Autumn - Cold Comfort (2011) - Depressedly floating to unspectacular boredom - 42% (14/08/12)

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So this band is called Autumn, their latest release is entitled “Cold Comfort” and these two elements already tell you pretty much about the music you are going to witness on this album. The record is dominated by dark Gothic Metal riffs, mostly melancholic...

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Elend - Leçons des ténèbres (1994) - Hard to sit through - 30% (10/08/12)

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I happen to like some dark ambient stuff in the key of the gothic orientated bands such as Rosa Crux or Die Verbannten Kinder Evas but what Elend offers on their first studio output is unwillingly ridiculous. The band name is German and means misery....

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Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White (2012) - Moonspell's yin and yang - 90% (12/06/12)

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The new limited edition of Moonspell's "Alpha Noir / Omega White" output represents the two faces of the band, their two pounding hearts, Portugal's best metal band's yin and yang. Alpha Noir is a dark and pretty heavy record that should please to those...

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Ewigheim - Bereue Nichts (2012) - Explicit content in accessible melodies - 87% (11/06/12)

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Ewigheim is one of the numerous projects of musicians from the explicit German extreme metal band Eisregen and the famous atmospheric horror metal band The Vision Bleak. While their project Panzerkreutz can be described as atmospheric but quite raw black...

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Atrocity - After The Storm (2010) - An improvement without big highlights - 67% (31/05/12)

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Honestly said, after the sequel of the "Werk 80" output, the world didn't need a sequel of the mediocre "Calling The Rain" release and one feels that the band is somewhat running low and repeating itself after so many changes of style and ideas they've...

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Atrocity - Calling The Rain (1995) - Superficial ethno experiment from a faceless band - 40% (30/05/12)

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Atrocity has always been a band that polarized a lot as they’ve experienced a lot during their career. They’ve lost and won many old and new fans and went from grindcore stuff over death metal releases to ethnic folk experiments, gothic records and two...

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Seraphim / 六翼天使 - 不死魂 / The Soul That Never Dies (2001) - Grounded talent instead of artificial drama - 79% (12/04/12)

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Seraphim are a very solid symphonic metal band from Taiwan that focuses on strong and very professional female lead vocals as well as some death growls, many guitar harmonies and solos and only a couple of keyboards to focus on a rather vivid sound that...

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Moonspell - Wolfheart (1995) - A revolution and a statement - 98% (25/08/11)

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Wolfheart is easily one of my favourite records of all time. It has anything I would expect from a great metal album. It has a lot of diversity. It has an intense and coherent atmosphere. It has interesting lyrics that fit to the concept of the music...

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Crematory - Klagebilder (2006) - As if the band has sold its soul - 50% (11/08/11)

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I'm usually a big fan of the German pioneer gothic metal band Crematory but this record is probably the weakest one in their discography. The album heads for a modern sound with melodic keyboards samples, a bigger focus on clean vocals and rather catchy...

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Orphanage - By Time Alone (1996) - Between the beauty and the beast - 84% (11/08/11)

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I first heard from the band and this album when I saw the brilliant and creepy video clip of the opener "At The Mountains Of Madness" on a compilation record. I actually thought this was a modern band and was surprised to discover that this record is...

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