Album Reviews
InLegend – Goliath’s End
To say that InLegend is an unusual Heavy Metal band is an understatement. It is still fun, but a Metal band that rejects Heavy Metal’s signature instrument, i.e. the guitar, for a piano is not [Read »]
Album Reviews
Exumer – The Raging Tides
A band with a big cult status because of their releases in the eigthies is this German Exumer. Which thrash fan doesn’t know their cult album ‘Possessed By Fire’? Back then the band didn’t get the same [Read »]
Album Reviews
Lost Society – Braindead
This Finnish thrash band started some years ago and released thier first album when they were very young. The lyrics and song titles were quite simple back then, also the music wasn’t very groundshaking. Their [Read »]
Album Reviews
Illusions Dead – Celestial Decadence
Death Metal and Black Metal have certain beauty that is hard to explain to the uninitiated. Personally, I think it is about the sound carpet and the underlying melody that is only accessible for those [Read »]
Album Reviews
Skunk Anansie – Anarchytecture
I was so excited to get sent this. Again, an element of nostalgia cannot be avoided. I still have my copies of Stoosh and Paranoid and Sunburnt (on tape so I can’t play them on [Read »]
Album of the Month
Dream Theater – The Astonishing
How do you dissect a 210 minutes, 34 songs long concept album and turn it into a subjective review without sacrificing anything? Not an easy undertaking when the band in question also happens to be [Read »]
Album Reviews
Avantasia – Ghostlights
I am not sure which band/project is the most important or even the most successful one to Tobias Sammet these days, Edguy or Avantasia? But one things is for sure, the effort and energy behind [Read »]
Album Reviews
Fleshgod Apocalypse – KING
Italian technical death metal outlet, Fleshgod Apocalypse, have truly made a name for themselves since their formation in 2007 in the extreme metal community. Now, with three albums under their belt, they release their fourth [Read »]
Album Reviews
Ginger Wildheart – The Year Of The Fanclub
What a treat this was. I won’t deny an element of nostalgia. Especially with “No One Smiled At Me Today”. Reminds me of crowd surfing at a Wildhearts gig in Cambridge when I was 14. [Read »]
Album Reviews
Obscura – Akroasis
The new album of Obscura or should I say Steffen Kummerer is in my eyes the best so far. It is again very progressive but there is more line in the songs. On earlier albums [Read »]