Reviews

I picked this album up the other day from a cheap-o bin. To tell you the truth, I never heard any of this band's music before. Judging by the quality of the songs on "333", I wasn't…

When I got this, I was expecting a Gothic release, somewhere in the land of Moonspell, Older Tiamat, or something close. But what I got was something with the sound of Anathema, soft, mellow with a psychedelic…

What do you expect from Konkhra? A pure locomotive of pounding, heavy, and blasting Death/Thrash? Well, dinner is served: 12 tracks of pure energy and violence, without any frills. Konkra are finally able…

When it comes to Heavy Metal, there is one band that I always had as my favourite, I know many say Power Metal, and I'm not saying against you, even if I choose to call it Heavy Metal. It's Nocturnal…

"Silent Room" is the last album of one of the first Heavy Metal band from France. After their first album 1984's "Waiting For The Twilight", a split since 1987 to 1999 and their…

Max Cavalera never seems to disappoint. He could actually be the most reliable metal musician out there - in his long (almost two decades) career, he has never really made an album that anyone could call…

After two MCD ["Inside" 1997 and "Dark Chapters"], "Aegirson" come now with their first album, through Thundering Records, "Requiem Tenebrae". "Aegirson"…

After a very good release named "New American Gospel", I was waiting with great expectation Lamb Of God's new album. And it was worth the waiting. Three years after the bomb, comes the explosion.

Founded in 1980, the Heavy Metal/Melodic Hard Rock band Rain from Italy has taken some time to find their identity. At first created as a punk-metal band, the band changed direction at the end of 1981…

This is a complete surprise, and one of the greatest surprises of the year! Century Media pulled this one out of nowhere and damn what a fantastic release, I must say that I'm not familiar with previous…

Is really a CRIME that we see untalented bands signed everywhere and getting low reviews over the globe, meanwhile some unsigned bands are drawing all the attention and STILL no record label seems to realize…

"Insane" is a young French band of Thrash metal. Even if the masters of the genre come from the US, I 'm very glad to tell you that we have in France some guys who know how to do music that…

"The Night Before" is the new album of the French gothic combo Kemet. After their first, well done, release "Dying With Elegance" [2001] this band from Lyon come again with their second…

When I received the package from Sound Pollution, and found 3 releases from Earache (and Wicked World) I have to say that I wasn't overwhelmed, because what Earache it releasing it's precisely…

This is my first encounter with this Canadian veteran Death Metal act, so I can't really tell you about the evolution of their music, or how this album is different from the others, and all that crap,…

There were rough times for the Gathering somewhere before 1994. The contract with Foundation 2000 was slight and some of the members left the Gathering due to the lack of co-operation and the shady results…

I guess you're wondering how I could mix the genre like that? Well, I really can't find another, better, way to describe what I just heard. TotenmonD (strange name, but you know, German), plays…

Sometimes band mixes so many different elements, thus creating a strange brew impossible to classify, this is the case of Further Lo, mixing many elements like Hardcore, Nu-Metal, Heavy Metal, Trash Metal…

A year has passed since the debut-album of Sinergy. Everything seems so calm, peaceful and damn good. Suddenly we can hear the strong and crazy voice of Kimberly screaming ... "the bitch is back!"…

Mid and late '80s were the best times for thrash metal. Most of bands like Slayer, Metallica or Megadeth recorded their best albums then. It was golden times for thrash metal. Among the best there…

Staying true to what they have done in the past, Pain Of Salvation's "Remedy Lane" sounds like a Pain Of Salvation disc, but sounds completely different than anything the band has done before.

