Reviews
\r\nThis is the debut album of Karmic Link, a band which was created by Stathis Kassios (Nightfall, System Shock) and the charismatic voice of Mina G (Kinetic, The Rain I Bleed) gave “flesh and bones” to it around the year 2006. Recordings followed up in the well-known Tico Tico Studios in Finland and with Bob Katsionis (FIREWIND), who is behind all the rhythm and lead guitars, and Jani Liimatainen (SONATA ARCTICA) in one out of the two instrumental tracks of the album, as guest musicians, we have “No light but rather darkness visible”.
YOU CANT STOP SWEDISH DEATH METAL!!
\r\nSwedish band -ONE MAN ARMY & THE UNDEAD QUARTET- is back with their third official
\r\n“Zero Order Phase” is the first solo release of Jeff Loomis, guitarist and one of the founding members of Nevermore. This album being an instrumental release gives us the opportunity to listen to Jeff’s well known talent in composing various tracks and his unquestionable guitar technique. Loomis in this album ,besides the guitars has also recorded the bass parts and with Mark Arrington’s help (former Nevermore member) on the drums is composing a very good instrumental album.
Taking this cd for a review, I just thought :"Lets give it a spin in the car’s player on the way to work", nothing unusual so far. As soon as the first track "Breaking my heart again" was over, I thought "Well great song, but that’s common for an opening one, great melodies,great chorus and Whitesnake meets Talisman style". But, as soon as "Hometown calling" was over, with its catchy refrain and I moved on to "To mend a broken heart" I was sure that this release, had something special to offer.
\r\n Thanatoschizo is a metal group from Portugal founded in late 1997. Delivering a sound between progressive death metal, doom metal, progressive rock, atmospheric and electronic music, free-jazz, Middle Eastern music plus a close connection near enough to modern gothic metal, "Zoom Code" gets really hard to be categorized.
\r\nI believe that there was a great amount of expectation for this release by many of us. Yngwie Malmsteen joined forces with Tim Owens, which is something that I consider to be one the most important facts of the year. Despite the fact that I had some doubts about this collaboration, after the hearing of “Perpetual Flame”, Yngwie made me reconsider
\r\nFemale line up , ladies in metal kinda thing, in a challenging album, exactly for this particular reason, if not for anything else, as these girls do not follow the most usual path which is either being ethereal and all and singing high pitched vocals, or absolute “brutality”. Yes, their music may be based on these forms, however it doesn’t miss a thing of the elegance of these ladies. How come? Well, I was curious as well in the beginning while seeing the back cover of the cd and checking their webpage and listening to the tracks at the same time.
Well, in this case the things are so simple, when the ultimate masters of Epic Doom Metal releasing some new material, I only have to listen to it again and again and again…