Archive for the ‘Review’ Category
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Artist: Nick Douglas Album: Through The Pane Media: CD Genre: Rock/Pop Year: 2006 Label: Painkiller Records From the first glance at the cover featuring a man in a white shirt standing against a brick wall I thought this was some random CD that had got lost in the post and ended up with us. However, ...
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Artist: Horrid Album: Rising From The Hidden Spheres Media: CD Genre: Swedish Death Metal Year: 2006 Label: Xtreem Music Swedish death metal worship from Italy. Now usually I don’t like to put “sounds like …” type statements in reviews but in the case of a band purposely trying to emulate a style that has been ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Artist: Tales of Blood Album: Horrors of the Flesh Media: CD Genre: Gore Metal Year: 2006 Label: Painkiller Records A five track MCD of fast-paced and crunchy gore-splashed death metal. It won’t win any points on originality and there’s no leads or melody but it motors along nicely and old school gore metal fans will ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Artist: Denial of God Album: The Horrors of Satan Media: CD Genre: Black Metal Year: 2006 Label: Painkiller Records Old School melodic black metal of the corpse paint variety. Trem picked guitars drive the songs with mid-paced melodies with keyboards only occurring for the creepy intros and occasional interlude. The vocals are a throaty snarl ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Artist: Karseron Album: Krux Krucis Media: CD Genre: Black Metal Year: 2005 Label: Demo These Portuguese metallers have been around a long time (since ’93) but have only produced self-released demos so far. This is a five track demo with a nicely put together booklet and the whole package is available for download from their ...
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