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Psych 44 is a stoner/garage rock band with electronic influences from Antwerp, Belgium. After reaching the finals of HUMO’s Rock Rally in 2010, they released their first EP “Demon” in 2011.

Wow...wait a minute...yep, I guess this is the very first band from Indonesia (to be more specific, from the capitol city of Jakarta) which ever passed my hands for a review on this here website...and it turns out to be one of the hidden treasures in the Avant-Garde/ Experimental Extreme Metal genre, which makes this review a double hit in my books! Well, not really thàt hidden, because during its career the band already succeeded in making more than just a passing impression on the global music scene.

Kayser funded in 2004 when Spice (ex-Spiritual Beggars), Mattias Svensson (also The Defaced), Bob Ruben (ex The Mushroom River Band) and Fredrik Finnander decided to join forces to create a pure metal band. The 100% Swedish pure metal band returned after their last album “Frame The World…Hang It On The Wall” (2006).

If I were to tell you off hand, that this band has two members of the legendary Hardcore outfit Pro-Pain in its midst (namely bassist Gary Meskil and rhythm guitarist Marshall Stephens), what type of music would you expect this band to play? Well, you would be quite mistaken there, I daresay, because what Darhaus brings is a relatively commercial type of Syth Rock!

Mystic Prophecy is a power metal band that comes from Germany. The band was formed R.D. Liapakis and Martin Albrecht. Gus G. was also part of this outfit, he played all guitars on their three first albums, but left in 2005 to spend more time in his other band Firewind. But do to other line up changes, the band almost gave up. Luckily for the fans, they kept going and just got stronger and stronger.

Genaration Kill (2008) is: Rob Dukes (Vocals), Rob Moschetti (Bass/Backing/Vocals),Jason Trenczer (Lead Guitar), Jason Velez (Lead Guitar), James DeMaria (Drums). Maybe you recognize the name Rob Dukes the current vocalist from the American trash metal band Exodus. Who said “this album is not an Exodus clone.

Ektomorf Was founded in 1993 in Hungary. Line up Zoltan Farkas (vocals, guitar), Zsabolcs Murvai (bass), Tomi Schrottner (guitar) and Robert Jaska (drums) playing some groove metal – Neo – Trash metal. The Danish producer Tue Madsen (Antfarm Studio) produced their albums sinds 2003. Madsen helped the band to find their very own, super fat, modern and powerful sound that EKTOMORF evolved since “Destroy” (2004) steadily.

It's been ten years since the Canadian punk rockers in Billy Talent released their self-titled debut album. In 2013, they will rerelease the album, but containing two discs. On the first one, you will find the entire first record and on the second disc you will find the bonus material: some demo versions of real Billy Talent classics, an acoustic song and some live songs.

Graves Of Nosgoth is a project born in May 2009 thanks to the experience of four Italian boys of the Modena Apennines: Mirko Capitani, Giammarco Agazzotti, Thomas Volpari And Luca Lometti. Influences USA late 80s heavy metal and beyond there is a wide range of inspiration from the sphere of progressive metal and rock. They released there first album in June 2011.

The 2 numbers “Great Abomination Invocation” and “Ashesgold” contains nice riffs and a straight drums. But there is missing some stability and maturity in the songs…

"A Life To Die For" is the 12the Royal Hunt studio album. The Danish band joined forces with former lead singer DC Cooper, Andre Andersen (keyboard), Allan Sorensen (drums), Andreas Passmark (bass) AndJonas Larsen (guitar).