by Sebastian Kluth
This is the first part of a trilogy about a serial murderer that kidnaps, rapes and kills little girls. As a young and emotional rookie journalist does his own investigations concerning the most recent and third murder, local police officers, entrepreneurs...
One friend of mine, who was normally likes movies that I like, absolutely wanted to show me this movie and said that it would be a funny and very gore horror movie that wouldn't not take itself serious at all. My friend had presented me "Shaun of the...
I really have a lot of difficulties to appreciate modern movies about vampires as the "Underworld" saga, the "Nochnoy dozor: Night watch" and its sequels or the Blade saga. I'm a fan of old and sometimes even modern horror movies ("30 days of night" is...
Deliver Us from Evil is a conventional supernatural horror film that still manages to convince with very good acting performances, moody atmosphere and sinister locations. The plot revolves around former soldiers and their entourage who are behaving erratically...
"Korrozia Metalla" delivers an energizing piece of fast Thrash Metal on this first record. The band uses sharp and speedy riffs, a couple of great solos and short but effective and catchy choruses. Songs like the fast paced and very aggressive "Motorocker"...
If you like traditional classic heavy metal bands from Russia such as "Aria", "Master" or "Kruiz", this consistent and yet diversified debut album from a rather unknown band outside of Russia is definitely worth your attention. "Chornyi Kofe" is clearly...
Before Kruiz became one of the first and most important speed metal bands in Eastern Europe that also gathered some attention outside of the Soviet Union, the band played commercial hard rock that is clearly influenced by European chart breakers such...
If you liked the band's first two records, you will also happen to like this record as the Scottish pirate metal musicians didn't change their formula at all or tried out some experiments. I must admit that this is a rather negative point because the...
Custard is a solid German power metal band with history and fantasy lyrics that are interesting to listen to. Their debut record has a few strong tracks but offers nothing we haven't heard before. The band delivers epic fist pumping hymns in the style...
There are so many and even way too many female fronted symphonic metal bands out there in the world nowadays and this trend has also reached out for the Hispanic peninsula. "Diabolus in Musica" is a brandnew band with an intriguing and yet rather stereotypical...
Adverus is a band that doesn't sound like anything else. Their sound is very intellectual, diversified and sometimes almost schizophrenic. The band is mostly influenced by the Gothic genre with its dark and emotional lyrics, its harmonic male vocals,...
After four long years the charismatic American progressive metal band comes back after a strong predecessor with more than eighty minutes of music. Already the first epic title track "Iconoclast" proves that the band has put all their technical skills,...
With the release of this record, In Flames continue in the style of their great and diversified predecessor "A sense of purpose...". That means that they do further experimentations and get away from their death metal roots. Anybody that is waiting for...
Almost anybody gave the highest possible rating to the debut record of "Psychotic Waltz" and that's why I got intrigued by the band. As a fan of progressive rock and metal music I expected something outstanding here. In fact, the band really varies from...
Dimmu Borgir have never been a very stereotypical and traditional black metal band and people who claim that the band "betrays the genre", "dishonours a philosophy" or "forgets about its roots" are completely wrong. After the last albums, this step was...
This album is probably the most courageous one I have ever heard. One could have expected a diversified album after the death metal meets progressive doom metal album that gave birth to a legacy before, but this record is high above everything one might...
This album is a truly hypnotizing and chilling record. Amorphis moved away from their experimental death metal roots and passed through a short transitional era to arrive at a very progressive and experimental point of their career. This album has many...
"Adrenalin" is a quite rare to find live album of "Die apokalyptischen Reiter" that play an intriguing mixture of Stockholm melodic death metal and folk rock or medieval metal. This works really well during their concerts as this disc proves. The interaction...
After Eluveitie finally found a good mixture between melodic death metal and Celtic folk influences on their last album "Slania", they decided to move away from this and create an acoustic album. I really expected that this step came too soon and many...
This new recording of Edguy's first album offers the chance to discover the band's origins and listen to the songs they have done when they were still at school and about seventeen years old. This happens to be a fact that many people tend to forget....
After a great first record, Elvenking lived a couple of changes, especially with the departure of the former singer Damnagoras that was replaced by a certain guy called Kleid that only stayed for two years. Musically, that didn't change too much. The...
I really like the first two albums of the project and also quite much "The scarecrow" and was highly looking forward for the upcoming release. I had a somewhat critical attitude face to the release of two albums at the same time because I felt that one...
So this is how it all started. Amorphis deliver a very good death metal album with this first strike but there are already signs everywhere to announce us that this band would go further and be able to do something greater in the future. I think that...
After the rather calm and progressive first strike with the new singer Timo Kotipelto, the enjoyable "Fourth Dimension", Stratovarius follow the path and go even further on this release. There are in fact only two kinds of tracks on the record. There...
After the great first part of this power metal musical with many memorable songs Avantasia seems to have decided to put the cut off filler material on a second disc to satisfy the high demand and good selling rates. Musically, this album is not only mostly...
