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Category Archives: Pure Metal/Album reviews
Album review: HAMMERFORCE – Access Denied
Metalism Records ( Release date – Out now ) A bit of synth driven power metal from St Petersburg this time. Hammerforce formed back in 2006 and this is the band’s second album, the first being ‘Dice’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Access Denied, album, CD, Hammerforce, power metal, prog, progressive, review, rock, Russia
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Album review: U.D.O – Steelhammer
AFM Records – [Release date 21.05.13] Udo Dirkschneider is a man who simply does not understand the meaning of slowing down. Even though he has recently witnessed the departure from the U.D.O ranks of his long-time friend and collaborator Stefan … Continue reading
Album Review: DAGOBA – Post Mortem Nihil Est
earMUSIC Don’t be fooled by the plinky piano and music hall humming on the intro to album opener ‘When Winter…’ Within seconds, Shawter unleashes a death roar to split brains and splinter souls. This is damn fine album, full of … Continue reading
Album review: DELAIN – Interlude
Interview edit: Charlotte Wessels of Delain, 1 May 2013 First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 5 May 2013 The full version of this interview is available as a podcast (You can sign up to receive alerts of podcast … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Charlotte Wessels, Delain, Interlude, metal, review, rock, symphonic
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Album review: TIME GRID – Life
Open Your Eyes Records [Release date: 21.01.13] Time Grid is French/Swiss prog metal band who have taken nearly a decade to realise their musical vision. ‘Life’ is by no means an unblemished slice of prog metal, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Franco Swiss rock, keyboards, King Crimson, Laetitia Fontannaz, Life, Mathias Reusser, metal, Procol Harum, prog metal, progressive, Remi Pussier, review, rock, Steve Huber, synths, Time Grid
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Album review: CTHULHU RISE – 42
Musea Records This incredible heavy but inventive album may sometimes border on the cacophonous as it blasts away the cobwebs of complacency with monumental fractured riffs, but the underlying fast changing time signatures, unrelenting metal dirge (sludge metal anybody?) and … Continue reading
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Tagged 42, Andy Prischenko, Captain Beefheart, Cthulhu Rise, Frank Zappa, free form jazz, HP Hovercraft, improv, Ivan Serdyuk, jazz, Jazz rock, Kiev rock bands, King Crimson, mathcore, metal, moog synthesizer, Musea records, prog, review, riffs, Robert Fripp, Stanislav Bobritskiy, Trout Mask Replica, Yury Demirskiy
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Album review: STONE SOUR – The House of Gold & Bones Part Two
Roadrunner Corey Taylor never seems to sleep as he is either penning books, comic books or music, in this case the rather good Stone Sour. If like me you’re no fan of Slipknot, Stone Sour are much more accessible and … Continue reading
Album review: THE RESISTANCE – Scars
earMUSIC [Release Date – 10.05.13] What is heavy music ? A One Direction fan may consider Bon Jovi heavy, whereas a Bon Jovi fan may consider Iron Maiden heavy. He or she in turn may consider Slayer heavy, but what about … Continue reading
Album review: SEPTICFLESH – Mystic Places Of Dawn
Season Of Mist – Out Now. Septicflesh (formerly known as Septic Flesh) are one of those bands whose target audience and greater impact was felt in the underground, however, since their reformation and the release of 2008’s magnum opus “Communion”, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black, Death, metal, Mystic Places Of Dawn, reissue, review, Septicflesh, symphonic
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Album review: SATAN’S WRATH – Galloping Blasphemy
Metal Blade – Out Now. Classic, old-school, vintage, retro or whatever-else-you-want-to-call-it Metal has always been massively supported in Greece. I mean, this is the country whose fans covered all expenses themselves just to see bands like Omen and Manilla Road … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, album, Galloping Blasphemy, issue, metal, Old School, review, Satan's Wrath
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Album review: IN SOLITUDE – In Solitude
Season Of Mist – Out Now. In Solitude is an 80s influenced classic Heavy Metal band whose name should be familiar to you by now. Why? Because, even though their discography is ridiculously small for any band creating such a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, In Solitude, metal, reissue, review, rock
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Album review: SIX FEET UNDER – Unborn
