This is a nice trip through emotions and musical styles and moods. Listen as the songs flow and just let all your emotions out. This is kind of ...
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Archives by: Sophie Laliberté
Sophie Laliberté
About the author
Loves words and music. When not writing or reading reviews, she’s writing horror stories where music plays a part.
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Let’s have some adventures in the wasteland. We’ll travel in the company of this very interesting new band and all their stories. From the intro, you know that ...
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Comments Off on Review: GATECLOSER “From The Wasteland” [Sliptrick records]
How about some occult and evil blackened thrash? With some heavy riffs, weird vocals and satanic rituals? There is a definite heaviness and evil atmosphere in this album. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Black Sun Brotherhood “God & Beast” [Metal Blast Records]
Get ready for some magic and despair, never-ending melancholy, haunting music, sweet singing and desperate screams, because this is what this album sounds like. Draconian play the slow, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Draconian “Under A Godless Veil” [Napalm Records]
Let’s have another apocalyptic thrashy death metal album, I guess? This is a nice, but not always great collection of melodic death metal tracks, with some nice energy ...
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Comments Off on Review: Vermocracy “s/t”
This is an interestingly darker take on power metal. You get all the nice power metal ingredients, like the fast riffs, belting vocals and epic lyrical themes, but ...
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Comments Off on Review: Harmonize “Warrior in the Night”
Utgard is a wonderful collection of black metal and folk songs. Enslaved’s creativity, their talent at mixing different genres together and making truly memorable tracks, are as strong ...
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Comments Off on Review: Enslaved “Utgard” [Nuclear Blast Records]
This is some death metal, mixed with other styles, that feels like a real trip through death and the afterlife. It’s kind of overwhelming, but a lot of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Draghkar “At The Crossroads Of Infinity” [Unspeakable Axe Records]
This is yet another hair metal throwback band, that tries really heard to be like Mötley Crüe, but what can I say? I’ve enjoyed this. It’s a lot ...
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Comments Off on Review: NOTÖRIOUS “Glamorized” [Sliptrick records]
Does this album feel as cold as – 273,15°? Well, not completely, but it definitely feels like the musical equivalent of a merciless snowstorm. It’s just not a ...
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Comments Off on Review: Lebenssucht “-273,15°C” [Thanatoskult records]
This is a strange collection of different songs, that works a lot better than you might think. Get ready for something completely unclassifiable, with different musical styles and ...
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Comments Off on Review: CREMATORY “Unbroken” [Napalm Records]
Elysium is some nice heavy metal, with cool stories about monsters of all kinds. You will meet demons, witches, and all the horrors and torments of the human ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hellgrimm “Elysium”
This is a really nice power/thrash EP, that will make you very frustrated that it’s so short and that the band seems to have only ever released three ...
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Comments Off on Review: Breaking the Silent “Breaking the Silent”
This is some nu metal with a real bite. From beginning to end, this is unrelentingly heavy, with brutal riffs and drumming, loud screams and a tough attitude ...
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Comments Off on Review: MALICIOUS INC. “Red Flag” [Sliptrick records]
Transcending Material Sins is made of interesting ideas and not always great execution. This is another of these albums I didn’t find all that great. But instead of ...
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Comments Off on Review: NO RAZA “Transcending Material Sins” [Noble Demon]
For their new album, Nightwish attempt nothing less than to pay tribute to music itself. They have always made songs about things they love, and now, they are ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nightwish “HUMAN. :II: NATURE.” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Let’s have a nice creepy dive through a dark and compelling death metal abyss. Open Chest sounds like a throwback to old school death metal, with a few ...
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Comments Off on Review: Wrathful “Open Chest”
Now that the world seems to be ending, let’s have some nice apocalyptic thrash metal. This album seems to be all about disaster and apocalyptic things, from its ...
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Comments Off on Review: Extinction “The Apocalypse Mark” [Revalve Records]
This is a nice catchy and energetic melodic death metal album. OK, so maybe some of you might find this too poppy and too generic, but if you ...
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Comments Off on Review: MELTDOWN “Deadringer” [Rambo Music / Fifth Island Music AB / Sony Entertainment AB]
Esoteric Tales of the Unserene is the type of album where I can appreciate what the band is trying to do, and where I can enjoy some of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Sarcasm “Esoteric Tales of the Unserene” [Chaos Records]
