A year ago Teutonic Thrash Metal legends Destruction released their 16th album Born To Perish. This year the band quite unexpectedly releases a live album Born To Thrash, ...
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Archives by: Droll
Droll
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Bikes, Music, Alcohol and Anarchy.
Also books, gigs, traveling and alcohol one more time.
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The self-proclaimed “Best True Scottish Pirate Metal Band In The World”, Rumahoy after quite a short time release their second album, appropriately named Time II: Party. Here my ...
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Lo and behold, Ensiferum celebrates 25 years anniversary this year and I still think it’s a “new and promising” Folk/Melodic Death Metal band. I mean, I know about ...
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Seems like July will be the month of live albums, compilations and reissues. Perhaps that’s a tendency or dubious compensation for the lack of live shows and festivals. ...
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In the end of May Grave Digger who celebrates 40 years anniversary this year, released their 20th album Fields Of Blood. We had a long conversation with legendary ...
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Seems like the time has come for Powerwolf to release “The Best Of” compilation, Best Of The Blessed in their case (of course it should be named that ...
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According to Wikipedia, “a rogue planet is a planetary-mass object that orbits a galactic center directly. Such objects have been ejected from the planetary system in which they ...
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Getting old for me it’s not when I can’t do something physically but when I want to complain that everything was better, simpler and clearer in those good ...
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This year two Polish Extreme Metal legends released their new albums. However, everything changes and Polish Death Metal scene too (though some people blame it for stagnation). Some ...
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“Beyond The Black emerges from their cocoon and reaches the next level with the upcoming album Hørizøns”, they said. “…unequalled, differentiated spectra of symphonic and melodic rock spiced with sonorous ...
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Five years passed since VII: Sturm und Drang and now Lamb Of God are back with new self-titled album. This uncomplicated on the first glance name concisely represent ...
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When famous legendary musicians record a cover album, it is always no less than wandering. All the more in case of new super group (or rather project) BPMD, ...
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I guess it would be very trivial to say that modern underground is not what it was years before. Everyone who has a computer nowadays can create music, ...
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Italian Symphonic Power Metal band Moonlight Haze was formed not a long time y, in 2018, yet already next year their debut album De Rerum Natura was released. ...
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According to established hideous tradition, I still continue to write reviews a month later after the album is out. This time it happened to Ukrainian band Thy Despair: ...
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Germans Grave Digger who celebrate 40-years anniversary of the band this year (40 years!) cannot be blamed for laziness for sure! Throughout their history the band released lots ...
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Talking about Scandinavian heavy Metal, the first name that springs to mind is Hammerfall, of course. Europe can be also categorized as Heavy Metal bend with some reservations, ...
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Technically, the Swiss band Gomorra exists since 2019, not for a long time at all. However it doesn’t means that these musicians are newcomers, no! And the band’s ...
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With the passing of time some initially heavy bands make their sound softer. Frequently such experiments end unsuccessfully, while there are some surprisingly good exceptions. Paradise Lost experimented ...
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There are lots of European bands, which play traditionally American music. But there are also some opposite examples: American bands that play quite European Metal. Since 2010 Æther ...
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