Tag: album review
REVIEW: Giant Mammoth – EP: Occultation
Formed in Tampere in 2014, garage rock duo Giant Mammoth have released their latest EP Occultation on 10 August 2018.
What makes a good garage rock song?...
REVIEW: Evil Bastards From Hell – EP: Extended Pleasure
A little while ago Evil Bastards From Hell, from Valkeakoski, released their new EP “Extended Pleasure”. The band is fueled by inspiration taken from hard rock,...
REVIEW: Mantar – The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
When I talked to the German extreme metal duo of Mantar during Tuska Festival, they talked a little bit about their general sound and of course...
REVIEW: Euge Valovirta – Easy Does It
Euge Valovirta is one of the most prominent guitarists Finland has to offer. Recognized as one of the most talented guitarists of his generation in...
REVIEW: Parasite Inc. – Dead and Alive
Melodeath fans rejoice. You might remember them from their debut album Time Tears Down from 2013. Parasite Inc. after 5 years of absence has returned to the scene...
REVIEW: Everfrost – EP: A Cold Night Out
A little while ago, winter metal band Everfrost released their first live DVD of their show at The Circus, Helsinki. The live release contains...
REVIEW: Dead End Irony – EP: Into The Void
A little while ago Dead End Irony, from Imatra, released their new EP “Into The Void”. The band is fueled by inspiration taken from NWOBHM and...
REVIEW: The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough
An astronaut flaunts of the cover of the new Night Flight Orchestra album “Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough”. From the first song “This Time”, it’s already clear why....
REVIEW: Coldbound – The Gale
“61°43’N17°07’E” is not only the first track on “The Gale”, the fourth release of COLDBOUND, it also marks the whereabouts of Sweden-based Finnish musician Pauli Souka. The...
REVIEW: Wheel – EP The Divide
The Finnish metal scene already has a wide variety of tastes on its platter, one of the more recent additions to the scene is...
REVIEW: Suotana – Land of The Ending Time
Suotana, a Finnish melodic death metal band, who have strong influences from melodic black and power metal, will release their new album “Land Of...
REVIEW: Dyecrest – Are You Not Entertained?
Dyecrest has been up and about for quite a while now. By winning 2nd place in the competition of Young Metal Gods, the band...
REVIEW: AFTER FOREST – AFTER FOREST: ACT II & III
After Forest is a progressive metal band from Vaasa, which was founded in 2007. "Act I", the first album was released in 2015, a...
REVIEW: Amorphis – Queen Of Time
"Queen of Time" by AMORPHIS will be released by Nuclear Blast on May 18th, 2018. The album has the prospect of being one of...
INTERVIEW: Dyecrest — "When record sales were still huge, you had...
In 2004 hard rock act Dyecrest managed to surprise Finland with their debut album. The band, who had won the Young Metal Gods competition,...
REVIEW: Circences – Tightrope Walk on the Ground
The power and strength of one sole person, is sometimes unbelievable. I often spend time thinking about how sometimes it's possible that one person...
REVIEW: Follow the Cipher – Follow the Cipher
What's with the water in Falun? The small town in Sweden has brought us so many power metal bands, after Sabaton and Twilight Force, comes now Follow the...
REVIEW: Deep River Acolytes – The Hour of Trial
I'm listening to Deep River Acolytes as I'm on the train. Their new album "The Hour of Trial" is blasting through my earphones. Yet another local...
REVIEW: Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
Eight years it has been quiet around Dimmu Borgir, except a handful of live shows and the release of their live DVD "Forces of the...
REVIEW: Fear of Domination – Metanoia
"Metanoia", the 5th album of industrial/shock metal act Fear of Domination, emphasizes on the transformation the band has gone through, with their new lineup, also...