Tag: music review
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...
(2000) The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of Gods: Anniversary Special
At the turn of the millennia, the star of the undisputed heroes of 1990s teenage-angsty alt-rock, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, had started to dim. The...
REVIEW: Fever 333 – Wrong Generation
2020 has come with a few curveballs that has left humanity in anger, anxiety, and altogether a rollercoaster of sentiments that many of us...
(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...