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Review: Year Of No Light – Ausserwelt (2010)
Instrumentals can be a nice reprieve from some of the shit you listen to. It’s even a reprieve from the good stuff as well, because you simply don’t have to listen that hard for the lyrics to come, and you don’t become distracted from where some of the real talent in most bands really lies…In [...]
Review: Beissert – The Pusher (2010)
How many people can say that they have had a college professor who was once a member of a relatively popular German metalcore band in the 90’s? I know, completely random, but when I first listened to Beissert’s newest album, The Pusher, I was immediately reminded of the band Colour Trip (who had a member [...]
Review: Sarah Jezebel Deva – A Sign of Sublime (2010)
I love female fronted bands as a whole. Sarah Jezebel Deva is no exception to this rule. A Sign of Sublime is an incredible blend of operatic metal and gothic metal. Ever since Tarja’s release from Nightwish, I have been waiting for someone to come along and steal the show like Sarah Jezebel Deva steals [...]
Review: Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus (2010)
Who knew that a bunch of Germans would take the fusion of metalcore and melodic death metal, and put the genre’s American ambassadors to shame. Heaven Shall Burn I tend to liken to Dark Tranquillity in that they release album after album of fantastic work. 2008’s Iconoclast was easily one of my favorite albums of [...]
Review: A Forest of Stars – Opportunistic Thieves of Spring (2010)
When I first got this album I was excited to give it a listen. Everything from the name of the band to the name of the album had me captivated. However, upon listening I found myself left wanting. A Forest of Stars lacks what I like to think of as the “black metal it.” The [...]
Review: Nyseius – Militiae (2010)
While France basks in the glow of international acclaim for their various forays into original mediums of metal, there is a much darker portion of the French metal scene…black metal. Black metal in France has always enjoyed strong underground notoriety, yet has seemingly always stayed out of the limelight for the most part. However, with [...]
Review: Enforcer – Diamonds (2010)
What was lacking on Enforcer’s Into the Night, the debut from these Swedish classic metal upstarts, has been smoothed out with age. After taking a year to tour and refine their sound, Enforcer are back with their 2010 follow up Diamonds, and it represents what ever sophomore effort should be, a new and improved version [...]
Review: Canobliss – Man is the Enemy (2010)
Most bands of the post thrash/groove variety often fall into the moat of commonality with no hope of breaking free, California’s Canobliss though has a slightly different take on a well worn sub-genre which definitely helps liven up their 2010 relase, Man is the Enemy from what would have surely led the band into banality [...]
Review: The Vision Bleak – Set Sail to Mystery (2010)
The dark, foreboding power that metal is capable is sometimes overlooked for the more hard hitting, breakdown, good time spirited forms of metal. Dark forms of metal, while not rare or even uncommon, are sometimes injected (especially in this day and age) with sheer black metal brutality, overt symphonics, or throngs of operatic female vocals. [...]
Review: Nefarium – Ad Discipulum (2010)
Hailing from Italy, Nefarium bleeds black metal like a shrapnel wound, and their latest album Ad Discipulum is a well constructed, well produced, reeled in release that, thankfully, doesn’t go over the top.
Black metal is hit or miss in many cases, and while Ad Discipulum doesn’t necessarily pull out all the stops, it’s a very [...]
