Well, where do I have to start with this one? Black Magic is a NWOBHM band that started in 2006 and already split- up in 2012. Now two years later, High Roller Records came out with their full length album Wizard’s Spell , counting five new numbers and the songs that where previous released on their Reap Of Evil demo in 2010.
“Battleaxe” containing Dave King (vocals), Brian Smith (bass), Mick Percy (guitar) and
Paul AT Kinson (drums). They are from England, Sunderland founded in 1979. After 2 studio albums and one live they quite their activity in the early nineties. The band is now reformed and made their new album.
Tess Parks is a young musician and photographer. Born and raised in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), she's the granddaughter and daughter of musicians, and dropped out of art school at the age of 17. She immediately moved to London to study photography and to pursue music. Playing solo, she gt so lucky to make friends with Alan McGee (359Music's CEO, and one-time venue owner in London), and the likes of Dandy Warhols.
Stormwarrior is a German speed metal band that was formed in 1998 by vocalist and guitar player Lars Ramcke and his companion/drummer Andre Schumann. Later on in the same year, guitarist Scott Bolter and bass player Tim Zienert join the band.
The Victory Records diversity showcase: following reviews of the bands Close Your eyes and Neurotic November (who deal in Progressive Melodic Hardcore/ Pop Punk and MetalCore/ DeathCore respectively) we now come to part 3 of the showcase with a band best categorized (in a general way) under the Death Metal label [this Dallas, Texas based band is not to be confused with the (again active since 2011) American Heavy Metal act from Pennsylvania].
Kingdomes of Rust is a fairly good debut album where prog, symphonic, power and heavy metal and electronic ambient passages flow into each other, effortlessly it seems. The vocals could have been much better, especially the Italian accent is scary, Of the more prog metal tunes “Waxhopes” definitely sticks out, with some blowing guitarsolos and some great harmonic bass tapping. But in the end the 12 tracks stretch unimpressive musical ideas far too thin, and the instrumental sections never build into anything really exciting building a real kingdom of rust.
Gosh...considering that Falkenbach have been around since 1989, released 5 full-length albums prior to this one since 1996, and are a known entity within the Viking/ Black/ Folk Metal scene, I am kind of surprised to find this album come my way for review. Perhaps our specialist already had enough on his plate (as per usual, by the way!)?
Following the release of his debut single “Bird Of Prey” b/w “She And I Must Part” (released in April; review by yours truly posted somewhere in July of last year), Duncan Evans finally found his debut solo album released in mid-November (and, yes, we know...we have quite some delay reviewing the thing, but you should see the backlog of releases we get to do each month, with a far to small staff...in fact, our editor-in-chief has trouble downloading all that promo material which in the past was sént to us by mail, you know, and I only got this album in my to-do box
Crystal Tears a Greek/Danish metal band founded in 1997. Members sinds 2012
Søren Adamsen (Vocals, 2012- ), Kostas Sotos (Guitar, 1997 - ), Mate Nagy (Guitar, 2012 - ), Alex Hamalidis (Bass, 1997 - ) and Chrisafis Tantanozis (Drums, 1997 - ). After some years en several demo’s made their first album "Choirs Of Immortal" in 2006. Played on stages with W.A.S.P., Riot and Jag Panzer and making power/speed metal.
Canterbury in an Englisch rock band, formed in Farnham, Surrey 2005. The current members are Luke Prebble (lead vocals, bass guitar), Mike Sparks (vocals, guitar), James Pipe (guitar) and Chris Velissarides (drums, percussion).
