by Sebastian Kluth
Ayreon has been releasing nine different conceptual progressive metal records plus one re-recorded hidden gem but the group's tenth project entitled Transitus might actually be its very best thus far. The group leaves its futuristic stories behind and...
Mai Yajima is a singer from Kyoto and Metamorphose is her second full length effort. This record was released in a regular version as well as a limited version with a different cool cover artwork, a making of documentary and a music video. This release...
Yowamushi Pedal is a sports film that fluidly combines genre elements of comedy and drama. This live-action adaptation is based upon the manga series that has been existing for fifteen years and counting, featuring eighty-six volumes as I'm writing this...
Inside is a claustrophobic drama and thriller with an excellent running time of one hundred five minutes. The story revolves around an art thief who is tasked to steal a series of expensive paintings from a rich entrepreneur. When he fails to locate all...
Dear readers, I have never attempted this before but I would like to introduce you to my five favourite album cover artworks of the year in order of preference. The artworks speak sufficiently for themselves, so instead of boring you with witty descriptions,...
The Twenty Best Movies of 2023 by kluseba | created - 10 months ago | updated - 4 seconds ago | Public Discover the greatest movies released between January 1st 2023 and December 31st 2023. This list will be updated regularly. Give great foreign movies...
Be My Family is a Chinese tragicomedy taking place from the mid-nineties over the middle years of the first decade of the new millennium until the early years of the second decade of the twenty-first century. This movie revolves around two impoverished...
Nemophila's new extended play The Initial Impulse has the purposes to honour the band's creative inspirations by featuring four diverse cover songs and to promote the band's upcoming third full length effort that will be including ten new songs early...
No, I'm not trying to support a criminal tyrant such as Donald Trump with this review title. However, there is still a relation between the madman's senseless post and Martin Scorsese's new blockbuster. While Donald Trump is posting nonsense online time...
Back in the eighties, when Dorothee Pesch was involved in German heavy metal band Warlock, she certainly was a pioneer in the heavy metal scene as one of the first and most charismatic female lead singers. Ever since the band split up and Doro started...
Shiki Soku Ze Ku roughly translates to All Is Futile and relates to the fundamentalist Buddhist doctrine that all things in this world having a connection or reason has no intrinsic essence. It's also the title for the twenty-third studio record by Japanese...
The problem with most technical death metal bands of old age is that they fail to expand their horizons, reinvent themselves and surprise their fans. When Cryptopsy has experimented with deathcore elements and Morbid Angel has integrated industrial soundscapes,...
Prong is a pioneering groove and industrial metal band that has left a significant mark upon the metal scene in the late eighties and throughout the nineties but the band's career has been on a decline ever since. Excessive spans between album releases...
Flor de Loto is a progressive folk rock sextet from Peru that has been around for twenty-five years and that has already released nine full length efforts. The band has taken five years between Lines of Nasca and its predecessor but released two live...
Ignea is a Ukrainian quintet that combines heavy metal and folk metal with progressive and symphonic elements. Two years after the excellent split release Bestia with symphonic metal band Ersedu, Ignea has released its third regular studio record Dreams...
Live albums recorded in a studio without an audience were an underwhelming but understandable way for bands to play their repertoire for fans all around the world during the pandemic and collect some money for their own expenses, road crew and technicians....
A very good friend of mine, who is particularly intrigued by experimental bands walking off the beaten path, has recently been introducing me to Edmontonian quartet The Spruce Moose and its second record Pyramid Scheme. The first element that fascinated...
A whopping nine years after its preceding regular studio album First of the Five Elements, Finnish melodic death metal quintet Warmen is back in full strength with sixth studio album Here for None. This record offers nine regular songs and a cover track...
While Sermons of the Sinner was a simple but enjoyable heavy metal record with ten tracks and a running time of fifty-one minutes, KK's Priest's second output The Sinner Rides Again feels phoned in and must be considered a significant step down in terms...
Owlbear is a brand-new American quartet that combines heroic heavy metal of classic European inspiration with energetic power metal of American origin. The lyrical topics revolve around fantasy topics such as the universe of Dungeons and Dragons. The...
Amorphis has been my favourite band for more than a decade by now but even the most faithful fans must question the purpose of a release such as Queen of Time - Live at Tavastia 2021. The Finnish metal band had only just released the excellent live record...
Few bands are as much influenced by their own past as German heavy metal pioneers Grave Digger. The band has been rerecording and rereleasing material from the eighties and nineties throughout the years. The Forgotten Years honours the group's underground...
Dreadhammer is a thrash metal quartet from Kolkata that has been around for quite some years before releasing its first regular studio album Sovereign. The cover artwork and logo of this release might make you think of yet another Municipal Waste or Toxic...
Shining has always been a most creative, experimental and open-minded extreme metal project by extroverted, intense and unpredictable mastermind Niklas Kvarforth. Only the structure on the self-titled album follows the band's previous releases with six...
Whenever you are working as a prolific reviewer, you end up getting all sorts of negative and positive feedback as well as everything in between. The feedback I received for my review of Nemophila's debut record Revive was however particularly amusing....
