thrash/Death Metal band -Legion of the Damned- are here with another killer Thrash/Death Metal album. The band returned three years after their latest full length release with a great album that continues the history of the band with some more great quality Thrash/Death tracks.\r\n
\r\nSICK AND BRUTAL\r\n
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\r\n-Defeated Sanity- is a band from Germany that plays Technical Brutal Death Metal since 1994. This band has released many Demos, Split albums and two full length albums so far and this time are ready with their third full length album that is going to be released via Hammerheart Records and Willowtip.\r\n