Tag Archives: Symphonic Metal
Threads Of Fate – A Funeral For The Virtuous – EP Review
Artist: Threads Of Fate Album Title: A Funeral For The Virtuous EP Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 23 November 2018 Every now and then, along comes a band or a new release that will force me to rethink my views and preferences in a certain area. Today, the release is a four-track EP and Continue Reading »
Kalidia – The Frozen Throne – Album Review
Artist: Kalidia Album Title: The Frozen Throne Label: Inner Wound Recordings Date of Release: 23 November 2018 I am the Man of Much Metal and I pride myself on liking a wide range of the genres, sub-genres and sub-sub-genres of guitar-based music, from melodic rock and pastoral prog at one end, to black and death Continue Reading »
Dimmu Borgir – Eonian – Album Review
Artist: Dimmu Borgir Album Title: Eonian Label: Nuclear Blast Date Of Release: 4 May 2018 Eight years can either seem like a lifetime or the briefest of moments depending on the circumstances and your own personal viewpoint. For many, like me, it can be viewed as a combination of both. If I think of all Continue Reading »
Borealis – The Offering – Album Review
Artist: Borealis Album Title: The Offering Label: AFM Records Date Of Release: 23 March 2018 “…I am thoroughly smitten and would recommend this band to anyone…who likes heavy metal with gusto, plenty of melody, a hint of prog and a healthy symphonic edge. ‘World of Silence MMXVII’ has thoroughly whetted my appetite for Borealis and Continue Reading »
Vinide – Reveal – Album Review
Artist: Vinide Album Title: Reveal Label: Inverse Records Date Of Release: 26 January 2018 Long term readers will know that this site is generally about supporting the efforts of musicians who have taken it upon themselves to create music at the heavier end of the spectrum. Normally, if I don’t like a record, I will Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2017 – Number 11
Welcome to day 20 of my ‘Album of the Year 2017 top 30 countdown’. As I near the top 10 of this year’s mammoth undertaking, I have found it harder than ever to settle on the albums that are deserving of a place in my final ten. I know that I sound like a broken Continue Reading »
Almanac – Kingslayer – Album Review
Artist: Almanac Album Title: Kingslayer Label: Nuclear Blast Date Of Release: 24 November 2017 On paper, a band that features guitarist Victor Smolski (ex-Rage) alongside a trio of vocalists of the calibre of Andy B. Franke (Brainstorm), David Readman (Pink Cream 69) and Jeannette Marchewka (Lingua Mortis Orchestra) is a proposition worth checking out. At Continue Reading »
Serenity – Lionheart – Album Review
Artist: Serenity Album Title: Lionheart Label: Napalm Records Date Of Release: 27 October 2017 A short 21 months since the release of ‘Codex Atlanticus’, Austria’s Serenity return with their sixth album of symphonic melodic power metal, ‘Lionheart’. In my review of ‘Codex…’, I referred to Serenity as ‘one of my very favourites within the melodic Continue Reading »
Daydream XI – The Circus of the Tattered and Torn – Album Review
Artist: Daydream XI Album Title: The Circus Of The Tattered And Torn Label: Sensory Records Date Of Release: 22 September 2017 There’s an age-old saying that ‘first impressions last’ and furthermore, that once made, that first impression can last a lifetime. Fortunately for the young Brazilian prog metal band Daydream XI, there’s another saying which Continue Reading »
Cradle of Filth – Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay – Album Review
Artist: Cradle Of Filth Album Title: Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 22 September 2017 My first Cradle of Filth review for my website was for the eleventh studio release, ‘Hammer Of The Witches’, released in 2015 by Suffolk’s finest extreme metal export. Unconstrained by the shackles of word Continue Reading »
