Tag: music review
FEATURED SINGLE: Keoma – Gaia
Finnish progressive metal band KEOMA has recently released a new single, “Gaia.” This song serves a double purpose – to get fans excited about...
REVIEW: Septicflesh – Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX
Concerts have been off the table for a couple of months now and ever since, there have been a plethora of other things metal...
REVIEW: Burning Serpent – EP: Burning Serpent
Playing an acoustic guitar is the ultimate zen exercise in precision and songwriting. When you strip away the distortion, by-pass the effects, and swap...
SONG OF THE DAY: Unleash the Archers – Abyss (Musicalypse Archive)
Power metal is often a divisive subject for metalheads. While cheese isn't mandatory to the sound, it is ever-present in the genre, to the...
REVIEW: Gaerea – Limbo
GAEREA is a black metal five-piece band from Portugal founded in 2016. The upcoming full length, ”Limbo,” is going to be published on 24...
REVIEW: Rumahoy – Time II: Party
If you've ever found yourself thinking that, while great, ALESTORM just isn't crazy enough, we have a band for you. RUMAHOY takes the pirate...
REVIEW: Primal Fear – Metal Commando
PRIMAL FEAR must be one of the most prolific bands in the power metal scene. Twenty-two years after their excellent self-titled debut, the Germans...
REVIEW: Altesia – Paragon Circus
ALTESIA is the brainchild of French multi-instrumentalist Clément Darrieu, based in Bordeaux. Passionate about music since his childhood, he founded this solo project in...
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...