Reviews
Dotma (a.k.a. Dragons Of The Middle Age) is another female fronted gothic metal band with all the cliché of the genre. Heavy riffing, lyrical themes taken from medieval tales, dreamy melodies and symphonic orchestration. Johanna Lesonen’s voice has a unique color as well as dynamics but she doesn’t seem to avoid the comparison with “Nightwish or “Within Temptation”, then again that might not be her purpose.
NEW SWEDISH DEATHSTERS \r\n
\r\n-The Few Against Many - is a new band from Sweden that plays Swedish Death Metal with a melodic attitude. The band was formed in 2008 and now they are ready with their first album. \r\n
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\r\nSTIGMATA FROM NEW YORK\r\n \r\n
\r\nNew York Hardcore metalheads - Stigmata - are having their 20th anniversary. The band decided to split in 2001 and they only did a couple of shows since 2009 that decided to make a reunion and start doing anniversary shows. -I Scream Records - is releasing two of their old albums. - Hymns for an uknown God 1994 - and - Do unto others 1998 - are now together in one album.\r\n
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\r\nDANISH DEATH-GRIND\r\n \r\n
\r\nDanish band - Inbreeding Rednecks - are here with their first EP. The band formed in 2008 and still searching for a label. They released by themselves their first sample of their work.\r\n
\r\nUsually the first thing that you pay attention to when it comes to a band that you haven’t heard before, is the cover art of their cd; Trees that are dancing around an odd fire in the middle of the night, mountains all around, while crows and elf are watching... marvelous.
\r\nDo you think that the band’s name is a bit emotional? That probably it’s one more band that mourns for the “unreachable” through sad melodies?
\r\nWell, then you should reconsider! If you are wondering if it‘s “heavy”, well, it’s something more than heavy, more than straight in your face and, definitely, more than just good!
\r\nThis is one more album re-release coming from the legendary Bay Area Thrash Metal band, Laaz Rockit via Massacre Records. Their 5th album,“Nothing$ $acred”, is now remastered and it contains three more previously unreleased bonus songs.
\r\nThe riffing, the speed, the energy, the heaviness and all this incredible feeling are in these songs and no doubt the good sound quality is a big advantage. All you have to do is to turn the volume up..
\r\nNightstalker is really one of the most historical and in the same time influential outfits in Greece and with such a success abroad, something that has been gained through all these years with their long term presence in the scene, their releases and their countless live shows.
\r\nWhat should I write about Whiplash? It’s been 15 years since I listened to the awesome “Power and Pain” and “Ticket to Mayhem” for the first time and since then my relationship with that band became unique.
