Reviews
\r\nThis album confused me a lot. While there are good moments in it and songs that appeal to you from the first hearing, there are also ones that are pretty tiring, not to say indifferent. Nice, powerful riffing, with lots of references to Iron Maiden classic musical patterns up to Slipknot “advanced” musical forms. Expressive vocals and beautiful vocals lines. Clever breaks and “full” rhythm section.
\r\nI don’t think that there’s anyone out there who haven’t heard of Doro Pesch. For those who might not know her I will say that Doro is simply the ultimate Metal Queen. This lady (or legend more likely) is celebrating her 25 years in the metal scene. For 25 years she delivers pure rock and heavy metal either with Warlock,at the beginning of her career, or with her solo albums. So what better way there is to celebrate this anniversary than the release of this album.
Well, no much to say about Grave Digger, which with their long and devoted offer to the German Metal scene, have nothing more to prove. The Diggers have reached glorious fame,especially in our country, some years ago, when they published "Tunes Of War" concept (based on "Braveheart") album, but the releases that followed, haven’t been anything special. During those years some experienced musicians of the local scene, such as Manni Schmidt (ex-RAGE) and Thilo Herrmann (ex-Running Wild), have joined forces with the band.
\r\nNothing original, yet not bad or indifferent at all. On the contrary, the five-member band with the female vocals in the front and the male ones as backing has lots of nerve, groove and a lot of freshness. Sevendust meets Lacuna Coil for those who are interested in such an approach of a band’s musical identity. We keep the prog musical style and the sweet melodies in the vocals and here’s the result.
A couple of days ago I ve been writing again a review for this band. Root hailing from Czech Republic, and this time I hate re released their album “The book” (1999). In this particular opus, Root left behind the black / death metal direction of their first releases and put in their music something that t can describe as dark epic metal. Root sounds like the band that played the Arcturus style of metal, before Arcturus emphasizing on their dark and “weird” style.
Another live release from Twisted Sister, and this time as double pack DC / DVD. I do not wish to be the “bad guy” that will judge them for not having a new album since 1987 , but after the re union they released tons of , collections, re takes, live CD and DVD. And I won’t say stuff like that because every single live release from Twisted Siter is just awesome, despite the years.
\r\nBefore The Dawn is a Finnish outfit and their newest album “Soundscape Of Silence” is their fifth full length release so far. The main man of the band is Tuomas Saukkonen, his name is probably familiar to many of you, from his collaboration with many bands / projects from the Finnish scene, such as Dawn Of Solace, Sinamore etc.
\r\nThe last few days during the so called “riot acts” in Athens and other cities of Greece as well, I was constantly listening on the news people wondering “Where all this violence comes from? All this hate and urge for destruction” If these people have heard of Kreator, they wouldn’t be wondering. They would know the answer. Rage is not an unknown feeling, is inside of us all, like a savage beast feeding from our daily fears, anxieties and disappointment for our broken dreams.
Have you missed pure, solid heavy metal? Well these guys here are coming from Sweden and their quest is to remind you the way heavy metal has to be played in the best possible way. It’s all about In Solitude a Swedish outfit that just release it’s debut full length LP and only on Vinyl (for now) through High Roller Records, there gonna be a cd version of the album sometime this year.
When I listened for the first time the demo release of Ereb Altor some years ago, one thing came into mind, and how a man can influence so much the whole metal scene. Of course this man was Quorthon of the mighty Bathory.