Deeply impressed by their great debut “Vozhrozhdenie” I was expecting nothing less than a further powerful release from the new Pagan Metal hope ARKONA. But even if we are still talking about an acceptable release from the Russian warrior princess Scream & Co their second album is without doubt not a release worth to be […]
As usual it’s not the easiest task to find the right words for a release which is without exaggeration part of half my Metal life. The third and final ARCKANUM release “Kampen” – final due to the fact that ARCKANUM never properly returned to their roots and these days Shamaatae is far more interested in […]
The Metal year 1997 must be definitely mentioned if it comes to the extreme commercialization of the Black Metal cult with the “joining” of Nuclear Blast as the record label number one – even if they rejected over years to sell some of these ‘evil’ satanic bands via their mailorder – and the release of […]
The introduction to the re-releases of the first three ARCKANUM masterpieces is in some way a difficult enterprise because I’m a fan of this band since these dark times. The only band member Shamaatae who started his musical career in the Swedish cult act GROTESQUE has followed a very traditional way with ARCKANUM and their […]
I remember the old slogan that some Metal label widely used back in the 90s, “Some things were meant to stay underground”. In this specific case I would change it to some things were meant to really really remain not re-released! I really can’t think of a reason why someone would even be remotely interested […]
Not to be confused with the better known ANATHEMA from England, ANNATHEMA (note the extra “N”) hail from an unlikely place: Serbia. They weren’t half bad, either. AreaDeath Productions has kindly compiled ANNATHEMA’s albums into one boxed set for our listening pleasure (each CD is also available on its own – Frank). A bit of […]
IRON MAIDEN’s Steve Harris once said in an interview that ANGEL WITCH probably never made it real big because of their bad management (which was basically Kevin Heybourne’s father in the early days), while others probably blame it on this particular record. When “Screamin’ ‘N’ Bleedin’” originally came out almost twenty years ago, the band […]
I was curious if this was a release from the British Thrash band. My memory still works after all those beers, yet when something is not that good or memorable, it tends to forget things. Let’s face it, there were many great Thrash bands in the early ’80s but there were also some atrocious and […]
Even though Finlands AMORPHIS originally started out as a pure Death Metal act in their early days they usually wouldn’t get a mention in VOICES anymore these days as they have chosen to walk a different musical path over the years… It was actually this album back in 1996 that lead to my decision not […]
The Russian motherland seems to be an endless source of inspiration especially for the local Pagan Metal scene. ALKONOST are for sure one of the real establised acts in Russia if it comes to the modern understanding of Pagan Metal – but this fact so far hasn’t reached European territory. Vic Records are trying to […]