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: Swallow the Sun “20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair: Live in Helsinki” [Century Media Records]

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...

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Review: Decayed “Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons” [Lusitanian Music]

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...

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Review: Misstress “Resurrected” [Blasphemous records]

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...

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Review: Decapitated “The First Damned” [Nuclear Blast 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...

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Review: Burning Witches “The Witch of the North” [Nuclear Blast]

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,...

Interview with Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka of Decapitated

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?...

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Review: Xeper “Ad Numen Satanae” [Soulseller Records]

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...

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Review: Iscuron “The Nothing Has Defeated Atreyu”

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...

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Review: Inflabitan “Intrinsic” [Soulseller Records]

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,...

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Review: Wizard “Metal In My Head” [Massacre 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...

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Review: Taake / Helheim “Henholdsvis” [Dark Essence 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...

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Review: Marble “S.A.V.E.” [Sliptrick 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...

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Review: Cruentus “Night Embrace Me”

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...

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Review: Hevilan “Symphony of Good and Evil” [Brutal Records]

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...

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Review: Amoriello “Dear Dark” [Sliptrick 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...

Interview with Baest

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...

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Review: Baest “Necro Sapiens” [Century Media Records]

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...

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Review: Harakiri For The Sky “Mære” [AOP 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...

Interview with Harakiri For The Sky

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...

Interview with Guillermo of Angelus Apatrida

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...