Just after I was asked to review the debut album of this Croatian band I wondered what I really know about the Croatian Metal scene, and to be honest I kept the silence for some minutes, 58 to be exact, the time that took me to listen this CD, and my expression after it was […]
This is already the third full-length of this Italian outfit, and their second one for the French label Adipocere Records. Until now, I knew only the band because of the buzz surrounding them within the deepest levels of the underground, so I was eager to hear their music. Well, I am certainly not disappointed! I […]
FORGOTTEN REALM are destined for power and glory are the last words of the record company introduction and honestly speaking my ideas after listening to this record are not completely in line with this statement. The musicians behind this band are well known (for example former MANOWAR drummer Rhino) and especially the guitar front is […]
Baaaahhhhh!!! This is crap!!! Imagine the following musical nightmare: an atmospheric Black Metal band decides to mix their gayboardy stuff with some riffs and melodies that might have been stolen from ANATHEMA or MY DYING BRIDE – sounds horrible, huh? To keep it short FOREST STREAM sound like slow DIMMU BORGIR and do not deserve […]
After a MCD and the solid debut album “Demonvoid” in 1999 Chicago-based Black / Deathers FOREST OF IMPALED finally manage to deliver their second infernal assault and a progress from the debut is obvious. In terms of production, song writing and musical diversity the band took a big step forward and offers ten tracks of […]
With the release of the second THE FORESHADOWING album our dear friends of Cyclone Empire conquer a completely new territory far away from their Death Metal motherland. This Italian act has been founded in 2005 and some of the band members are also involved in such ultra alternative acts like KLIMT 1918. Think that a […]
While their debut album had been an enjoyable effort but definitively not the totally killer recording one could expect (considering the musicians involved) round two definitively proves that the once talented songwriter team known as Sherman / Denner is kinda washed these days despite all the comments made by Mr. Sherman such as “It’s our […]
These guys from Slovakia have been playing together for a couple of years already. “Illumination” is their first official recording, though. Their aim is to get attention from some label. Let’s see if this works out. I’d describe their style as sort of Black Metal. The opener comes with a rather odd lead theme that […]
There is an old saying that you can find for one and the same album for each great review at least two bad ones and especially at this modern times the opinions are raging (for nearly every release) from zero to 100 percent. The first official FOLKODIA release has reached the unholy Voices From The […]
FOLKEARTH are on an endless quest and even if the multi national project has been founded only six years ago is “Rulers Of The Sea” already their seventh full release. But the battle rages on, the sword remains sharp and the 12 band members are still hungry enough to offer the next 50 minutes of […]