by Sebastian Kluth
Genre: Electro Rock / Gothic Rock Label: Columbia Records Spielzeit: 57:49 Band homepage: Eisbrecher Tracklist: Tanz mit mir Augen unter Null Die Hölle muss warten Verrückt Herz aus Eis Prototyp Ein Leben lang unsterblich Abgrund In meinem Raum Keine...
After the split of Stratovarius and a true soap opera between the remaining members and Timo Tolkki, the Finnish guitar hero hectically presented his new project, released the material written for the Stratovarius record that was finally never released...
The project of the famous Dave Grohl seemed rather intriguing to me. I have always known that he is musically diversified and knows a lot about metal music as he tells us for example on the bonus material of the "Tatsumaki" DVD of Voivod. It's their drummer...
The five legendary musicians of X-Japan (two of them have died in rather strange and suicidal ways) deliver classic melodic heavy metal with somewhat cheesy, commercial and catchy choruses on their first output. Musically comparable to Western standards,...
Far From The Sun is the weakest album in the strong discography of Amorphis. One can hear that singer Pasi Koskinen lacked passion and emotion and was about to split with the band. It's clear that the band didn't develop any further in the first time...
I'm usually a big fan of the German pioneer gothic metal band Crematory but this record is probably the weakest one in their discography. The album heads for a modern sound with melodic keyboards samples, a bigger focus on clean vocals and rather catchy...
Three years after the dark and modern Tinnitus Sanctus, Edguy seems to be back with a new album that heads back towards the power metal sound they had before but with a big influence from the hard rock sounds of the seventies and eighties. The opener...
Senmuth offers us what seems to be one of his most progressive, experimental and diversified albums. Let's just take a look at the inspiring and epic cover artwork, the length of the six songs and the topic about the creation of the world. Well, Senmuth...
Permanent Waves is one of the most accessible and commercial records that Rush ever made and I don't mean that in a negative way. The brilliant opening double pack "The Spirit Of Radio" and "Freewill" are catchy and easy to listen to but contain still...
Primal Fear had never really been able to convince me and to attract me more than any other European power metal band. I always thought that they sounded too much like Judas Priest and had not a quite unique style. Well, when I tried out their album New...
Genre: Electro Rock / Gothic Rock Label: Columbia Records Playing time: 57:49 Band homepage: Eisbrecher Tracklist: Tanz mit mir Augen unter Null Die Hölle muss warten Verrückt Herz aus Eis Prototyp Ein Leben lang unsterblich Abgrund In meinem Raum Keine...
Many critics didn't appreciate this movie. They mentioned the thin plot. They said that the movie contained too many stereotypes. They complained about thin dialogues throughout the movie. They criticized the editing of the action scenes. They said the...
This album represents everything what Krypteria is about. We have fast and modern tracks like "Scream", catchy commercial and chorus based symphonic tracks like "The Promise" as well as epic tracks with a lot of classic influences like "At The Gates Of...
There are some things I don't understand in the metal world and one of those things is the popularity and the high ratings of this record. Let's say that the debut album of the Swiss metal legend is not bad at all. It has its own style but the record...
Со(знание)бытия is not only a strange album title that can't really be accurately translated into any other language than Russian, it's also one of the weirdest releases in the whole Senmuth discography. This album is at first hand somehow a great overall...
Yes, Senmuth got an acoustic guitar and a dutar and he just wanted to test his two new instruments on this calm, meditative and insightful record for us. In fact, he plays both instruments quite well and his skills remind me a little bit of Cat Stevens,...
Ayreon's second full length output is a quite unique piece of music from this project. For the first and last time, the Dutch mastermind Arjen Lucassen decided to not invite a high number of guest musicians but did something like a solo project where...
As a big fan of the legendary and unforgettable Twin Peaks series by David Lynch, there were two main reasons why I wanted to check this album out. My first contact with Anthrax was in fact the video clip for "Only" where I recognized the actor Frank...
As Senmuth's first epic albums with overlong tunes entitled "Evolution: Exodus" was a rather calm, hypnotizing and often honestly said boring record, I didn't expect very much from his new epic output about the harmonious beginnings of the world's beginning....
Fear not, dear metal maniacs, "Live Fast, Die Fast" is not as superficial as its stupid title might suggest. Wolfsbane deliver in fact a quite entertaining and solid record somewhere between AOR, hard rock and heavy metal. The fast and short songs get...
"Le Grand Guignol" is the name of a famous theatre in Paris that is known for its grisly horror shows and also the name of this outstanding avant-garde metal band from the beautiful Luxembourg. In comparison to other avant-garde bands like Adversus, UneXpect...
Here comes another solid movie from the country that currently produces the best films in the whole wide world which happens to be South Korea. Don't worry about the critics. The economical, political and social component of a divided Korean peninsula...
This second little EP of the German symphonic metal band Krypteria features three versions of the last album's hit "Somebody Save Me". The radio version is straighter, shorter and sweeter and ultimately pleases me more than the album version. The song...
Our culturally skilled Russian multi-instrumentalist Senmuth heads for a new topic on this release and creates a quite diversified album about Japanese culture, history and modern life. A part of a few Japanese vocal samples, there are no vocals on this...
Dead Mariners are a melodic symphonic black metal band with a couple of gothic and progressive influences that comes from Patan which is one of the biggest cities in Nepal. The band is comparable to other amateur bands of the same genre such as Cryptik...
