Author: Lennard Bertram

(…this article is in English…)I september i år kommer en av de viktigste utgivelsene i 2011 og en av de viktigste symfoniske metalutgivelser gjennom alle tider: GROMTH "The Immortal". Sittende foran datamaskinen i Tyskland har jeg provosert bandet til å svare på spørsmål om de intrikate tekstene og hele den komplekse kreative prosessen bak albumet. I denne andre og siste delen er det tekstforfatter Roy Kristensen som får gjennomgå.

After really getting into black metal during the last ten years, I became more and more puristic and, going along with that, there was a scorn for any type of instrument other than guitar, bass and drums. Then Gromth came along and changed all! Their orchestral black metal integrates classical instruments with the aforementioned in…

(…this article is in English…)I september i år kommer en av de viktigste utgivelsene i 2011 og en av de viktigste symfoniske metalutgivelser gjennom alle tider: GROMTH "The Immortal". Sittende foran datamaskinen i Tyskland har jeg provosert hele bandet til å svare på spørsmål om de intrikate tekstene og hele den komplekse kreative prosessen bak albumet. I denne første delen får du et lite dypdykk i hjernene bak GROMTH.

The year 1999 marked Black Metallers Dødheimsgard transition from Black Metal to industrial/avant-garde metal. Or so I have heard. As I was listenting, I thought to myself that some leads reminded me of 1349 and it comes as no surprise to note that this album was originally released on Moonfog productions. The year 1999 was…

"Death d’Hivern" – whatever the fuck that means. Epic keys reminiscent of World of Warcraft, "screaming" guitars (make me want to put on some Judas Priest for the real deal) serve as the terrifying intro, then: boring black metal. Here we have another band that doesn’t get it. Sounds like regurgitated early Dimmu Borgir. Not…

The third album from Sweden’s Thornium hit me pretty hard. I rated the forerunner, "Mushroom Clouds and Dusk", pretty high and when the new album arrived, I was dumbfounded by the production, ready to dismiss it as an overproduced successor from a band mistaking high production value for talent. Similar to Dissection with their "Reinkaos"…

Get a new singer for fuck’s sake! This whining is unbearable. Slow music needs a characteristic voice, some filters on the vocals do not equal character. Playing metal slow doesn’t, either. Singing about doom and dreadfulness while not mentioning anything really dreadful also does not help. Come to think of it, Nomen est Omen: "False…

The first thing I thought after having listened to this album is that, apparently there are German poets still – but they are all in the east! The Thuringian band Marienbad is a side-project of several Eisregen members who play what their label calls Doom/Epic metal, but is best described as somewhat similar to the…