by Sebastian Kluth
Almost everything concerning the nonsense of a double EP release with the same title track and the song itself has already been told in my previous reviews and I might point out one more time that this EP is only interesting for the truly faithful fan...
There were two reasons why I actually decided to check out this album. Actually, I have grown up with the gothic scene though I feel personally more addicted to the metal scene and wanted to try out some new gothic metal stuff, especially as it comes...
Avantasia are surely one of the more interesting so called super groups and I have to admire Tobias Sammet for what he has done on this first album. Let's not forget that his main band Edguy wasn't that well known back when this album came out, they were...
Four years have passed after the band's last record "Blood for blood" and many things have changed since. The Soviet Union crashed down, the band parted ways with their singer who finally came back after another singer had already been casted and they...
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...
In my little discovery of the history of Canadian metal music, I lately heard about this band from British Columbia and gave a try to a couple of their albums. "Only the strong" is probably the most energizing record of the band and presents us ten great...
Ghost are a mysterious band from Sweden with anonymous band members that play a mixture of early heavy or doom metal mixed with some psychedelic rock influences and lyrics about demons, occultism and Satanism. Even though the cover and lyrics seem to...
Ayreon is a very unique and unusual band in the metal universe that seems sometimes too abstract to be easy to digest or to approach. It took some time and patience to get deeper into this project that takes its main influences from the progressive music...
Partially based upon historical events, Bernard Rose's Samurai Marathon portrays how a Japanese lord sends his men on an exhausting run to get them prepared for a potential attack by Western forces after centuries of isolation. The movie follows different...
After a career of more than thirty years and ten years after the last compilation, it's about time for a new greatest hits release. Stratovarius' simply titled "Best of" offers a balanced mixture of the band's catchy, saccharine and short singles like...
In my other reviews, I described the awful and ordinary first part of "Elements" as an ordinary ham sandwich, while the upcoming self-titled "Stratovarius" and especially the faceless and weak "Polaris" could partially be called shit sandwiches. In other...
After the promising first album, my expectations were quite high for the follow up. I thought that even if this record wouldn't be able to keep the high level of the brilliant first strike, it would at last go into the same direction and be a truly enjoyable...
When I first heard about this project I expected another rather slow paced instrumental album with pointless guitar solos and weird experiments that bands such as "Gordian Knot" have done. But the guitar player Chris Steberl has much more to offer and...
This record is probably the most interesting compilation album the Russian metal legend has ever released. First of all, this record includes many bonus tracks from previous singles or special releases that are mostly hard to find. There are new recordings...
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...
After the horrible and definitely spiritless first output “Vên”, the folk metal band from Switzerland put out their first full length album and called their style the New wave of folk metal in allusion to the legendary New wave of British heavy metal....
After the very weak “Vên” and the schizophrenic “Spirit”, Eluveitie have learned from their mistakes and present the perfect mixture of Celtic folk melodies and Scandinavian death metal. The album follows a clear guiding line and folk and metal elements...
I know that "Play with fire" is considered by many as the best Russian heavy metal album ever and I must admit that I was really looking forward to discover this album after I had first listened to Aria back in 2006. The band is still largely influenced...
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...
After almost a decade of instability, one of the most recognized and admired musicians of the power metal genre is back. Timo Tolkki's new baby is a super group as he has not come along all alone. André Matos from the enjoyable Angra is on the vocals,...
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...
Almost four years after their last release, "Turisas" come back with a new record and they have quite changed and evolved since the last record. They have definitely gone away from their folk roots and moved towards a rather symphonic sound that often...
After the weak and unnecessary acoustic album "The Arcane Dominion", I was hopeful that Eluveitie would go back to the basics and create and album in the style of the very good "Slania". But instead of returning to the perfect mixture of melodic death...
This first true Russian heavy metal album ever is one of the best debut albums ever made by any band of the entire genre. Even though the Russians copy bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and even Scorpions, they deliver a truly strong record with...
Fates Warning's first record is a mediocre mixture of heavy metal, power metal and a few smooth progressive metal passages that is actually easy to listen to but not outstanding enough to survive amongst many groundbreaking releases of the same period....
