Alestorm - Back Through Time (2011) - Nothing new from the party pirates - 70% (09/07/11)

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If you liked the band's first two records, you will also happen to like this record as the Scottish pirate metal musicians didn't change their formula at all or tried out some experiments. I must admit that this is a rather negative point because the...

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Alestorm - Back Through Time (2011) - Nothing new from the party pirates - 70% (09/07/11)

Par kluseba

If you liked the band's first two records, you will also happen to like this record as the Scottish pirate metal musicians didn't change their formula at all or tried out some experiments. I must admit that this is a rather negative point because the...

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Alestorm - Back Through Time (2011) - Nothing new from the party pirates - 70% (09/07/11)

Par kluseba

If you liked the band's first two records, you will also happen to like this record as the Scottish pirate metal musicians didn't change their formula at all or tried out some experiments. I must admit that this is a rather negative point because the...

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Saltatio Mortis - 10 Jahre Wild Und Frei (2011) - A perfect look back and forward - 92% (27/06/11)

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It’s hard to believe but Saltatio Mortis exist already since the year 2000 and with this great package, they honour their tenth anniversary in a very special way. Many things have happened in only a few years and what started as an acoustic project that...

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Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight (2009) - A surprisingly diversified party album - 79% (22/06/11)

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After their famous but overhyped and eventually rather superficial debut album the self declared Scottish pirate metal heads tries to take an advantage from their rise to fame and released as quickly as possible another EP and now this second album. Normally...

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Wintersun - Wintersun (2004) - Sometimes too epic to digest - 78% (05/06/11)

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There are only a few bands that already have a legendary status after their debut album. The stunning legacy and mystery that already surrounds the band's future output "Time" that has been delayed over and over again and seems to be a very one of the...

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Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (2008) - Music from and for alcoholics and party animals - 68% (04/06/11)

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Twenty reviews in not even one single year for the debut album of a metal band speak volumes about the success and rise to fame of "Alestorm". With many young enthousiastic fans that praised this music as a new and unique genre came also many rather traditional...

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Turisas - Battle Metal (2004) - A Finnish party mixture - 73% (25/05/11)

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The first full length record of Turisas is a truly epic soundtrack for any Viking battle with a lot of sound effects, bombastic orchestra passages, and some folk influences. The band sounds like a mixture of "Ensiferum" and "Korpiklaani" with the overambitious...

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Turisas - The Varangian Way (2007) - The soundtrack for horror castles and dark rides - 75% (17/05/11)

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Turisas' second strike is a lot more diversified and epic than the first record and slowly drifts away from the band's folk roots that become only one element amongst many others. The best folk passage is in the beginning of the fast and joyful "In the...

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Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was (2010) - Quantity defeats quality on this compilation album - 59% (16/05/11)

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After the weak and unnecessary acoustic album "The Arcane Dominion", I was hopeful that Eluveitie would go back to the basics and create and album in the style of the very good "Slania". But instead of returning to the perfect mixture of melodic death...

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