2019's most anticipated releases: music

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Ladies and gentlemen! A wonderful year 2018 is about to come to an end. It's about to time to take a look at what 2019 has to offer. I will take a look at anticipated music, movies and video games. This post presents releases that I find intriguing that...

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Metal Archives review challenge

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Ladies and gentlemen! Metal Archives' review challenge is a time-honoured tradition among writers on this encyclopedic site. Twice every year, usually in June and in December, writers are asked to write reviews for overlooked releases that haven't gotten...

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Progressive pearl that stood the test of time - A review of Ark's Ark

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Ark is an overlooked and underrated Norwegian progressive metal band that released two records before it disappeared into oblivion. The eponymous debut features a young Jørn Lande before he decided to imitate Ronnie James Dio and focused his career on...

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Enchanting progressive melancholy - A review of How Like a Winter's ...Beyond My Grey Wake

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How Like a Winter is a criminally overlooked avantgarde gothic metal band inspired by the works of Shakespeare that features later The Foreshadowing vocalist Marco Benevento, known as Dust in this line-up. The band's mixture of classical music, death...

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Quite alright - A review of Conception's My Dark Symphony

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Twenty-one years after its last release, Norwegian progressive power metal quartet Conception is back with an extended play entitled My Dark Symphony. This is also the first release involving former Kamelot singer Roy Khan since Poetry for the Poisoned...

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A Dose of Buckley: Everything that's wrong with commercial music from 2010 to 2018

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Ladies and gentlemen! I have just come across the rants of YouTuber ADoseofBuckley who dissects terrible radio music and is most known for his compilations of worst songs of the year. He isn't just a random angry guy like many others on the internet but...

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Aural heroin - A review of Ulver's Childhood's End

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Ulver is known to be one of the most experimental rock and metal bands around the globe and the surprising release of Childhood's End only underlines the group's status. This record consists of sixteen obscure psychedelic rock covers from the sixties...

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Violent fun - A review of Venom's Storm the Gates

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Venom's music is simple. The riffs are thunderous. The solos are distorted. The bass guitar is loud. The drums are heavy. The vocals are raw. The lyrics are nasty. The record sounds as if it had been recorded with a potato in some shabby basement in a...

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Hanako and the ramen shop

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Ladies and gentlemen! What do people do at the weekend? Some might go shopping with their friends. Others may have dinner with their family. Maybe they attend a concert or a sports event. Perhaps they travel to a nearby city or sight. I do all these things...

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Hockey weekend in Canada: Battle of the Ottawa River: Gatineau Olympiques versus Ottawa 67's and Pittsburgh Penguins versus Ottawa Senators

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