Virtual Symmetry – Message to Eternity

Surgeon General’s Warning: listening to Virtual Symmetry’s “Message to Eternity” may cause involuntary tripping. This job makes me real proud to review some of the most awesome new metal bands of …

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Gravewards – Subconscious Lobotomy

A raw, brutal, hypnotic, and straight ahead death metal is what Gravewards’s “Subconscious Lobotomy” feature us. And I’ll add honest. Honest because it’s implicit here that Gravewards did exactly the kind …

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H And H – L’etendard

I confess that I’m not used to listen to songs in French. But H And H “L’etendard” sounds so nice that one couldn’t care about the language. It’ s a …

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The Forbidden Ritual – Tearfrost

Holly Molly, I just can’t tell how I love this musical contrast bands like The Forbidden Ritual are offering us. To be completely honest with you, that’s the thing that has …

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Kaleido – Experience

Picture a female-fronted band that the singer actually reminds Rush’s Geddy Lee with vigorous overdriven guitars. That’s Kaleido and their debut effort “Experience”. Kaleido’s “Experience” provide some good remembrances of heavy rock …

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Scattered Hamlet – Swamp Rebel Machine

Raspy and gritty voice, amplifier overdriven guitars, thundering bass and smashing drums. Does any heavy music fan need more? My man, I gotta tell you all, Scattered Hamlet with “Swamp …

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Apophanous – Obliteration Has Come

To a guitar player, or someone who knows a little about guitars, Apophanous “Obliteration Has Come” opens with a grateful surprise: the long forgotten chorus effect on guitar. I tell …

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MRTVI – Negative Atonal Dissonance

Throughout the entire history of art has been changed by the progressive minds over the course of centuries peppered through the millennia. With each new phase of whatever media you choose …

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Formicarius – Black Mass Ritual

Grand opening. “Black Mass Ritual” opens with a great,  grand, and overwhelming mass… of sound. The name of the punch is “Lake Of The Dead”. Formicarius really knew how to …

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Chaplin’s Dream – Genesis

It’ s funny how bands’ names can be so deceiving. I’d never thought that a band called Chaplin’s Dream would be so heavy, so dense, so dark. The opening track, …

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Altair – Descending: A Devilish Comedy

After listening to a bunch of bands, Altair’s “Descending: A Devilish Comedy” proved me something: Heavy Metal is the opera of our times, the classical music of a whole generation. “Descending: …

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