I had to listen to this one for a couple of times, before being able to do a proper review. I could easily finish it telling you this sucks and deserve to be buried and forgotten. But I will try to give a deeper insight on the music of this one band. I have to […]
In April 2005, Stephen O’Malley featured on his personal website (www.ideologic.org) an interview with STRIBORG mastermind Sin-Nanna. He also recommended some CDs out of the abundant yet highly confidential STRIBORG discography. The whole feature aroused my interest, so I managed to get hard to find records to make out my own idea about this obscure […]
After the two demo CDs “Carnage In Heaven” and “Withering Existence”, which were already good releases, here we have the great debut album of this Swedish Death Metal warriors. “Atrocious Retribution” is an excellent piece of ass kicking Death Metal. Obviously those Swedish Death mongers have nothing new to offer. No innovations, no originality, no […]
To make a long story short, STORMRIDER are not – as their name might suggest – “Raise the steel, kill the dragon”-style Power Metal but a HYPOCRISY / AMON AMARTH rip off produced by Tommy Tägtgren. Since it is bad enough that there are the originals (haha, just kiddin’) I consider STORMRIDER superfluous yet fans […]
STORMLORD isn’t the most famous Italian band these days but at least their 1999 Last Episode debut “Supreme Art Of War” is worth an investigation on Ebay if you are fan of powerful keyboard Black Metal. In 2008 the band found a new home in Locomotive Records and their latest release “Mare Nostrum” is showing […]
I see Nhashi’s point when complaining about STORMLORD and the likes being bands nobody needs. I mean: come on – NICE Black Metal!?! Where’s the sense in that? Imagine somebody really singing on this album it might even hit the fucking charts nowadays! BUT: doesn’t that mean that there are actually people out there who […]
Oh yes, these guys are definitely from Italy! Like 99% of the Italian True Metal Warriors, these Melodic Black / Death talents suffer from a too dominant keyboard. Don’t get me wrong: using keyboards CAN improve a band’s sound immensely, but if the music drowns in sweet plastic it gets annoying. Sometimes this happens to […]
I can’t stand this any longer! No matter how many useless bands this scene will continue to spit out, there’s always labels willing to sign them. With Italy’s STORMLORD it originally used to be the infamous German company Last Episode that released both the band’s 1998 Mini CD “Where My Spirit Forever Shall Be” and […]
Eesh. More grandiose designs on the epic ‘double album’. As can be gathered from the title, this two-piece hails from Finland. They are attempting an Epic Pagan Metal style, mid-paced, and with entirely clean vocals (à la Quorthon). Musically, we’re talking Heavy Metal-lish folky stuff; I guess closest in style to the long defunct BAK […]
From Portland, Oregon, comes this four piece melodic Metal act called STONECREEP, that is a sort of hybrid of Thrash, Death and Heavy Metal, added some tiny hints from pure Rock in their general musical approach as well. As some recent news from their camp, it should be mentioned that the band was almost recently […]