I’ve been waiting for this record to get released for more than four years by now. Back then the legendary NWOBHM act TANK returned to the scene, toured Germany and even recorded a brandnew demo. That tape only featured two songs (the ok sounding ‘In The Last Hours Before Dawn’ and the raging ‘And Then […]
Mmmh, that’s absolutely not my style. I really like old school Death Metal with a harsh sound but I think this album is just nothing but a nice try to sound like old heroes. Maybe I am wrong and the band really wants to express something outstanding but I just can not get into it. […]
With “Hordalands Doedskvad”, TAAKE ended their musical trilogy, beginning with “Nattestid”, continuing with “Bjorgevin”, and finally, concluding with “Doedskvad”. Now, the world may have the beginnings of another trilogy on its hands with the self titled album, inevitably called “Taake”, released just last October. As always, Hoest begins with a melodic, wolfish rasp that introduces […]
This album has touched me so deeply that I considered not to review it in the first place, because I knew at once that I was doomed to fail miserably trying to transcribe its beauty into words. Those who know TAAKE already will surely understand, and for them I can simply say that even if […]
I don’t own the original version of TIAMAT’s “The Astral Sleep”, but from what Jeroni told me, it seems that the front- and backcover wasn’t changed for the re-release at all. The black background inside the booklet got replaced by the almost golden looking color of the frontcover and there’s no skeleton background behind the […]
Even though Norway’s THORNS managed to release an excellent self-financed debut album back in 2001 via Moonfog Productions, their old tape recordings still seem to gain a massive interest in underground circuits due to the everlasting cult status of the band. So, no wonder that they officially got re-released again, this time via the small […]
TAURUS is a five-piece act from Niterói (Brasil) which back in the times decided to play Thrash Metal and released two demos and three albums between 1985 and 1989, and which still seem to be active, even if they haven’t released anything since that last album called “Pornography”. What Marquee Records decided to re-release here […]
Jesus Christ, this one is far away from being any catchy!!! SYMBYOSIS is a band-project (two members, one “composer” and a lead guitar-player) from France debuting with “Crisis” on Listenable Records (Hail, Mr. Merle!) and the credits on the album might actually be helpful as hint for their musical whereabouts: CYNIC, DEVIN TOWNSEND, CORONER, ATHEIST, […]
Well, first of all the band name is taken from a medieval wood… Anyway, the best way to describe this must be something like a mixture of Black Metal and Heavy Metal. You got the faster Black Metal parts mixed with some kind of Iron Maiden like pieces, and that constellation could probably sound pretty […]
I have a lot of respect for Listenable (Hi Laurent!) as I know the people in there are really supportive to Metal and specially the extreme forms of it. But, slowly a couple of more “commercial” bands started to be released on this label. Well, SYBREED is one of those. Coming from Switzerland, this is […]