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How these guys did it is a mystery to me, but this is already their fourth studio album,  and it seems as if their success will last a bit longer.

When Mötley Crüe released their first album  Too Fast For Love’, it was in a time were in the rock genre you did have the few oddities, but most bands were pretty normal.  OK, you did have a band like Van Halen where David Lee Roth drew a lot of attention, especially from the girls, but what I mean is that sex was not really a topic of the songs, or in a subdued way for that.

I only got the single, so a review of the complete album is not what you’ll get. However if the single is a good example of the other songs that will feature on the album, this will be good. Despite releasing a very good debut album ‘For Queen And Metal’ in 2013, this didn’t become a breakthrough for this band from Genk. Let’s hope this second full album will do the trick.

I didn’t give a quotation because this would not be fair to judge a band/album on just one new song. 

Four-piece Maleficent Vigor (from the United States of Americanana) were formed about five-six years ago, and they (Danny, Mike, Steve and Darrel) have ‘the purpose to face their inner evil and spread their darksides to the unwashed masses’ (excerpt taken from the bio).

Germany’s impressive Extreme Metal label War Anthem Records and Baden-Württemberg-based Black Metal act Unlight recently joined forces in order to have this band’s sixth album released. It took quite some time, because the last album they did (Sulphurblooded, reviewed by colleague Tim; see update September 14^th 2010) dates from 2010. However, it does not imply a drastic change of style.

Blazej Kazimierz Adamczuk is a Polish multi-instrumentalist who used to be part of some of Poland’s most notorious bands, like Thunderbolt, Legacy Of Blood and Veles. At that time, he acted under the name Paimon. At the end of last decade, he moved over to Bergen, Norway, and he joined Dead To This World, a band formed by former Immortal-bassist Iscariah, as from now under his new artist name, Skyggen.

Swedish band Skogen return with their fourth full length, after Vittra, Svitjod and Eld, released respectively in 2009, 2011 and 2012 via Russia’s Frostcald Records, a small but underestimated label known for many excellent Black Metal releases.

It’s a long time ago I’ve listened to one of Michael Schenker’s many album.  This man has beenaround quite a bit, playing in or with different groups like TheScorpions, UFO, and of course his own band MSG. 

Sweden’s Karnivore were initially formed in 2002 as Karneywar, and they recorded three interesting demos until the name-change a couple of years ago, as well as a first album, The Triumphant Khaoz. This album, however, wasn’t released until 2012 (under their new moniker), despite being finished in 2009. This delay had to do with the (sad) decease of long-time guitar player Patrik (f*cking cancer destroyed another life) and bad support (read: no decent label to take the opportunity to etc…).

Greek band W.E.B. (it seems to be the abbreviation for where everything begun) were formed about twelve years ago. They recorded some material that was pretty popular in their home country, but outside Greece they never really broke through. And despite the acceptable quality of this third full length studio album, I am not sure they will now.

Velnias are a project from Colorado, given birth to in 2006 and especially known as live act (recently they toured around Europe in support of Kampfar). They initially released Sovereign Nocturnal in 2008 via God Is Myth Records, and in mean time there were a couple of re-issues (Vendetta Records, for example, did the vinyl-edition, Eternal Warfare the cassette-one).