Reviews
\r\nPARTY TIME!!!! At last rock n’roll comes back to life! We can clearly see influences of Motorhead, Hellacopters, Misfits, Turbonegro, Monster Magnet, Ramones and Sex Pistols and that leads to 30 minutes of non-stop smiling..
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\r\n’’Check Mate’’ would be the album that you would like to start your day with, or the one you listen to cd player during a trip..So if there’s still anybody left believing that rock n’roll’s dead the best thing he-she could do is to buy this album!
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\r\nThe Dutch Mortal Form even though they exist as a band from 1994 (they started as a cover band playing songs of Sepultura and Black Sabbath) they released their debut album titled “X-Plore” in 2001. in “Taste The Blood” manage to combine perfectly the death metal sound with Thrash’s raging fury along with the melody of classic heavy metal. Some may think “not something new” and perhaps they are right.
I remember there was a time when you knew that you listen to any album and you listen to thrash or heavy or progressive or death metal.. Not anymore. Aleph seem to combine progressive, dark and thrash sounds while their influences move from Primordial and Symphony X to Opeth..
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\r\nFrance Speaking!!!!!!!! A nice artwork and really special booklet.. Amasoeurs decided that their style is named Coldwave Metal. I would say that they’re just a combination of Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Anathema and Katatonia..
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When you mix death, hardcore and power metal is that what we call progressive death? Ok I would lie if I’d say that there are no good ideas in this album but it’s not something special.. Brutal vocals that would remind you something you’ve heard before and solos that in every track they seem to try to imitate something else..
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It’s hard nowadays to find a black/death band in which you won’t hear all those tunes you’ve heard before..When I started listening this album,as long the introduction was playing, I was looking at the cover nad I was thinking that the guys must have worked really hard on their music. Or else they would have given all their money on the artwork.
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\r\nLullaby??? Well it could be.. When I pushed play ,I started to wonder how can they play the same riff for three whole minutes as an introduction..
\r\nI suppose the guys have lost their way, or they haven’t decided yet how they want to sound like. A bit of porcupine tree, a bit from Anathema ballads, a bit of progressive, some kind vocals that you barely can hear here and there and of course brutal! On the other hand we have to admit that the singer has studied a lot since it’s hard to find someone who can sing both brutals and clean vocals..
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Skandinabian metal, great atmosphere,great melodies, brutal mixed with clean vocals, electro and for sure a new sound.. I believe that these are the words that would describe the style of ’’Interbeing’’..
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\r\nBy seeing the cover of ’’Chain Reaction’’(which by the way has a very interesting and attractive artwork) at first I thought that I would listen to something finnish. Until I heard the first tunes and... it had nothing to do with it!
\r\nThe band comes from Poland and I believed that if they continue like this they will be a threat for Machine Head. Vocals lines that remind us those of Phill Anselmo and music such as Machine Head .Smart melodies, and even if it sounds weird there is also a stoner idea mixed correctly with core influences.
In here we have to deal with a heavy metal album.For those who believed that heavy metal doesn’t exist,they should just give a chance to this band.
\r\nThe truth is that by looking at the cover I saw those great names that gave me that posotive feeling of what I was going to listen to..
\r\nMusicians such as, Jeff Waters, Theodore Ziras and Chris Caffery could cooperate only with professionals.
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\r\nWe are talking about a great effort, well bonded musicians who really believe in what they’re doing.