Reviews
After the controversial “Reborn” PMRC’s favorite band strikes again releasing a new album titled “Murder By Pride”. Stryper (for those unaware..) are the pioneers of what we now call Christian Hard Rock. They managed to make hard rock popular to the ignorant American audience of that time ( we’re talking about 1985) praising the Lord through their music (which mother wouldn’t want her daughter hanging around with respective young boys like themselves rather than the glam/sleaze bums of Hollywood?).
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\r\nTHE BEAST IS ALIVE AGAIN\r\n \r\n
\r\n-Eryn Non Dae - are back with their first full length album called - Hydra Lernaïa - released through Metal Blade Records.The band has released only one EP and now its their first time releasing an album through a record label.\r\n
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\r\nENTER THE LABYRINTH\r\n \r\n
\r\n-Howl- is the name of a new band from the U.S. that is now releasing their very first mini-cd through Relapse Records.The band plays a mix of Death and Doom Metal.\r\n \r\n
\r\nTheir new release has 3 full tracks that will lead you to slow Atmosphairic Death Metal passages with great riffs and melancholy melodies, thick bass and nice drumming.The vocals are in a slow rotten mood and the production of this mini-cd is perfect.The artwork on the cover is very good and it shows a skeleton with wings and flowers all over.\r\n
\r\nAb-sense begun with a different name on 2004 (they were called “Insane Sanity”) and a different line-up. Two of the initial members, Miltos and Thanassis, continued playing together and on September of the year 2008 they recorded along with their new bandmates their first self-financed EP, “Absense of Sense”.
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\r\nA LAS VEGAS COCKTAIL \r\n \r\n
\r\n-Molotov Solution- is a band from Las Vegas that started in 2004 playing Grindcore and with the pass of time , some changes in their line-up and a few releases, they signed with Metal Blade Records and they are now releasing their second full length that can be characterized as a Deathcore album. \r\n
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\r\nA RE-RELEASE FROM VALKYRJA\r\n \r\n
\r\nSwedish Black Metal band - Valkyrja - were formed back in 2004 and have already released two demos and one full length album.Their debute album was released in 2007 through Northern Silence.Now the band has change record label and they are under Metal Blade Records.They are now recording their new album but in the meantime Metal Blade Records thought to re-release their first album for promotional use of course.\r\n
What we have here is the third release of the Canadian prog deathsters Sympathy (previously released are "Invocation" (2002) and "Arcane Path" (2004). Anagogic Tyranny is a quite good progressive death metal album with many black metal and thrash elements. The compositions are quite complicated and technical indeed but they are not boring, in contrary to other bands of the genre, they seem to have a specific structure something that saves them from being over-complicated and therefore tiring.
\r\nWhat could someone expect from a collaboration between Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius, Kotipelto) and the guitarist Jani Liimatainen (ex-Sonata Arctica, ex-Altaria)? Something related to their musical background of course. Mikko Harkin (Solution.45, Mehida, ex-Sonata Arctica, ex-Wingdom, ex-Kenziner) is on the keyboards, Jukka Koskinen (Norther, Wintersun) is on the bass and Jani "Hurtsi" Hurula (Paul Di’Anno) is on the drums.
\r\nThink of a band which praises Metallica’s riffing and at the same time it embraces System of A Dawn and their composing madness. Maplerun are somewhere in between and this is their debut album, “House of Fire”. An alternative proposal which combines many styles, as one can find a lot of Pocupine Tree-like psychedelic moments in their songs, as well as Tool-like atmospheric spots and an attitude which refers to bands like Godsmack, Deftones, Radiohead. In other words, what is generally called as Nu Metal/Modern Alternative Rock.
