Dornenreich - Freiheit (2014) - A pretentious songwriter output - 42% (29/12/14)

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I've liked to listen to selected Dornenreich songs in the past since I discovered them on the outstanding neofolk compilation "Whom the Moon a Nightsong Sings" including bands such as Empyrium, Les Discrets and Ulver. As "Freiheit" is supposed to be the...

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Therion - A'arab Zaraq - Lucid Dreaming (1997) - Unstable compilation with many lengths - 48% (11/12/14)

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In its long career, Therion has released two limited compilation efforts that are nonetheless considered by the band to be regular full lengths releases. The first of these has the weird title A’arab Zaraq – Lucid Dreaming. It was released as a ten year...

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Kamijo - Heart (2014) - Dull and tame aqualung symphonies - 44% (11/12/14)

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Kamijo is, of course, the singer of the popular Japanese power metal band Versailles, which is currently on hold. While the other members joined forces with a new singer called Zin to form the band Jupiter (which released its first full length album Classical...

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王三溥 / Darkness over Depth - 东西 / East and West (2013) - Magical journey through Eastern and Western music - 90% (07/12/14)

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“East and West” is not an official Darkness over Depth release but rather a collaborative project between Chengdu-based multi-instrumentalist Kasasis, the mastermind behind one-man project Darkness over Depth, and his Chinese label colleague Zwrust, the...

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Destruction / Kreator / Sodom / Tankard - The Big Teutonic 4 (2012) - Tankard comes along with the biggest surprise - 68% (07/12/14)

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After the massive success of the concert series of Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer under “The Big Four” banner, German metal magazines started some hype around Germany’s oldest and probably most famous thrash metal bands by calling them “The Big...

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The essence of occultism - A review of Dæmonarch's ''Hermeticum''

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Dæmonarch was a one-off side-project of four fifths of Portuguese gothic metal legend Moonspell released between the band's regular studio albums ''Sin/Pecado'' and ''The Butterfly Effect' in the late nineties'. While ''Hermeticum'' employs indeed a few...

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Great live experience but boring studio effort - A review of Dream Theater's ''The Astonishing''

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''The Astonishing'' is Dream Theater's most ambitious record ever but turns out to be the quintet's most disappointing release. Fan reactions are quite divergent over this controversial output. When I assisted one of the concerts where the band only played...

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Metro 2033: Der lange Weg nach Ottawa

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Dear readers of my blog, Here is the third and probably last old novel I found on the recently recovered backup of my old laptop that I owned between 2009 and 2015. Once again, this is an unfinished novel consisting of two detailed parts of sixty-four...

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Endzeit: Straßburg 2022

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Dear readers of my blog, I was checking some files from the recently recovered backup of my old laptop and found this dystopian science-fiction story I wrote about six years ago in Chicoutimi. It includes the entire first part of forty-three pages from...

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