by Sebastian Kluth
Genre: Speed Metal / Heavy Metal Label: Iron Kodex Playing time: 43:05 Band homepage: Striker Tracklist: Full Speed Or No Speed Eyes In The Night We Don’t Play By Rules Never Ending Nights The White Knight Voice Of Rock Ice Cold Terrorizer Believe In...
After the weaker "The wolves go hunt their prey" that had many heavier and thrash influenced passages and less harmonic, symphonic and magic moments, The Vision Bleak decided to not follow the path of commercial heaviness but to create another atmospheric...
This album is for a very special and particular public: open-minded progressive rock fans that don't mind if an album has a jazzy sound and world music influences. I consider myself as a very open-minded person and that's why I gave this album several...
I've recently watched the Korean "Hansel and Gretel" movie which was an incredibly imaginative tale with a haunting atmosphere and stunning kid actors. This Hollywood version rather heads for a public that recently enjoyed movies such as "The Hunger Games",...
Genre: Drone Label: Earache Playing time: 11:16:54 Band homepage: - Tracklist: The Descent Of Man SABAZIUS is a British Drone and Doom Metal band hailing from Brighton and London that released a quite special song these days. The band has always been...
This weird experimental Japanese movie is not only a homage to the gangster movies of the last three decades but also a tribute to the surreal cinema. The movie has many original characters, scenes and quotes to become a unique cult movie. The story itself...
March 19, 2013 in Reviews Seraphim 不死魂 / The Soul That Never Dies 2001 Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth The Taiwanese band Seraphim (or “六翼天使” in Mandarin Chinese) kicks off its career with a quite powerful record that can be described as female fronted power...
Genre: Gothic MetalLabel: Self-productionPlaying time: 12:32Band homepage: - Tracklist: Na Polputi Zhgi Poteryannyi Mir RADIUS is a side project by the Russian singers Vladimir Radionov and Anastasia Simanskaya who already worked together in the Melodic...
Genre: Folk Metal / Death Metal / Melodic Metal Label: Nuclear Blast Records Playing time: 46:22 Band homepage: Amorphis Tracklist: Shades Of Gray Mission The Wanderer Narrow Path Hopeless Days Nightbird’s Song Into The Abyss Enchanted By The Moon A New...
Amorphis – Circle April 19, 2013 in Reviews Amorphis Circle 2013 Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth What we have here is, unabashedly, my favorite metal record of 2013. It’s far more even than just this. If you don’t believe me, just give it a few spins and...
This version of Titanic is a propaganda movie created under the swastika during the Third Reich era in Nazi Germany. The movie is though less propaganda orientated than "Jud Süss" or "Der ewige Jude" and even though it's banned, it's not a fascist and...
From time to time, it can happen that a new American blockbuster hits the movie theatres that is not a prequel, sequel or remake. This is also the case for the effect loaded science-fiction epic "Oblivion" and I decided to give the film a fair try. On...
This is the first relevant "Kuchisake-Onna" movie. It's a dark slasher vaguely inspired by true events that hit Japan back in the seventies. Several pupils are kidnapped on their way home. Soon rumours are spread about a possessed woman with a long trench...
June 14, 2013 in Reviews Chthonic / 閃靈 Bú-Tik / 武徳 2013 Reviewed by Sebastian Kluth Chthonic is without a doubt one of the most famous metal bands from Asia after Japanese outfits like Loudness or X Japan. The band from Taipei in Taiwan was formed back...
Genre: Deathcore / Death Metal Label: Self-production Playing time: 35:03 Band homepage: - Tracklist: Swamp Fever A Mandatory Bloodshed Oppressive Procession Burden Of The Flesh Catharsis For The Fallen Entombment Of A Monarch Slaughtering The Weakest...
Le hockey est ce qu’on peut appeler sans hésitation le sport national des Québécois. Ce n’est pas pour rien que c’est l’équipe des Canadiens de Montréal, la seule équipe québécoise qui demeure dans la fameuse ligue nationale de hockey, qui a remporté...
ACAO LIBERTARIA is a promising young and energizing band from the Brazilian Hardcore, Punk and Thrash Metal underground scene that just released its first studio record “Cavalo de Tróia” in early 2013. The band discusses very actual and important topics...
Genre: Modern Metal Label: Self-production Playing time: 25:40 Band homepage: Puddle Of Mudd Tracklist: You Don't Know Used Drift & Die Harassed Poke Out My Eyes Prisoner Suicide PUDDLE OF MUDD might not be what one can call a Alternative, Modern or Nu...
Genre: Modern Metal Label: Geffen Playing time: 55:37 Band homepage: Puddle Of Mudd Tracklist: Control Drift & Die Out Of My Head Nobody Told Me Blurry She Hates Me Bring Me Down Never Change Basement Said Piss It All Away Abrasive (Bonus Track) Control...
"Blackbird" is a short and entertaining action thriller even though its title is a little bit strange and even though the story is a little bit weak at times. The movie follows two siblings after a casino heist: a brutal bother who eliminates everybody...
Genre: Power Metal Label: Despotz Records Playing time: 24:19 Band homepage: Civil War Tracklist: Rome Is Falling Civil War Forevermore Custers Last Stand Say It Right (NELLY FURTADO Cover) After the departure of four members of the famous Swedish Power...
"City Under Siege" is an entertaining but sometimes strange mixture of a fantasy movie and an action-thriller with romantic elements as well as with slapstick influences and a more serious criticism of modern mass media. The movie portrays the story of...
Genre: Thrash Metal / Death Metal Label: Self-production Playing time: 14:00 Band homepage: - Tracklist: Captilism, Cannibalism Carcass Samurai Slave Driver On their debut record, the Taiwanese Thrash Metal outfit MASQUERADER plays a rather technical...
Genre: Middle Age / Folk Metal Label: Vertigo Playing time: 02:48:28 (CD & DVD Edition) Band homepage: In Extremo Tracklist: Disc 1 Intro Sterneneisen Frei zu sein Liam Zigeunerskat Unsichtbar Herr Mannelig Horizont Zauberspruch No. VII Siehst du das...
Genre: Alternative Rock / Alternative Metal Label: Self-production Playing time: 42:58 Band homepage: - Tracklist: Holy Angels My Heroin(e) Mysterious Sky Alone Alphaland Set You Free Heaven's Way Mistery in the Dark Memories Os Filhos da Patria NEBLINA...
