Reviews
\r\nWhen you see a spanish band playing folk/pagan metal you cannot but wonder since Spain has no tradition in the genre. At least not a strong one. After watching the band members’ babyfaces that doubt grows even stronger...and yet it feels so good to be wrong in the end.
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\r\nVotum, a band which comes from Poland, used to be quite different music- wise in the beginning. Soon they changed their music style, by following more atmospheric and dark music paths. And the truth is, they did well, taking under consideration that they compose wonderful, mesmerizing songs, with penetrating atmosphere.
Cauchemar, a female fronted heavy metal band, hailing from Canada, but keep in mind the fact that, when I state Heavy Metal is Heavy Metal, no operatic bullshit in this one.
\r\nThe Greeks with the amazing logo count over 20 years of experience in the scene. Still, for some reason they have been dwelling in the deepest corners of the underground. So deep, their very existence was questioned from time to time. Yet, their discography is constant. Every now and then they’d release something, whether a 7 inch or a full length. So, what do we get now?
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\r\nTHE SIXTH ALBUM IS HERE\r\n
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\r\n-Cataract- are back with another mind-blowing album. The sixth full length is finally here and ready to satisfy all the fans of -Cataract-.\r\n
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\r\nThe title of the new album is - Killing the Eternal- and it’s a great album that mixes Thrash and Hardcore with the one and only -Cataract-way. Heavy tuned guitars, nice riffs, heavy bass, great drumming that mixes many styles and the voice of Federico in great angry condition. The production is very nice and the whole album has great sound. \r\n
During the last week, since the day I got my hands on the debut album by the Swedish outfit Noctum, is really difficult for me to listen to anything else than “The Seance”.
\r\nWhen VADER’s former guitarist, Maurycy "Mauser" Stefanowicz, decided to explore his dark artistic side, he formed the band Unsun and crossed the line from the death metal music fields that used to be a way to express himself, to the gothic ones, showing, this way, a different part of himself and of his musical interests.
\r\nAnother release from the former Helloween singer (Yes, this title will follow him weather he likes it or not!) Michael Kiske. This time he seems to move aside his melodic rock, AOR background as he decides to work with Amanda Somerville, well known from her participations on bands like Kamelot and Avantasia among others, creating a well played but rather mediocre Hard Rock/Metal album (though the term “Metal” sounds too heavy for this one!)
The Australian based Doom metal quartet Rote Mare, after the release of eight demos, decided to release their first “proper” release as an EP entitled “Sorrows Path”.
\r\nThey sound improved in comparison with some early deamos I happened to have already listened to, and their sound is nothing more than traditional doom metal in the vein of Sabbath, Trouble, Saint Vitus and other bands trademarks of the Doom metal sound.
\r\nSecong strike from Salonika’s Terrordrome comes in the form of a split cd and, in my opinion, it establishes them as on of the top forward thinking brutal tech/death metal bands(that was long!). It takes enormous amount of talent to be able to compose songs that are technical and catchy at the same time. Yes, catchy.
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