Reviews
\r\n “Now, what, only six songs?” would someone ask by checking the tracklist. The difference is that four of them are music themes rather than songs since they last more than 10 minutes each like for instance “The count of Tuscany”, which is almost 20 minutes long.
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\r\nHOLD TIGHT - THE SURGERY IS NEAR\r\n \r\n
\r\n-General Surgery - is a band from Sweden that plays Death/Goregrind Metal since 1988.The band has released many demos and an EP before they split the band.After 12 years they reformed and started releasing Split Albums and in 2006 they released their first full length work.They are now back with a full length album that is going to satisfy their fans and all the Death/Goregrind lovers out there, with new singer and the return of Andreas Eriksson in the bass.\r\n
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\r\nBLACK CURSE\r\n \r\n
\r\n-Skaldic Curse - is a band from the U.K. , formed in 2001 in London.The band plays Progressive Black Metal and they have already released three demos , one EP and one full length album.Their second full length is ready and this time the album will be released through Karisma Records and Dark Essence Records.\r\n
\r\nWhen it’s time to review an instrumental album, it’s always like to\r\nstep on a stretched rope.\r\nOn one hand we have the fans of the instrumental - guitar hero genre,\r\nand on the other we have the ones that believe that is very tiring\r\nlistening to an\r\nentire virtuoso album. I am also an oppenent of virtuoso albums, but\r\nthis does not mean that I do\r\nnot love Jason Becker and Marty Friedman releases. I will try to be as\r\nobjective, or to be more correct, as less\r\nsubjective as possible. Let us begin!\r\n
\r\nGavin Harrison, Porcupine Tree’s drummer, joins the fellowship of Kevin Moore and Jim Matheos on the new album, entitled”Blood”. In the past such collaboration might seem like a crazy fantasy for all progsters worldwide, but now it’s just a fascinating event. Both Matheos and Moore have proved already that they totally deserve to be on the top of the prog scene.
Even though they are in the scene for almost 15 years now, I admit I ‘ve never heard of Jungle Rot. “What horrors await” is their 6th full length release and is more or less a very good sample of old school death metal. There are no surpises here, no weepy melodies no emo choruses. Jungle Rot are still doing what they do best. They’re playing pure, solid death metal, the way it’s meant to be played.
I believe that every single Manowar release is a great happening for the whole heavy metal scene. A band that has been serving the pure, epic heavy metal for so many years now and their loyal fans have been always forgiving their not so quite good moments. So now the time has come for them to present us something off the long awaited “The Asgard Saga” for which Manowar have been working with Wolfgang Hohlbein and the whole concept is about Thor, the god of thunder in the Scandinavian mythology,
\r\n"Trace Of Decay" is the first concept album by "Agnosia", a progressive\r\nmetal band fro\r\nPireaus, Greece. The star is Edward, a famous actor and theatrical\r\nproducer, currently starring in the acclaimed "Piccadilly Circus\r\nNights".Having\r\nreached the peak of his career and enjoyning critical and\r\ncommercial success, decides to take a break. He plans to dedicate this\r\ntime to his \r\nmuch younger fiancee Alysia. And this how the story begins .... For\r\nthose who\r\nwant to know the rest of the story, listen to the album!
Fact is that the last few years the Greek Hard Rock/Sleeze scene has something really serious to say. Most Greek bands of the genre have only good releases to offer and they managed to look all the foreign “rivals” straight in the eyes. Unfortunately Zandem are not one of these bands.
\r\nListening to the album, with the hilarious photocopied artwork, I had the impression that I was somewhere between the late 70’s and early 80’s. Quite a shock I must say..