Rating: 6/10 Release: 2011 Label: Independent This demo immediately start with nice spherical synthesizer. After this the rest of the band joins in and it’s clear what’s the band is after. Solid metal, unterspersed with spherical keys. Raw vocals en solid lyrics, which can easily be shouted along. ‘Under siege’ … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 4 March 2011 Label: NoiseArt Records After the band stood out in a very positive way the album “Blutaar”, it is obviously we’re waiting to see what the successive album will be doing. After a solid intro called “Jagd” tt can go either way. The wolves howl, … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 7 March 2011 Label: Sleaszy Rider Records A request came to us, the Dutch band Encorion wanted us (even though the album was already released for a while) to review their “Facing history and ourselves” album. The album they released it in late 2010. And as representatives … Continue reading →
Rating: 10/10 Release: 25 January 2011 Label: Century Media Records For anyone who doesn’t know this band: play this CD “The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR” and you know immediately where they’re from. The Middle-east is dripping of this album. The description Middle Eastern metal which is used by the … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 2011 Label: Trollzorn The second album of Ignis fatuu. Would the band with “Neue Ufer” go in a different direction, where the band surprised us pleasantly with their debut album “Es werde Licht”? And they immediately open strong there, with a nice tune, but direct in this … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 29 April 2011 Label: Trollzorn Records The first track of the new CD of the Thuringian pagan metal band sounds really like a revelation. Voiced with great atmosphere that we were already accustomed to of these German nature lovers, but on this CD, this is even more … Continue reading →
Release: 23 March 2011 Rating: 10/10 Label: Spinefarm Records Where the previous album ended (“Novembre”), this album continues. The new Crimfall open with “Dicembre”. A cinematic opening, later supported by a massive orchestration. Next, a thin violin and then… metal. Wow, what an opening for this album, I was immediately … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 10 December 2010 Label: Witches Brew Damn we just received a new album, I’ve listened to it just one time and I’m instantly feeling ‘Gebroake, Gehange en Gewroake (oh no, that last one might not right), the title is in the Limburgian dialect and means Broken, hanged … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 28 January 2011 Label: NoiseArt Records Arafel doomed! Helge (ex-Equilibrium) doomed? … I do not think so! When you listen to the album “For Battles once Fought” you immediately hear the arrival of Helge at Arafel os the froth on the beer. The heavy metal sound that … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 15 December 2012 Label: Tutl Records Napalm Records has released the debut album ‘Baldur’ by the Icelandic band Skálmöld worldwide, for us a great opportunity to take a critical view at this album. The band has created this in 2010 already. The album begins with “Heima” that’s … Continue reading →
