Tag: album review
REVIEW: White Walls – Grandeur
Romania may not be the most metal country in the world, but there are still many bands that play variations of this type of...
REVIEW: Black Stone Cherry – The Human Condition (Musicalypse Archive)
On March 11th, 2020, The World Health Organization declared that the outbreak of a viral disease, with a name similar to a certain brand...
REVIEW: Mors Subita – Extinction Era
MORS SUBITA's "Into the Pitch Black" was one of the first albums I ever reviewed for Tuonela Magazine and blew me away with its...
REVIEW: Memoremains – The Cost of Greatness
Metal has never been so diverse as it is nowadays. With new subgenres emerging continuously, it's not a big surprise that mainstream pop music...
REVIEW: Leaves’ Eyes – The Last Viking
Symphonic metal outfit LEAVES’ EYES is well known for its forays into Viking culture, having released a number of albums on this theme, most...
REVIEW: Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea (Musicalypse Archive)
Joe Bonamassa returns to the British Blues Explosion that gave him inspiration to create a new album. Every release, Joe Bonamassa shifts through the...
REVIEW: I Am Your God – The Resurrection
Rovaniemi doesn't only house the official home of Santa Claus but also has a rich scene of melodic death metal acts. One of the...
REVIEW: Oenos – Musta III
Nebuchadnezzar was the longest-reigning monarch of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, presented in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco as a brutal, hawkish, and despotic ruler. The Bible...
(2000) Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World: Anniversary Special
With their roots in Seattle, the city of grunge, NEVERMORE was founded when the thrash/power metal act SANCTUARY was pressured by its record label...
Delving into Ayreon’s “Transitus”: an essay.
Can love transcend space and time? Can it go beyond the concepts of right or wrong? Can it be above society’s standards of what...
REVIEW: Crippled Black Phoenix – Ellengæst
First, there is the lamenting trumpet, reminiscent of certain unforgettable soundtrack moments composed by Ennio Morricone, almost as if you'd just entered the spaghetti...
REVIEW: myGRAIN – V
When Finnish melodic death metal act MYGRAIN decided to call it quits in 2015, who would have ever thought of them resurrecting the band...
REVIEW: Eskimo Callboy – MMXX
The dashed hopes of continuing the steady conquest of the world by touring were crushed in mid-air by the global lockdown measures for most...
(2000) Radiohead – Kid A: Anniversary Special
In 1997, the angst-riddled bunch, RADIOHEAD, released ”OK Computer,” the first in a series of landmark albums, which has later been tagged as the...
REVIEW: Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment (Musicalypse Archive)
Violence, brutality, and a complete lack of compromise - just some of the terms that can be used to describe ANAAL NATHRAKH, a British...
REVIEW: Obsidian Kingdom – Meat Machine
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM is a progressive metal outfit hailing from Barcelona, Spain. Their previous release, “A Year With No Summer” (were they predicting 2020?), dates...
REVIEW: Hulkoff – Pansarfolk (Musicalypse Archive)
Better known as the singer of RAUBTIER, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Pär Hulkoff has also been working on his solo project HULKOFF since 2017. The...
REVIEW: Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain
It seems like Finland has two major genres of metal: melodic death metal and everything else (symphonic, Gothic, metalcore, pop-rock, black metal) as the...
REVIEW: The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic
In 2018, the multi-national collective of post-metal eccentrics, THE OCEAN, released the first half of a sprawling palaeontology concept album, ”Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic.” It...
REVIEW: Vous Autres – Sel de Pierre
The famous Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, once said, ”knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other...