Albums

Nightwish, Imaginaerum

Posted on: December 9, 2011 at 10:39 am

Ah, love! Thank you Nightwish for not being dead to me, thank you for making beautiful music once more and for giving me the chills once more. After Storytime (which I absolutely detested), I expected nothing good from this album, so now that I listen to it, I’m not head …

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Opeth, Heritage

Posted on: October 13, 2011 at 10:37 am

I’ve always been fascinated with Opeth, but I could never listen to it unless I was in the certain mood. The alternation between the aggressive growling was too tough to swallow when I was feeling tired and the atmospheric and burdening calmer parts was tough to swallow when I was …

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Ayreon, 01011001

Posted on: October 20, 2010 at 9:16 am

Let’s just start by saying that I am a HUGE Ayreon fangirl, 01011001 is one of my all-time favourite albums and this will be populated with adjectives like mind-blowing, incredible, great, awesome and brilliant and it will severely lack criticism. You have been warned. It has some of my favourite singers, Anneke …

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Haggard, Eppur si muove

Posted on: January 31, 2008 at 8:48 am

As it has been and will continue to be made abundantly clear, Haggard is probably my favourite band. There is something really magical about them and their mix between metal and actual classical music (not just symphonic influences here and there). In fact, they were the band that made me …

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Aina, Days of rising doom

Posted on: January 15, 2008 at 8:46 am

Sacha Paeth is off to prove he is the best producer of the modern power metal era and, accompanied by most of the members from Heavens gate and Amanda Somerville, has managed to create one of the most epic and interesting metal opera albums ever. This album has pretty much …

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