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Tiamat - Wildhoney
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| Tiamat's New Horizon |
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After Clouds Album on 1992, Tiamat realized Wildhoney Album in 1994. This was the beginning of the new Tiamat's sound from Death Metal (early) to Gothic/Atmospheric Metal/Rock style with a lyrical concept about Love, Drugs and Religion.
This Album is the step to a new softer sound, and a bit bad one for the old Tiamat's followers. Anyways, for me is a great one and i really enjoy the soft songs and the clean voices because Johan Edlund is a master.
Whatever that Hurts is a very nice Opus after Wildhoney Intro, and the entire Album is a mix between some instrumental and accoustic/melodic songs. Gaia song is perfect. The Lyrics about Nature, the beautyful keyboards and the slow timimg make it definitively a masterpiece.
Awesome Album. I rate it 5/5
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3 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Astarte - Rise From Within
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| The Best Astarte's Album |
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Formerly known as Lloth, Astarte is a Pretty Women Black Metal band from Greece. Many people would think they may sound bad and Black Metal is just for men, but this case is one of the few times i can say they sound even better than many men Black Metal Bands.
The line-up for this Album was: Tristessa on vocals and Bass, Kinthia on some vocals, Guitars and Keyboards and Nemesis on Guitars. i have to say this is my favourite Astarte's Album, because there isn't a track that you could call bad. For example on "Naked Hands" song, that creates possibly the best song atmosphere I've heard in quite a while. The opening track "Furious Animosity" has amazingly well done dark symphonics that are perfectly blend in with the guitars. "Genesis", preformed solely on the piano, creates the kind of feeling you would expect from the greatest Doom Metal bands.
Very nice one, I Rate it 4/5. Recommended.
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2 of 6 found this review helpful |
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Demonaz - March Of The Norse
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| Awesome! |
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This is the Debut Solo-Album from Demonaz who was the former guitarist and still's the main songwriter of the Norwegian Immortal. It was recorded in Grieghallen and Conclave & Earshot Studios and produced by Ice Dale and Verbrand Larsen. The cover artwork design was made by Par Olofsson and the Photos taken by Peter Beste. The line-up is: Demonaz on vocals, Abbath on some vocals and Bass, Ice Dale on Guitars and Armagedda on Drums.
The music of this Album is great in all aspects. Kinda like Immortal in some guitar riffs, I (Abbath's solo project), and some of the viking Bathory musical athmosphere and also lyrics. Demonaz describes his solo material as "another dimension of my musical and lyrical cold world."
In my opinion, this album is a must for all fans of Immortal, Bathory and I projects. I rate it 5/5.
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6 of 11 found this review helpful |
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Agrypnie - 16[485]
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| FKN awesome *German* album \m/ |
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This album is very, very interesting... The lyrics are in German, but the emotions come through clearly in the music [sorry for all non-Germans here]. The mastery of their instruments and song-writing is very strong.
This is no ordinary black metal. The production is crystal clean; don't expect to find that typical black metal 'tin' sound, or 'muffled' vocals. Oh, the vocals are amazing, ranging from almost clean to even lower black metal sreams, but it all sounds amazing and fitting and they are never overused or out of place.
Agrypnie happen to be one of those bands that combine a few different genres together to form one cohesive masterpiece, and that masterpiece is *16[485]*, IMO.
This album is deeply emotional, heavy, epic, surreal, droning, blistering and demonstrates the band's mastery of their art.
Damn GREAT album and great THX, Seclu... *CHEERZ, bro!* \m/
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5 of 8 found this review helpful |
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2 Minuta Dreka - Let's Start A Porn In The Name Of Gore
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| 2 Minuta Dreka |
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This is a great album. Typical 2 Minuta Dreka album. Offensive, dirty, and obscene. In my opinion one of the great bands that have played in Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic. Simply awesome and good to listen to. Many have said that their album is filled with short tracks, but they are great to have on your playlist. Good guitar work, great timing. Good album all around.
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4 of 5 found this review helpful |
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Demonical - Death Infernal
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| Superb swedish death metal |
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Demonical has been releasing & increasing their quality in every album. The swedish sound & style is clearly printed on this record and few years from now other new bands from that country will see Demonical as a clear reference.
