Doro Pesch is a German vocalist who is showing her talents for almost 25 years. And I am not only referring to her looks... She started with the band Warlock and released some albums before she went solo in 1988. Under her own name she released several albums, EPs and DVDs. This EP comes in May 2007 and contains 5 audio tracks and also 5 videoclips...

26/02/2009

The obvious that after Volume 1 there is volume 2. The first one was released in 2003 so lets see what they found in the last two years. Again a wide range of musical taste of Italian bands. Three bands I know (Disease, No Reason and Sudden Death) and the rest is totally new for me. The bands I like are Cruel Face Of Life (metalcore), Plasma (punk/...

26/02/2009

Another nice band on Anticulture hat releases a new album. Gutworm is also from the UK and plays modern extreme metal. But Gutworm take their metal into an old school alley and add moderness to the sounds. Screamy and grinding vocals, fast tempo with drum blasts and piercing guitars in aggression and brutality. Or you can call it death grind if you...

26/02/2009

Stygian Crypt Productions is a label from Russia that is releasing bands fromthat area. Bands that play death, black or doom but this release is totally different. Liholesie plays folkish darkwave and is totally instrumental. It is like you are listening to medieval folkish music you can hear sometimees in movies. But maybe that comes more close, i...

26/02/2009

From Germany this is Mausoleia with their first full length. Death metal with influences of thrash and black mostly sounding like an aggressive attack of an obscure disease. Powerfull songs with a lot of variation in drumming and a good example for tightness and technique. Guitarriffs sound thrashy and old school like driven by demons with massive...

26/02/2009

Is this still called nu-metal? Don't know if nu-metal still exists? Panic Cell plays metal with rock touches and other classic metal influences. Clean male vocals but yet a bit aggressive, hacking guitarriffing and mid tempo songs. Not afraid to put some slow atmospheric parts in the songs. Sometimes remind of bands like Pantera indeed. The sound i...

26/02/2009

This album is rated as unique metal and with this kind of words you have to be careful. To be honest I don't think it is unique. But hey, no band is unique these days, Quadrivium was started as a side project of musical composer Erlend Antonsen and vocalist Lars Jensen somewhere in 2005. Because they got so many ideas they decided to compose a tri...

26/02/2009

Guitarist Curran Murphy is a former member of Nevermore who now has his own project Shatter Messiah in which his guitar virtuosity is given the opportunity to really shine. "Never To Play The Servant" by Shatter Messiah is a well-produced hardcore death metal album with melodic flare and plenty of technical briliance to boot. Shatter Messiah vocali...

26/02/2009

Already ten years of existence for this Italian band and reading their bio they were not too active. "Obsidian" is their new self financed album and contains beside the audio also multimedia with video, pics and an introduction of a novel written by the rhythm guitarist. The intro is setting you on the wrong step with the piano ticks. "Damned Soul"...

26/02/2009

After an instrumental opening song this Finnish band rocks off with a mixed style from thrash and death metal. Well played songs in up tempo with tempo changes, brutal vocals and crushing riffing guitars with some nice leads. Little things can be add to this but at the end it is a just good CD. It rocks and that counts!

26/02/2009

Arckanum is spreading the satanic plague in the black metal scene since 1992 and therefor it is releasing an overview album. Tracks taken from several releases and even an unpublished song while the last three songs are taken from 7" discs. Plain recordingquality with screaming demonic vocals, raving riffs in fast tempo songs. As a real bonus there...

26/02/2009

This CD is a special edition and is no audio CD but a CDROM presentation with video, audio, photos and other info. You have to have a fast computer otherwise it is too slow. Why no MAC player?? The audio tracks were listened seperatly. Bethlehem plays a mixture of metal with industrial elements. Sometimes the industrial elements really get on my ne...

26/02/2009

From Holland comes this brutal death metal band. The songs are fast in the majority but they have lots of tempo breaks and changes. Brutal and deep vocals with high screaming background vocals. Massive drumming and not so far guitarriffing. The songs are not over the top into the extreme but have lots of variation and are compelling sometimes. Nice...

26/02/2009

After a short intro Darkshine from France is getting started. Metal in a death/black jacket. Raw blackish vocals, fast drumming and venomous atmospheric guitarriifing (only missing the compelling or furious leads). The songs are in the fast tempo but with lots of changes and breaks. Despise the long duration of the songs they manage to keep them op...

26/02/2009

From Brazil comes Fornication and they play some brutal kick ass death metal. Solid and straight in your face. Played mostly on high speed with breaks and some headbanger melodic slow parts. With deep growls, nice guitarriffs and tight drums Fornication take it serious. It is not that devastating as Krisiun it is molest enough. Don't expect some ex...

26/02/2009