The new "Perfect Element" from Pain Of Salvation is a dark, dramatic, melodic, and masterfully intense gem of modern progressive-metal. Influences from Pink Floyd to Queensrÿche and Savatage…

Wow! This isn't an album; this is truly an experience. The Pain Of Salvation's debut disc, "Entropia," certainly had its moments, but nothing could have prepared the band's listeners…

This melodic Power Metal outfit returns with their second album, cleverly named, The Second Coming. So it has something new to offer? Because I'm getting tired of listening lame and repetitive Power…

Finland is an impressive country, musically speaking has most of the greatest Metal bands nowadays, is very well know for its prominent Gothic Metal scene, and recently it's been brewing a lot of…

Have You ever thought that Metal isn't only powerfull chords and loud epic vocals? True, it's more like a lifestyle, with it's bits and pieces. And Apocalyptica is certainly one of the pieces…

I have always had high thoughts about Heavenly, even if I never heard a whole album, it might be because of those songs I heard, that they held a really high quality, or maybe because of the fact that…

With power and might Einherjer climbs up to the peaks of Viking Metal, accompanied by uplifting powerchords and mighty lyrics. No-one can reach them, but they want to reach even further - with vigorous…

If I hear the name of the genre, Horror Metal, I directly think of King Diamond, maybe not so strange, since he is the leader in that practically genre (or sub-genre if you want to call it that), and then…

The Canadian province of Quebec is the land of several excellent Death Metal bands such as Cryptopsy and Kataklysm. Now you can extend that list to another pearl, Moonlyght. But unlike the aforementioned…

When people I don't want to talk to come visit me, I usually leave All That You Fear by Impaled Nazarene in my CD player, I put red lightbulbs on all around the place and I give them my best psycho…

After Feed-back is a Spanish band that exists since 1995. They release here their second full-length album. Before you go further in this review, I just want to let you know that this is nu metal and nothing…

Progressive Metal is always hard to review, because of the complexity and intricacy of the melodies, I find this genre ever-changing in their zillion forms. Anyway, Daedalus is a Progressive Metal band…

The dusk is coming, today was a bad day of January, lot of rain, clouds, and now fog? A really bad day? I'm not sure that the only reason of that sudden, depressive aspect of myself come from the…

Endymaeria hails from the Netherlands. Endymaeria plays a strange mixture of Gothic, Black and Death Metal. Endymaeria has great Black Metal vocals, and also, Death Metal ones. Endymaeria uses a viola.

This quartet from the grey, raw and chilly England really surprised me, mostly because they play their Death Metal in a very promising way, not because of they're putting Hardcore into it. But they…

1997 was the year that a band redefined and I must dare to say, invented a whole new genre of Metal, Children Of Bodom was the band, and "Something Wild" took the Metal community by storm, the…

Now I'm pretty sure that someday Metal will dominate the entire world under riffs of oppression, and the growls and shrieks of our evil overlord will mark our destiny. And how come I'm so sure…

Norwegian Gothic master, Morten Veland (ex- Tristania) is back with his new band, Sirenia, and their second release, "An Elixir for Existence". After being kicked out of Tristania, Morten in…

The Lizards are something rare these days, an American super group of classic rock experts who enjoy blending all kinds of musical styles together such as rock, blues rock, funk and stoner. Their front-man…

Kinetic is a band from Greece that plays an strange brew of Trash Metal, Death Metal and Heavy Metal, well, not THAT strange, is common knowledge that Heavy Metal mixes it's sub-genres a lot, so strange…

Primal Fear is back with the fifth studio album of their ascending career, and this time they going to prove the Metal community that they're more than a Judas Priest clone. Why the name Judas Priest…

Anevrisme is a band from Paris, founded in the late 90s. They have gone through many adjustments in their line-up and music, as their former singer Hadrien died in a car accident, and that they tried to…

Just when you thought you knew the Metal scene, there's always something that surprises you, and damn! I'm a happy man, god knows I was growing tired of seeing that every single damn Gothic Metal…

A nice surprise from Greece my friends! Shadows Dance, is the second release from the new label Ebony Tears (a sub label of Cold Blood Industries), and let me tell you that I was surprised with the thing…

I must warn you now, A Natural Disaster is not metal, even less than the mainly acoustic Judgement and A Fine To Exit. I guess that when Danny Cavanagh said that it was the heaviest album they had ever…

I remember when I got this album I wasn't yet into death metal, and I hardly could listen to it entirely, because it is so violent. Today, I got used to that kind of stuff, but I am still amazed by…

