by Sebastian Kluth
"City Under Siege" is an entertaining but sometimes strange mixture of a fantasy movie and an action-thriller with romantic elements as well as with slapstick influences and a more serious criticism of modern mass media. The movie portrays the story of...
Ningen-Isu (The Human Chair) is a criminally underrated doom metal band from Aomori in Japan. The tight trio has a very dynamical sound that also ventures into the heavy metal and progressive rock genres here and there. Imagine a mixture of Black Sabbath...
Officially, the French band Dagoba is classified as groove or industrial metal but the four guys from Marseille also have a clear melodic death metal and metalcore touch. For the purists that might now be discouraged, I can assure you that this band is...
''Ashes of Time'' is a unique art film which is loosely bound upon Jin Yong's wuxia novel ''The Legend of the Condor Heroes''. Despite two blurry action choreographies, this movie can't be considered as a martial arts movie at all. Due to its philosophical...
Loudness – The Sun Will Rise Again July 15, 2014 in Reviews by Sebastian Kluth Loudness - The Sun Will Rise Again (2014) Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth The immortal Japanese heavy metal institution Loudness comes around with its twenty-eighth studio record...
Unisonic – Light Of Dawn August 13, 2014 in Reviews by Sebastian Kluth Unisonic - Light Of Dawn (2014) Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth Two years after the outstanding self-titled debut from power metal and melodic rock supergroup Unisonic, the quintet is...
The first "Sin City" was a revolutionary movie in my opinion in terms of its comic book style, violent film noir atmosphere and intriguing storytelling involving switches between several plot lines that were loosely bound together. While many mediocre...
Godsmack – 1000HP September 17, 2014 in Reviews by Sebastian Kluth Godsmack - 1000hp (2014) Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth Godsmack is one of the few hard rock-infused American nu metal bands that is still alive and well more than one and a half decades...
Concert review: GrimSkunk & Greta Knights live at Le Petit Chicago, Gatineau (11/10/14) On October 11, 2014, which was a truly beautiful autumn day, I went to see Quebec’s eclectic alternative rock band GrimSkunk for the fourth time in four years. After...
''The Suspect'' is a South Korean action-thriller in the vein of several contemporary spy movies like ''The Berlin File''. The movie tells the story of a North Korean defector who has once been a top special forces agent. After years of loyal service...
"Badges of Fury" is a short and fast paced action comedy movie which is certainly entertaining but overall disappointingly superficial. The movie has a clever marketing strategy and includes many cameos by famous Chinese stars which include not only actors...
Sebastian’s Favorites Of 2014 December 25, 2014 in Top Lists by Sebastian Kluth Here comes a review of my metal year 2014, including my favourite studio records, live albums and compilations. There will also be a short look back at the best concerts and...
"The Admiral: Roaring Currents" is an ambitious, epic and expensive historical action-drama from South Korea. This movie can already be considered a milestone of Korean cinema from several points of view. It became the biggest film of all time at the...
"Wara no Tate" or "Shield of Straw" is a Japanese action-thriller and drama based on a novel by Kiuchi Kazuhiro. This movie convinces with a balanced mixture of brutal and gripping action sequences on one side and philosophical discussions on the other....
Let’s admit that the idea to create another metal opera project isn’t all too original in times when projects like Avantasia happen to be more successful than ever. The fact that this record only appeared a few weeks after the sixth Avantasia output and...
Esthète Sinistre is a depressive post black metal project by one musician and one singer. It may come as a surprise to many that this grim and frostbitten project neither comes from the Métal Noir Québécois movement nor from a Scandinavian or Baltic country....
'54, '74, '90, 2014! Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft der Männer hat heute Geschichte geschrieben! Ich freue mich unglaublich über diesen Weltmeistertitel. Die gesamte deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft und alle, die dahinter stehen, können stolz...
Nach dem Triumph unserer A-Nationalmannschaft bei der Fußballweltmeisterschaft in Brasilien, hat es die U-19-Nationalmannschaft nun quasi nachgemacht und in Ungarn die Europameisterschaft im Finale gegen Portugal gewonnen. Zudem wurde Davie Selke von...
Alestorm – Sunset On The Golden Age August 19, 2014 in Reviews by Sebastian Kluth Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age (2014) Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth I guess there’s no need to introduce this quintet from the United Kingdom. Alestorm is still delivering...
Name: Sebastian Kluth Online Alias (if applicable): kluseba Position At Black Wind: interviewer, reporter & reviewer Age: 24 Hometown: Leverkusen, North Rhine -Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany What You Do In Real Life: I’m a high school teacher...
Kokumaromilk – Kokumaromilk September 24, 2014 in Reviews by Sebastian Kluth Kokumaromilk - Kokumaromilk (2007) Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth Kokumaromilk is a weird band from Japan built around multi-instrumentalist and singer Iwama Hiroyuki and female...
Concert review: B.A.R.F., Insurrection, My Shadow & ...From the Deep live at Le Petit Chicago, Gatineau (26/09/14) On September 26, 2014, I assisted a truly energizing sold-out concert at Le Petit Chicago in the old Hull section of Gatineau, only a few...
Cea Serin – The Vibrant Sound of Bliss and Decay November 21, 2014 in Reviews by Sebastian Kluth Cea Serin - The Vibrant Sound of Bliss and Decay (2014) Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth Cea Serin is a criminally unknown and underrated American progressive...
Releasing a live album without an actual audience is a rather strange idea but then again, it fits with Katatonia's elegiac rock sounds. The Swedish quintet offers twenty songs with a total running time of just below one hour and a half. It focuses on...
Chères lectrices et chers lecteurs de mon blogue! La troisième partie de mon voyage m'a amené à Baie-Comeau. J'y suis resté pendant trois jours et demi et j'ai fait plusieurs activités avec un ami d'université que je n'avais pas vu pendant deux ans. Nos...
