Albums

Oceans of Slumber were already a promising band with their debut album Aetherial, but when they uploaded the videos with their new singer, Cammie Gilbert, I simply fell in love (and had the Candlemass cover on repeat for a few days). It was a bold and unusual decision to change their …

I like and respect Myrath a lot. There may be tons of bands in their part of the world that sound like that, but along with Orphaned Land, they are the only band I know to become somewhat big using such a huge influence from a culture that isn’t exactly …

Incape intr-o vorba – Even though it has become quite the cliche to have an epic spoken or orchestral intro, I’m still a sucker for this kind of calm, yet thundering and dignified voice that narrates epic stuff Da-mi mana, toamna – a song that really doesn’t do the album justice. The …

I’ve had a very unstable relationship with Lacrimosa until now, there were times when I saw sparkles of genius in them and I was fascinated by the beauty and complexity of their instrumentals and overwhelmed by the intensity of their emotion, and then there were times where I found them …

Are you ready to go back to the 80s and the age of heavy metal bikers and badass metal chicks? Ladies and gentleman, all aboard, Chastain bleeds metal. From the first thundering declaration that “we bleed metal”, until the last guitar shred in Secrets (interesting that the first and last moments are …

Blackmore’s Night make me happy, it’s as simple as that. Of course they’re not the kind of band where one remains in awe at the originality of the song structure, at the complexity of the chord progressions or at the skills of the musicians (though Ritchie Blackmore is still a …

It’s hard to make a review of a Stratovarius album when all, with the exception of the (ironically) self titled release, are generally a repetition of one giant review called “Stratovarious – the band”. After ten thousand changes of members to the point where there’s no original member left, after …

Amorphis is one of those bands that you either love for giving up “that death metal shit” and starting to play something more intelligible, either hate for turning mainstream when they were able to produce such a wonderful Tales from the Thousand Lakes. With Under a red cloud it almost looks like they’re …

Leaves Eyes started out like a modest, but pleasant folk band, carried by Liv Kristine’s voice and legacy and, album by album, it became bigger and, I’m sad to say, weaker and duller. So far, the height of dullness has been this hopeless album, but by the way things are …

Iron Maiden are like the wine. That could be all the review you need for their new album, The book of souls. And still, such a respectable album deserves a respectable and lengthy review.  The book of souls is everything you’d expect from Iron Maiden and more. It still has faced paced heavy metal …