Reviews

This album is the first production of the later called ?The Middle Ages Trilogy?, a set of three digipacks, each containing several bonus tracks, three concept albums each dealing with a different topic.

Usually, when a promising Power metal band reaches the time to record their first full-length album they head toward Germany. The French combo Heavenly did the same in 2000 with the help of several experienced…

Once more, but faster louder and better this time? Coming up Concerto Moons follow up to their 1997 debut, the 1998 released ?From Father To Son?. The title already creates an image of what was given from…

Obviously a good year to record a debut album as proven by Rhapsody. The thing about Concerto Moon's debut is: It brings you a very old fashioned 70's/80's oriented heavy metal sound. You…

Dungeon is a true power metal band from Australia, the land of Vanishing Point and other great bands. This Year, the great Limb Music has released their first opus in the label, an album i really like,…

After the 1997's metal monster "Anthems to the Welkin at dusk", the norwegian bloodhounds Emperor recorded what i call, the perfect follow up. Although "Anthems..." is a practically…

I have talking about surprises a lot lately, and believe me, I'm not finish yet. The third and last of the Limb releases is the Italy five-piece band "Revoltons". Their music is a mixture…

Gothic Metal from Germany, what a surprise, the last place I was expecting to hear THAT phrase. No, really, jokes apart, The Gallery are a Gothic Metal/Rock band, and they focus on the more mellow side…

I feel really bad, the nice people at Hall Of Sermon (especially Nadja) were kind enough to send me a pack of promos a long time ago, I reviewed all of them (all of them great) but I left 2 in the shelf,…

With less than a year between releases [?Elements Pt. 1? was released earlier in the year], Stratovarius fans must think Christmas comes twice a year. Stratavarius on the other hand are in a hive of creative…

When Kai Hansen departed from Helloween in 1999, many thought he would have been forever labelled under ?The former guitar player of Helloween? tag. Instead, Hansen has carved out a niche for himself with…

Must we consider Paradise Lost as pioneers? At first sight, they don't seem different from many other bands, with the exception that a certain melodic evolution seems to have braked the pure gothic…

Silent Scythe is an unsigned young band from Sweden. They used to play a technical Death/Thrash metal very heavy but also very melodic. "Longing For Sorrow" is their second demo and for a demo…

I don't know, I don't understand the big fuzz about these guys, everywhere I see, I only read good reviews, can they be THAT good? I asked myself, the only way to discover it's to listen…

Definitively the first thing that caught my attention was the cover art, is great, the gal there with those Freddy Kruger gloves, the nice logo and the photography that has been given the mosaic treatment,…

Electro? ok. With that word I just made 1/3 of the readers skip this review, and that's fine with me, I mean, no one wants to read an entire review just to find about at the very last of it that the…

I like it when I receive that kind of album [a demo here], because my faith in the future comes back. I like it because I find interesting to see how more and more young bands try to sound different than…

With a name like "The Wake", an album entitled "Ode To My Misery" and a somber (and great) cover art, I was expecting slow Doom Metal here, so I prepared to enjoy a sad and lonely time…

Woah? this is stunning, I did not expect this on my mail? never heard The Mutants in my life, and I didn't know what to expect based on the cover art... but one thing I'm sure that this isn't…

Of all the Metal genres, why do you think Black Metal is always the one that is mixed with electronic elements? (well, and Gothic Metal). Why does the most brutal form of Heavy Metal always ends mixed…

This Album should have been called 'The Live Best Of of Rob Halford', because it contains not only the Resurrection live material, but also some of the most famous Judas Priest Songs and songs…

Obviously not the best start into the 80's is this Judas Priest album, although it contains some of the bands classics such as 'Metal Gods', 'Breaking The Law' and 'Living…

Fantastic successor Killers, you might think of it as Iron Maiden Volume II for the sound developed on the Iron Maiden album has not changed, just improved. Starting off with the Instrumental Ides Of…

After a bullet in the head called Crowned In Terror, the Swedes of The Crown owed their fans an album at least as good. It was a hard goal. But they had several reasons to succeed: first, after the episode…

