Archive for 2019

I’ve been very quiet in the past few months, severely lacking inspiration and patience, but if there’s anything that can get me out of my hole, it must be Opeth. After a brilliant performance at Artmania, I was more than ready for their new record and lo and behold, In cauda venenum is …

Another Artmania has ended. I’ve said it before, I simply can’t get enough of this festival and I have a lot of respect for the way the organisers handle it year after year. Yes, there were bigger lines than usual this time. Yes, at some point it took 30 minutes …

The last months have been rather slow in terms of albums I was interested in and also heat seems to have brought a bit of a writer’s block. I tried three times to review Dream Theater’s latest album and found myself overwhelmed by it (I love it, I just can’t …

Rammstein are finally back. There may have been a question mark next to their return, after the long break and Till’s solo album, but have no fear, the world hasn’t been robbed of the dick-wielding flame-throwing Germans.  And how else would they be back, but with a bang? With a …

Eluveitie is one of those bands that never bores me and, despite of maintaining a somewhat constant and easily identifiable sound, also has enough variety and change to remain fresh album after album. Ategnatos is more of the same, but with a twist (which has come to describe almost all of their …

What a crazy night! We’ve been dying to see this guys for ages, and it seemed like the stars had aligned against us (or them?). First in 2012, the band cancelled the tour that included Romania because Sully got sick. Then in 2015, we had to leave the show early, right …

Hydra was severely disappointing, I don’t think I could name more than one track from it, nor reproduce anything other than “faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster”. And it wasn’t (just) the fact that they abruptly turned pop, it was mostly the shallowness and repetitiveness of …

Bucovina is not necessarily the most complex band in the world, but everything they write is so fluid and harmonious, with a good flow and most importantly, it gives me such a good feeling. I’m always enjoying myself when I listen to them, and Septentrion makes no exception.  Although I have tracks …

This is going to be a short review, for an equally short release. I don’t normally listen to EP’s (I prefer to wait for the full album), but considering there doesn’t seem to be a full album in sight and this is the first Conception release in 21 years and …