Tag: music review
(2000) Deftones – White Pony: Anniversary Special
Twenty years ago, the mainstream metal climate favored somewhat peculiar vegetation with nu-metal being the buzzword of the day. While some of the genre's...
REVIEW: Antipope – Apostle of Infinite Joy
With a name like ANTIPOPE, you'd expect maybe something like BEHEMOTH – blasphemous black-metal ripping holy books to shreds either literally on stage or,...
REVIEW: Neon Angel – Neon Light District
It seems rather obvious that the 1980s revival shows no signs of having run its entire course yet. Yes, regardless of the fact that...
REVIEW: Defecto – Duality
When I discovered the band DEFECTO four years ago, I was very impressed by the energy in their music and their technical skills. “Excluded”...
REVIEW: Skepticism – Alloy (Re-issued)
Writing a review about a reissue surely has its own features: it’s a release that fans and supporters are already familiar with so, less...
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: 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...
FEATURED SINGLE: Ember Falls – The World is Burning
"The perfect place to die."
What a description for the world in which we live right now. When EMBER FALLS released "The World is...
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...
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: 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...
REVIEW: Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of...
The English grindcore veterans NAPALM DEATH have had a long and fruitful career behind them, creating some of the most sonically punishing and extreme...
REVIEW: Neal Morse – Sola Gratia
The progressive rock of the 1970s is notorious for its indulgence in fantasy themes – knights in shining armor and such. Some of the...
REVIEW: Kataklysm – Unconquered
A band that never seems to disappoint their fans, in terms of releasing their blend of death metal music, are the Canadian juggernauts of...