By: Jeremiah Rating: 8/10 Release: 2011/8 September 2016 (Original 2011) Label: Casus Belli Musica Circle of the Five Serpents is the third full length album from the Spanish folk metal group Crystalmoors. Its reissue comes right on the heels of their massive double album release The Mountains Will Forgive Us. … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 6,5/10 Release: 3-8-2011 Label: Independent The Awakening is the demo of the Argentinian folk-influenced Pagan-metalband Vorgrum. The folk-influences are filled in by a hectic but delicious accordion. This is a neatly recorded demo, the band can show us their capability in a good quality. Everything sounds nice … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 8/10 Release: 18-11-2011 Label: Independent An Norvys recorded an EP in 2011 entitled One and All. And when you record a demo like this I should call it an EP too. What a nice album by this French six-piece! With nice clear female vocals and violin in … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score: 5,5/10 Release: 2011 Label: Stygian Crypt Productions Sometimes it’s hard to discuss a CD. Sometimes you just don’t know what to say about it. If you get two of those albums at the same time, of the same band and both originating from 2010, it becomes even … Continue reading →
By: Dorien Score: 6/10 Release: 4-3-2013 Label: Svarga Music Paganland is founded in 1997 in Lviv in the Ukraine. In 1999 and 2008 they released a demo. Between this two demo’s their broke up, but they joined forces later on. This resulted in the second demo and in 2011 they … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 7/10 ‘Time Has Come’ is the second work of the French band Sjuk. But the first one was merely a collection of what they did in their early years. Time Has Come is the first real one. They begin this album with an nice announcement, a fine … Continue reading →
By: Nick Score: 5/10 Myrkvedr, a band name that is surprisingly similar to that of ‘our own Dutch’ Myrkvar. However, there is where the comparison stops. Myrkvedr is a quintet from Sweden. Tryms Kväde is the first EP of these gentlemen. Although it was released in 2011, we review it … Continue reading →
By: Michel Score: 7/10 This album by Silent Stream of Godless Elegy ‘Navaz’ is already a year old, when we get it for a review. ‘Navaz’ starts with the title-track. And although the tracks are not alike at all, the sound as we can hear it in the first song … Continue reading →
By: MichelScore: 9/10 We’ve get ‘Au diable les remord’ by Bodh’aktan thrown on our desk. We have two problems at once. The first, I can tell you immediately. I’d never heard of this band. Well, it turns out to be a Canadian Celtic Punkband. From Quebec to be more precise … Continue reading →
By: Thijs Score: 9/10 I’d never heard of Shambless before, so I started to listen to it rather sceptical, something I notice I’m doing often. Kind of ‘what you don’t know, you don’t headbang too’. Within a few minutes this feeling was turned around, because I shall not hide behind … Continue reading →
