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…
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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…
Autotheism – CLSTVM: Dogma Sculptured in the Flesh
Reviewed: October, 2018 Released: 2018, Self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Italy’s Autotheism take the “go big or go home” philosophy to heart with their second release, a single that is actually twice as long as the EP the mysterious band – a side project of members of (EchO), Quantum…
Spectacularly Majestic! Heavy Metal Collectors: An interview series Part 10: Giulio Botto (Italy)
Spectacularly Majestic! Heavy Metal Collectors: An interview series Part 10: Giulio Botto (Italy) by JP Inspiration can come from a number of unique sources. The concept behind this interview series was developed over time but recently crystallized in my mind. As the owner of a large library I’ve often pondered…
Ultra-Violence – Operation Misdirection
Reviewed: August, 2018 Released: 2018, Candlelight/Spinefarm Records Rating: 4 of 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Boasting a new rhythm section and more authority that they’ve shown in the past, Italy’s Ultra-Violence offer up a third album of muscular “A Clockwork Orange”-inspired thrash that this time plays off a theme derived more…
Levania – The Day I Left Apart
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: 2018, Sliptrick Records Rating: 1/5 Reviewer: Andrew Cook Gothic Metal/Metalcore is how this band has been described, and for this reviewer the title did not fill me with great confidence when this arrived in my inbox make no doubt about it. I’m old school, the only…
Enemynside – Dead Nation Army
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2018, Hatestone Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Enemynside is an Italian group, putting out music (under that name at least, they existed for some time prior as Scapegoat) since around the turn of the millennium, with some line-up changes along the way culminating in a…