Reviews
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\r\nITALIAN HELL \r\n \r\n
\r\nItalian Blacksters -Guru of Darkness - are back with their second album ready to sing about pain,darkness and misanthropy.The band manged to release the album through Haures Records and the result is 100% hellish Black Metal!! \r\n
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\r\nGERMAN MATHCORE\r\n \r\n
\r\n-War from a Harlots Mouth- is a band from Germany that plays a mix of MathCore, Metal and Jazz.They formed in 2005 and have released only one full length album through Lifeforce Records.\r\n
\r\nSubconsciously I have connected the word “Necropolis” with negative emotions and generally repulsive thoughts (no, I am not referring to Manilla Road) so imagine my surprise when I saw that cursed word as an album title of one of my favorite death metal bands. Funny thing is that this specific album with a title like that is one of the best works I have listened to the last couple of years and I am not referring only to Vader but to the whole death metal scene.
\r\nSweden is really busy "producing" new metal bands that, even the weakest of them, make quality albums. Another band that makes it’s debut these days is Mean Streak with their album "Metal Slave". A solid work, good old-school heavy metal, with every one of the cliches, both in music and in lyrics, that have characterised heavy metal during the last years. Besides, from what I’ve seen, their main goal is to play the music they truly love and nothing else.
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\r\nA VIKING RE-ISSUE\r\n \r\n
\r\nSwedish Deathsters - Amon Amarth - are releasing through Metal Blade Records a re-issue of the album -Versus the World - and the fans of Amon Amarth are going to be very happy about this release.\r\n
\r\nThe Helsinki Vampires are back and they are sleazier than ever!! Forget about gothic vampires, cobwebbed crypts and cursed love affairs. These vampires are completely different, they love parties and undead chicks while their natural habitat seems to be the dark alleys of Hollywood and the steaming strip clubs and what’s more important …they’ll rock the hell outta you!
\r\nVanity Ink’s second full-length album is out now and it will be a difficult work for anybody to be a critic against this band. Because they can surely cheer up someone who listens to their work, but until what point the lack of talent and new ideas can be fought with their enormous lust for rock n’ roll and great sense of humour? I believe that everything has it’s limit... \r\n
\r\nThings are not always what they seem; when I saw the cover of the cd I thought that I was going to listen to some goth or doom metal band. I couldn’t imagine that actually I was dealing with a Hard Rock band! Well, after listening to the first song, while looking thoroughly at the artwork at the same time, I got the picture. Both the songs and the whole artwork are totally 80’s. The production, the mixing, the compositions, the feeling…everything feels as if we are in a time machine.
\r\nI’ll have to admit that it’s a strange fact that Zero Illusion’s first cd reached our headquarters about 8 months after it’s official release. I thought that such a delay could justify a lack of professionalism and quality in this band’s work and luckily I was proven 100% wrong. After the first hearing of their album I made a short reasearch of what has been written for them internationally and in Sweden. The band has been characterised as "the new Swedish hope". I can tell you, whoever told those words, was absolutely right. \r\n