Metalrage.com Frontpage Reviews http://www.metalrage.com The latest Metalrage.com reviews eng-eng info@metalrage.com info@metalrage.com 40 Metalrage.com RSS Generator http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2003- 10 Metalrage.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:20:02 GMT Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:20:02 GMT Metalrage logo http://www.metalrage.com/images/words/METALRAGE-45.png http://www.metalrage.com/ Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising Savage Messiah releases their first full length on the world with Insurrection Rising. This is their second effort, since the 2007 EP Spitting Venom. Savage Messiah was brought to ...]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3163 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3163 info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3163#comments Strike Anywhere - Iron Front Strike Anywhere has been around since 1999 when the previous band of frontman Thomas Barnett stopped. Since then they’ve released four albums on which they displayed their political view on the world. Their last alb...]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3162 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3162 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3162#comments October File - Our Souls To You A couple of years ago I read a review of the Holy Armour In The Jaws Of God album of October File. I noticed it because of the name of the album, but after reading the review I also got interested in the album. Especially since ...]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3161 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3161 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3161#comments Black River - Black N Roll Black River is the hobby band of members from a.o. Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth. Black ´N´ Roll is their second album. I haven´t heard their previous album, but with such well-known artists I was ...]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3160 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3160 info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3160#comments Toxpack - Epidemie The German solution for all the fake, musical nightmares that are fabricated by TV-shows like Idols, Popstars, *Your country*’s Got Tallent? Toxpack. In your face streetpunk from the streets of Berlin for everyone on those same s...]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3159 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3159 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3159#comments Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones Even though Celtic Frost made an awesome comeback with the 2006 album Monotheist, lead singer of the band Tom Gabriel Fischer decided to call it a day in April 2008. The talks on a side project from Celtic Frost, which would eve...]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3158 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3158 info@metalrage.com (Brent_) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3158#comments Inhume - Moulding the Deformed Moulding the Deformed is the follow up to Inhume's 2007 album Chaos Dissection Order and after numerous shows (including a great show at Neurotic Deathfest last year), the band is back for their fourth full-length albu...]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3157 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3157 info@metalrage.com (Brent_) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3157#comments Imperial Vengeance - At The Going Down Of The Sun Imperial Vengeance is a band/project formed by Mr. Charles Edward-Alexander, better known as Charles Hedger, the live guitarist for Cradle Of Filth. This is his own project together with Mr. David Bryan. The...]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3156 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3156 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3156#comments Fear Factory - Mechanize Ever since the beginning of Fear Factory, they had a distinguished sound that could be recognized from afar. Especially the vocals of Burton C Bell and the guitar riffs of Dino Cazares were responsible for that sou...]]> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3155 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3155 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3155#comments Adust - Question The Illogical Adust is a young English band, which formed in 2007. Question The Illogical is their second EP after the release of their EP Through Anothers Eyes in 2008. Man can say that they´re quite a pr...]]> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3154 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3154 info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3154#comments Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne This self titled album is already the third album of Norwegian band Audrey Horne. Audrey Horne started as a band consisting mostly out of members of Sahg and Enslaved. Since the st...]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3153 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3153 info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3153#comments Grave Robber - Inner Sanctum At the end of the summer of ’08 I first heard about Grave Robber. I received their debut full-length Be Afraid, but although they played some catchy horror punk, I wasn’t too fond of it. I described their music as a ...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3152 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3152 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3152#comments Swallow The Sun - New Moon The first time I heard about the Finish doom/death metal band Swallow The Sun was in 2007 when they released their third full-length album Hope. A great record that still often makes its way to my stereo. I missed out their last...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3151 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3151 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3151#comments Los Sin Nombre - Blind Leading Blind With a name like Los Sin Nombre you could only expect that this band would hail from Sweden. Okay I might exaggerate a bit but after the first couple of tones I must say the Swedish influences are numerous. Especially Soilwork, In Flam...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3150 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3150 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3150#comments Year Long Disaster - Black Magic; All Mysteries Revealed Due to the fact I have never read (nor been interested in) a Russian book I’m not able to link the once banned, but now classic 1929 novel The Master and Margarita to one of the bigger rising stars in the rock scene, Year Long Disast...]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3149 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3149 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3149#comments Pantheon I - Worlds I Create Unlike the rest of the bands, Pantheon I gave away a pretty good show on the tour with Absu and Razor of Occam which made me curious to check out a studio album as well. Worlds I Create is their third studio album since they for...]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3148 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3148 info@metalrage.com (Brent_) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3148#comments Lost Soul - Immerse In Infinity I was a bit let down by the Poland scene last year; Vader’s new album was absolute shit, the new Behemoth didn’t match my expectations and the new Azarath didn’t give me the goose bumps either. But suddenly, completely out o...]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3147 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3147 info@metalrage.com (Brent_) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3147#comments Shining - Blackjazz Just a few years ago, no one ever heard of the Norwegian band Shining but only of the suicidial black metal band with the same name from Sweden. This still causes some confusion, but it seems we have yet another rising Shining. ...]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3146 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3146 info@metalrage.com (Brent_) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3146#comments BugGirl - Blood Sweat & Beers Blood Sweat & Beers is the title of the latest EP of BugGirl. Indeed my friends the Australian Rock ‘n Roll Road Warriors are back in town. BugGirl exists of a brother and sister who are living the rock ‘n roll l...]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3145 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3145 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3145#comments Liftid - Our Choice Of Weapon Lifted hails from the southern parts of Holland and has played a numerous shows in their eight years of existence. They have shared the stage with Clawfinger and Linea 77 and also played at the famous Pinkpop festiva...]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3144 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3144 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3144#comments Pain of Salvation - Linoleum EP The Linoleum EP by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation has been out for a while now and was meant as a teaser for their new album Road Salt. Since record company SPV and thus their label Inside Out has gone bankr...]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3143 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3143 info@metalrage.com (Angel) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3143#comments Formula Fiction - Parody Reality Back in 2007, three Dutch friends decided to start walking a new and more serious path. With the addition of a bass player and a second vocalist they were ready to work on their first effort as the band Formula Fiction. This first rele...]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3142 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3142 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3142#comments Oceansize - Feed to Feed To celebrate their 10th anniversary, United Kingdom’s finest Oceansize, released a new EP called Home and Mirror a few months ago, where they tried to do things a little different (see review as well). To please...]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3141 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3141 info@metalrage.com (Brent_) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3141#comments Maelstrom - The Shores At Dawn Maelstrom is a 5-piece band out of Glasgow, Scotland. They formed in 2006 and this is their debut release that already has been released by themselves in 2008, but has been re-released by Casket Music in the end of 2009.
