Reviews
\r\nThis type of bands always gave me a hard time understanding them. "Core" is the basic ingridient and from there on we have lots of experimenting to the point you get burnt braincells in the effort to make sense! Of Legends deliver their debut full length and manage to mash my brain with their math/experimental tunes. Hell, was that only 25 minutes?
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\r\nNEW ALBUM FROM BTBAM \r\n
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\r\nThe band returned three years after their latest release with another great album. BTBAM are here with a new album called - The Parallax Hypersleep Dialogues - and this time they are ready to show to their fans another dimention of their music with a 30 minute album with three tracks only. \r\n
\r\nThose who are familiar with the band, should not expect a big surprise from their third studio album, “Trinity”.
\r\n Melodic Metal meets Hard Rock, with an intense Progressive Power tension; this “mixture” makes the whole album pretty interesting, as it’s anything but “flat” or simplified. However, this "variation" is not enough for EDEN’S CURSE to stand out among so many other bands that are also very good and interesting.
\r\nCome on, let’s dig this from the start. The new album kicks in with a dull, "been played a zillion times" riff. The song evolves into something beautiful though, with the usual leads taking a hold of the situtation and the double bass bringing the known Amon Amarth epic feeling. So far, so good. And yes, we excuse the Maiden twin guitars, they were due to show up anyway. Moving on to the second track you realise, not the downward spiral you’ll doomed to fall into, but the mediocre level the later albums of these Swedes have been showing to the world.
I really can’t tell why I wasn’t impressed by the new Wizard album. It’s strange since Wizard’s ninth release with the strange title “Of Wariwulfs And Bluotvarwes” seems to have all it takes to make an album sound really nice. Here we have powerful songs and a really bombastic production along with some of the best riffs the band ever recorded. I think that the fact that I wasn’t at all impressed is due to the release of their previous epic “Thor” which was released 2 years ago.
Ladies and gentlemen prepare yourselves for Nervecell’s attack in the near future. The guys are playing a heavy balled progressive thrash/death metal straight from Dubai of Arabian Emirates and this will break your ass down even better.
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\r\nThe demo that they recorded in 2010 was enough for them to sign with Inner Wound Recordings a few months later. Soon, their debut album, “Opus Arise”, is going to be released, containing 8 songs.
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\r\n This is a strange case of nutjob. You’re not quite sure as to what exactly is going on in this album until you let go and let it flow within you, regardless the sign under which it may be. The Portuguese maniacs finally get you on their side with the honesty and the straight forward attitude they deliver their fine tunes. But let’s see what exactly it is that BASTARDIZED RECORDINGS is serving us this time.
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\r\nThere are some bands out there, utterly condemned to dwell in the shadows of their influences just because they can never get past the concept of being a fan into becoming an actuall musician. Everything they will ever release is a replica or a "it brings this to mind" example without being able to express their true talent - if there is any. Legio Mortis is one of these cases. If their newest album is a Cradle of Filth wannabe in the year of the goatlord 2011, something has to be out of place...
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Here we’ve got the new EP from the progsters Forgotten Suns. “Revelations” includes 5 remixed tracks most of them previously released. The album begins with the remix of “Doppelgauger” a track taken from the “Innergy” album. In my opinion is a very good song as is “Phenotype”, the track that follows, that mixes powerful melodies with skillful performance in a very heavy way creating a pure progressive masterpiece, something that most of the bands out there strive in vain to achieve.