Reviews
\r\nTHE FIFTH ALBUM \r\n
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\r\nU.S. Metalcore band - Bury Your Dead - released their fifth full length album. The band returned with another great Metalcore album with some extra melodic taste. \r\n
\r\nI think that the artwork of this cd-single pretty much says it all: Jørn is back on his throne. I will avoid any comparison between voices and vocal abilities as it would be unfair the least; regardless, this return made a lot of the band ’s fans happy.
\r\nTreat are back with Their brand new album ΄Coup De Grace’ more mature as far as the lyrics are concerned and far more melodic than ever. Besides that’s a trademark to most Swedish Hard Rock bands out there. Just like the legendary Europe I think that Treat have made a name for themselves through all this years so I could easily call them “classic” Hard Rockers. 25 years of hard rocking they earned that title. They have opened concerts for bands like Queen and W.A.S.P.
Getting this EP for a review and looking at the band’s promo pictures I \r\nhave to admit I was mislead thinking “ok we’ve got some US kids with a \r\nguitarist looking like Bon Jovi back in the day, no big deal. At least \r\nI’ll have a good time listening to this” I should have eaten my words \r\n(in fact I almost did). “Cruel Intentions” kicks in and by listening to\r\nthe guitar riffing I took back everything i thought at first. No hard \r\nrock here, no Bon Jovi stuff. What this EP is about is absolute Heavy \r\nMetal at its very best!!
\r\nINTO THE OCEAN \r\n
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\r\nGerman band -The Ocean- are back with another album full of nice tracks. These guys are playing a mix of Atmospheric/Progressive/Sludge/Metal and they are ready to release their fourth full length album. \r\n
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\r\nThe album title is - Heliocentric - and it’s a great album with nice songs. -The Ocean- are mixing mainly atmospheric ideas with progressive riffs, nice bass, very good drumming and a vocalist that tries many different styles. The production is great and so is the cover of the album. \r\n
\r\nAUTUMN REQUIEM \r\n
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\r\nU.S. Melodic Metalcore band - The Autumn Offering - are here presenting their fourth full length album with many nice Metalcore songs with a lot of melodic ideas and great production. \r\n
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\r\nThe album is called - Requiem - and contains eleven tracks with nice guitar riffs, nice bass, very good drumming and the voice of mr. Matt McChesney changing from raging to melodic with nice crystal sound. The production is a very good work of mr. Mark Lewis and its done at the AudioHammer Studios in Sanford, Florida. \r\n
\r\nAncient Bards were formed only a couple of years ago. It all begun on 2007 by their keyboardist, Daniele Mazza, and a year later they finished their first demo, which contained 5 tracks, based on the Final Fantasy concept. On 2009 they played as support act with various bands such as Domine, Turisas, White Skull and on summer the begun working on their debut album, “The Alliance of the Kings”.
The Italian doom metal outfit Tunderstorm happens to be one of my favorite bands out there and immediately after I received the promo copy of their newest album I got the urge to listen to it over and over again just to enjoy another release from Fabio and co.
The British leaders of a whole genre have return to discography after their great last album “The Garden of Unearthly Delights” in 2005 (pff… 5 years already have passed). When I first got informed that their new album is about to be a double CD set, something really unusual for them and they are about to move into more progressive rock forms, instantly a great curiosity got me about their new sound and their new album “The Guessing Game”
\r\nA BEAUTIFUL CREATURE \r\n
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\r\n-Within The Ruins - are releasing their first full length through Victory Records and the record label must be very happy for this contract. Because this band sounds so fresh, with great power, nice ideas and ready to spread their sound after the release of two nice EPs. \r\n