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December 15th, 2023 Reviews

Sorcerer – Reign of the Reaper (Metal Blade)

…eatest Sorcerer song delivered to date. Elements of the devil himself vocally as well as musically creep in to segments of the title track, while vocalist Anders Engberg uses his resourceful bellow in lower to mid-range capacity for the majestic “Unveiling Blasphemy”. Consciously focusing on shorter or faster material next to the expected epic doom traits gives a bit more explosive energy when taking in songs such as “Thy Kingdom Will Come” as wel…

December 15th, 2023 Reviews

Therion – Leviathan III (Napalm Records)

…hen, certain releases have been as strong while others a bit weaker. Leviathan III sits more in that former category, an album that will appeal to their wide reaching global fanbase while hopefully gaining some new followers to the flock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzP0Ucd2aHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YCVSqHOgA Therion on Facebook…

December 14th, 2023 Features

Axenstar – Victorious Symphony

…rwild: That’s another issue, I guess. We’ve never been a touring band; we always do a couple of shows when we release an album. It will be the same this time around. We will do a release show in January or February, play a couple of gigs in Sweden. Hopefully some festivals in the summer. Nothing has been decided yet. I know a lot of people want us to do tours, but it’s just not up to us to decide. We will do our best. https://www.youtube.com/watch…

December 12th, 2023 Features

High Spirits – Investigate the Other Side

…g for studio time while you experiment in this way. Otherwise, there were definitely times when I was not practicing enough. I would have invested more time in actual practicing of an instrument, of a song, with a group. I may not have made the most of that available time. There was a lot of alcohol being consumed during my twenties that certainly increased the fun but didn’t increase the productivity. Certainly not the quality of my work. I can t…

December 11th, 2023 Reviews

Astray Valley – Midnight Sun (Art Gates Records)

…o deliver powerful tracks that have that x factor to cement themselves deeply into the heads (and hearts) of headbangers everywhere. As a singer Clau Violette possesses that multiple threat angle of serene, clean melodies plus ripping screams to tear limbs as much as captivate in capable, memorable ways. When they wish to add a bit of djent, stunted work into the normal alternative/groove metal mix, you’ll get a Gojira meets Jinjer-like atmosphere…

December 10th, 2023 Features

Gama Bomb – Exploring New Adventures

…long period of time. We were able to work on this for a long time, obviously separately because of the time period. Because of the pandemic, it necessitated how we went about writing the songs over lockdown. We made a great album previously with Sea Savage, so we were happy with this new way of writing. I think before Sea Savage was out, we even started working on songs for this record. Philly: We had done a demo. We’ve been very lucky with these…

December 9th, 2023 Features

Kaivs – Decisively Carving Forward

…ted by label cuts, amongst others. Do you think music streaming is ultimately beneficial to Kaivs and metal bands in general, and what do you think is the best way to utilize it to your advantage? Foam: A band belongs to its songs as they belong only to those who wrote them – fact. You can think whatever you want, but why does someone permit that incomings of what you did, to go to labels and external folks even if there are contracts around? Ok,…

December 7th, 2023 Features

Earthside – Turning Challenges into Opportunity

…cts. We viewed this record as an opportunity to firm that stuff up and really apply cinematic moods and instrumentation in the presentation of it – to make those elements more of a defining feature. Having this short film experience, in a track that really is so about the mood and scoring of it. You don’t hear drums for like 5-minutes! So that was a big part of the driving motivation – to have something out in that time period that suited the musi…

December 6th, 2023 Reviews

Rome in Monochrome – AbyssUs (Art Gates Records)

…but the crux of the band’s songwriting and performance delight sits squarely on the shoulders of these main musicians – the eight tracks wistfully casting shadows into these emotions and painful memories much like their influence bank of Opeth, Katatonia, and others in that category. Occasional circular spirals of music drift beyond into intoxicating passages of beauteous wonderment. Listen to the closing minute-plus instrumental to softer vocal…