by Sebastian Kluth
Agalloch are back with a new EP and the longest single song they have written to date that turns around the brilliant epic masterpiece "Faust" by the famous German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Anybody who cares a tiny little...
Tang Dynasty are considered by many as the first Chinese heavy metal band and their debut record is today considered as a classic piece of traditional heavy metal mixed with Chinese folk influences and poetic lyrics around historical topics. It took the...
Orphan is an emotional, gripping and tense psychological thriller that has aged very well and has ultimately even got a prequel thirteen years later. The film revolves around a little family consisting of mother Kate who has just lost her stillborn baby...
After the highly promising and short appetizer in form of the well entitled “Ignition” EP, the new German Power Metal supergroup with ex-Helloween singer Michael Kiske, ex-Helloween and Gamma Ray mastermind Kai Hansen on the guitars and some background...
Screaming Savior are one of the most famous melodic black metal bands from China. Throughout the last years, more and more bands of this genre arose from the underground thanks to many club shows in the big Chinese cities and now these bands even got...
This movie is another surreal piece of art by David Lynch, but it's not as great as the amazing and twisted "Lost highway" or the wonderful "Twin Peaks" series. Those movies ore episode are simply over the top. But it is still a movie that is more intense,...
Ren Chao Xiong Yong, internationally known as End Game, is the remake of Japanese movie Key of Life that had already been remade as Luck-Key in South Korea. This means that this film is already the third version of the same story. Let's hope that Hollywood...
Usually, I'm not at all into modern metal music and especially into metalcore and similar stuff and that's why this record from a rather unknown Chinese band that I discovered by pure coincidence hit me as hard as a howling train. Tarot Saint find exactly...
This movie definitely is one of the better crime movies I have seen in the past few years. It's not necessarily the solid but overall not too creative story that makes this movie so great but especially the intriguing characters and the flawless acting....
Absu have been a very creative, highly influential and pretty diversified band in the extreme metal genre and delivered a couple of strong records during the first ten years of their career. When the band went on a well merited hiatus, they decided to...
As a big fan of the current South Korean cinema who has seen the amazing vengeance thriller "I Saw The Devil", I was excited to watch an earlier collaboration of director Kim Jee-Woon and actor Lee Byung-Hun in this movie that got internationally known...
When I heard about a modern past-war movie that would settle in destroyed and desperate Germany that was turned in intense black and white images and would include actors like George Clooney, I was really looking forward to this movie. Well, I guess I...
Spinning Man is a quite unconventional psychological and philosophical thriller which has its positive and negative sides. The story revolves around a young cheerleader who has gone missing. Witnesses have reported seeing a car next to her work place...
Troublesome Night is the first part out of nineteen Hongkong movies created between 1997 and 2003 featuring loosely bound episodes about encounters between humans and ghosts. Many of these movies include cameo appearances of famous Hongkong actors as...
This movie is a very intense psychological thriller filmed in very grey and depressive images and words that create a perfect atmosphere for this doom slow paced movie. The movie seems to be a simple vengeance story, but it goes far beyond this. Let me...
Godzilla vs. Hedorah is the eleventh entry in the franchise and certainly one of its most experimental and memorable films. New director Banno Yoshimitsu incorporated quite a few ideas into the film that were on the pulse of time in the early seventies...
Although this is low budget thriller with some little goofs, I found this movie extremely entertaining and surprising. Val Kilmer might have become a slow and fat guy, but he is still a very charismatic and talented actor and is credible in his role as...
Six years have passed since the band's quite respectable debut record "Lost In Chaos" that offered a good mixture of Melodic Death and Thrash Metal. Since then, Kingdom Of Salvation recorded several promos and had some minor line-up changes. Now, they...
On this debut record, we get to hear fast European power metal featuring rapid melodic guitar solos, loads of keyboards influences, high pitched male vocals and a couple of female guest vocals. The band sounds like a mixture of Elvenking for their rare...
Genre: Hard Rock / Progressive Rock / Rock'n'Roll Label: Universal Spielzeit: 55:48 Band homepage: - Tracklist: Identical Little Time Bomb Cool As It Gets Acrobats And Clowns What Do I Know About Love Still Got The Keys To My First Cadillac Dope Runner...
"Korona" ist ein typischer Thomas Thiemeyer Roman bei dem sich Archäologie und Mystery vor exotischer Kulisse stilistisch miteinander vermischen. Auch die typische Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem geheimnisumwitterten Außenseiter und der starken Expeditionsleiterin,...
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...
Outside the Coma, formerly known as Outpatients is a British-Japanese electronic rock quintet around singers Mikee W. Goodman and Yuuri B Joux. The former is known for his work in progressive metal band SikTh while the latter is now the singer of metalcore...
It's not as if "Shadows Of War" was a bad Loudness album but it clearly falls off in comparison to the groundbreaking previous releases "Disillusion" and "Thunder In The East". This record delivers nothing more and nothing less than solid Heavy Metal...
Genre: Blues / Rock'n'Roll / Hard Rock Label: Eigenproduktion Spielzeit: 46:20 Band homepage: - Tracklist: Let Me Up Don’t Treat Me like A Fool I’m Changing for You Lose Control Hand Full of Blues Reason to Live A New Life Begins Every Road Comes To You...
