by Sebastian Kluth
Even if Amorphis' last record "Far From The Sun" was by far not as bad as many critics said and ultimately a very calm and progressive grower, it was still the weakest release in the almost unbeatable discography of the Finnish masters of experimental...
I discovered this exotic band from Tunisia with a song from their second album last year on a sampler included in the normally pretty weak British Metal Hammer magazine but I forgot to check them out. With the release of their new third record, I remembered...
"The Chronicles Of Eden" is what one can describe as an excellent and essential compilation. The two discs include not only the biggest successes of the band such as the catchy neoclassical hymn "Shine" or the relaxed Sheena Easton cover track "For Your...
Dear Tobias Sammet, I would like to introduce myself as a long time fan of your main band Edguy and also someone that has always been very interested about your amazing Avantasia project. For me, you have always been the mastermind of European power metal...
After a modern, progressive and overall very promising second output, Wolfsbane get two steps away from their improvement instead of advancing and play old fashioned heavy metal and rock and roll on their eponymous record which is their last one to date....
This movie came as a big disappointment to me. I really adore Japanese culture and history and I am a big fan of Asian cinema. I was looking forward to see a film that is considered as a masterpiece by many and has risen to world wide fame. I was surprised...
Genre: Industrial Rock Label: Soulfood Music Spielzeit: 36:55 Band homepage: Stahlmann Tracklist: Engel der Dunkelheit Spring nicht Tanzmaschine Asche Mein Leib Am Grunde Götter Schmerz Diener STAHLMANN sind eine der neueren Gruppierungen des Neue Deutsche...
This record is a diversified good average album by Senmuth that mixes several styles in a more or less progressive way in the end. The album kicks off with some great new age melodies and some majestic cello sounds that slightly remind me of Apocalyptica...
Many fans and even critics justify the popular opinion that this album might be the best Grave Digger record ever done. This album was also by far the Grave Digger record that got the highest chart position ever. Many tracks from the album are still played...
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....
Rwake play a strange mixture of doom metal with some sludge and black metal elements. They call themselves experimental but honestly said the overlong songs are quite redundant. A few atmospheric passages and acoustic parts awake some interest but apart...
"Viva La Vida" is the second single from In Extremo's pretty strong "Sterneneisen" record that was released earlier this year. This single was released to support the autumn and winter leg of the band's tour that leads them from Russia over Spain to Mexico....
I always knew and felt that Within Temptation were a creative and promising band with some good and innovating ideas. Even though I don't adore any of their albums, I think that every output they have released has a special and unique flow and a couple...
Moonsorrow is one of those bands that were introduced to me as a unique, epic and progressive band that did revolutionary works for the Pagan Metal genre. When I stumbled over their overlong Tulimyrsky EP with this beautiful epic cover artwork I decided...
I stumbled over this release by pure coincidence as a good friend of mine introduced me to this project and I decided to give the band's first EP a chance. Immanifest are a band from Tampa, Florida that play atmospheric symphonic black metal with many...
Here comes another calm and introspective progressive rock record by Opeth. "Heritage" is maybe a little bit more metal orientated than the weak acoustic sleeping pill "Damnation" but cites a lot of influences from famous progressive rock bands such as...
The music of Tony MacAlpine seemed intriguing enough to me to be tried out at least once as I read a few interesting reviews about it recently. I decided to go for "Premonition" for the simple reason that the song titles seemed promising and diversified...
I never really got addicted to Trivium and thought it was a hyped band but they recently convinced me with an energizing and very intimate performance with Dream Theater. These guys really rocked the show and I happened to appreciate some of their songs....
Only two years after the band's very strong self titled album, the American extreme metal legends come back with a shorter record called "Abzu" that reminds a lot of the previous output. The cover artwork is as great, the album and song title structures...
Putamen Insula is a promising band from Quebec's underground black metal scene. What we have are three very good musicians including a very expressive and somewhat eccentric singer. The band doesn't play straight traditional black metal but takes a lot...
Welcome to a new unjustified hype. Somebody told me about this new band from Norway on a forum as he had himself got the advice from somebody else to check this group out. I suggested the guy who introduced me to this band that we should sue his predecessor...
Wolfsbane definitely made a big step forward with this underestimated record which is "Down Fall The Good Guys". Even though the album assimilates to the styles and trends of the early nineties, the band has kept the energy of the first record and combined...
I remember that I got in touch with the band Seventh Section for the first time almost five years ago when they had a completely different line-up and played some kind of melodic black metal music with a singer that just tried too hard to be a copy of...
"Weird" is the only Senmuth record to date that has known a semi-professional release that is physically available all around the world. I don't know why this album was chosen out of almost one hundred releases but I'm happy with this choice. In my humble...
Grave Digger were one of the first bands of the metal genre with whom I got in touch. I regularly listened to their Medieval Age trilogy featuring the albums "Tunes Of War", "Knights Of The Cross" and "Excalibur" but I later discovered and adored the...
