Reviewed: January 2004 Released: 2003, Witches BrewRating: 3.0/5 Reviewer: EvilG Another new band to my ears this month is Germany’s Scythe. The label bio refers to the band as Atmospheric Death Metal. In this case what that basically means is death metal vocals with a few moments of clean vocals…
Devil Lee Rot – Metal Dictator / Soldier From Hell
Reviewed: January 2004 Released: 2003, Witches BrewRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: EvilG Devil Lee Rot is a new band to me from the fairly new label Witches Brew. To sum up the sound of this band in a sentence is not that hard to do. If you take some classic Iron Maiden…
Hammers of Misfortune – The August Engine
Reviewed: January 2004Released: 2003, Cruz Del Sur MusicRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Night of the Realm The Metal-Rules staff lists for the 2003 top picks are not even posted as I write this review, but mine list is already incorrect. Why the hell did I not rank this album higher? THE AUGUST…
Fatal – Eshkaton
Reviewed: January 2004Released: 2002, IndependentRating: 3.8/5 Reviewer: Night of the Realm Fatal is a young band hailing from France who were nice enough to send me a copy of their 2002 self-released debut full-length, ESKHATON. I admit that I do not know a whole lot about this band because whatever…
Falkenbach – Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
Reviewed: January 2004Released: 2003, Napalm RecordsRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Night of the Realm A masterpiece! I, for one, am happy to see that Vratyas Vakyas has finally recovered from his automobile accident and has brought another Falkenbach album to light. It has been five years since the last Falkenbach offering, but…
Wuthering Heights – Far from the Madding Crowd
Reviewed: January 2004Released: 2004, Locomotive MusicRating: 4.9/5 Reviewer: Night of the Realm Wuthering Heights is a fairly new band in my metal catalog. The 2002 sophomore album from these Danish folk-prog-power metallers, TO TRAVEL FOR EVERMORE really caught my ear when I finally got to hear it several months back.…
Amaran – Pristine In Bondage
Reviewed: January 2004 Released: 2004, Listenable RecordsRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Luxi Lahtinen Wow… now we have a pretty damn unusual musical concept here. The Swedish technical metallers Amaran has a female singer named Johanna DePierre in their line-up who actually can sing a very fine and entertaining way whereas the band´s…