Reviews

And now, a new release of one of all the Finnish Gothic Metal bands that rock our world. This time, it's Charon that have released a successor to last year's big hit, Downhearted. After J.P's…

'Empty' is the first real album of the French band Leiden, after the acclaimed EP 'L'Aube Spirituelle'. I can't wait to say that kind of album is bound to lead French metal…

When the most famous Heavy metal band on Earth decides to record a double live CD for their stage entrance in the new millennium, you already ought to be interested in the product. But when it's also…

While on the second album, Tearstained, Sentenced's influence was obvious, what we have here can be classified somewhere halfway between Sentenced and HIM. But make no mistake - it's not your…

"Dyktat Omega" is the third album of one of the most famous Black Metal band from France: "Crystalium". After their 2 first albums, this new one will try to confirm the status of this…

This DVD was recorded during a show of the Damnation Tour in London. Two parts here: the most interesting, the reason why you already have it, is the concert. The second part is the making of Opeth's…

Before this album was released, and like for every album of Korn since Follow The Leader, it was rumoured that they had gone back to the roots, that is to say they had once more the raw sound and the violence…

It was a long time since I've seen the number 666 in a Metal release, I think it go so used that nobody wanted to put that number anymore, is like the word Satan in the 80's, it was used to death…

I guess the most of you metal fans out there, in one way or another, have heard or heard of this American Heavy Metal band, so I shall not going to talk about them, actually, I shall not going to talk…

"Dyecrest" is a young Power/Heavy metal band from Finland. The particularity of this new band is that they are one of the winners of the "Young Metal God contest". A big contest across…

And yes, after 2 years the new "Manigance", "D'un Autre Sang", is coming across the world to show us and confirm that the French Metal scene is growing and growing again. After…

Unlike "Ecliptica", which kicks off on the very first second, this album has an intro - well, actually even too many of them, because there's an intro for "The End Of This Chapter",…

Electro Metal is a very well established Metal sub-genre such as, let's say Viking Metal or Folk Metal, this particular sub-genre has the ability of molding with most of the "typical" genres…

I got to be honest, this is my first contact with the Storyteller, a long time ago a friend of mine showed me their previous work "Crossroad" and told me to listen to it, but when he told me…

This was my first contact with Spain's best Metal band (In my eyes). I can't really remember when it was, but it's was some years back in time, before the time Metal should be a very important…

I don't know what is more common, to find Power Metal bands with the word "seven" in their bandname, or find the ones that have the word "dragon" in theirs? Anyway, here's…

Yes! More female fronted Death Metal bands! You might think that this band is influenced by Arch Enemy, but you're sadly mistaken, 'cause Valhalla is around since 1989, so they aren't newcomers,…

Executer are and old-school Trash metal band hailing from the country of Samba and carnival: Brazil. Although the sound has some hints of Death Metal here and there, it remains faithful to the 80´s…

The real 70's classic metal album 'Killing Machine' was recorded in 1978. Judas Priest could celebrate a world success. Back then the sound of metal was a bit different from what we know…

Fölktergeist, the live album from the spanish folk-metal and rock sensation. 18 songs on 2 discs, over 110 minutes of great folk influenced metal and rock, but also other influences can be found in…

Metallica is known as the american legend of thrash metal, with sounds that came from the garage and made into onto the stage with 10.000's of fans watching, listening, screaming for more? Disc…

Among Iron Maiden's studio albums 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son' to me is the second best. It has the most famous songs of the band on one album. Of most albums you might know (if you're…

Following the success of Sentenced's last album The Cold White Light, the band is taking a well-earned break. Sentenced frontman Ville Laihiala however, has decided to hook up with some fellow Oulu…

I just returned from the movies and saw the third installment on the Lord Of The Rings saga, "The Return Of the King" was amazing, returning home I was in the mood to write a review, so I took…

Gothic Metal from Switzerland, to be honest, I don't remember hearing too much bands from that part of the world, so I was surprised when I found that Eeriness were hailing from those lands. The…

A band coming from Holland, and doesn't play Gothic metal? This got to be something? let's take a walk through the Lunapark. First, for all of you who are a little rusty in Latin, Festina Lente…

"Stigma" is a Death/Core metal band from Italy. This combo was created in 2000 and after a lot of gigs, this young band [the average components' age is 19] come with their first demo "Metamorphosis".

