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The  early days of English Dog go back to the very early 80’s, when they were an exponent for a style of punk which started to show some moderate metallic influences something they shared with GBH and Discharge.  As years went on English Dogs  choose to opt for a more metal approach as where the aforementioned other examples opted to stick to there punk roots….,In all fairness I believe that would possibly have the better choice for English Dogs as well….  Fact being that as the more they headed into the di

 It‘s become a rare feature that an album grabs my attention s from the first moment, Capilla Ardiente managed to do just that. This band from Chile manages to release with “Bravery truth and the endless darkness” a doom metal album which put me in the same state of mind, as when I first discovered bands like Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus… and more recent Below.      Capilla ARDIENTE delivers the goods, 6 tracks  approx. 45 minutes of epic doom..

Bloody Hammers new album was the band’s introduction to me  and boy what an introduction it is… “Under Satan’s Sun” is an  occult doom album which stylish wise comes close to what band Paradise Lost mrk. 2 had on offer, but better …. Absolute best track of the album no doubt is “Spearfinger”,  it ‘s a track which has it all, an addictive groove  and a  chorus which will make you sing a long wanting or not…  Bloody Hammers “ Under Satan”s Sun” is a must have if you like it dark heavy and slow….

In the mid- nineties Rykers, were no doubt together with a handful of other bands the leaders of the European hardcore pack.   They were well seen guests at a many festivals and at  clubshows. Live  shows never were dull  and the band was a force to reckon with.….  Rykers released four full lengths between 94 and calling it a day in 2000.

I Am The Avalanche is a rock/punk band from Brooklyn, New York formed in 2004. The groups name comes from a lyric written by Vinnie Caruana for a song which was later discarded. Current members are: Vinnie Caruana, Brett "The Ratt" Romnes, Brandon Swanson, John Oliva and Corey Perez.

Dictated a Dutch Death Metal group from Kampen, Overijssel (somewhere in the North of Holland) formed in 2006. Current members are York Keijzer – vocals, Sonja Schuringa – guitars, Jessica Otten – guitars, Henri Sattler - (session)bass and Michiel vd Plicht - (session)drums.

Brimstone Coven is a retro-hard rock / doom band founded in 2011 they life in West Verginia, US. Current members are: John Williams – vocals, Corey Roth – guitar, Andrew D'Cagna – bass and Justin Wood – drums.

The Osiris Club hail from the UK, and play a very strange type of music.  They’ve apparently been able to combine a lot of different music styles, as well in genres, combining metal with grunge elements and I don’t know what else, as in time since some songs or parts of songs have a very seventies feeling, whereas others remind of the eighties and nineties.

Nota Amara is a band that hails from Novocherkassk a city that is situated in the Rostov region in Russia.  And although the song titles are in English, the vocals are in Russian, a language that I have not mastered until today, so she could just as well be singing about how to cook borsjt, a Russian soup, as reciting the manual for a video recorder, anyway I don’t understand a jota of it.

When I first put on this CD, at the opening track I thought I had put on a wrong CD, cause the opening could easily have served as music in the Lord Of The Ring movies.  But when the second track kicked in I knew it was the right album. What Diabulus In Musica brings us is symphonic metal with strong gothic influences.  Although they hail from Spain, I cannot detect in in the English vocals.  Basically this is almost a new band, since only the founding members Zuberoa Aznarez and Gorka Elsa have remained.