Listen to me guys; if you are a fan of Dio, Rainbow or Black Sabbath, a fan of "true" Heavy in fact? Well then maybe I have something for you? a new excellent Heavy Metal band from Sweden, its…

What is this? I think a mouse left a big piece of CHEESE in my mailbox, because this release is pure cheese my friends, but hey! At least is high quality cheese. Anyway, let's start the review by…

From behind the Iron Curtain has risen a band that plays heavy metal like Iron Maiden once did, called Aria (Ария). The result is amazing, you feel strongly reminded of that certain…

From the first moment I lay eyes upon this Cd I knew this wasn't my cup of tea, don't get me wrong, I think the cover art is great, nicely done and everything, but once you put this on your record…

It is my great pleasure to introduce to you...Rampage! With "The Arrival", an EP that is closer to a short-length album, these 5 guys from Canada are proving that they are here to stay. "The…

"Crushing Blow" is a new French band of Heavy Metal. Like a lot of new bands today they chose to have a female singer for their vocals. "Crushing Blow" is not another copy of gothic…

"Ephemeral Sun" is the new project of the musicians of the excellent gothic/symphonic project "Rain Fell Within". This new "band" is not something that you can listen everyday,…

When I put this CD into my stereo I had to increase some volume, because the quality of the record wasn't similar to new CD's. Despite that I like the sounds of this album: You can hear the drums…

'Knights Of The Cross', the 2nd out of the 'Middle Ages Trilogy', when drums have never been so devastating, like on 'Monks Of War'. As the title says, this record tells the…

1990 a new decade and a new sound for Iron Maiden, without keyboards again, much more direct in sound, but a different atmosphere from 'Somewhere?' and 'Seventh Son?'. This is 'No…

Melody overload with drums like a thunderstorm, that's the shortest way I would describe GammaRay's 'Somewhere Out In Space', not that melody is a bad thing, but when you drive the…

"Deafening Silence" is a young French band of Heavy Metal. Between Edguy and Manowar, this new combo does a true Heavy Metal in the pure inspiration of the German and Swedish style. After two…

Even if you?ve never heard of Dark Funeral before, you need only take one look at the cover to get a good idea of what you're getting into with Diabolis Interium. What lurks beneath is sure to be…

Third effort of one of the best gothic bands of Norway, with Mortem Veland gone, the questions popped out... Is it as good as Beyond The Veil? Is the band is taking a new direction?Electronic elements…

Rage's 1998 album XIII is not only their thirteenth album and features 13 songs, it also contains once more the aid of the Lingua Mortis Orchestra. That doesn't help to make the album really…

"Killers" is one of the oldest heavy/speed metal bands from France. This is also one of the favourite bands of the French metalheads and that since more than 20 years now. "Le Côté…

French guys who make southern U.S. rock, do you believe me? Well my friends you can trust me, because "Wild West" is a pure French band that uses to do Hard Rock with a big touch of southern…

Count Nosferatu Kommando is an assault machine. It is violent, it shows no remorse. If you don't like it, it will most probably kill you. Count Nosferatu Kommando is hostile. CNK is a French, sort…

Taking Heavy Metal into new extremes Halford shows up with his 2002 album 'Crucible' the successor to the major successful Resurrection. With elements of nu-metal, a nightmare of distorted sounds,…

The well-known Power Metal label Limb Music Products are going to release a compilation in which they have one song from almost all their signed bands and some they had signed before. It's containing…

Once more, please !!! Yes, "Soul temptation" is a great power. Many influences builded Brainstorm's last album. Guitars are soo powerfull, it's sure... They have the trick to make…

No new concept is awaiting us with the 'Lingua Mortis' album, but interesting every time. Yet the same has been done by big ones in the business before and after, such as Deep Purple, Metallica…

Since I heard a lot Brutal Death Metal lately, and it's none that I really find very exciting, I didn't hope to much for this one either, since I got it some months ago (yes, sorry very late…