Reviews
Dear Lord… It’s been a while since I heard such a “diamond” release of Epic Folk Metal with female vocals and brutal male vocals.
\r\nSo, Crimfall hailing us from Finland (weird huh?) and this is their first full length release in which they try so much to fit Metal, Folklore elements in the vein of Dead Can Dance (Wildfire Season), also some soundtrack – alike black metal and female vocals. So in other words Dead Can Dance meets Waylander with vocals close to UK Ragnarok outfit, the keyboards of Dimmu Borgir and a touch of Nightwish.
All right… Name: Leif Endling, origin, Sweden, Occupation: Doom Metal!
After ten years the German based power / prog outfit, Mind Odyssey returned with a new effort. Some time on the early days of April the new album “Time To Change it”, will be out on the stores. An album that sounds so different than their previous works, more melodic and less power, with some electronics also. The only thing for sure is that the progressive elements are once again back. Of course the comparison with previous works for instance” Schizophrenia” would be at least pointless.
No you are not in a time machine at all; this is a review for the classic thrash opus “The American Way” by the American thrash outfit, Sacred Reich. Well, Displeased and Sacred Reich decided to re – release one of the most important thrash metal albums (in my opinion of course).
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\r\nTHE RETURN OF OBSCURA\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\nThe second album by german Technical Death Metal quartet -Obscura- is ready to be released and the fans of modern technical Death Metal must be very happy.The band after many years of silence are back to replace these lost years with a killer album!!\r\n
\r\n"After Nine Destinies And A Downfall", Sirenia are back after two years with the \r\n"13th Floor". But with the new album the band brought along new members, the \r\nsinger Pilar "Ailyn" Gimenez Garcia and guitarist Michael S. Krumins. \r\n
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\r\nThe band, for those who are not aware of it, comes from Italy. They showed up for the first time at the late 80’s -early 90’s, by recording their first demo (S/T) which received great reviews. The second demo followed up (Bloody Dream), while it didn’t take long for a record deal to come for their first full length album under the title ”From the Floor of the Well”. “Under A Spell” was to become their second and last work as for about eight years they fell into the darkness.
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\r\nHELL ON EARTH \r\n
Oh my dear Lord…Well here we deal with a band which many of you must be familiar with. The Danish based outfit, Iron Fire releasing their new album, that despite the fact that their label tries to persuades us that this is power metal, I get the impression that something goes wrong with my ears. I found this one like a hammerfall-ish way of power metal mixed with some AOR – ish choruses.
Stromrider is a German based outfit and after their first full length release “Shipwrecked” (2004) via the Italian Label Underground Symphony, returned in 2008 with their second release, on a different label. The Album is entitled “Fate of the Hunter” and has been released though Pure Steel Records.