Reviews
\r\nIt’s getting really sickening when anyone who sais that is influenced by Nine Inch Nails and Ministry to come out and present a big fat nothingness that he claims it’s a masterpiece. The man behind Spyder Baby is Stevie Banch, a guy determined to make a wreck out of our nerves with his irritating and pointless music. Let Us Prey (pretty original, isn’t it?...) is his new album and in it he unfolds his not existing talent with 14 tracks that supposedly are Industrial, gothic with a touch of Electro. Things couldn’t be more simple.
\r\nReleases from Candlelight always had a particular interest for me. Martriden therefore does not constitute an exception and I can say that their debut album, The Unsettling Dark, fascinated me. Martriden comes from the Montana and in 2007 they had released an EP that partly revealed what precisely the band would make in the future. Those who had heard it, they will surely know.
\r\nDark Fury is\r\naffiliated with the Polish NSBM scene featuring current and ex-members of\r\nOhtar, Thunderbolt, Selbstmord and Thor’s Hammer.
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\r\n"A lot of fans think that metal has developed in a wrong direction during the last years. Nu Metal, Italian or German happy metal, female opera-styled vocals, Black Metal even if all these styles are a part of nowadays metal scene, a lot of people prefer classic metal to which the term true really fits without sounding old fashioned. Its a surprise that it is a German band who is able to fill this gap:
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Treponem Pal is a big chapter in the French music scene. They were born in 1986 but untill recently they remained inactive. Weird Machine is their new album which marks their new beginning, as Treponem Pal are back again and they offer us a strange mixture of influences from many different musical forms. BUt is the result satisfying or not? Personally I didn’t expect much more from the band. Their previous albums had shown which their abilities were and up to where they could reach. Weird Machine isn’t that impressive nor is there anything exciting in it.
\r\nSickening is another brutal death metal band only this time from Florence, Italy. In their music typically the riffs are predominant with an elaborate alternation of rhythms from fast tremolo picking to slow chugging passages and heavy bass guitar with full distortion and the thick palm muting that blends with the drums to create a blunt sound that pervades throughout the entire record.
It took eleven years of waiting to have a new studio album from the legendary hard rockers, Whitesnake. The question of every one of us is if this album is worth for eleven years of waiting. So this is what I m going to analyze below.
\r\nFirst of all, any of you that have believed that Whitesnake will return to their primitive 70’s sound, unfortunately you will be disappointed. As for the others that have believed that the new album would sound closer to the “1987” and “Slip of the Tongue” are so close to what the “Good To Be Bad” album is.
\r\nFifth album from German Debauchery that if we judge from the name of the album and its cover, they continue what they began certain years ago. Continue To Kill is not an album that will change the data of extreme sound, neither is an album that will be loved to a great extent. It is ideal however for those who want to hear something that partly contains fun, partly Rock n Roll and of course Death Metal.
\r\nI do not know much about Distrust and in order to be honest I wouldn’t want to search more about them, because I consider this to be a waste of time. The band comes from Singapore and their music is a mixture of Hardcore and Thrash Metal. Everything in this album regarding the compositions, the vocals, the production and the sound do not even touch the mediocrity and what characterizes album is monotony, dullness and indifference.
\r\nSame story…The British Power Quest release their new album on behalf of Napalm Records which is named Master Of Illusion. Everything into this album is predictable and usual and personally I did not find something that could draw my attention. What we heard in their previous albums, we hear also and here, without any improvement and without any development. Melodic Power Metal with their basic influences Stratovarius, Rhapsody, Freedom Call etc.