Pandemics and plagues, who does not like them? It is, I think (no, I don’t think so; I’m sure) one of the final solutions to save our Earth from that other sickness, called Humanity. Pest is a possibility (no further comment for this writing is a new album’s review and not my personal opinion about the detestable place of the human being within Nature and Earthly Life).
J’adore le scène de Québec – cela a toujours été le cas, et cela ne changera jamais. At least, not as long as labels like Sepulchral Productions continue releasing material by superb acts from out there. This excellent label focuses on local bands, especially francophone. A small selection: Forteresse, Utlagr, Gris, Borgne, Sombre Fôrets or Neige Et Noirceur.
Light Your Anchor is a five-piece, German Melodic Hardcore band that was founded in Hamburg in 2011 and they are back with their first full-length album ‘Hopesick’. If you liked their EP ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ than you will certainly love the album, it’s filled with old school melodic and technical hardcore spiced up by the load of variations in style, tempo and structure with a clever combination of screaming and melodic vocals.
In the past Canada has produced many successful and less successful bands like Triumph, Anvil, Harem Scarem, to name but a few. Kemilon also hails from that country, and was formed in 2008 in Montreal.
I was wondering if this Ivanhoe was the same band as the Ivanhoe I bought the 1994 album ‘Symbols Of Time’ from. And indeed it was, although during their 25 years of existence, the ine-up has changed a myriad of times.
Since John Schaffer recruited Stu Block (Into Eternity) on vocals, it seems the career of Iced Earth has been relaunched. Since the release of ‘Dystopia’ in 2011 they’ve toured over the world and played countless gigs.
Russian warriors Hagl were once formed as Darkomen and about a decade ago, they changed their moniker into the current one. Throughout the years, the band recorded two albums (Nearer To Victory, 2005, and Irminsul, 2008), but in both cases it took many years before being able to release this stuff (respectively 2010 and 2011). This time, however, things aren’t turning the slowest way.
Elektradrive is an Italian band, and to celebrate its 24 years of existence their album ‘Due’, originally released in 1989 was re-mastered an reissued. This album puts you right back in the eighties AOR – hard rock scene. Even re-mastered the sound is still very eighties, reminding me of bands like Van Halen, but without the magic guitar work from Eddie. This stuff may be 24 years old, but still sounds very fresh, and if you grew up with this kind of music, and don’t own the album yet, I highly recommend it.
I already reviewed Drive Like Maria’s last full album, and as I told was pretty impressed by what they bring us. So this single does not add much. It contains one track from their last album, as well as a track from their first album ‘Elmwood’, and finally a remix of another song ‘Talk To Me’, a remix I don’t find as good as the original, but that’s my personal opinion.
More than twenty five years ago our beautifully smelly Earth got festered when Autopsy decided to exist. Through miscreants like Severed Survival and Acts Of The Unspeakable, the quartet injected the American Death Metal scene with their own vision of gore and terror, and undersigned was pleased. I saw it was good… Autopsy unfortunately disbanded in 1995 and some of the members continued under the moniker of Abscess, another great, and slightly comparable act with messages of love and peace, evidently.
