Reviews
\r\nTim Aymar in my opinion is one of the most interesting voices that appeared in the scene during the last years. He became widely known when he did the vocals for Control Denied, and even though a collaboration between Chuck and Warrel will remain as an unfulfilled desire, I think that Aymar did a really great job.
\r\nBasically raw Thrash Power metal , however this is not enough to describe this album, as there are far too many elements mixed together. Original elements from the "pure" heavy metal scene, Thrash background, power passages, brutal and aggressive vocals, melodic vocals, and a few high-pitched notes here and there, all in the right proportion, and here it is, the new album of IMAGIKA. Continuous changes in order to avoid getting boring, given, though, in a way so not to sound too extreme.
\r\nUnfortunately this is not the new album from Danish Panzerchrist but is a collection which contains the first album of the band, Six Seconds Kill (1-8), the second Outpost Fort Europe (9-18) and some unreleased tracks (19-21). We must mention that recently the singer of the band, Bo Summer (which is known from Illdisposed and was member of Panzerchrist from the beginning), left the band while the same happened with the drummer Reno Killerich.
\r\nKiss Of The Thorn is the name of the debut of album of A Tortured Soul from America, who have absolutely nothing new to introduce to us, however what they do they do it with love and effort and the result is very interesting. The music that we listen here is a mixture of Judas Priest with Mercyful Fate/King Diamond and Black Sabbath.
\r\nLance King is good, very good. Yet, Matt Barlow is something different, no doubt. I was never really excited about Pyramaze, neither was I ever a big fan of Barlow. Nevertheless, I think that this collaboration has a lot to say.
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\r\nA fresh release appears in the shelves of the record stores and in particular it is extremely interesting both in the line-up and content. Lou St. Paul (WINTERS BANE), Kelly Conlon (ex-DEATH, MONSTROCITY), Robert Falzano (SHATTER MESSIAH, ex-ANNIHILATOR) and Rob Rock (ex-IMPELITTERRI, M.A.R.S, JOSHUA, WARRIOR) link their forces and the result satisfies the most everyone who decides to invest in the particular album. Pure heavy metal, with bulky guitars enriched in certain phases with more power points.
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\r\nI think that his return in the metal scene is something that many fans would love to see for years. No doubt, his voice is among the best and the most expressive ones not only for the high-pitched vocals, but also because his performance was touching and it would definitely “rock” you.
\r\nInfernal Scourge is a musical project by Malek Arthas Hijazi. In their/his MyspacePage he inform us that the sound is "black metal blended with gothic, symphonic, orchestral, melodic music. It is black metal with a full dark atmosphere. Taking black metal to a higher level of extreme immure darkness! At the beginning of Infernal Scourge (2004) my style was neoclassical and it gradually shifted to the current melodic black metal". \r\n
\r\nDuring the last years is a common phenomenon for some groups to release albums with great flawless production, with many channels for the vocal lines, keyboards, effects, very well produced drums, if they are not samplers, etc. But they forgot something very important, the music. So then, this is the way that these Italians under the name Figure of Six, do in their newest, second album “Aion”