Reviews
\r\nAccording to the Celtic mythology Belenos is the god of the sun and warm sources that heal sickness. His name means "shining one" or "henbane god". In the Roman period he was identified with Apollo. So Belenos - the band - is close to the pagan aspect of black metal except that the additive "pagan" applies to the music of this French band only in the broadest sense because the amount of folkloriness or epicness is really restrained.
Lord Vicar is the new outfit by Christian Lindersson, well known from his co operation with the Mighty Count Raven on “Strom Warning” as well as his co operation with The DOOM METAL FATHERS, Saint Vitus , on “C.O.D.” album.
\r\nThe Danish Angantyr initially was an ambient-project, but very quickly (thankfully at least from my point of view) changed into a grim and raw black metal band. The band is constituted by one member only, Ynleborgaz who plays all the instruments by himself. So far Angantyr has released three full length albums with "Haevn" being their latest, released in 2007.
\r\nEllfor is a Spanish symphonic/ambient metal band with some black metal shades and the one man project from Suffering Down’s keyboardist Eöl. The band has released four albums to today and "Son OF The Shades" is actually their second album initially released in 2003.
\r\nAlmost a year ago, I received an amazing project from Salonica coming from the band Synesthesia. Now, I’m also happy to review another great project from Salonica coming from another band this time, Transcending Bizarre?. The group was founded in 2000 and up till now has released two full-lengh albums(this last one included).
\r\nΗ πρÏŽτη φορά που άκουσα τους End Of You, ήταν πριν απÏŒ περίπου\r\nτρία χρÏŒνια απÏŒ κάποιο ΕλληνικÏŒ ραδιοφωνικÏŒ σταθμÏŒ.
\r\nMy Happiness can’t be described and the reason is that just reached me the re release of the second Pagan Altar album on Vinyl. This is the second full length excluding their first historical demo that have been re released several times as “Pagan Altar”, Vol. 1” and a couple of titles more. The “Mythical and Magical” album originally released in 2006 but a couple of days before Misckatonic foundation re released it on a double LP with a bonus track.
\r\nHow years go by, it is a wonder... It seems like yesterday when I lost my mind listening for the first time Testament’s new for that time release, The Gathering. Excitement was great and the cd stayed in the cd player for a really long time. 9 years later Testament come back with an album that will be the center of discussions. The Formation Of Damnation is the title of their new task and in it we see once again the original line-up of the band with Alex Skolnick on the guitars, something that personally really pleased me.
\r\nWhen you see the word Firebox on a new release, when you see few long tracks and when you see such an artwork, you should know exactly what to expect. So Remembrance didn’t take us by surprise and present exactly what we had guessed, and that is Funeral Doom Metal to death. The band comes from France and this is their second full-length album. Unfortunatelly I haven’t heard their previous work and so I can’t say my opinion but there is high possibility thing aren’t very different.