Month: May 2015

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Gaillion – Letters from the Skipper (single)

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 When I say that “Letters from the Skipper” is a free flowing single, I’m not trying to make a pun out of the album cover. This progressive rock song has a very calming feel to it that you don’t normally see in progressive rock because the more progressive side is more of an experimental genre and can have a wide variety of sounds, combinations, and tunes that are more innovative. But Gaillion take a simple route and make this a more calming song as I said and making it ideal for something like a boat ride, as you might be … Continue reading Gaillion – Letters from the Skipper (single)

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Lamb of God – Still Echoes (single)

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Randy Blythe doesn’t like the idea of sub-genres so I won’t even begin to attempt to label “Still Echoes” or Lamb of God as it is not exactly my field of expertise, but enough bullshit. As I’m sure many of you may know, Lamb of God have recently released a single, “Still Echoes”, to announce their upcoming album, “Sturm und Drang”. I haven’t had the pleasure to sit down and really listen to “Still Echoes” until just today and OH MY FUCKING GOD!! It kicks all the ass! Straight from the beginning this is an aggressively intense album that has a hook … Continue reading Lamb of God – Still Echoes (single)

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Bhayanak Maut – Man

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 “Man” is the third and final installment of a trilogy depicting the life cycle of cancer itself, and emphasizing the fact that mankind is the absolute greatest cancer to have ever existed on this planet in its unrelenting destruction and violence that we’ve committed. Well, Bhayanak Maut has taken those two things and implemented them into this one album were that cancer is displayed in one of the most angry, destructive, and complex metal performances I’ve ever fucking seen. Every single one of the 17 tracks featured on “Man” contribute just a little to the album trilogy and helps complete the … Continue reading Bhayanak Maut – Man

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Orbseven – .ismos.

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 It’s weird whenever I go to listen to the album and I try to listen to what the vocalist is saying, and I can barely even hear what he’s saying. I get that atmospheric black metal relies on the atmospheric element (shocker), but you know sometimes you can hear the vocals and they have a presence. But with Orbseven’s newest album, “.ismos.”, that’s taken to a completely different level and brings the vocals to the background so they provide an ambiance to the album along with the rhythmic guitars and drums that are a very good combo for this style … Continue reading Orbseven – .ismos.

Atmospheric, Metal, Post1 Comment

Sisters Of… – The Serpent, the Angel, and the Adversary

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 An instrumental album is one thing. An instrumental post metal album is something else entirely. Sisters Of… have created an awesome album with their post metal that brings a whole new meaning to the word “atmospheric” with all 8 tracks having very well done riffs and sounds to them that only a post metal band could do, but Sisters Of… have taken that and increased the awesomeness ten fold and thensome! The album does start out a little slow but then the remainder of the album is great to say in the least as you are taken on a journey … Continue reading Sisters Of… – The Serpent, the Angel, and the Adversary

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Desolate Pathway – Valley of the King

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 Never once has it ever crossed my mind to imagine what would happened if you were to mix quality doom metal with very well done folk/epic metal, but Desolate Pathway’s debut “Valley of the King” shows exactly what that would sound like and it is epic to say in the absolute least! The slower pace of these doom guitars along with the epic metal theme of a great prince going on a long, perilous journey to reclaim his throne with each of the 8 tracks telling of the trials and the difficulties that he went through in order to reach … Continue reading Desolate Pathway – Valley of the King

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Orpheus Blade – Wolf’s Cry

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 It’s always a rare occasion when I hear an album and cannot place any sort of genre by the third or fourth track, and yet the only thing I can call “Wolf’s Cry” by Orpheus Blade is just metal. This is called a progressive metal album, and I can see that in some areas, but the rest of this album is straight up simple metal in my mind and doesn’t truly stick itself to any one subgenre of metal. The sheer variety that is in “Wolf’s Cry” is shown very well with 2 tracks, including the first one, taking a break, slowing … Continue reading Orpheus Blade – Wolf’s Cry

Atmospheric, Black, Metal2 Comments

Midnight Odyssey – Shards of Silver Fade

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 The longest album I’ve ever heard in my entire life was only about an hour and ten minutes, and that was with over 13 tracks on that album at about 5 minutes a piece. But as if to show me that I don’t know shit the universe sent me Midnight Odyssey’s upcoming album “Shards of Silver Fade” which is a whopping, motherfucking 2 hours and 22 minutes long! Holy fuck! I sat there and just listened to the whole thing back to front to get the full experience of this literal mammoth of an album. The ambiance and atmosphere that’s … Continue reading Midnight Odyssey – Shards of Silver Fade

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Trauma – Rapture and Wrath

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 It’s always cool to know that a band separated back decades ago, back in the 80s in this case, but have once more gotten together to bring us some classic sounding metal that we don’t get a lot anymore because of the new wave genres and the diversity that we hear every single day. Trauma have come back with a classic power metal album that is something that fans of both classic metal and power metal should find extremely enjoyable, I sure fucking did, because “Rapture and Wrath” is the absolute best of both worlds smashed into one hour long … Continue reading Trauma – Rapture and Wrath

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Grimace – Rising

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 I still remember listening to Grimace’s first album, “Gates of Mind”, and being absolutely blown away at the excellent showcase of melodic metal that was that album, and now this Finnish band has returned with their brand new 3-track EP “Rising”. Before I go anywhere let me just say that in my personal opinion “Gates of Mind” was better in my eyes, but that doesn’t mean “Rising” lacked what Grimace’s debut did. All three tracks out of this EP still have that very nice and smooth melodic sound to them that was present in the previous album, but the vocals … Continue reading Grimace – Rising