by Sebastian Kluth
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....
As a long time fan of Edguy, this album has always somewhat been my personal black sheep in their discography. Maybe because it is stuck between my absolute favourite Edguy album, the very powerful and matured "Theatre of salvation" as well as the diversified...
Even if this third album of Amorphis is one of my less favourite ones of the band, it's still a highly interesting and unique record that one must see as a transitional album between the early works in the vein of experimental and atmospheric death metal...
"A farewell to kings" is another visionary progressive rock record by the Canadian legends "Rush". It unites rather catchy and commercial songs like "Closer to the heart" with epic conceptual science-fiction pieces like the brilliant "Cygnus X-1". Any...
I feel really mixed about Eluveitie. I discovered the band when they released the very good "Slania" album and I also liked the live album "Live at Metalcamp". I liked a couple of songs from the acoustic output "Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion" but...
This little EP is a nice gimmick for collectors and big Avantasia fan boys but of no interest for anyone else. One might discuss why they released two EPs with the same title track at the same moment and nothing for the later double album that closed...
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...
I must admit that I am not a big fan of Children of Bodom. In my opinion, those guys are a bunch of posers and their main fan base are male teenagers that think they are rebellious and very metal while they listen to their wicked music amongst other favourites...
Elvenking's first strike is already amongst the best works this band has ever done and shows a degree of diversity and fresh ideas that many other bands of the genre don't have any more. The band mixes folk influences with majestic power metal sounds...
I found this album recently at my local record store for a reasonable price and got absorbed by the dark sound of this record. I decided to buy it and discover it further and in a profound way at home. After several spins, I try to talk about this first...
"No prayer for the dying" is considered as one of the weakest albums of Iron Maiden and I must agree that it is in my bottom top three as I exceptionally agree with the majority. There are multiple reasons why fans criticized this album. For the first...
I always thought that "The Last Supper" would be my favourite album of Grave Digger but after paying closer attention to it predecessor, I must admit that "Rheingold" is slightly better as it has even more to offer. Maybe this album needs some time to...
Turisas' second strike is a lot more diversified and epic than the first record and slowly drifts away from the band's folk roots that become only one element amongst many others. The best folk passage is in the beginning of the fast and joyful "In the...
This last album with the legendary Sabine Dünser who collapsed during a rehearsal for this record is a dark and melancholic testament with a more or less important conceptual story. The positive thing is that the songs also work as single tracks and this...
Stratovarius is a very difficult band to me. They have released extraordinary albums filled with majestic ideas; they have released good and solid albums, a few mediocre records and also a couple of horribly awful records. If the description inconsistence...
It’s done. Here comes my last review for the last Stratovarius record that I haven’t analyzed yet and I’m finishing on a very high note as “Visons” is one of the best records this band has ever done even if it doesn’t beat the brilliant and underrated...
I will skip the long introduction as any metal head already knows Amon Amarth and might have his or her own opinion about it. Let's get this straight: I think that the image and style of the band is rather silly and closed minded but I liked some of their...
"Theater of salvation" is the last of the truly traditional power metal albums with rock opera approaches of Edguy before the band headed for a more humorous style and varied their sound before they got more and more stuck into a hard rock sound. This...
"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 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...
One more crime... What can be worse than faceless and repetitive power metal boredom as the band presented us on their last release "No Sacrifice, No Victory"? This album brings you the answer: faceless and directionless boredom. HammerFail had released...
Marienbad is an epic project about the small city in the western part of the Czech Republic and an ancient region of Germany of a similar but not exactly the same name as the band. The city has been flooded in 1961 for the creation of a storage and this...
Edguy had already reached a standout quality at such a low age with their major label debut album which is "Kingdom of Madness" and this brilliant album justifies the band's rise to fame. The songs are surprisingly complex, professional and diversified....
I don't know much about Machine Head apart of the fact that traditional thrash metal fans usually dislike the band's modern approaches and compare them to Trivium and even Bullet For My Valentine while younger people claim that Machine Head have their...
