by Sebastian Kluth
As a long-time fan of Iron Maiden is was awaiting this album since almost four years, the longest gap ever between two albums of this band. When I first listened to "El Dorado" when it was published on the official website at midnight, I was one of the...
...and Beyond - Live in Japan, 2017 is another entry in Dream Theater's excellent Lost Not Forgotten Archives and a sequel to the series' first release Images and Words - Live in Japan 2017 that was released one year earlier. This effort here captures...
On this album, the band sounds heavier and more bombastic than ever. After several hit singles and an intenation breakthrough the abnd got the budget to use more and more orchestrations and to create more and more complex structures. That's why they didn't...
Dieser Roman ist der erste Teil einer Mystery-Thriller Trilogie, die zumindest im deutschsprachigen Raum erst im Februar 2013 fortgesetzt und im Februar 2014 zu Ende geführt wird, was definitiv zu lange Zeitabstände sind, denn der erste Roman ist nicht...
After a very dark and gore "The scythe" and the acoustic album "Two tragedy poets" that divided the fanbase in two different camps, Elvenking tries to reunite both of them with "Red silent tides" where the band goes back to its roots. This album will...
Dream Theater have always been known as a band that likes to try out something new. I liked the calm progressive rock of the early days as much as the previous conceptual progressive metal epics. "Train of thought" continues the line of this diversity...
The first album of "The Dogma" is a dark, symphonical and quite diversified album that mostly touches the Power and Symphonic Metal genre with some slightly Gothic influences. The first track and title song already shows the diversity of the band in one...
This conceptual album about Shakespeare's Macbeth is an output that asks you to activate not only your ears, but also your mind and fantasy. This is a true metal opera without annoying guest singers and orchestras. The extremely diversified voice of Michael...
So many so-called Viking Metal bands such as the old legends of Bathory, the very popular Amon Amarth or rather recent bands like Tyr have all sung about the history of the Vikings, some of them have done very innovating and progressive jobs as others...
After two true masterpieces, something went wrong on this album. I have some problems to describe exactly what it is. It's not a musically bad album or something unusual that wouldn't fit to the band as the typical trademarks are still present, but I...
Even though this album has not yet the intensity and consistence of the amazing milestone "The perpetual motion", this first album was already a big hint and showed us what would await us two years later. "The nameless disease" has a very intellectual,...
Genre: Alternative Rock / Electro Rock / Nu-Metal Label: Warner Bros. Spielzeit: 37:02 Band homepage: - Tracklist: Lost In The Echo In My Remains Burn It Down Lies Greed Misery I’ll Be Gone Castle Of Glass Victimized Roads Untraveled Skin To Bone Until...
This album is one of the rare albums that added nothing new to the sound and universe of Dream Theater. They have tried it all: Soft and dreamy progressive rock pearls like on "Images and words", complexe conceptual structures like on "Scenes from a memory",...
When I first listened to this album I thought that it was a good album but the more I listened to it, the more I took the time to discover it attentively, the more I realized that this is somewhat the underrated gem in the discography of the most important...
Heljareyga deliver a Viking Metal output that is quite similar to the music that the main band Tyr does with the exception that the length of the present songs is much longer. But that doesn't mean that the music is more progressive and that's the main...
I have no problem with old metal stars trying out something new and trying to sound modern but in the case of our frustrated and poor Paul Di'Anno that lives from his Iron Maiden past even if he blames the band for the decisions they had taken against...
After the rather weak second part of the trilogy, I was still hoping for a great comeback and authentic and atmospheric third part, but the last album was delayed many times and this EP was finally released shortly before the final part has been published....
This first and not very well known album by Stratovarius has not yet the diversity, uniqueness and catchiness of the second and third effort and sounds especially quite different from what one might now from the actual works of what has become one of...
Three years after the convincing and very strong first album "When dream and day unite", Dream Theater came back with a new vocalist and created a new masterpiece of progressive rock or metal. While this album is maybe not as diversified as the first...
Dear readers of my blog! Here comes a rare review of Ningen-Isu's latest full length record "Burai Houjou". The band name of this legendary Japanese heavy metal trio can be translated as "The Human Chair" while their eighteenth record since 1987 is entitled...
This second album of The Dogma uses less symphonic elements than the debut and adds some hard rock notes to the band's dark and symphonical Power Metal sound. Those new sounds work very well and have a fresh attitude. The powerful and yet diversified...
This album is until now the only Rebellion output that isn't based on any main topic and has no conceptual boundaries. That's why one should think that this might be their most diversified album where the band could have tried out everything they wanted...
When I checked out this album I expected another conservative retro rock record without any surprises as the trend heavily heads in this direction with the recent success of "Bullet" or "Airbourne" but this album blew me away in a very positive way. Ten...
After the straight Teutonic approach of the epic first part of the trilogy, the band realized that they had already created their personal opus magnum and wanted to try out something different and new without denying their traditional trademarks. What...
Swadhisthana is one of Senmuth's earliest masterpieces. It's a great electronic folk album about Hindu religion, Indian culture and Central Asian lifestyle. Senmuth was influenced by some Indian movies he saw and this album uses some film samples and...
