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Paranoiz - Promo 08

info@metalrage.com (BoEk) — Sun, 11 May 2008 GMT

Paranoiz hails from Westfalia, Germany. Since its establishment in 2000, the band has released four efforts, their newest being Promo 08; a three-track promo that has also been posted on their MySpace page for those who are in...

Witch - Paralyzed

info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) — Thu, 08 May 2008 GMT

At the last edition of the legendary Roadburn festival I encountered a band named Witch, a classic rock band from the US. The band had an amazing shirt for sale (for a description, see the upcoming Roadburn review) which made me check ...

Totenmond - Thronräuber

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Wed, 07 May 2008 GMT

Although this is already their seventh full-length release I have never heard music from Totenmond. This South-Germany based trio took a break after the release of Tonberg UrTod to return this year with some new...

Arcadia - Cold Cold Bodies

info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) — Wed, 07 May 2008 GMT

Italy’s Arcadia release their third record entitled Cold Cold Bodies, out via Valery Records also from Italy. Usually Italian bands are total crap, but I also reviewed their previous album Fracture Concrete, which m...

Sharp End First - Rule The Day

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Tue, 06 May 2008 GMT

As I reviewed a couple of GlassTone Records’ releases, by now I know that they have some nice melodic metal bands in stock. Sharp End First is the next band I have to review, but about the band itself I can’...

TwoMinuteSilence - Broken.Heart.Syndrome

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Sun, 04 May 2008 GMT

Influenced by hardcore, metal and emo, five friends from Lübben, Germany founded a band back in 2003. This project soon developed into a serious band and besides some EPs TwoMinuteSilence released its first full-length in Sept...

X-Sinner - Fire It Up

info@metalrage.com (LondonCustoms) — Fri, 02 May 2008 GMT
X-Sinner started out in 1989 with their debut album Get It. At the moment they're recording their latest album. So why do we get to review this album? Good question, answer: Beats me! Oh well, guess they just really, really li...

Whitecross - Nineteen Eighty Seven

info@metalrage.com (LondonCustoms) — Fri, 02 May 2008 GMT
According to their bio, Whitecross has been dominating the Christian metal scene since 1987, hence the name of the band. They've won several awards for their albums, from which they have made about a thousand. This album is a re-release. Th...

Names Are For Tombstones - Dreadful September

info@metalrage.com (Niamen) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 GMT

Naft, which stands for Names Are For Tombstones, hails from Denmark. After recording their first two demos in their own rehearsing studio and only releasing them on the internet as free downloads, Naft decided to t...

Destinity - The Inside

info@metalrage.com (Niamen) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 GMT

Destinity from France has been around since 1996 and has just released their fourth full-length album called The Inside. It made me very curious from the beginning, especially since France is not a country that’s we...

Gods Of Emptiness - Consumption Is Freedom?

info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 GMT

Gods Of Emptiness (Morbid Angel anyone?) started out with their brutal death metal in 1994 in Germany, and has released one EP and one full length so far. Now they bring us their latest effort Consumption Is Freedom?. Let...

Third Degree - Punk Sugar

info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 GMT

There are many metal bands called Third Degree, but this Polish one is the only one I actually know due to their connections with Antigama, NYIA and Herman Rarebell. I never actually heard the band, so when their full length ...

Young Hollywood - Shotgun

info@metalrage.com (Niamen) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 GMT

It’s not very easy when a band is called Young Hollywood and you want to gain some extra information about this band on the internet. So it took a while before I discovered that this band hails from Bristol, UK and did some touri...

Edenbridge - My Earth Dream

info@metalrage.com (Angel) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 GMT

Wow, yet again a new release from Edenbridge. Since 2000 they managed to enrich the market with a new product every single year. Ok, even though last year’s The Chronicles Of Eden is in fact a compilation album, this ...

Pharaoh - Be Gone

info@metalrage.com (Bastian Blackrain) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 GMT
Beer belly, older, shabby clothes… at first sight, Pharaoh doesn’t give the impression to be much of a wild metal band. They look more like your local football / poker / drinking buddies. They might also be that for as far as I...

Power Quest - Master of Illusion

info@metalrage.com (Bastian Blackrain) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 GMT
The name Power Quest might sound awfully familiar to some of the power / speed metal fans reading this. Why? Well, the band was formed in 2001 by former Dragonforce keyboardist Steve Williams. Instead of raging fast, melodic speed / ...

Slave Zero - The Pain Remits

info@metalrage.com (Zmok) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 GMT

Slave Zero is a Hardcore/death metal band from Ireland. The band was formed in 2000. They’ve supported bands such as: Hatebreed, Primal Fear and Exodus. Never having heard of this band, I started to listen to this EP....

Abstract Rapture - Democadencia

info@metalrage.com (Zmok) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 GMT

Metal from Luxembourg, who would have thought. Abstract Rapture shows us that there is such a thing. With Democadencia, Abstract Rapture release their first full length album. Thrash metal in modern day way, is the best w...

It.Is.Imperative - Immer Weiter Und Weiter

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 GMT

In March 2007 the German band It.Is.Imperative, from the city of Berlin, locked themselves up to record an EP. Together with engineer Matthias Schrei they finished a 6-track EP which was called Immer Weiter ...

