What a nice vampire-themed hard rock album with black metal touches, filled with dark and fun songs from beginning to end! This album is somewhere between rock and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Misstress “Resurrected” [Blasphemous records]
Archives by: Sophie Laliberté
Sophie Laliberté
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Loves words and music. When not writing or reading reviews, she’s writing horror stories where music plays a part.
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Now let’s go back to Decapitated’s early days, with this new release of their two first demos. The young band that they were at the time already shows ...
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Comments Off on Review: Decapitated “The First Damned” [Nuclear Blast Records]
This is a really nice, epic album about the adventures of the witches of the north. Burning Witches stick to their usual themes of witchcraft, but on this ...
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Comments Off on Review: Burning Witches “The Witch of the North” [Nuclear Blast]
Your new release is not a new set of songs, but a re-recording of your first demos. Are these new recordings of your older songs? No, it’s not ...
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Comments Off on Interview with Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka of Decapitated
And now, for another short black metal album that has its moments without being great, with a weird and satanic atmosphere. It’s obvious from its strange intro, its ...
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Comments Off on Review: Xeper “Ad Numen Satanae” [Soulseller Records]
What a perfectly strange and yet pleasant dark metal album. This reminds me of those obscure one-person black metal or something-close-to-it bands I used to listen to on ...
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Comments Off on Review: Iscuron “The Nothing Has Defeated Atreyu”
This may not be the most interesting album you’ll ever hear, but it does have some real energy that makes it easy to get through, and pretty thrilling ...
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Comments Off on Review: Inflabitan “Intrinsic” [Soulseller Records]
Is metal in your head? It will be, by the end of this enjoyably epic and over-the-top heavy metal album. What can you expect from this album? Lots ...
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Comments Off on Review: Wizard “Metal In My Head” [Massacre Records]
Here is a nice little split disc, where although you wish there was more music to get your hands on, what actually is there is fairly satisfying. The ...
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Comments Off on Review: Taake / Helheim “Henholdsvis” [Dark Essence Records]
Here is a pretty cool mix of power, heavy and symphonic metal, with catchy choruses, powerful verses and riffs, and an overall epic and fun tone to it. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Marble “S.A.V.E.” [Sliptrick records]
This is an album with a few good ideas, even though it’s overall not that special. It’s a nice blend of black and thrash metal that’s somewhat enjoyable ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cruentus “Night Embrace Me”
This heavy and power metal album with symphonic influences has some good ideas, some slightly more disposable songs, but always some interesting vocal work. The first track, Dark ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hevilan “Symphony of Good and Evil” [Brutal Records]
Here is one confused and confusing EP. This is the kind of record where a wild bunch of different ideas are all thrown one after the other and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Amoriello “Dear Dark” [Sliptrick records]
Let’s start with the title. What does «Necro Sapiens» means to you? It’s a character, or rather several characters from our concept-album. Our album is a dystopia story, ...
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Comments Off on Interview with Baest
Here is a nice, gory, horror-themed death metal album. Expect a lot of heaviness, brutal themes and a lot of evil fun. First, you have a strange, haunting ...
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Comments Off on Review: Baest “Necro Sapiens” [Century Media Records]
Let’s explore these melancholic and atmospheric ballads by a cold, sad day of winter. For this is the best way to describe the overall feel of the album. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Harakiri For The Sky “Mære” [AOP Records]
Let’s talk about your new album. I’ve seen that some of the songs have been released on your Youtube channel, but not every one of them. Has the ...
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Comments Off on Interview with Harakiri For The Sky
So, what inspired you to write this album? We started writing this album during the first lockdown last year. I would say our most powerful inspiration for this ...
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Comments Off on Interview with Guillermo of Angelus Apatrida
I am definitely convinced that right now is a really good time for apocalyptic-themed thrash metal. I also think this album is among the best examples of that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Angelus Apatrida “Angelus Apatrida” [Century Media Records]
Let’s watch some alien invasions and some crazy scientific experiences, in this wild and fun mix of cyberpunk and metal. This is truly both industrial and metal: every ...
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Comments Off on Review: Pulse “Adjusting The Space” [NRT-Records]
