Here’s a quirky dark metal album, not necessarily great but with all sorts of very entertaining and fascinating moments. I call it dark metal because it’s a kind ...
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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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Here’s a symphonic black metal album that’s not necessarily perfect, but has all the darkness and ambition I want from that genre. The album’s ambition is proven in ...
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Comments Off on Review: Malphas “Portal” [M-Theory Audio]
Why does the combination of witchcraft, heavy metal, doom metal and blues work so well? Anyway, here’s a kick-ass album, with all the best parts of the genres ...
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Comments Off on Review: Witchorious “Witchorious” [Argonauta Records]
Here’s the piece of dark and tormented melodic black metal I didn’t know I needed. Well, it’s the kind of album that’s by definition hard to classify or ...
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Comments Off on Review: Ars Moriendi “Lorsque les coeurs s’assechent” [Archaic Sound]
Here’s a catchy, poppy metal album full of adventures, not always impressive but always enjoyable. This album has a distinctive style, established in the first track, “Ready to ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cyhra “The Vertigo Trigger” [Nuclear Blast]
Here’s a punchy, heavy album about fighting the power that doesn’t always work but has some good songs, and mostly lots of energy. The theme of the album ...
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Ready for another album of Fear Factory remixes, this time of their 2012 album The Industrialist? It may not be the most interesting remix album, but it’s still ...
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Comments Off on Review: Fear Factory “Re-Industrialized” [Nuclear Blast]
Get ready for a blast of cold wind, or rather, music that feels like one, the best kind of black metal. This is the kind of brief and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Immortal “War Against All” [Nuclear Blast]
For their new album, Ignea take us on a trip around the world, with musical experiments and strange adventures. Are you ready? Dreams of Lands Unseen is a ...
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Comments Off on Review: Ignea “Dreams of Lands Unseen” [Napalm Records]
Finally, it is time to review a new album by the original queen of thrash metal. And luckily for us, she and her incredibly talented bandmates have created ...
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Comments Off on Review: Holy Moses “Invisible Queen” [Fireflash Records]
Amoriello and co return for a nice power metal album full of fantasy and adventures, that may not be as strange and oddly compelling as their first album ...
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Comments Off on Review: Amoriello “Phantom Sounds” [Shredguy Records / H42 Records]
Here is an ambitious, dark and melodic album about death and the end of the world. This is an album that feels big, and sinister, and yet very ...
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Comments Off on Review: In Flames “Foregone” [Nuclear Blast]
Here’s a thrashy death metal/grindcore album that isn’t always great but has its good moments, and above all, a lot of energy. The little issues I have is ...
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Comments Off on Review: Defleshed “Grind Over Matter” [Metal Blade Records]
How was this new mystical and musical exploration of other worlds and our own? Pretty good, it turns out. Most of Devin Townsend’s music has an unclassifiable, hard ...
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Let’s continue the re-issues and remixes, with a pretty entertaining remix album from Fear Factory. Now, this one is a little different from the ones I’ve reviewed, because ...
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Comments Off on Review: Fear Factory “Recoded” [Nuclear Blast]
This new set of occult power/symphonic metal songs isn’t as impressive as the first Leviathan from last year, but it still has a lot to offer. Much like ...
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Comments Off on Review: Therion “Leviathan II” [Nuclear Blast]
While it’s good to hear more from Oceans and their Hell is Where the Heart Is project, the full album version is certainly interesting, but does not always ...
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Comments Off on Review: Oceans “Hell Is Where the Heart Is” [Nuclear Blast]
Let’s continue the reviews of gothic metal reeditions! This new release of Type O Negative’s last album isn’t as good as Lacuna Coil’s new version of Comalies, and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Type O Negative “Dead Again” [Nuclear Blast]
Horror-themed bands are my favorite kind of gimmicky/novelty acts, and with Wednesday 13, I think I’ve found one of the most entertaining ones. This is an album that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Wednesday 13 “Horrifier” [Napalm Records]
This is one blackened death/industrial/whatever metal with a punch. While it’s not always great, this album has a rather interesting sound, and an energy and a sense of ...
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