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Category: CD/DVD Reviews

  • Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life

    Releasedate: 20-04-2009; Label: Century Media By: Elvira Visser Lacuna Coil is one of those bands that have been around for quite a while, the band started with their in 2001 released “Unleashed Memories” since then it has always been trying to find their own style. When “Comalies” was released they gain success with a broader…

  • The Eternal – 10-04-2009

    Interview with: Mark Kelson By: Sabine van Gameren On a lovely, sunny day I sit down with Mark Kelson from the Australian band The Eternal. The band is on a world tour and this day they were in The Netherlands.

  • Sonora '68 – 1968

    Releasedate: 04-03-2009; Label: Daybox Records By: Sabine van Gameren Some Italian pop/rock music fell into our mailbox. As it got as genre description: Combat Rock, I expected it to be violent, but it turned out that it is more like pop/rock in Italian. Sonora ’68 releases their first full length album “1968”

  • Grendel – A Change Through Destruction

    Releasedate: 20-04-2009; Label: Firebox Records By: Elvira Visser Grendel is a melodic metal band from the capital of Finland, Helsinki. The band was formed back in the year 2000. After releasing 6 demo’s they self-released their debut album “Lost Beyond Retrieval” in 2006.

  • Disbelief – Protected Hell

    Releasedate: 17-04-2009; Label: Massacre Records By: Sabine van Gameren Disblief is a Death metal band from Germany which have a long line of releases behind their names. Right now they released their album “Protected Hell” which is their 8th.

  • Leichtmatrose – Gestrandet

    Releasedate: 24-04-2009; Label: Ferryhouse Productions / Primadonna (Warner) By: Nina Mende Leichtmatrose is a solo projekt of Andreas Stitz founded in 2004. They lyrics are in German and this is his first release. The music sounds like Joachim Witt or Wolfsheim.

  • Wolfchant – Determined Damnation

    Releasedate: 24-04-2009; Label: Massacre Records By: Sabine van Gameren The German pagan/folk metal band Wolfchant is releasing a new album named “Determined Damnation” via Massacre Records.

  • 12-04-2009 Alestorm

    Supports: Adorned Brood, Heidevolk, Týr; Venue: Club Lantaarn, Hellendoorn (The Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser The second day for me to see these bands. What I like about Biebob is that all the times I have been there the atmosphere in the venue is very good. The people are friendly and there to have a good…

  • Dark The Suns – All Ends in Silence

    Releasedate: 20-04-2009; Label: Firebox Records By: Elvira Visser To start off, this is jet one another band from Finland. We can say that they deliver good metal bands and this band comes from a town, where I have lived and never heard about them. Which is a shame because I must say the band is…

  • Gavin Degraw – Free

    Releasedate: 03-04-2009; Label: Sony BMG By: Sofie Bergen The American Singer/Songwriter Gavin Degraw is mostly known by his hitsong “I Don’t Wanna Be”, “Chariot” and “Follow Through” These songs date back quite a while and it has been silent around him for a while. This mainly because his self titled second album was not such…

  • Rubik – Dada Bandits

    Releasedate: 01-04-2009; Label: Fullsteam Records By: Nina Mende Rubik is a Finnish indie pop/rock band. The band played their first live show in 2003 and released a debut EP “People Go Missing” in the beginning of 2005 through New Music Community. The band’s first full-length album, titled “Bad Conscience Patrol” was released in March 2007.…

  • 11-04-2009 Alestorm

    Supports: Adorned Brood, Heidevolk, Týr; Venue: Club Lantaarn, Hellendoorn (The Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser About a half year ago there was the Ragnarök’s Aaskeria Tour hosted by Napalm Records and bands that were playing there were Týr and Alestrom. Originally Heidevolk had to play there as well but due to some injury of one band…