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Album Review : Trivium – Silence In The Snow

September 29, 2015 No Comments

Trivium have been an easy target for many over the years. A band never content with their previous incarnation, it all started with their eponymous debut Ascendancy, which though might have been one of the best breakthrough albums of the past ten years has unfortunately been an unfair benchmark for the band to be measured against. With fans constantly going on about the fact that none of their material sounds like the album. Now ten years on it seems that the growing pains of Trivium might have finally finished.

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Album Review : Clutch – Psychic Warfare

September 28, 2015 No Comments

The art of storytelling is hard to master, weaving a web of red herrings and luring the listener in with intrigue is not an easy talent to have. On their eleventh album our Earth Rockers announce their return but not all is quite as it seems, well why don’t we just start at the beginnin’ now…

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Album Review: Gloryhammer – Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards

September 24, 2015 No Comments

The next chapter in the epic that is Scottish power metal has been written, and Dundee is under threat again…it’s time to travel to ‘Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards‘.

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Album Review: Stratovarius – Eternal

September 23, 2015 No Comments

Stratovarius continue maturing their new sound that began after longtime songwriter Timo Tolkki’s departure. It’s only gotten better and better with each release, so what can be said about their new album ‘Eternal‘?

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Album Review : The Black Dahlia Murder – Abysmal

September 17, 2015 No Comments

Of the classic storylines in the world one of the most pertinent is the concept of good vs evil. Frequently resulting in our positive counterparts triumphing over the terrifying and often dwarfing enemies. Portrayed in innumerous ways throughout history hell has been one of the most influential. From the abstract ideas of hell being relative, each person living their own personal nightmare to the brash unadulterated horrors of the world below. Delving into the unknown to find the elusive Elisabeth Short this locale is familiar to the Detroit born destroyers.

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Album Review : Scale The Summit – V

September 15, 2015 No Comments

Instrumental music can be somewhat of a labyrinth to navigate, without the guidance of vocals songs can get lost in their ways. From their infancy song writing has been paramount to Scale The Summit. Previous to their release of their fifth album the album underwent a change in the guard as their previous drummer exited the band. Many say that change can be beneficial for a band, birthing a new sense of musicality, new ideas from a fresh perspective. However it can also has disasterously negative consequences…

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Album Review : Tesseract – Polaris

September 13, 2015 No Comments

Though Darwin might have had many different theories his most memorable was that of evolution, during a time when such an idea would be seen as ludicrous the man single handedly was responsible for one of the most important discoveries in mankind’s history. From the microscopic beginnings a single celled organisms to the slow growth evolution is relative throughout our planet. Leading to humans having the prestigious accolade of top of the food chain after we began to stand up.

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Album Review : Iron Maiden – The Book Of Souls

September 7, 2015 No Comments

Metal itself as a genre is one that either you love or you hate, made up of countless subgenres that Metal heads often get into heated arugments about daily, however it seems that there is one unifying element of Metal. Used as a subject in the BBC’s Mastermind series three times along with being the first international band ever to play India,owning their very own Jumbo Jet and having one of the most iconic mascots in the entertainment history Iron Maiden are in every sense of the word visionary.