Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • IAMX – The Kingdom of Welcome Addiction

    Releasedate: 19-05-2009; Label: Metropolis Records / 61seconds By: Nina Mende IAMX is the solo musical project of Chris Corner. Corner has repeatedly said that IAMX is very different from his actual, real-life personality and is a kind of quasi “act”. Whether an act or not, IAMX’s music is primarily concerned with subjects such as outlandish…

  • Swashbuckle – Back To The Noose

    Releasedate: 27-07-2009; Label: Nuclear Blast By: Sabine van Gameren Swashbuckle is a pirate themed metal band. “Back To The Noose”. This is their second album, the first one under the Nuclear Blast label.

  • Shania Twain – The First Time… For The Last Time

    Releasedate: 24-04-2009; Label: Renaissance By: Lara Cappelli Shania Twain is a Canadian country pop singer. Her career started back in 1993, but the real success arrived in 1997 with her third album “Come on Over” that made her extremely important in the country scene, especially with the single “That Don’t Impress Me Much”. With the…

  • Nihil Novi Sub Sole – Promo 2009

    Releasedate: 10-06-2009; Label: My Kingdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren This project of Marco Kehren, a dutch musician who is also known from Deinonychus, caries the nice describtion of ‘Apokalyptic Martial Music’.

  • Radiance – … And The Night Comes Down

    Releasedate: 04-06-2009 By: Sabine van Gameren The Italian band Radiance released their demo “…And The Nigth Comes Down”. Their music is to describe at as progressive metal, but with a heavy metal attitude.

  • 18,19-07-2009 Amphi Festival

    Location : Tanzbrunnen, Cologne (Germany) By: Sabine van Gameren & Elvira Visser Amphi festival has been started and Cologne is filled with dark people in the most gorgeous outfits. The weather forecast promised loads of rain, but it seems like we got spared a bit since there were only a few minutes of rain during…

  • Black Light Discipline – 26-06-2009

    Interview with: Black Light Discipline By: Sabine van Gameren On the most sunny day during Tuska festival in Helsinki, Finland we had a chance to talk with Black Light Discipline. The Finnish industrial metal act plays here tonight on one of the afterparty shows .

  • Am Tuat – Inmotion

    Releasedate: 25-05-2009 By: Sabine van Gameren The Dutch band Am Tuat ,ales melodic doom metal with progressive and death elements. They released two demo’s but now their very first full length album “Inmotion” is released.

  • Lacrimosa – Sehnsucht

    Releasedate: 08-05-2009; Label: Hall of Sermon By: Sabine van Gameren Lacrimosa is duo from Switzerland. Tilo Wolff and Anne Nurmi have worked on new material in the past years and now released “Sehnsucht” which is their tenth studioalbum.

  • Pantheon I – Worlds I Create

    Releasedate: 27-07-2009; Label: Candlelight Records By: Lara Cappelli Pantheon I is a Black Metal band formed in 2002. These Norwegian guys released their first demo in 2003, followed by a full length album released in 2004, “Atrocity Divine”, that is quite rare to find though. The big step arrived in 2007, when the band, after…

  • Imperial Vengeance – At The Going Down Of The Sun

    Releasedate: 20-07-2009; Label: Candlelight Records By: Lara Cappelli The story of Imperial Vengeance has been started in 2007 by C. Edward-Alexander (Vocals, Guitars and Orchestration) and David Bryan (Bass, Lyrics) with the original idea of being a studio band extremely influenced by English history and mythology. With the passing of time and with the great…

  • 11-07-2009 Fortarock

    Location: Nijmegen (The Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren & Elvira Visser This year it was the first Fortarock, and many was written about this festival as yet another attempt to create something that looks like the old Dynamo Open Air. The festival took place in a small park, not too bit. The organisers kept it…