Someone might say that music is like food. You have a favorite food but if you eat the same thing for days you will hate it! Everyone needs a change. So after being bombarded with doom and “gothic” Metal bands, I wanted a change. And this second album of MOONSTONE PROJECT came like a blessing!
This project is the child of Italian guitar player Matt Filippini. In 2006 their debut album “Time To Take A Stand” was released. Filippini wrote the whole album with a little help from songwriters that were close to him. Since I haven’t listened to this album, I’ll stay [......]
Fifth full album for devoted Euro-power metallers DREAM EVIL, and what we have here is a known recipe, closely followed and embellished with lots of talent and skill. DREAM EVIL have come a long way to establish themselves in an already crowded genre, and what one hears in “In The Night” is a mature band that plays power metal so confidently as if it had been around since the 80’s.
Greece’s favorite hate-spewing machine is at it again. Dodsferd is Wrath, and he lets you know it on every album, and the newest album Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow continues that tradition. However, it isn’t what I expected, it’s even better than that.
After a long road from 2005’s Transgression, Fear Factory have resurfaced once more to give us a new lethal dose of industrial discipline.
’I am scared to death to fall in love,’ admits HIM’s front man Ville Valo on second track “Scared To Death”. To understand the irony of that statement, one must be familiar with HIM and have had listened to some of the band’s previous albums from the past. All throughout their career as a band, Finnish rockers HIM have crafted albums that all center around the lyrical subjects of darkness, vampires, and love. With varying ways as to how they approach each album musically, whether commercial or more aggressive in nature, the band have always held strong to their paradox blend of lyrical s[......]
