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Straight Into Your Face without any Compromises - A Review of Hämatom's Die Liebe ist tot

Straight Into Your Face without any Compromises - A Review of Hämatom's Die Liebe ist tot

German groove metal quartet Hämatom had finally shown off its true potential earlier this year, when releasing Berlin (Ein akustischer Tanz auf dem Vulkan), an acoustic record inspired country, folk, jazz and swing sounds of the twenties and thirties...

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Haunting Atmosphere, Relentless Energy and Intriguing Lyrics - A Review of Ossuaire's Triumvirat

Haunting Atmosphere, Relentless Energy and Intriguing Lyrics - A Review of Ossuaire's Triumvirat

Ossuaire is a black metal quartet from Montreal that has released two full lengths efforts and two extended plays since its inception five years ago. Triumvirat is inspired by historical topics and offers five epic tracks with a generous running time...

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Traveling through Forlorn Steppes - A review of Darkestrah's Chong Aryk

Traveling through Forlorn Steppes - A review of Darkestrah's Chong Aryk

Darkestrah is a pagan metal band inspired by Central Asian shamanism that originally hailed from Kyrgyzstan. Today, the band is based in Germany, its label is Canadian and the musicians performing on this output hail from Iceland, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and...

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Aggression, Atmosphere and Intellectualism on the Pulse of Time - A Review of E-Force's Mindbender

Aggression, Atmosphere and Intellectualism on the Pulse of Time - A Review of E-Force's Mindbender

It took industrial thrash metal band E-Force six and a half years to release a successor to the dynamic Demonikhol. Quite a few things have changed in between both records as only founding member Eric Forrest from Canada remained on board and is still...

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Birth of the Heavy Metal Queen - A review of Hamada Mari's Lunatic Doll〜暗殺警告

Birth of the Heavy Metal Queen - A review of Hamada Mari's Lunatic Doll〜暗殺警告

Hamada Mari is a pioneer who has paved the way for numerous female singers in the rock and metal genres in Japan, from Show-Ya over Band-Maid to Lovebites. No other country has such an impressive variety of female performers in said genres as Japan. Hamada...

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The Sound of Chaos - A Review of Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû's Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû

The Sound of Chaos - A Review of Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû's Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû

Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû might be one of the worst band names in the history of music, the end of its preceding outfit Absu was quite controversial to say the least and the previous studio album in this trilogy was released a whopping ten years ago,...

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Blooming in Darkness and Ice - A review of Swallow the Sun's Moonflowers

Blooming in Darkness and Ice - A review of Swallow the Sun's Moonflowers

It might sound harsh but Juha Raivo's musical creativity had been pushed to astonishing limits after the tragic death of his partner Aleah Stanbridge, resulting in masterpieces such as Swallow the Sun's experimental single Lumina Aurea and the conceptual...

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Collision course of gothic metal and traditional heavy metal - A review of Voodoma's Gotland

Collision course of gothic metal and traditional heavy metal - A review of Voodoma's Gotland

Voodoma is a gothic metal band from Düsseldorf that has been active for nearly two decades but that has been unfairly overlooked by large parts of both the gothic and the metal scene in Germany. Gotland is the group's seventh studio album and features...

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Collision course of gothic metal and traditional heavy metal - A review of Voodoma's Gotland

Collision course of gothic metal and traditional heavy metal - A review of Voodoma's Gotland

Voodoma is a gothic metal band from Düsseldorf that has been active for nearly two decades but that has been unfairly overlooked by large parts of both the gothic and the metal scene in Germany. Gotland is the group's seventh studio album and features...

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Collision course of gothic metal and traditional heavy metal - A review of Voodoma's Gotland

Collision course of gothic metal and traditional heavy metal - A review of Voodoma's Gotland

Voodoma is a gothic metal band from Düsseldorf that has been active for nearly two decades but that has been unfairly overlooked by large parts of both the gothic and the metal scene in Germany. Gotland is the group's seventh studio album and features...

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