Album Reviews
Novelists – Souvenirs
Novelists is a young band from France that is releasing its debut album Souvenirs in a week. I happen to have read their name on annisokay’s Facebook page, as Novelists were on tour with them [Read »]
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Blobfish Killer – Blobfish Killer (promo EP)
First of all, I have to comment on the name of this French outfit. Who on earth calls themselves Blobfish Killer?! This is very silly! For those of you who don’t know what a blobfish [Read »]
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Def Leppard – Def Leppard
Def Leppard has arguably released two of the most important hard rock albums ever! Many prefer “Pyromania” because of its more NWoBHM sounds, but the true masterpiece in my book and many others is “Hysteria”. [Read »]
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RAM – Svbversvm
Guitarist Harry Granroth is the founder of RAM and this is their fourth release. It is already four years ago that their latest album ‘Death’ came out. Two years ago, Daniel Johansson (guitar) quit the [Read »]
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Gama Bomb – Untouchable Glory
A thrash album inspired by vintage kung fu movies, isn’t that cool? Well, I don’t know, but I was surprised that this band from Northern Ireland already exists since 2002. It almost seems like yesterday [Read »]
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Weh – Ingenmannsland
As I write this, I’m in a gym where one of my three daughters is running around like a mad person in a chaotic ball game with 30 other people of different ages. Three balls [Read »]
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Whispering Woods – Perditus et Dea
Let’s leave out the fact that Perditus et Dea has been released in February – firstly, there’s no doubt that this album is no light fare, and secondly, it somehow got buried under the monstrous [Read »]
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Marius Danielsen’s Legend of Valley Doom Part 1
Fact 1: I love thought-through concept albums. No matter which genre of music it comes from. Fact 2: I love the early Helloween albums (1985 to circa 1991)… but not the endless stream of clones [Read »]
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Postcards From Arkham – Aeons
Everyone can surely name at least one album based on World War II. Or mythology. Or political issues… but albums based on novels? I guess that many will probably think of Kamelot’s “Epica” and “The [Read »]
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Deadheads – Loaded
Is this even heavy metal? Not really. But then, neither is Motörhead. Or at least that is what Lemmy himself and musicologists keep saying. So yeah, in a way, I feel that somebody stamped the [Read »]