Reviews
\r\n“Playing” with common sounds and styles, which we will name as Stoner in order to use simple terms, and adapting them in what the listener would want to hear today, and that means avoiding any kind of putting limits to your musical directions, but being based on your influences in order move some steps forward instead, it’s not the easiest thing. The experimentation is legitimate, and in the case of THIS HAVEN particularly welcomed as it involves a musical result that differs indeed, and that has something to tell us.
\r\nThis is the first release for the Brazilian band, Soulriver, entitled “The Dark Path of the Fallen Souls”. The band is referred on many sites as a Doom metal / Stoner Band, but after the hearing of the album these guys sound like a mix of classic heavy metal with many Nevermore / Iced Earth references and a more in your face riffing.
\r\nEven though initially their name may remind of something that is kind of “cheerful” in lack of better word, at least speaking about myself on a personal level, the truth is that the songs totally made me change my mind. From the first hearing actually, as many more followed. They are somehow melodramatic, and pessimists at the same time. They are dark; however they are giving eroticism through the melancholy of the lyrics and their music. This damn feeling that is the eternal Muse for all those who need to express via words all that burns inside like acid.
Well, this is the second album for the Germany based heavy metal outfit Metal Law and this time through Metal on Metal Records. I strongly believe that by the hearing of their name is easy for someone to imagine their basic elements of music, pure European heavy metal with many influences from the awesome German scene and groups like Accept and Running Wild plus some pinches of Heaven’s Gate, mainly due too the vocal lines. On “Lawbreaker” we also meet some influences from the playing of Y.J.
\r\nThe Germans Tomorrow’s Eve as if returning from a distant hellish world they are telling us histories and thoughts in an enchanting and at the same time melancholic way, putting us in a trip of haunting melodies. A battle between dream and nightmare, through small narrations and songs coming from a twisted mind which is lost somewhere between imagination and its torturing reality while trying to find the reasons that led to this situation and wanting desperately to escape from all these voices that have captured it there.
When it happens to get hold of a Finnish doom metal album, I ‘m almost sure that this promo will spent many hours in the CD player tray, and this is what happened with Fall Of The Idols.
Reino Ermitano is a doom metal outfit from Lima, Peru and “Rituales Interiores” is their third release and this time trough the Swedish label I hate records.
\r\nThe main elements of Reino Ermitano’s music are of course the doom / stoner atmosphere, the down tempo compositions, the very good female vocals and their lyrics which are in Spannish.
\r\nBy the hearing of the album which features ten tracks, is easy for someone to trace the deep inspiration by acts like, Black Sabbatha, Pentagram, St Vitus and the rest of the classic doom metal heroes of the scene.