Spazmocity is a melodic Death/Black Metal band from Stockholm [Sweden]. Since 1997 and their first demo "The Fading Of Life", this young band used to play a real brutal music but without forgetting…

This is one of this Promo-rounds main album, in my point of view. (But "Gothic Knights was better). At least I hoped that, but I had my doubt, 'cause Limb often releases albums that sounds really…

Öhhhm, huh? Where Am I? Oh, here I am, in my room in the year 2003, for a second there I believed that I was in the eighties, again. No, I'm not going insane and I haven't struck my head,…

Oh boy, someone made a big mistake, they send a Nu-Metal Cd to me? yep, one of the most loathed words in Metal history, Nu-Metal, let's think about that?why people hate Nu-metal? I think I know why,…

In my opinion, 2003 seems to have brought many albums with awful titles and covers. This release is just one of those. The gray eye at the end of tunnel might have been the ideal subject for Evergrey,…

If You think that Invocator is a new band, you're awfully mistaken, these guys are a veterans in the business, according to my sources Invocator was formed in 1989, and after a 6 years break up, they…

Young fellas hailing from Sweden playing the thing that Swedish metalheads know to do best: Melodic Death Metal, Melodeath, Gothenburg Metal or the way you like to call it. The thing about this is that…

Not again? no please, NOT again, another "Seven" band? I'm getting really tired of mentioning this, please STOP naming bands after "SEVEN" something, it's getting very old,…

Metharia is a planet in the Alpha Centaurus constellation, in which an alien angelic civilization keeps in touch with some "elected" human beings, sending them messages of peace for the whole…

Heavy/Power Metal. Limb Music / Border Music Year: 2003 This was the big Surprise, with a big S. I would never had thought, before I heard this album the first time, that I would like this as much as…

As the title Heart Of Darkness indicates this album has a very dark sound, darker and more depressive than on any other Digger album I know. The intro could have been composed for a horror film and so…

Symphony Of Death is a very energetic True/Power Metal Album, short as an EP (only 24 minutes and 33 seconds, consisting of 7 songs including a synthesizer intro. Sounding much like it's predecessor…

This album could also be called: The Hidden Treasures Of Iron Maiden. I guess it is one of the most underestimated albums of this band, maybe of all I know. But there is more to it than meets the eye (or…

This is a split, so, as always, each half by separate. Ravenclaw - Zalgirio Musis (Folk Ambient) Yep, you're right is that name from Harry potter, that underrated house from Hogwarts, but this Ravenclaw…

This is the first release of the Swedish Gothic Doom Metallers. And it's a bit different to their upcoming releases; here you can hear that they originate from the Death Metal scene. Brennare haven't…

Here we have a new and huge compilation from the Dutch Hammerheart Records. Huge indeed, because the songs, divided into 2 CDs are a total of 32 for 32 different bands. The Label, founded in 1995, have…

Symphony & Metallica is a strange musical experiment: Metallica meets the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. After writing the orchestration for Nothing Else Matters, conductor Michael Kamen invited…

Classic Rock/Hard Rock. Year: 1968 "Iron Butterfly" is one of the precursors to today's Hard Rock/Metal, they released their debut, "Heavy", in January 1968 and it sold gold…

Andra? Never heard of her, as a matter of fact never heard the name either, I don't know if in Europe is a popular name, but down here in South America is not, Sandra is popular, but Andra? Nah. VII…

I'm guessing that Uwe Heepen wanted to compete with Yngwie Malmsteen since he was a little child , and to do it so he had to release a solo album and have a more strange name that him, well first…

Progressive Rock. InsideOut Music / SPV / Border Music. Year: 2003. Progressive music, both Rock and Metal, is not one of my favorite genres, and it has never been. But this album was a really nice…

Heavy Hardrock. "I Used to Fuck People Like You in Prison" Records / Century Media. "The Awesome Machine" (I'm calling them "TAM" in the rest of the review) is called…

US Power Metal. Century Media. A good thing to do, before you do a review, is to listen do the band, in question, past releases, to see the progress they have done. But unfortunately, I don't have…

