Tag: music review
REVIEW: Our Oceans – While Time Disappears
One of the most celebrated literary classics is the multi-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time, written by the French author, Marcel Proust, during...
REVIEW: Polymoon – Caterpillars of Creation
Maybe I have been hanging around with a rather dubious musical companion during this strange pandemic, but somehow it's starting to feel as though...
REVIEW: Onsegén Ensemble – Fear
It is not an everyday occurrence that a genuinely unique prog-oddity from the far north of Finland manages to challenge the weirdness factor of...
REVIEW: Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in the Western world, which is pretty odd, considering it occurs whenever a month begins on...
REVIEW: Shores of Null – Beyond the Shores (On Death and...
SHORES OF NULL is an Italian doom metal band founded in 2013. After releasing two acclaimed albums via Candlelight Records - “Quiescence” in 2014...
REVIEW: Majestica – A Christmas Carol
It surely seems like an eternity has passed since the beginning of 2020 and we're already almost at the end of what has been...
REVIEW: Scour – EP: Black
Even without the live music scene, the world of heavy metal has an oversaturation of bands releasing albums on a weekly basis. As such,...
(2000) Within Temptation – Mother Earth: Anniversary Special
Do you remember the golden days of MTV? Known for sharing music videos of all sorts, one of the bands that many youngsters heard...
FEATURED SINGLE: Frosttide – We Will Be Gone
One of Finlands (unfortunately) best-kept secrets is the epic melodic death metal band, FROSTTIDE. The band surprised us with a re-release of their EP,...
REVIEW: Hjelvik – Welcome to Hel
If you like us, were wondering what has become of Erlend Hjelvik, the previous lead singer of the unique metal outfit KVELERTAK, you have...
REVIEW: Soilwork – EP: A Whisp of the Atlantic
Many people will remember 2020 as one of the worst years in their life. However, sometimes it's good to talk about silver linings too....
REVIEW: Pyramaze – Epitaph
There’s a common saying that bands have to prove themselves with their third release, to see whether they’ll find their place in the music...
FEATURED SINGLE: Simulacrum – Nothing Remains
Fans of prog and power metal may already know the name SIMULACRUM, while fans of Finnish pianists/keyboardists may be familiar with Christian "Chrism" Pulkkinen....
FEATURED SINGLE: Shereign – Losing Sight
While many of the names within SHEREIGN may be familiar to you from bands like FEAR OF DOMINATION and BLACK LIGHT DISCIPLINE, this heavy...
REVIEW: Kaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko
There is a certain something in many doom-death metal Finnish bands’ trademark sound that strongly represents the melancholic feelings stereotypically associated with Finland: a...
REVIEW: Nobody – Atmosfear
Developing a different style in a well-established subgenre such as black metal is a brave move. In a time when playing faster and louder...
FEATURED SINGLE: True Cult Club – Saeed (Infected Mushroom cover)
If you've got any interest in psychedelic electronica -types of music, you're surely familiar with the Iraeli duo of INFECTED MUSHROOM, who are known...
REVIEW: Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls Pt. 1
Spanish heavy/power metal revelation LORDS OF BLACK are finally back with their fourth full-length album entitled “Alchemy of Souls Pt. 1,” to be released...
REVIEW: Jeff Scott Soto – Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)
”Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)” is the seventh solo album by hard-rock veteran Jeff Scott Soto, to be released on November 6th, 2020, via...
REVIEW: Dragged Under – The World Is in Your Way
Life has a nasty tendency to drag us under every once in a while. The force majeure imposed by the pandemic notwithstanding, lately, we've...