Reviews
\r\nBlack Metal from Chile and more concretely from Animus Mortis, a band which does not have very much to show. In the past the group has released a Demo and last February was the month for the release of their debut album, called Atrabilis (Residues From Verb and Flesh). Here the things are too simple and evident. The group shows its love in the Norwegian scene through 8 compositions that however are classic and usual. Anything that we listen from typical Black Metal groups is here and there is nothing that will make the difference.
\r\nThis album was initially meant to be released from Transmission Records in 2006, which however closed down. For this reason, Ebony Ark should have to find another record label, in order to release this album and so we had this delay of two years. Finally the album releases from Ascendance Records and the band should be happy enough with this particular company, which although is not one of the well-known, however it is very reliable and supports by all means its bands.
\r\nSeventh Avenue have been around for several years however they are not one of the well known bands in their field. They come from Germany and they play (what else?...) Heavy/Power Metal or in their words Christian /Heavy Metal. Anywat, what we listen to in this album isn’t anything new and at some point feels like someone copied and then pasted Gamma Ray or Helloween.
\r\nFrench Jenx in their debut album, have tried to do something very daring which finally it did not attribute the best results. They tried to create something which is between Metalcore and Industrial, but unfortunately the mediocrity is the only that prevailed. Firstly, the first negative element which should be very much improved is vocals, that in all of the tracks is heard flat, colorless and monotonous. Beyond them, the songs are also somehow monotonous with only few good moments that however are not capable to gain us.
What would be the result if we mix all these bands? Kyuss, P.J. Harvey and the legendary Coven. I m sure this is not such an easy thing to imagine, or to do, but SubRosa did it, and did it very well.
\r\nFirst of all I know that this particular Canadian band has a lot of fans out there but I never heard any of their releases till this promo got its way into my hands. At first I was really curious about what the whole fuzz was about but after a while listening to this album I started to be really wondering on WHY there was any fuzz at all in the first place!!
\r\nIt’s getting really sickening when anyone who sais that is influenced by Nine Inch Nails and Ministry to come out and present a big fat nothingness that he claims it’s a masterpiece. The man behind Spyder Baby is Stevie Banch, a guy determined to make a wreck out of our nerves with his irritating and pointless music. Let Us Prey (pretty original, isn’t it?...) is his new album and in it he unfolds his not existing talent with 14 tracks that supposedly are Industrial, gothic with a touch of Electro. Things couldn’t be more simple.
\r\nReleases from Candlelight always had a particular interest for me. Martriden therefore does not constitute an exception and I can say that their debut album, The Unsettling Dark, fascinated me. Martriden comes from the Montana and in 2007 they had released an EP that partly revealed what precisely the band would make in the future. Those who had heard it, they will surely know.
\r\nDark Fury is\r\naffiliated with the Polish NSBM scene featuring current and ex-members of\r\nOhtar, Thunderbolt, Selbstmord and Thor’s Hammer.
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\r\n"A lot of fans think that metal has developed in a wrong direction during the last years. Nu Metal, Italian or German happy metal, female opera-styled vocals, Black Metal even if all these styles are a part of nowadays metal scene, a lot of people prefer classic metal to which the term true really fits without sounding old fashioned. Its a surprise that it is a German band who is able to fill this gap:
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