I don’t know anymore how many Extreme Metal acts there are with the moniker Lycanthropy. But this review deals with the extremely productive one from Orel, Russia, close to the borders with Ukraine and Belarus. The city of Orel, by the way, isn’t that far away from the city of Voronezh, known for a very vivid Metal-scene, and house of another act called Lycanthropy (though defunct in mean time) – FYI.
Light are a Berlin-based trio (Ray-v/g/k, C-d, and Sky-b), formed in 2010. They released a (very limited) demo-CD in 2012, called Ignition, from which all tracks appear on their debut full length as well, though with another title. This debut studio full album gets released via Germany’s Black Warcult Productions, a label that was active during the era 2003-2006 especially.
Huh...Kingfisher Sky...I knew I'd come across this Dutch Gothic/ Progressive Rock/ Metal band before, but upon checking my past activity sheet I found out that I didn't do a review of either of the band's previous two albums. Ah well, why don't we go over the band's history first then, shall we?
The Venezuelan band Khristenn Corpse was formed a decade ago, and they released two demos and one full length in mean time, respectively the independently released EP’s The Khristenn Corpse and Bloodmiracle (2005 and 2010), and the LP/CD Grotesque (2011, via Argentinian Misanthropic Spirit Records). The American label Temptations Of Resonance Records will now re-issue the second demo, Bloodmiracle, though in a very limited edition.
Let’s be completely honest. This is the first album I’ve listened to from this band. And I guess this will also be the last one. What this band brings us, to me, sounds like a fabricated form of music. They’ve started with a metal foundation, and then added layers of other types of music. And for me it doesn’t really work. This is no real metal, far from it, not even nu-metal. There are parts of pure pop music in it, despite the screaming guitars.
Horn Of The Rhino return with their fourth album, and once again it gets released by Czech label Doomentia Records; why changing a winning team must be their motto. The label even re-issued material from this band when they were acting under the old moniker Rhino.
We Belgians should be proud of ourselves. Despite not being promoted as much as non-metal bands, our little country does produce some fine metal bands. You’ve got Channel Zero of course, but there are many other bands as well, and one of these is Hell City, hailing from Hoeselt.
Hey, hey...4 years after having been exposed to this Belgian Heavy Metal band for the first time (at the opportunity of the release of their debut EP Here Comes The Sin, a review for which was posted on 10/03/2010), I find myself back in good company, the composition of which however changed somewhat over time!
This London based outfit seems to be pretty fast rising stars on the firmament of Doom stoner Sludge metal . “Sex in the seventh circle” is the second full length of this quartet and the first one on century media . As we all know, SEX sells.. However does it also sell if packed in a 47.30 minutes slab of thundering riffs pounding drums and vile gnarls aka “ vocals” ? The answer is yes it does … Right form opener “Keeping Vigil, HTB grabs you by the balls only to let go after 10 other deadly slabs of doom metal heaviness . If band like
Following The Beast is the second full album from the Swedish warriors united under the banner of Gormathon, after 2010’s Lens Of Guardian (Supernova Records). There was also an EP in 2012, Celestial Warrior, by the way, and the songs from that mini-album are part of this full length too.