Power Metal from Mexico, that's a new one! And the band counts with 7 members! This definitively deserves a listen! Besides, the presentation is very nice, the cover art, the booklet, everything!…

Lately I'm becoming the king of the Demos and unsigned bands, is all I review lately, and why is that? I don't know, is so much fun to discover new Metal bands, maybe give them a positive review,…

November Aria is a band hailing from New York, and I have understand that they have a decent fan database there, but I don't think that anyone outside the USA musical circuit has ever heard of them,…

My first Split Cd Review, so here's how were going to work this, first I'll review the first half, and then the second half, allright? Primal Dawn - The Euthanasic Programme Primal Dawn plays…

When vocalist/bassist Marcus Schmier reunited with guitarist Mike Siffringer in 1999, old school thrash fans salivated over what the legendary German act Destruction would bring forth with their return.

My friends, I think we are not far from being in presence of a masterpiece. The third album is said to be the hardest mark to top, but the Frenchies of Your Shapeless Beauty have made it easily. Not that…

3 track Promo from these guys hailing from Greece, they're playing pretty generic Melodic Death Metal, with the harsh vocals, harmonic riffs and all the common stuff. Some Trash influences here and…

First of all I would like to say that I love when unsigned bands put effort in their work, a clear example of this is Ever Since. And why is that? Because the presentation here is flawless, a nice DigiPak…

With about one band that releases an album each day, the Finnish-like gothic metal scene tends to be saturated and stereotyped. I admit that I am a bit bored to hear still the same vocals, the same pompous…

And then it's time, the time we all have been waiting for?eeh, at least the time I have waited for. ?Dark Moor's? new, their new Single I mean, the fist creation with the new lineup, that now…

It is quite an usual thing for an EP to contain eight songs and to last 51 minutes. And unfortunately, this album is also the last release of the Spanish Dark Moor with this line up, as the singer Elisa…

"Replika" is the third studio album from the Industrial band Division Alpha. The French duet created a story about Psykron, a city of the future where humans and machines cohabit. This is a concept…

"Here To Go Again" is two albums live of the Company Of Snake. If you don't know this band you must know that they are survivors of the most important and influential line-up of the defunct…

The Hard Rock band "Holy Mother" is composed of Mike Tirelli [Vocals, guitars] [ex Messiahs Kiss], Frank Gilchriest [Drums] [ex Virgin Steele], and Randy Coven [Bass] [ex Yngwie Malmsteen, Ark].

Eletrika is from Brazil and was created in 1998. Their first album was released in 2001 and knows a good success in Brazil. With his electronic influences Eletrika was a band really easy of access in the…

So I have in my hands the third release of Brazilians Tuatha De Danann. In case you don's know them, they are mainly a power metal band with celtic influences and both clear and death voices, Or most…

The first Full-length album of these Brazilian took me by complete surprise the first time I listened, I was already a fan of the band because their Demo ?99 was great, It had a poor production, but still…

Tuatha De Danann are a Folk Metal band hailing from Brazil, The music is mostly power metal with a lot of Celtic influences and both clear and death voices. WAIT!!! Did you read well? Celtic metal... from…

More Gothic Metal from Holland! Hell yes! Holland is slowly taking the place of Finland in this genre, and why is that? Because they're damn good at it! No, really I think that instead of taking places…

Yearning is a Finnish gothic metal band that has not much to do with the gothic scene of this country. Maybe it is due to the personnality of Juhani Palomaki, who once more wrote the entire album, but…

Woooooow, this is it, the incarnation of metal in the year 2000. All you wish for has become true this year. This is the album you should recognize. Too good to be true. In fact, Resurrection beats everything…

For those who have been asleep for about thirteen years, Entombed was, with 1990's Left Hand Path, one of the precursors of the melodic side of death metal. A few years later, after the collapse of…

I really don't know what to say about this? in one hand we have pretty cool old-school Trash metal with killer guitar riffs and Mega solos, in the other hand we have one of the most annoying voices…