Featuring the skilled Anette Olzon (ex-Nightwish) and Jani Liimatainen (ex-Sonata Arctica), The Dark Element dabbles in symphonic metal with sing-along choruses aplenty and subtle progressive undertones to it, and this 11-track LP has a rather modern and polished sheen to it. Many strong melodies and clever arrangements present themselves throughout and Olzon’s voice sounds good…
Fen’s previous album, "Winter" (2017), made significant waves among the progressive black metal fans, because of its unique combination of delicate, dreamy shoegazing passages with brutal and uncompromising black metal, but the band still lacked clear compositional direction. On "The Dead Light", released this month, Fen provides that direction while not completely avoiding the pitfalls…
The symphonic metal outfit Edge of Paradise, which hails from Los Angeles, has steadily grown in stature and strength over these past few years thanks to some memorable live performances and solid releases, and this brand new 10-track offering of theirs entitled “Universe” shows a lot of musical growth and potential. I used the phrase…
The opening act were the Swiss Silver Dust many stage props and made an innovative use of these. The mirror-like screen played a series of scenes that looked perhaps a bit too modern for the victorian fashion-style displayed by the characters in the film. All professionally made and all. Both the soundtracks being…
This single CD set by the legendary Pink Floyd, which is culled from the huge and expansive box set bearing the same title that was recently released, is an interesting collection of cuts and tracks by the Gilmour/Mason/Wright-led line-up (or the 1987-2019 era, if you will) and nicely illustrates the many positives of this period…
VOODOO GODS – sign to Reaper Entertainment Europe/release brand new lyric video
Eternal Terror Live presents you the premiere of "Solens Soenn og Maanens Datter" by the Norwegian Black Metal act MYRHOLT
This vile and nasty 6-track mini LP/CD by the Spanish death metal warmongers known as Oniricous turned out to be a really wicked surprise in that it offers well-written, memorable, and hugely atmospheric tunes that hearken back to the glory days of the aforementioned genre. With an emphasis on raw brutality and a truly sinister…
Frayle release the video for their new track Gods of No Faith
This is my first encounter with the one-man black metal entity known as Mystagos, and I must say that its raw and murky atmosphere is right up my alley. Deeply rooted in the occult and with a thorough grasp of how to evoke a truly sinister aura by means of strong (dissonant) riffs and unsettling…
Vreid: Songs that Changed the World
Meshiaak’s debut album, "Alliance Of Thieves", was a decent slab of thrash metal with strong progressive leanings, hinting at that direction for the follow up. Released about 3 years later, last month’s "Mask Of All Misery" presents a more mature band, with less thrash and more traditional metal/hard rock leanings, even blurring the line between…
DIABOLICAL ANNOUNCE EUROPEAN TOUR
Top 5 for 2019 og vinneren av premiene våre er nå kåret
Hollywood Vampires is something quite special and unique, and these guys have been making waves in the rock community these past few years thanks to a string a marvelous live performances and a pretty damn wicked debut LP. As you can probably tell, I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of their follow-up and I…
Husmanskost are releasing "Solstice: 2", the bands sixth official release, on December 21st
DØDHEIMSGARD/ETERNITY Anmeldt av Roger Hagerupsen 15/11 -2019 BLÅ OSLO ETERNITY Det er godt med plass i lokalet i minuttene før Oppvarmingsbandet ETERNITY går på , så jeg velger å plassere meg helt fremmerst ved scena. Men i det bandet går på scena ser jeg at det heldigvis fylles på med litt folk lenger bak…
A chat with HEX A.D.’s vocalist, Rick Hagan, together with info on the newly released band’s single, "Astro Tongue"
ENDEZZMA live at John Dee Photo by Silje Storm Drabitius/Storm D -Live Photography The last time I saw Endezzma was in the middle of nowhere in Sweden on a stage that had considerable sound problems and on daytime, but now under improved conditions in Oslo the show was much better. The kind of…
Interview with Seidemann, bass player of the Norwegian black metal act 1349
