Reviews
\r\nApart from Motorhead there have been so little bands that managed to play asskicking, raw and dirty rock n roll. Not everyone can achieve this without ending up being repetitive, boring or even worse, a really bad copy of Motorhead. In other words, someone must have guts in order to play this way and with their debut album, "Hated For Who We Are", the italian band "Lucky Bastardz" proove that they do so.\r\n
\r\nI’m very skeptical when it comes to Nu Metal, modern metal and alternative bands. This is due to two main reasons. Firstly, many bands are so experimental that at the end they completely lose the meaning and second because most of the bands are trying to convince the audience by using, mixing and matching ideas which are coming from other bands.
\r\nGermany seems to love hard rock and heavy metal and every now and then a german band appears in our lives in order to confirm this rule and also produce quality albums. In the case of "For Crown And Ring", imagine a band combining Accept, AC/DC, Krokus and early Scorpions and the result is M.A.D. (Maniacal Area Damage). Let’s see what these fellows have to offer us...\r\n
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\r\nTHE RETURN OF THORNIUM \r\n \r\n
\r\nSwedish Blacksters -Thornium- are back after a long time.The band had many problems and had released only one full length album in 1995.After that, many things happened and the band almost split up.The vocalist that was also on jail managed to creat a new line-up and reborn the band. \r\n
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\r\nITALIAN HELL \r\n \r\n
\r\nItalian Blacksters -Guru of Darkness - are back with their second album ready to sing about pain,darkness and misanthropy.The band manged to release the album through Haures Records and the result is 100% hellish Black Metal!! \r\n
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\r\nGERMAN MATHCORE\r\n \r\n
\r\n-War from a Harlots Mouth- is a band from Germany that plays a mix of MathCore, Metal and Jazz.They formed in 2005 and have released only one full length album through Lifeforce Records.\r\n
\r\nSubconsciously I have connected the word “Necropolis” with negative emotions and generally repulsive thoughts (no, I am not referring to Manilla Road) so imagine my surprise when I saw that cursed word as an album title of one of my favorite death metal bands. Funny thing is that this specific album with a title like that is one of the best works I have listened to the last couple of years and I am not referring only to Vader but to the whole death metal scene.
\r\nSweden is really busy "producing" new metal bands that, even the weakest of them, make quality albums. Another band that makes it’s debut these days is Mean Streak with their album "Metal Slave". A solid work, good old-school heavy metal, with every one of the cliches, both in music and in lyrics, that have characterised heavy metal during the last years. Besides, from what I’ve seen, their main goal is to play the music they truly love and nothing else.
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\r\nA VIKING RE-ISSUE\r\n \r\n
\r\nSwedish Deathsters - Amon Amarth - are releasing through Metal Blade Records a re-issue of the album -Versus the World - and the fans of Amon Amarth are going to be very happy about this release.\r\n