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by Sebastian Kluth

My new Spotify playlist: Oldies but goldies

Ladies and gentlemen! In times like these, it's important to be in a positive mindset and listen to some uplifting music. Check out my brand new playlist consisting of fifty classic tracks from the late fifties until the early nineties. Enjoy and stay...

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Hipsters are the new Vikings - A review of Finsterforst's #YØLØ

Hipsters are the new Vikings - A review of Finsterforst's #YØLØ

Finsterforst is usually a band playing epic folk metal with songs that often revolve around the ten-minute mark. The band's last album even had a track that is thirty-six and a half minutes long. #YØLØ doesn't have anything to do with the band's other...

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Anna (2019) - Shallow but enjoyable - 7/10 (15/03/20)

Anna (2019) - Shallow but enjoyable - 7/10 (15/03/20)

Anna is an entertaining action-thriller in the key of Atomic Blonde, Hanna and Red Sparrow. Directed by veteran Luc Besson, the movie tells the story of a beautiful drug addict who is given the opportunity to work as a KGB spy. After a hard training,...

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Modern metal for young audiences - A review of Lost Society's No Absolution

Modern metal for young audiences - A review of Lost Society's No Absolution

While Finnish quartet Lost Society is an absolutely outstanding live band, its studio records have been far less impressive and No Absolution is certainly another step down the ladder. The record can be described as contemporary thrash and groove metal...

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Creative, diversified and entertaining symphonic metal debut - A review of Frost Tears' Nine Chapters

Creative, diversified and entertaining symphonic metal debut - A review of Frost Tears' Nine Chapters

Frost Tears is a symphonic power metal from Taiwan that is best compared to its national genre colleagues Seraphim. The band's first full length album translates to Nine Chapters and is subdivided into three chapters with twelve songs in total about health,...

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Daring and diversified American power metal - A review of Fate Breaks Dawn's Deviate

Daring and diversified American power metal - A review of Fate Breaks Dawn's Deviate

On its first full length effort Deviate, American quartet Fate Breaks Dawn strays away from its traditional heavy metal roots witnessed on its self-titled extended play five years earlier. Only some of the melodic lead guitar work and the clean vocals...

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Sorrowful guitar work meets energetic rhythm section - A review of Rotting Kingdom's A Deeper Shade of Sorrow

Sorrowful guitar work meets energetic rhythm section - A review of Rotting Kingdom's A Deeper Shade of Sorrow

Rotting Kingdom is an American quintet that combines doom metal soundscapes with death metal vocals. On its first full length effort A Deeper Shade of Sorrow, the five young men focus on gloomy, mysterious and oppressive atmosphere from start to finish....

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The Uninvited (2009) - Secrets on Your Mind - 7/10 (14/03/20)

The Uninvited (2009) - Secrets on Your Mind - 7/10 (14/03/20)

The Uninvited is a remake of South Korean psychological horror drama A Tale of Two Sisters that is my favourite movie of all time. If you haven't watched that movie yet, do yourself a favour and treat yourself with the atmospheric, emotional, gloomy,...

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Clever song writing and excellent guitar play - A review of Ambush's Infidel

Clever song writing and excellent guitar play - A review of Ambush's Infidel

Ambush is one of numerous heavy metal revival bands that honours traditional genre trademarks inspired by the golden era of the mid-eighties. If compared to similar bands such as Stallion, Enforcer and Axxion, Ambush stands out with its particularly melodic...

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Traditional heavy metal with a rough side note - A review of Fate Breaks Dawn's Fate Breaks Dawn

Traditional heavy metal with a rough side note - A review of Fate Breaks Dawn's Fate Breaks Dawn

Fate Breaks Dawn is a young independent heavy metal quartet from New York. Some of its members have been involved with genre giants like Ross the Boss, Riot V and Mike LePond's Silent Assassins. The band's self-titled extended play offers five energetic...

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