The Italian trio Nyx (A. Sathsiva, S. Flagellyon and G. Azelyoth) recorded this new album at the Sottomarino Giallo Rec Service studio during summer 2014, with mixing / mastering assistance of Luis Varo. The result, called Hairesis and, unfortunately, lasting for only half an hour (and some seconds, all right), gets released by two of my preferred East-European labels, i.e. Vacula Productions and Satanath Records.
Line up :
Albert Norberg - Guitar
Robert Johnson – Bass, Vocals
Johan Gren – Drums, Vocals
NitroDive are finally back with their second album ‘Re-Evolution’. The album is recorded, mixed and produced by the Swedish Grammy award winner Thomas ‘Plec’ Johansson.
Raw, distorted and explosive. In the making of Re-Evolution we have applied what we learned from being on the road for so long and managed to create a garage rock album with killer melodies and utmost intense play NitroDive
Line up :
Niki Zummo - Bass
Guido Marcaione – Lead Vocals
Giuseppe Taormina - Guitar
Claudio Florio - Drums
Diego Galati - Keyboard
Pitch Black Records announces the addition of Italian Symphonic Power Metal band Crimson Wind to its artist roster.
Formed in Palermo, Italy, in December 2008 by Caudio Florio and Niki Zummo who both wanted to form a band heavily influenced by power metal, the band’s debut album ‘The Wings of Salvation’ was released in 2011 receiving raving reviews worldwide from fans and music critics.
Belgian quartet Bones (Stef Aertsen, Jeroen De Pauw, Viktor Walschaerts and Lukas Huybrechts) started in 2011, and in 2012 they released a first demo, which was released on vinyl too somewhat later. In mean time, the band was able to perform live on stage with the likes of Obituary, Necrowretch, Undergang, Morbus Chron, Master and many more.
I hadn’t heard of the Malaysian horde Blasphmachine before, but apparently this trio is pretty known in their home country and Singapore. With Exhumation, Savage Deity and Shambles, they released a live-split taken from a tour in both countries. Anyway, Blasphmachine did write and record a handful of tracks in their two-three years of existence, and two of them have now been compiled under the working title Oath.
The remaining band members of The Agonist seem a bit lost without Alissa White-Gluz. At least that's what I thought when I heard their new album The Eye Of Providence for the first time. I have to admit, there are some interesting riffs on the new album, the pounding drums are fine as well and the new singer Vicky Psarakis definitely knows how to cast her magic spell on you with her brilliant voice. But somehow it's not only the vocals that have changed.. It seems as if the whole line up is different on this record.
This is the second album by British band Lawless, released 18 months after their debut album ‘Rock Savage’. Just like their first album it has a sound that reminds you of the 80ies classic rock sound, which is no wonder, since most of the bandmembers have a history in music that goes back to those days.
I am aware of a handful of (sometimes really interesting) acts from Kazakhstan, but I didn’t know Detention. However, apparently this project did release a first album in 2013, called Coma, via (mighty) No Remorse Records (British, but based in Gibraltar). But as said, this is my first acquaintance with Detention. It seems to be a project, a solo-outfit, by a guy called Yeldar Rakishev.
I have always appreciated two aspects of French label Distant Voices; the projects signed to their roster, and the physical aspect of each single release. When it comes to the first, the projects, well, I’d like to refer to the reviews I wrote for Arbre, Misery, Brouillard or Scars From A Dead Room. Without exception, all of them do please undersigned’s ear drums and mental state.
When I put this CD on, I immediately thought I was listening to Nickelback, but with a harder edge. The voice of Andy Biersack sound like an exact copy of Chad Kroeger’s voice. Musically though this band has a sound that is close to Nickelback but is not an exact copy of it.
