Reviews
\r\nThe New Dark Age is the name of the new album from Kiuas from Finland, which I admit that they confused me a little, because I found tracks that I really liked, but also found others that tired me. The music that the band plays is interesting, but there are some points where they exaggerate. What we hear is extreme Power Metal and with the term extreme, I mean something as what we have previously known through Dragonforce some years ago.
\r\nI used the term “alternative” above because these dudes have confused me. New album out for the Swedish band which has become popular due to the free downloading option that they gave to the people who might be interested in checking their music out, rather than their music itself. About the previously mentioned term. Machinae Supremacy is playing SID metal, as it is called, due to the fact that there are plenty of electronic elements/sounds, video games-like and computer games-like, back from the 80s & 90s.
\r\nDark Fortress from Germany with the release of Séance proved that they can manage many things. With Eidolon therefore, they proved that not only they managed perfectly in the extreme sound but they can achieve more and as the years passing by, they are developing, improving and becoming mature. Eidolon, is a concept album that is based on the Greek word "idol" and in this, Dark Fortress unfolds all their talent, the magic and the uniqueness that they have.
\r\nNostalgia For A Belief is a new band that its members are Greeks but they live in England. What we have here is a promo with 3 tracks, which helps us take a small dose of what we will hear in the future from this promising group. Initially we must say that the music that we hear here is multidimensional, meaning that it is Progressive Metal but in reality what we hear they are something more. The band is not afraid to experiment with its sound and manages it great.
\r\nThe “Frozen Circus” album by Poland’s Eternal Deformity has been released as a self financed release in 2007, and now the Label Code 666 re-releases it, something that I consider a very wise move, so this album and band can be accessible to a bigger audience.
Undefined from Spain have released back in the 2005 their first ep, and in 2007 their first album “Of Xenoglossy And Saturn”, that just reached us.
\r\nGermany’s NO with their first full length effort, they try to expole the Deathcore scene, as they state on the promo cd their basic influences for writing and play music is the Death Metal scene as well as the Hardcore / Metalcore scene.
\r\nOnly six tracks in the CD and the immature songwriting of the band is obvious. No can be heard in the same time as different bands, like the early Entombed (guitars) to
\r\nBullet for my Valentine, without no elements of their own.
\r\nUrskumug. A band which I do not know how far further it can go with such an name….Anyway, this here is a re-mastered version of their debut album, that was released in 2003. This time it is released via Haarbn Productions. Passover is an album of the bulk of those that are neither good, nor bad. This means that their music could enter in classic melodic Black Metal forms, with a lot of influences from Dimmu Borgir of the early years, but also of the recent ones.
\r\nA predicted release. From the artwork and only we know what we will hear and in particular we know that it will not go further that shit. I will not deal a lot with this album, because it is midday and all these bullshits that they have in their photographs will make me feel disgust. I do not know how many of you like Grindcore. Personally I cannot say that I am the biggest fan of the genre property, but sometimes I can hear some albums.
\r\nGroups that I hear from Poland, are at least interesting. This is also proved by Chain Reaction, a band that exists from 2002 but now released their debut. The album here is self-produced, thing that makes impression that such bands, would not supposed to be without a record deal. However, I am sure that Chain Reaction thanks to Vicious Circle will find soon find one. The first thing that impresses, is the exceptional sound, while immediately afterwards come amazing riffs to take out our head.