In Flames - Whoracle (1997) - Somewhere in here, there is a solid EP - 63% (04/02/15)

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Whoracle is probably In Flames' weakest studio release. It doesn't have the bleak atmosphere of the first releases, fails to come around with the catchy melodies and vocal lines of the transitory middle years and doesn't feature the more experimental...

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In Flames - Clayman (2000) - Where old and new meet in reconciliatory harmony - 92% (13/01/15)

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In Flames' pivotal fifth full length effort unites the band's past and future strengths (or weaknesses) like no other record. The release still features some faster melodic death metal elements from the past as well as the melodic twin guitar leads in...

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In Flames - Siren Charms (2014) - A slap in the face of those grown old nostalgics - 87% (05/09/14)

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For the last fourteen years it has been a popular trend in the metal scene to bash any new In Flames release because many closed-minded old-school metal heads are still living in the past millennium, unable to turn the page and accept that In Flames is...

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異族亡魂 / Alien Avenge - 第五太陽紀 / Tonatiuh (2010) - A weird mixture of styles that goes nowhere - 47% (15/07/14)

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Alien Avenge is a strange Taiwanese band labeled as melodic death metal. The band is surely innovative, but is quite hard to digest. The band has so many different faces that it’s hard to get what the six musicians are actually trying to accomplish on...

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Graveyard - The Sea Grave (2013) - Only the atmospheric instrumentals can convince - 60% (15/07/14)

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Lately, I stumbled across an interesting band called Graveyard. The four men come from sunny Barcelona in Spain, and have a little weakness for Lovecraftian literature. This is also the case for me, and I have already listened to many great bands inspired...

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Kartikeya - The Battle Begins (2007) - Indian folklore meets epic progressive majesty - 92% (15/07/14)

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Kartikeya is a rather interesting band from Russia’s capital Moscow that mixes genre-bending progressive and technically appealing death metal elements with epic Indian folklore music in songs about Eastern mythology, Hinduism, and different philosophical...

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Kartikeya - Mahayuga (2011) - Almost from masterpiece to disasterpiece - 57% (15/07/14)

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Kartikeya’s first album The Battle Begins, was a stunning masterpiece that mixed technically appealing, progressive and epic extreme metal with Indian folklore elements. Four years later, the band came around with a follow-up entitled Mahayuga, that really...

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Soilwork - The Living Infinite (2013) - A short and more consistent album would be better - 73% (14/07/14)

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Soilwork is probably Sweden’s most famous melodic death metal band after the legendary In Flames. Both bands have recently released more courageous and experimental records with modern electronic influences, but have also included progressive elements...

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Nerve - Fracture (2013) - A growing firework of extreme metal diversity - 78% (28/05/14)

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Nerve is a technical death metal band from Genoa in Italy that released its third output entitled “Fracture” with the seventy-eighth issue of the famous French Metallian magazine last year. While the band is composed by a lot of talented musicians, their...

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Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion - The Opening of HATE (2013) - Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion - 78% (28/05/14)

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Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion is a young Japanese melodic death metal band with a few evident metalcore influences. The band just released its first EP entitled "The Opening Of HATE " which consists of three songs that have a total running time of a little...

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