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Chasse-Galerie: La légende (2016) - A charming piece of French-Canadian culture - 8/10 (01/07/16)

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''Chasse-Galerie: La légende'' is a French-Canadian movie about one of the nation's most popular folk tales about a group of voyageurs working at a remote timber camp who make a deal with the devil to visit their sweethearts back home on New Year's Eve...

Odishon / Audition (1999) - I'm glad I'm single - 9/10 (01/07/16)

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''Audition'' is the kind of movie that you will never forget once you have watched it. There are many elements that make this movie memorable. The contrast between the beginning of the film that almost feels like a light-hearted romantic fairy tale and...

Tokyo Zankoku Keisatsu / Tokyo Gore Police (2008) - More than gore - 7/10 (01/07/16)

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It shouldn't be a surprise to you that this movie is bizarre, gory and perverse and for adults and genre-fans only. The title is obvious enough and anybody who disliked this movie can't tell me that he didn't know what to expect from this weird b-movie....

Transformation and reinvention of Chthonic's hits - A review of 閃靈 / Chthonic's ''失竊千年 / Timeless Sentence''

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''失竊千年 / Timeless Sentence'' is a very unusual release for Taiwanese melodic black metal band Chthonic. The band re-recorded its greatest hits from the past two decades as acoustic versions that are quite different from the original tunes. Harmonious...

''Risky reorientation'' - A review of 海市蜃楼 / Mirage's ''湖光山色 / Lake''

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Now that was unexpected! Chinese progressive metal band Mirage pulls off quite a stunt six years after its extraordinary debut release that recalled Dream Theater's early years. The opening track ''山 Mask'' focuses on electronic samples including an overlong...

''Entertaining parody of French-Canadian rural life'' - A review of Abitabyss' ''Rural Métal''

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Abitabyss is a death metal trio from a village in North Western Quebec that mocks the stereotypes of their rural surroundings on the entertaining ''Rural Métal''. Topics such as hunting trips, mining work and farm life are portrayed in an amusing and...

''Not the best idea to honor a legend'' - A review of Motörhead's ''Clean Your Clock''

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''Clean Your Clock'' was probably released to honor late rock ' roll legend and Motörhead bassist and singer Lemmy. This last live album covers one of the band's last concerts recorded in Munich a little bit more than a month before Lemmy's death. It's...

''Nearly falling into the Fountain of Youth'' - A review of Anthem's ''Absolute World''

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Anthem is one of Japan's pioneering heavy metal bands but if compared to Loudness and the likes, the band never had any significant international success despite its longevity apart of a longer break in the nineties when this type of music was declining...

''You always sing the same'' - A review of Jorn's ''Heavy Rock Radio''

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No, this album doesn't include a cover version of Red Hot Chili Peppers' ''You Always Sing the Same''. That would be too experimental for the Norwegian heavy rock veteran with the unique voice. Jorn's ''Heavy Rock Radio'' is actually quite a mixed bag....