Reviews
\r\nFrench Jenx in their debut album, have tried to do something very daring which finally it did not attribute the best results. They tried to create something which is between Metalcore and Industrial, but unfortunately the mediocrity is the only that prevailed. Firstly, the first negative element which should be very much improved is vocals, that in all of the tracks is heard flat, colorless and monotonous. Beyond them, the songs are also somehow monotonous with only few good moments that however are not capable to gain us.
What would be the result if we mix all these bands? Kyuss, P.J. Harvey and the legendary Coven. I m sure this is not such an easy thing to imagine, or to do, but SubRosa did it, and did it very well.
\r\nFirst of all I know that this particular Canadian band has a lot of fans out there but I never heard any of their releases till this promo got its way into my hands. At first I was really curious about what the whole fuzz was about but after a while listening to this album I started to be really wondering on WHY there was any fuzz at all in the first place!!
\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.