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Epic heavy metal meets grounded power metal - A review of Lords of Black's Icons of the New Days

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I was introduced to this band by my father who described Lords of Black as a mixture of Helloween and Iron Maiden with long song structures and a talented singer. I couldn't have said it better myself. The Spanish quartet offers traditional melodic mid-paced...

Melodic intellect meets extreme metal mayhem - A review of Bleeding Gods' Dodekathlon

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Bleeding Gods is a Dutch sextet that combines fast-paced death metal as well as atmospheric and blistering black metal with epic symphonic metal soundscapes. If compared to similar bands like Fleshgod Apocalypse or Wintersun, Bleeding Gods remains firmly...

Ou Zhou gong lue / Europe Raiders (2018) - A successful return to classic Hong Kong action-thrillers of the eighties and nineties - 8/10 (23/08/18)

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Europe Raiders is a quite entertaining action-thriller with strong martial arts sequences that comes around with a major and quite efficient twist in its surprising conclusion. The movie revolves around an invention that makes it possible to track down...

Yi chu haoxi / The Island (2018) - A Barbie Doll in a cabinet of horrors - 8/10 (22/08/18)

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The Island is a mostly entertaining mixture of a survival drama with some social criticism, slapstick comedy and romantic elements. It tells the story of about thirty work colleagues who get into a heavy storm and strand on an isolated island. When nobody...

Cui mian da shi / The Great Hypnotist (2014) - Gloomy atmosphere and challenging story make for an immersive experience - 8/10 (21/08/18)

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The Great Hypnotist offers an intriguing mixture of a psychological thriller and a mysterious drama. The movie convinces with a gloomy atmosphere from start to finish. With a length around one hour and a half without the credits, the film has solid pace...

Greetings from Montreal

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Grab some popcorn and enjoy the freak show! - A review of Rob Zombie's The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser

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Sometimes, you wonder where artists take their inspiration for their song and album titles. If I had to describe Rob Zombie's newest eclectic record accurately, I would have titled it The Weird Sample Accumulation Show Featuring Horny Monsters and Foolish...

Not from this world - A review of Nine Inch Nails' Bad Witch

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Nine Inch Nails has always been a quite experimental group but the newest release around Trent Reznor might be the cherry atop the cake. Bad Witch completes a trilogy of extended plays that started with Not the Actual Events two years ago and was followed...

Rhythm is a dancer - A review of Skinflint's Skinflint

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Skinflint might be from Botswana but the dynamic trio offers traditional metal somewhere between heavy blues rock, heavy metal and a shot of doom metal on its self-titled effort. Imagine a slightly faster version of Black Sabbath with less melodic and...

A ride full of imagination - A review of Nightwish's Imaginaerum - The Score

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Imaginearum is a quite creative movie conceived by Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen that I would recommend you to watch. This release is the score of said film. While other bands or artists who make movies, most recently Bruce Dickinson and X Japan...