The most wicked, crass, screaming guitars, heaviest? album in Judas Priest's discography with Rob Halford. There are simply not enough attributes to describe it. To many if not most of the fans say…

I have to emit that I never heard of Michael Harris before and was a bit skeptic in the beginning as well. But it turned out to be a quite pleasant surprise, when I finally putted the album in my stereo. What…

A nice little demo I had downloaded on the net (all promo of course). Interesting thing about it is that one of the band members, don't remember who it was, contacted me back in the days when Napster…

Oddsize is a French band off alternative metal. Since October 2000 Mathieu [Drums], Yann [Voices], Jérome [Bass], and Xavier [Guitars] used to do a complex music with sometime progressive parts,…

Hidden Treasure is the title of this small album of 8 tracks, 29 and a half minutes short. The title is self-explanatory because the hidden treasures it contains are all original soundtracks from movies,…

Back with the real NWOBHM sound Judas Priest kick the metal ass again. (They did too with British Steel, but I didn't like that album, it's predecessor and successor are way better). Still rocking…

So here the legend begins, with this first album signed on one of the most prestigious label (Limb at that time), the now well-known Italian band stroke the minds. We could argue on what is this music,…

This is it, the album that Iron Maiden never made. Accident Of Birth is the great (quasi) solo work by Bruce Dickinson with assistance from his friend and former band member of Iron Maiden Adrian Smith.

Japan has always been a nation where the influence of electric guitar is dominant and where guitar heroes such as Yngwie J. Malmsteen and Michael Romeo are seen as semi-gods. With such influences, fantastic…

Poverty's No Crime is a totally unknown band to me, and I'm always bragging about knowing a lot of metal bands blah blah blah? this guys are around since 1991 and this is their fifth album, surprised?…

I don't know I always had the impression that Hardcore Metal was music for big guys with muscles, frat boys, college macho dudes and neo-nazis, maybe is the anger in the singing? Maybe are the hate-driven…

How better than a live album to capture the magic of a grand tour? Well, a double live album, maybe? That's exactly what "Once In A Livetime" is: a fantastic collection of live tunes recorded…

The German Melodic Hard Rockers "Axxis" have always been one of my favorite bands, their Melodic music and Bernhard's (Weiss) voice is one of the best in the world, and everything his voice…

German Power Metal? uh-oh this sounds like everything I've ever heard from that country, don't waste your time listening to it. Now, that's what I would have said if this was another German…

Ten years after the "The Cube", "Supuration", cult death metal band from France, do is great come back with this new album "Incubation". For those who don't know "Supuration"…

"Am'Ganesha'N" is a French project composed of members of different bands like "Speaking Silence", "Rajna", and "Les Secrets De Morphée". Even if…

Casketgarden is a fast and aggressive melodic death metal band from Hungary. Another time Metal Age found a really good and impressive metal band in the European eastern countries. After 2 demo and a promo…

After their first demo "Sermon Of Impurity", the French Death/Black metal band Vorkreist come with their first album "Sabbathical Flesh Possession" to show us all the rage, the wickedness…

O Kee Pa is a young alternative metal band from France. This combo is composed of Dann [Drums], Mathdok [Bass], Sam [Voice, Programming], Tom [Guitars], Damien [Djembe], and Fly [Sound]. They used to do…

And so it's time, for the second album from the Spanish band, "Vhäldemar". The thing I wanted to know most was if they should continued where the last release ended, "Gamma Rayish"…

