Archive for 2014

Origins – Oh that accent and the story-like voice! It’s a great way to start the album, as it prepares you for an epic journey. And considering these very high expectations are met, I have to say I am extremely satisfied with this album. The nameless – Aaaaand then the headbanging starts. There’s something …

I can’t believe I’ve been listening to Bucovina for 8 years and it took me so long to get to one of their concerts! I guess that’s the problem with local bands, that I always save the money and time for foreign bands that come here once or twice and …

In the middle of a period where organisers/ bands aren’t exactly lining up for concerts, let alone festivals, Maximum Rock was a breath of fresh air. First of all, I wasn’t extremely familiar with most of the bands, but I had quite a few revelations (more about that later). Second …

The early summer of 2014 was a good time to be a folk metal fan, as June brought on not one, but three such albums, mostly from bands that took their sweet time working on their next release. Falconer, Black moon rising Black moon rising is a pleasant album, that sends …

With the risk of attracting the wrath of the older Opeth fans, I have to say I’m very happy that they’re continuing on the path they started with Heritage. This is an album that’s more prog rock than progressive metal, but personally I love it. It’s moody, it’s complex, it’s experimental …

Symphonic gothic metal has always been a love of mine, to the point where I would be obsessed with it and know pretty much every band in and around the genre. With age came less spare time and more need for variety and nowadays I regularly listen only to a …

I wasn’t expecting too much from this concert, considering I was going to see a positively ancient band with a lead singer who’s almost 70. But then again, it was a positively ancient band, on the back of which was built all the music I nowadays adore, so I wasn’t …

Once I was an ignorant child who knew nothing of the wonder that Matt Barlow is. Then my boyfriend (now husband) saved me from my darkness by showing me a live interpretation of Iced Earth’s Dracula and I was in awe. That man, who I would affectionately call Lurch because of his …