Evita - Like An Ocean, We Rise Again

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 GMT

Throughout the years we have seen many metalcore and deathcore releases and now with the debut EP of Evita from Bristol we can add Like An Ocean, We Rise Again to this list. The band was founded in 2006 and the ...

Endzweck - The Grapes Of Wrath

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 GMT
Not too often we receive mail from Japan, but with The Grapes Of Wrath we received the debut full-length of the hardcore band Endzweck. These five Japanese guys founded the band in ’98 and after many MCDs, split CDs and partici...

Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 GMT

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed a Chilean band called Mourners Lament. I told you guys that the band consisted of members from well-known other Chilean bands, like Mar De Grises, Poema Arcanus and Letal Solaris. To me all three ba...

Sideblast - Flight Of A Moth

info@metalrage.com (Zmok) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 GMT

Sideblast formed in 2004. With Flight Of A Moth this extreme metal band from France release their debut album. Sideblast have created their own style that consists of death, thrash and black metal.
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Helangår - [kwIn'tes sens]

info@metalrage.com (BoEk) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 GMT
The world is growing together and physical distances are no longer a limit. Scientists are going to resolve the great answers of life. Physicians have a vision of a substantial world formula. Neuroscientists are trying to decode the human brain an...

Rain - Dad Is Dead

info@metalrage.com (Bastian Blackrain) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 GMT
Rain was formed in 1980 and has been working hard to become a well-known metal band in Italy to this date. Now, a band has to have a name. But why does it have to be Rain? Oh, man… I can feel it coming. Do I even need t...

Incubator - LieBISSlieder

info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 GMT

Incubator is a band looking for another run to the top of the genre because this band held a sabbatical for 10 years be...

Carach Angren - Lammendam

info@metalrage.com (Bastian Blackrain) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 GMT
I noticed that a lot of new Metal bands pop up these years, and quite a few of them originate from a small country in Western Europe, the Netherlands. Black metal isn’t exactly what people see as a musically interesting style or something to...

Remembrance - Silencing The Moments

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 GMT

I almost got worried a bit, because it already was some time ago I received a funeral doom album from the Firedoom / Firebox Records duo. With Silencing The Moments they this time sent me a CD from a French couple, cal...

Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine

info@metalrage.com (Angel) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 GMT

Nevermore’s frontman Warrel Dane must be bored with his own fellow band mates. Praises to the War Machine contains all the elements which makes the Seattle based metalband so great. Dramatic and dynamic sound...

Sworn - Tended High

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 GMT

Armenia… Do they have a metal scene over there? Well, I guess so, because I recently received Tended High from the Armenian fivesome Sworn. After some searching on the World Wide Web I read that th...

Skindred - Roots Rock Riot

info@metalrage.com (Niamen) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 GMT

The first time I got in touch with Skindred was during the race game Need For Speed Underground 2. The song ‘Nobody’, which was one of the soundtracks in the game, was also one of my favourites to race to. After some...

Eminence - The God Of All Mistakes

info@metalrage.com (BoEk) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 GMT
It has been almost 4 years ago since I first came in touch with Brazilian metallers Eminence. I haven’t heard much more about them ever since, but I do remember liking their album, Humanology, very much back then. So I decided ...

Krossbreed - Carved In Stone

info@metalrage.com (Gilles) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 GMT

Hailing from Antwerp, Belgium's Krossbreed now has released their third MCD, called Carved In Stone. The band consist of 4 different minds and therefore 4 different ideas about metal. Because this band didn&rsqu...

Necromantia - The Sound Of Lucifer Storming Heaven

info@metalrage.com (Arcane) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 GMT

It was many years ago I heard of Necromantia for the first time. I bought a sampler which included one of their songs. Back then I wasn’t very impressed. The song was quite nice but the production wasn’t that good. And that...

Bad Chopper - Bad Chopper

info@metalrage.com (LondonCustoms) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 GMT
CJ Ramone's new band...I had to make sure I said that. So here it is, CJ Ramone's new band called Bad Chopper. For those who don't know CJ Ramone, don't sweat it, you didn't miss much. For fans of The Ramones, do...

The Mojomatics - Don't Pretend That You Know Me

info@metalrage.com (LondonCustoms) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 GMT
Surprised as I was to see that there were only two members in this band, even more surprised I was when I put it on. When you're Dutch (as I am) you know that there are two ways a twosome band can go. There is the absolutely awful and ridiculous s...

21 Lucifers - In The Name Of...

info@metalrage.com (Niamen) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT

21 Lucifers from Falun, which is a little town in Sweden, started in 2002 under the name Gridlock but changed the name shortly after. The reason, as they stated themselves, is because the name Gridlock was, mildly put, overrepre...

Stigma - When Midnight Strikes!

info@metalrage.com (Niamen) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT

Lately we at Metalrage.com have the honour of being overwhelmed with albums from Italian metal acts. Most of the time these acts have played in Italy with well known local bands and are circling in the underground for a while. Well the...

MyGrain - Signs Of Existence

info@metalrage.com (Mindsaver) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT
Before checking out MyGrain’s new record Signs Of Existence, I first went back into history by spinning their previous record Orbit Dance again. Orbi...

Textures - Silhouettes

info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 GMT

Textures has been praised many times by many of our reviewers, on both the account of their live performances as their albums. This band is in the top of the Dutch metal scene with their complex yet grooving and melodic metal ap...