Tag: music review
REVIEW: IA – initIAtion
Probably due to some strange cosmic synchronicities, after witnessing a global pandemic, Pentagon footage of alien spacecraft, and the fall of an empire, the...
FEATURED SINGLE: Mercury Circle – The Beauty of Agony
MERCURY CIRCLE is a brand new project by Jaani Peuhu, known for ICONOCRASH and SWALLOW THE SUN. The band is releasing an EP, "The...
REVIEW: Halysis – Cerulean
HALYSIS is a young band from Lahti, formed in 2015, and they released their debut “Cerulean” on 15 May 2020 independently. The Finnish quartet...
REVIEW: Rantama – Rantama
During the lonely lockdown days, one has had to find some wholesome ways to stay occupied. For me, this meant working through my list...
REVIEW: Dark Sarah – Grim
My most sincere apologies go out to all the information technology startups, but it is a cold, hard fact that cinematic, orchestral metal is...
(2000) In Flames – Clayman: Anniversary special
In the year 2000, Swedish melodic death metal group IN FLAMES released a record named “Clayman” through Nuclear Blast Records. The album was their...
REVIEW: Wilderun – Veil of Imagination
With their 2019 release, “Veil of Imagination,” the American progressive metal act WILDERUN impressed a lot of journalists around the globe. Luckily, their efforts...
REVIEW: Voivod – EP: The End of Dormancy
Charles Mingus was an American jazz legend, whose unique style drew on such diverse musical sources of inspiration as gospel, blues, free jazz, and...
REVIEW: Al-Namrood – Wala’at
In a subgenre obsessed with being kvlt, true, and underground, what's more metal than risking your own life to tell your stories and share...
REVIEW: Falconer – From A Dying Ember
Swedish power metal band FALCONER freshly released their latest studio effort, "From A Dying Ember" today, 26 June 2020. Six years has been a...
REVIEW: Aleah – Aleah
Writing about a posthumous album might be quite insidious, since it has some specific implications and issues. In this case, the posthumous album happens...
REVIEW: Ensiferum – Thalassic
When it comes to folk-inspired melodic death metal, Finnish ENSIFERUM raises the banner up high over the metal hordes. With their latest lineup change...
FEATURED SINGLE: Humavoid – Aluminum Rain
Finland is mostly known for its melodic death metal, folk, and symphonic metal bands. Progressive metal, however, is still often unexplored territory, but luckily,...
REVIEW: Mora Prokaza – By Chance
MORA PROKAZA is a duo from Minsk, Belarus, whose latest full length, ”By Chance,” released via Season of Mist, clearly proves how wide and...
REVIEW: Feuerschwanz – Das Elfte Gebot
FEUERSCHWANZ, the German folk-rock act from Erlangen, have been a great success in the folk community for over 15 years. Their rich discography now...
REVIEW: Forgotten Tomb – Nihilistic Estrangement
FORGOTTEN TOMB is an Italian doom/black metal band established in 1999 as Herr Morbid’s solo project, shortly after developing into a four-piece line up...
REVIEW: Unknown Decoy – EP: Seeking the Sun
On 28 June 2019, a hard-rock trio from Jyväskylä known as UNKNOWN DECOY released their first and long-awaited EP, “Seeking the Sun,” via Inverse...
REVIEW: Lamb of God – Lamb of God
Early 2020, the Virginian groove-metal ambassadors, LAMB OF GOD, announced that they would be releasing a new studio album on the brink of the...
REVIEW: Carach Angren – Franckensteina Strataemontanus
The uniqueness of the Dutch symphonic black metal band CARACH ANGREN cannot be overstated and after almost a month's delay due to the current...
REVIEW: Long Distance Calling – How Do You Want to Live
"Curiosity is a real bastard," reverberates an utterly convincing male voice against the backdrop of an ominous synth drone, and soon the soundscape is...