Reviews
\r\nSECOND ALBUM FOR BLACK ANVIL\r\n
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\r\n-Black Anvil- is a band from New York that plays a mix of Black and Thrash Metal since 2007. They have released one full length album and now they have returned with their second album.\r\n
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\r\nThe new album is called - Triumvirate- and it’s a great Black/Thrash Metal album that has everything. Nice riffs, great bass and drumming and some very good Black vocals. The production is very good and so is the cover of the album.\r\n
\r\nExpressing your opinion about a band with such a controversial background is a risk in a sense. Bullet for My Valentine is a band that no doubt has been promoted a lot. Definitely, there have been intense reactions about their music in the past, as for some people they are too trendy to even bother talking about them, far less listening to them.
Nation Despair might be a Finnish Death metal band, but the sound that emerges from their first EP called “Ruins” is not that similar to the so called Swedish death metal sound. It’s not that they haven’t got any melodic parts on their compositions, is the fact that they prefer to use them less and sound more groovy having as a result to sound more like the American Death metal bands like Six Feet Under and Obituary and less like their countrymen Amorphis.
The German outfit Doomshine with their debut LP “Thy Kingdoom Come” left many of us wandering what the hell had hit us and a great amount of Doomshine fans to wonder oufselfs for about six years, when the new album is going to be out, just to feel once again their unique sound and lyricism. So, these are the good news, the new album by Doomshine entitled “The Piper at the Gate of Doom” is at last out on Massacre Records.
A GREAT RELEASE \r\n
\r\n-Cephalic Carnage- are back with another stunning album!! The band is now ready to release their new album , -Misled by Certainty- and their fans are going to love it.\r\n
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\r\nThey are playing the same style only now they have more Technical ideas, many interesting riffs and amazing production. Great guitars, nice bass, excellent drumming and great Death Metal vocals. The production is very good and so is the cover of the album.\r\n
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\r\n-Hero Destroyed- returned but this time with their first full length album. After releasing their first EP in 2008 now they are ready with their debut album.\r\n
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\r\nThe new album is called - Throes - and its in the same style like their previous album. U.S. Metalcore with nice production, nice riffs, very good bass, amazing drumming and a very good voice. The production is very good and so is the cover of the album.\r\n
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\r\n-Blood Revolt- is the new band from Canada that was formed by A. Nemtheanga(Primordial), J. Read (Revenge/Conqueror) and C.Ross(Axis of Advance). They call their music Extreme Metal and they are ready to spread their music ideas through their debut album. \r\n
\r\nThis is album is already one of my top favs, even though I recently got it in my hands. “Bar-do Travel” is a very impressive piece of work for the fans of Progressive metal scene mainly, as it may be too complicated for all the rest. It combines dark atmospheres, ambient, psychedelic and post rock sounds, a perfect harmony between Tool and Meshuggah influences, rhythmical variations and mood changes, from a tech math point of view, and new age colors, which, all together, they create stunning soundscapes.
\r\nProbably, most metal fans are sick and tired of the label “symphonic metal” when it comes a newly formed band with female vocals. However, taking for granted that this scene keeps expanding anyway, it’s all a matter of personal taste in music, regardless of the music genre; each band, should be considered as a unique presence in the world of metal, instead of being a part of the mass.