Reviews
\r\nNext year they will close their third decade, they have released numerous albums and only their name it is capable even today to stimulate chills of emotion and fear to thousands new and old fans and non fans! Yes, Venom is once again here with a new album and a new line up.
\r\n"This city full of plastic\r\nangels will seduce you. Welcome to\r\nLos Angeles... "\r\n
\r\nThis is the sixth album for Perzonal War and a step beyond as well I would add. They bridge in a pretty impressive way the Old school Thrash Metal with the modern, Power/Thrash scene, creating an album approachable to the old school metalheads and, also, to the newest fans of the scene in general.
\r\nThree years\r\nhave passed since “Ctonic Rites” and the Britain based outfit Moss have\r\nreturned to Rise Above records to release their second full LP, “Sub Templum”\r\nproviding us with memorable moments of Doom, minimlistic, extremely down tempo,\r\nright from the grave music.\r\n
Descending is the new outfit by the Greeks Konstantine (Nighrage) on guitars, Jon Simvonis (Godlike Demon) on Vocals plus the addition of three more members Theo, Noir and Antony that have just release their debut album “Enter Annihilation” under the sing of the Massacre Records.
\r\nI couldn’t be luckier! My first review for Metalzone.gr was the new Journey album! I think there is no reason for me to speak of the legendary Neal Schon (all guitars, backing vocals) and Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals) – who also handled the songwriting in all of the 11 tracks – and of course the phillipenean newcomer Arnel Pineda in the leading vocals. At this point I’d like to mention how the band found it’s new lead singer.
\r\nA bit weird, even though not anything innovative is the concept of the new Alice Cooper album. It is a story where a serial killer, named Spider, is the main character and according to which, during his crimes, he falls in love with one of his victims. He creates a love story coming from the paranoid profile of the protagonist which proceeds in the album like a horror film. And why not, such an album could easily constitute a complete theatrical work or cinematographic film, covered with an absolutely suitable musical background.
\r\nI was waiting quite impatiently for this new album by SINNER. You see the previous one still lingers in my mind and Black is an old time classic in my heart. And so yesterday when I got my hands on Crash & Burn I couldn’t keep myself. I feel there’s no introduction needed for SINNER the band of Mat Sinner who also plays in Primal Fear but has a history that dates back to the 80s. And maybe it’s just because of that that the music Mat writes is always with a 80s feeling in it. So let’s take it track by track.
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A tribute to Arnold Schwarzenneger? No shit! Reminds me of the day I first listened to Charles Bronson!(gods!).Anyway! What we have here is the new solo/side project of “our own man” Tim Lambesis (he comes from Greece) of As I Lay Dying. Thrash metal combined with some metalcore, short songs with catchy riffs that would certainly create some insane circle pits! Everything is played by Tim himself, although helped by friends such as Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage and Nic Hipa of As I Lay Dying.
\r\nI have to admit that I was very curious to listen to this album. It is a real treasure when such a popular frontman returns to the band, for the whole “buzz” on one hand, and, on the other hand merely because Barlow has a voice which is hard not to be recognized from both fans and not fans of the group. Under such conditions, being casual and write music just for writing can not be justified. And I ‘m not referring to how much time it took them in order to finish the compositions of the album, but only to what I, as a listener, am listening to.