...]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3140 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3140 info@metalrage.com (RoyBalowski) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3140#comments Horncrowned - Casus Belli Antichristianus Who would have thought that besides cocaine there would also appear black-metal from a country like Colombia? I certainly didn’t, but in fact this is already the third full length of these hyperfast church burning black-metallers as the...]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3139 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3139 info@metalrage.com (RoyBalowski) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3139#comments Fehler - Adharma Fehler is a trio from Utrecht/Den Bosch, the Netherlands. This 5 song EP is their debut release.

Fehler is one of those sludgy postcore/doom bands that popped up the last couple of yea...]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3138 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3138 info@metalrage.com (RoyBalowski) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3138#comments Defiance - The Prophecy Defiance is a thrash metal band that was already founded in 1985. In those years I wasn´t that heavy metal conscious (hell I was only five years old back then and was just discovering the old record collection of...]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3137 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3137 info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3137#comments Havok - Burn Havok is a thrash-metal quartet out of Denver, Colorado. This band is a typical example of the new generation of thrash metal bands that is around these days. I personally love the fact that this style of metal is back from the ...]]> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3136 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3136 info@metalrage.com (RoyBalowski) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3136#comments Xerath - I Following in the trend of bands like Meshuggah and Textures, Candlelight Records offers us Xerath from the U.K. These guys have just released their debut I upon the world, let’s see what it holds in store for us.
...]]> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3135 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3135 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3135#comments 1349 - Revelations Of The Black Flame Norwegian black metal, the self-proclaimed truest of them all. 1349 have been active in this scene since its formation in 1997 and have released three full length albums. Number four was released last year, let’s see where this t...]]> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3134 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3134 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3134#comments Watch Me Bleed - Souldrinker What happens when some members of a prog rock band want to spice things up a bit? They recruit like-minded musicians, call themselves Watch Me Bleed, choose the tagline “Prepare for metal!!!” and produce some aggress...]]> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3133 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3133 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3133#comments Ad Inferna - Trance :: N :: Dance Back in 2002 Ad Inferna released a symphonic black metal album with the title L’empire Des Sens. After seven years they released their second album, but this French band didn’t stick to their sound at all. Trance...]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3132 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3132 info@metalrage.com (Gilles) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3132#comments Plutonium Orange - Volume Plutonium Orange is a hardrock/stoner-rock band out of Finland which already existed in 2000. To this day they never released an album until now! Within the ranks of Plutonium Orange we’ll find two members of the Fi...]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3131 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3131 info@metalrage.com (RoyBalowski) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3131#comments The Fallen Within - Intoxicated The Fallen Within, I can't say I've heard a lot Greek metal but this band has been doing its thing since 2003 and even recorded an EP that same year. They try to mix different styles of metal and created something they woul...]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3130 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3130 info@metalrage.com (DemonDust) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3130#comments Ihsahn - After A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I used to be deep into the black metal scene. Of course at some point I did stumble on Emperor. Somewhere in the mid nineties they were at the highlight of their career. I remember seeing them li...]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3129 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3129 info@metalrage.com (Angel) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3129#comments Dead By Sunrise - Out Of Ashes Chester Bennington is ofcourse widely known for being the vocalist of Linkin Park. Still the basis for this band was already laid down in 2005 when Chester was writing material for Linkin Park. Back then he had wri...]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3128 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3128 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3128#comments The Kandidate - Until We Are Outnumbered The Kandidate's line-up is the first thing that stands out. A very experienced lot fronted by ex-Hatesphere vocalist Jacob Bredahl. The line-up immediately increased the expectations I had for this relea...]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3127 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3127 info@metalrage.com (Neurotic) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3127#comments Skindred - Shark Bites And Dog Fights Skindred drew my attention with their addition to the Need For Speed Underground 2 game. The song ´Nobody´ was one of the songs that gave the game a great kick in the ass. With their previous album Roots R...]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3126 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3126 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3126#comments Dark Age - Acedia Dark Age hails from Germany and has been active since 1994. Like many other German bands they’ve mainly been active within their own region and own country. Maybe their next effort Acedia opens up the borders to new...]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3125 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3125 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3125#comments Soil - Picture Perfect Soil was originally formed in 1997 by members of Broken Hope and Oppressor as a side project. The first three releases of the band failed to break the band into the mainstream. This changed with their sophomore album call...]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 GMT http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3124 http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3124 info@metalrage.com (Niamen) Unknown http://www.metalrage.com/reviews/3124#comments