Can you hear the demons that I called from the depths of hell? That phrase appears in the disc of Nephenzy Chaos Order (N.C.O.) latest production, and let me tell you, it pretty much resumes the music…

Nowadays so-called Nu metal scene is overcrowded by moderately violent tunes, following the impact of bands such as System Of A Down and Slipknot. In that context, the band Twisted Method hailing from…

This is strange? I received this promo, and the info sheet said that Atem, hailing from Finland, were an extreme Metal act, Death/Black Metal with Folk influences, great! I thought, Children of Bodom meets…

Do you like "Gamma Ray" and Kai Hansen? No, well, then you can stop reading right now, 'cause this isn't something for you. Yes, then this maybe is the release of year, 2002, closer…

I guess that no one hasn't heard that Mark Jansen had to leave After Forever in April 2002; it was quite big news in the Metal world. And then did his little side project, Sahara Dust become his fulltime…

My first Grave Digger album, I didn's like it in the beginning, I didn's like it for years. For some reason I cannot explain I have to worship it now as early 90's masterpiece. Indeed when…

This review could be the shortest ever: excellent. But OK, let's see why this second release of the Norwegian band is so excellent. First as you may have noticed, the album is a whole unique song…

A metal band from Portugal isn't something you see every day...and of course Moonspell is already a band with a reputation, a band that commands respect! You cannot mention gothic or doom metal without…

So after the worldwide success of Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I in 1987, Part II was released the following year, and the combination of the two (the band's first wish was to release a double album)…

Every time I receive an album of a band with a name that I don't know what it means, Immediately research the meaning on the web or in my personal library, in this case, Dis Pater, means Rich Father…

Of course, many of you are thinking, Theatre Des Vampires? Suicide Vampire? Hmm Black Metal? Cradle Of Filth? Another one? Yes, I know all the pointers are here, but you're quite wrong , Theatre Des…

Holland is the birthplace of many Gothic Metal bands these days, most of them female-fronted, so I'm always happy to receive any kind of material from there, because most of the cases the band is…

I have no info whatsoever of this band, no promo sheet, only a webpage that doesn't feature this release, is like this band doesn't exist and I'm the only human being with a copy around,…

And then, all our questions will be answered, but the most important one, will ?Dark Moor? survive without Elisa C. Martin? When Elisa, Albert Maroto and Jorge Saez left ?Dark Moor? and created ?Dreamaker?…

Carcass is one of the most influencial bands in the entire Death Metal scene, starting as a Grindcore outfit in the 80's and moving to more straight Death Metal territories later, these brits shared…

The world has gone crazy! And we thought that the world had reached the last degree of brutality with the atomic bomb... Ok the comparison is not really cool, but maybe you will change your mind when you…

Masterstroke are a young band from Finland, and this is their second Demo, and as any Demo, is short, is concise and serves to let the people know what's the band all about. So, what's Masterstroke…

That's no secret that record companies nowadays praise Power metal bands. The result is a large number of different bands hailing from almost every country possible on earth and that's also what…

Amorphis have changed. That's a fact. But in their early days they played death metal of the finest kind. Tales from the Thousand Lakes is THE groundbreaking masterpiece for the Finnish melodic death…

Finally, a long wait is over; finally I got my hand on the new Crystal Ball album, "HELLvetia". Since I heard their last effort, "Virtual Empire" for the fist time, I've been stuck…

This has to be one of the weirdest band names I've heard this year, Unhealthy Dreams? what is that supposed to mean? Anyway, band name and Cd artwork is the only uncommon around here, because these…

What's the deal with all these bands obsessed with medieval times? I mean, one or two are fine, but there's a whole trend now! And I hate trends, because with trends every product tends to be…

Mesmerize are a classic Heavy Metal band from Italy, and they mean 80's Classic, no keyboards, no drum machines, just double guitars and high pitched vocals, and of course, bass and drums (duh!) This…