Metal Blade – Out Now. Constant band line up changes are normally the stuff of nightmares for any devoted fan as they normally tend to affect both the style and character of a band. In the case of the Floridian … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Barnes, Death Metal, issue, review, Six Feet Under, Unborn
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Album review: VREID – Welcome Farewell
Indie Recordings – Out Now. London has always been a desired destination for Rock bands since the inception of the genre. One band which has consistently made an effort with visiting the capital of the United Kingdom, mainly as an … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Metal, issue, review, Vreid, Welcome Farewell
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Album review: SODOM – Epitome Of Torture
SPV – Release Date 29/4/2013. Coming up with a decent introduction to a new Sodom album has always been a difficult task for me. I mean, what is there to say that hasn’t already been stated about Tom Angelripper and … Continue reading
Album review: SHAI HULUD – Reach Beyond The Sun
Metal Blade – Out Now. Hardcore is a genre that operates within clearly defined parameters and which obeys strict rules; it is a genre that’s long been associated with massive simply-crafted and highly energised Punk-sounding riffs and passionate shouting vocals. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Hardcore, issue, metal, Reach Beyond The Sun, review, Shai Hulud
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Album review: FINTROLL – Blodsvept
Century Media – Out Now. “Shrouded In Blood”, the English translation for “Blodsvept”, is a title that one would find most fitting for an extreme Death Metal band and not the sixth studio album of the Folk-influenced septet Finntroll, however, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blodsvept, Finntroll, folk, metal, review, symphonic
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Album review: RAVEN BLACK NIGHT – Barbarian Winter
Metal Blade – Out Now. I am sure that most of you would have gathered by now that 70s and 80s Rock/Metal music is definitely back in fashion. I mean, all you really have to do is to have a … Continue reading
Album review: ORCHID – Wizard Of War
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. If, as I really hope, you are frequent visitors of our album reviews page you will remember that back in January, I was quite generous when rating “Heretic” – the four track E.P of the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, issue, metal, Orchid, review, rock, Wizard Of War
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Album review: THE BIG TEUTONIC FOUR – The Big Teutonic Four E.P
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Ask a hundred Thrashers to name the most important Thrash Metal bands in the world and you are guaranteed to have the vast majority say, “That has to be the Big Four” referring, of course, … Continue reading
Album review: MAN THE MACHETES – Idiokrati
Indie Recordings – Out Now. Indie Recordings in a Norwegian Label with an eye for all things unusual and unique-sounding. Want me to throw a few names at you? How about Borknagar, Vreid, Cult Of Luna and Wardruna– all bands … Continue reading
Album review: CATHEDRAL – The Last Spire
Rise Above – Release Date 29/4/2013. The first time that the possibility of London-based Doomsters Cathedral calling it a day was on the cards was back in 2010, from the very mouth of the band’s legendary frontman Lee Dorian. During … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cathedral, Doom Metal, metal, The Last Spire
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Album review: CULT OF LUNA – Vertikal
Indie Recordings – Out Now. Fifteen years is a long time for any band to make its impact felt and Cult Of Luna are among those outfits which have managed to cause much interested among fans and media since their … Continue reading
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Album review: ROTTING CHRIST – Κατά τον Δαίμονα Εαυτού
Season Of Mist – Out Now. Rotting Christ is a band that I have always admired, not only for their musically daring and impressive material but, most importantly, for the honesty and ethos that has accompanied them throughout their twenty … Continue reading
PHILIP H.ANSELMO & WARBEAST – War Of The Gargantuas Split E.P.
Housecore Records/Season Of Mist – Out Now. Philip H. Anselmo is a name that should require not a single word of introduction to any self-respecting metalhead. If that happens to be the case with you then please leave our pages … Continue reading
Album review: SUFFOCATION – Pinnacle Of Bedlam
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. If you are not a fan of the extreme sound you might be excused from believing that the chances of finding innovation in a genre as strict in its rules as Death Metal are quite … Continue reading
