Sophie Laliberté 141 articles

Loves words and music. When not writing or reading reviews, she’s writing horror stories where music plays a part.

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Review: Labyrinthus Stellarum “Rift in Reality” [Archivist Records]

How about a trip through space, to some industrial black metal? Something that sounds catchy, yet deep and dark as the cosmos, with a sometimes...

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Review: Ancestor of Kaos – Animal Ritual [Horror Pain Gore Death Productions]

This is a fast, threatening wild beast, not always the most memorable album you’ve ever heard, but one with undeniable energy. We get a great...

Interview with Grave Circles

Let’s talk about your album’s themes. There’s a lot of stuff about the end of the world. How do you think the world could end?...

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Review: Grave Circles “World Within the World” [Schattenkult Produktionen]

Let’s dive into an abyss where only the sound of blackened doomy old school death metal emerges. This album has everything that’s awesome about 90s...

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Review: In the Woods… “Otra” [Prophecy Productions]

Let’s go in the woods for a trip through musical genres and mood, discussions on society and nature. It’s a perpetually changing album, where you...

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Review: Alukta “Merok” [Transcendance]

Let’s join a funeral ceremony, inspired by doom metal and Toraja Indonesian rituals. There’s death, magic and dark music, so basically, everything I like. We’re...

Album premiere + review: U KRONAKH “Archaic Dance of Winds” [Archivist Records]

Ukrainian atmospheric black/death metal band U Kronakh is back with Archaic Dance of Winds, their third full-length, out tomorrow via Archivist Records. Today, we’re excited...

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Review: Fleshgod Apocalypse “Opera” [Nuclear Blast]

When symphonic metal bands release album with “opera” in the title, you can bet it’s going to be one of their most ambitious albums, and...

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Review: Empiric “The Seven Laws”

Yogi rock. Yes, this is an album inspired by Deepak Chopra’s book of (mostly) the same name. If you’re on board with that, you’ll find...

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Review: Marea “The Silence of Rust” [Masked Dead Records]

Let’s get swept up in the changing moods and tides of this atmospheric black metal album. It may not be the best or most interesting...

Exclusive album premiere + review: LILJEVARS BRANN – Helja Kor

LILJEVARS BRANN‘s Helja Kor will be released on September 27, 2024, via Octopus Rising. Here’s the album review and an exclusive premiere! This is a...

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Review: Wintersun “Time II” [Nuclear Blast]

Wintersun’s long-awaited sequel to Time I is finally out, and it’s more than worth the wait. What makes this album so interesting is that it...

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Review: Valfreya “Dawn of Reckoning”

Here is a very ambitious symphonic black/folk metal album, with many ideas that may or may not work, sometimes it’s not easy to get into,...

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Review of Svart Lotus “Som et vondt år” [Hellstain Productions]

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...

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Review: Malphas “Portal” [M-Theory Audio]

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...

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Review: Witchorious “Witchorious” [Argonauta Records]

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...

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Review: Ars Moriendi “Lorsque les coeurs s’assechent” [Archaic Sound]

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...

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Review: Cyhra “The Vertigo Trigger” [Nuclear Blast]

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...

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Review: Kataklysm “Goliath” [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...

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Review: Fear Factory “Re-Industrialized” [Nuclear Blast]

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,...