This is a real masterpiece, every song in this album is well thought, no fillers, nothing is left behind, even the bonus tracks are awesome.
Perfect album!
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5 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Catamenia - Cavalcade
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| Cavalcade |
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Catamenia continue to go away from their earlier melodic black metal sound as evidenced here on "Cavalcade". The pace on this album is generally slower than their previous material, but it still contains that Catamenia essence – albeit with clean vocals, which most Catamenia fans would not be used to.
All of the songs on “Cavalcade” generally follow the same song structure, so if you like even one song from this album, you should be able to enjoy all the songs, and vice versa. Each individual song does have its own unique hook, but none of them really deviate from that point to do anything unexpected or outlandish.
“Cavalcade” also contains cover tracks of Megadeth’s “Angry Again” and Sentenced’s “Farewell” (however the Sentenced cover can only be found on the limited edition digipack). The Megadeth cover simply sounds like Catamenia performing a Megadeth track, but the Sentenced cover is performed quite well, a nice tribute to the original Sentenced version.
This is definitely a very enjoyable album by Catamenia, despite the lack of their trademark wolf image on the (still nice) album cover.
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1 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Lamb Of God - Sacrament
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| Really good |
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Im surprised, a band like Lamb Of God with previously regular albums and then release this album, an amazing change.
I have to say, this is not metalcore, its a combination of groovy riffs and awesome screams.
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2 of 3 found this review helpful |
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Deadend In Venice - See You On The Ground
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| What happened to... |
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Melodic in the genre description? I guess we were out of red ink at that time. Also, after listening to this we can create a new musical genre CMDM - Crappy Melodic Death Metal.
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2 of 4 found this review helpful |
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Mercenary - Everblack
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| Brilliant atmospheric melodeath |
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After releasing their debut First Breath in 1998, Danish Mercenary went through some major changes when they released this gem 4 years later.
New and improved sound, going from 4 to 6 man aboard, which can be an advantage if you know how to make the most use of everyone's potential. With the addition of the Sandager brothers (Mikkel on clean vox, Morten on keys) Mercenary found themselves with a unique opportunity to increase their musical spectrum a lot.
The intro may give one the impression that this is a concept album entirely based on the events from September 11th 2001. This is only partly true, as some of the titles may be hints (Bloodrush, Bulletblues, Alliance), but in the end it will always be a question of interpretation.
Eventhough Mercenary already played melodic death metal on First Breath with added atmospheric passages and clean vocales here and there, the music on Everblack just has a much more natural flow in my opinion. The title track sets the album off with a blast, yet it doesn't give the full picture of the album as all songs here are very diverse. Calling Seize The Night a "classic" Mercenary song is an understatement. It is one of the best examples of how to take the term melodeath to a whole new level. Dark death metal riffing during verses, slightly more melodic at the pre-choruses and at the chorus it just explodes into a melodic and atmospheric universe. Next up is the ballad Screaming From The Heavens, THE highlight of the entire album. Magnificently written, and in my opinion the best ballad any Danish band has ever made.
The contrast between this and the next song Dead.com is just like being taken down to the darkest burning pits of Hell where fury, rage and brutality dominate. And putting these two songs right next to each other shows the wide range of melodeath that Mercenary can play, without letting anything seem misplaced.
Bloodrush is another of those songs that sticks to your brain quickly with its thrasy riffs and melodic chorus, else the swinging Bulletblues will.
There aren't many downsides to this album, one of the few is that Signar repeats some solos and leads several times throughout the album, which is a shame since he shows in the above-mentioned Screaming From The Heavens what he really is capable of.
That doesn't really take anything away from the fact that Everblack is a phenomenal accomplishment. It earned Mercenary much recognition and praise; this would be multiplied tenfold 2½ years later when 11 Dreams was releaed.
PS. Death.fm doesn't have the re-mastered version of Everblack, as it contains a bonus song called Nothing's What It Seems, a semi-soft ballad.
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1 of 2 found this review helpful |
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