Let’s hear the songs of the mountains, and explore their musical landscape, bask in their beautiful and odd atmosphere. Yes, this is the kind of album that inspires ...
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Comments Off on Review: Gaahls Wyrd “The Humming Mountain” [Season of Mist]
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, here’s a nice metal symphony of mythological stories and diverse musical elements. Some background might be needed. I’m reviewing a new split disc, and this one involves ...
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Comments Off on Review: IGNEA / ERSEDU “Bestia”
Here is a dark metal ride that doesn’t always live up to expectations, but definitely has its moments. The album’s overall sound is a nice blend of black ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hate “Rugia” [Metal Blade Records]
Here’s a vicious piece of blackened death/thrash metal, with some interesting ideas but a rather uneven set of songs. This album has an interesting title, and starts with ...
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Comments Off on Review: Expunged “Into Never Shall” [Hells Headbangers Records]
Let’s get in our caravans for a trip through musical worlds. We’ll have a lot of adventures and hear all sorts of musical ideas along the way. From ...
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Comments Off on Review: Enslaved “Caravans To The Outer Worlds” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Are you ready for some kick ass super-heavy death metal? Something brutal and fun with lots of energy through and through? Because that’s what you’ll get with this ...
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Comments Off on Review: Tombstoner “Victims of Vile Torture” [Redefining Darkness Records]
This band describe their music as “tortured blackened death metal”, and indeed, this is a great way to describe this eerie, heavy, strange and experimental album. So get ...
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Comments Off on Review: Withered “Verloren” [Season of Mist Underground Activists]
What a promising title. And Swallow the Sun deliver on that promise, by performing some of their nicest tracks with gloom and beauty. Some description that might be ...
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Comments Off on Review: Swallow the Sun “20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair: Live in Helsinki” [Century Media Records]
Here is a nice little witch’s dance, with demons, ghosts, manitous and other creatures of the night. After a mysterious spoken words and keyboards intro about unleashing all ...
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Comments Off on Review: Decayed “Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons” [Lusitanian Music]
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]
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”
