Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Eclipse Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Hailing from Crema, Lombardy (Italy), Genus Ordinis Dei are a symphonic death outfit who will unleash their third album, Glare Of Deliverance, on the 4th of December. They are signed to Eclipse Records. The ten tracks act as…
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Interview with Genus Ordinis Dei
Interview with Genus Ordinis Dei Tommy Monticelli – guitars, orchestrations Interview by Kira Levine GenusOrdinisDei.com | Big Cartel | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Hello! Thank you for your time, hope that you’re keeping safe and well. Please state your name and position in Genus Ordinis Dei. Hi Kira, I’m Tommy…
Sandness – drummer Metyou ToMeatyou, guitar/vocalist Robby Luckets and bass player/vocalist Mark Denkley
Drummer Metyou ToMeatyou, guitar/vocalist Robby Luckets and bassist/vocalist Mark Denkley – Sandness Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Roberto at Rockshots Records for setting up the interview. Thanks to Rockshots Records for the promo pictures of the band. Promo pictures taken by Alessandro Boschet From Italy comes this three piece…
Reverber – Sect of Faceless
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Punishment 18 Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Italian thrash metal band Reverber return with their third full-length album entitled Sect of Faceless. Founded in 2007 by a group of young musicians with a hunger and a fire to deliver thrash metal at maximum power, Reverber released their excellent…
Moonlight Haze – Lunaris
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 12th June 2020, Scarlet Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Andrew Shirley Moonlight Haze have released their sophomore record through fellow Italian label Scarlet Records and they are every part of their opening description details. Symphonic power metal is the name of their game and it’s something they…
ELDRITCH-Livequake-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Sixteen (April 16th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2008, Limb Rcords Rating: 4/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly…
SECRET SPHERE-One Night In Tokyo-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Fifteen (April 15th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2016 Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly dissimilar and…
Lucid Dream – The Great Dance Of The Spirit
Reviewed: May, 2020 Released: 2020, Sliptrick Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich This has been the longest stretch between album releases for Lucid Dream, the last album coming in 2016. THE GREAT DANCE OF THE SPIRIT is the band’s fourth album, and the conclusion to the trilogy of concept albums begun…
17 Crash – Through Hell And Back
Reviewed: April, 2020 Released: 2020, Volcano Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich With much of the world locking down and staying home, Italy has been hit especially hard by the COVID-19 virus. Considering this sobering reality, 17 Crash’s new album THROUGH HELL AND BACK is a welcome and uplifting headbanging experience,…
Hour Of Penance – Misotheism
Reviewed: [November 2019] Released [2019 Agonia Records] Rating [4.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson If Italy’s Hour of Penance seemed to have gotten stuck in a bit of groove-oriented rut with 2017’s Cast The First Stone, following a decade-long run of stellar death metal that preceded it, it hasn’t taken the band…
Atlas Pain – Tales Of A Pathfinder
Atlas Pain – Tales Of A Pathfinder Released: 2019, Scarlet Records Reviewed: July, 2019 Reviewer: JP Rating: 4/5 The first Atlas Pain album, really caught my ear back in 2017 and I gave it a great review. I’m pleased to day the band has released their sophomore effort and it…
Die On Friday – Revolution
Reviewed: [July 2019] Released [2019 Buil2Kill Records] Rating [3/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson There once was – and perhaps still is – a band called Cidodici from Bergamo, Italy, who described their sound as a mix of old school thrash and “nu/modern” metal that have been kicking around since the late…
ULVEDHARR – World Of Chaos
Reviewed: June, 2019 Released: 2019 on Scarlet Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter ULVEDHARR. This gig has thrown up some incredible band names before, but this one is certainly an interesting one. A cursory glance across the interwebs gives no immediate alternative translation, nor anything else apart from the band…
Heroes Of Forgotten Kingdoms – Dragonslayer
Artist: Heroes Of Forgotten Kingdoms Title: Dragonslayer Label: Underground Symphony Released: 2018 Reviewed: June 2019 Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP One thing we can always count on is the glory and majesty of Italian Power Metal and the one label always willing and able to deliver it, Underground Symphony. Unfortunately the…
Kalidia – Vocalist Nicoletta Rosellinio and Guitarist Federico Paolini
Kalidia: Nicoletta Rosellinio and Federico Paolini Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Emil Westerdahl at Inner Wound Recordings for setting up the interview. Thanks to Inner Wound Recordings for the promo pictures of the band. Italian melodic/power metal band Kalidia’s brand new second album THE FROZEN THRONE hit stores late…