Latest Metal Reviews
Memories of Machines – Warm Winter (Prog Rock)
12th May 2011 -[gameinfo title="Album Info" album_name="Warm Winter" publishers="Music Theories Recording" genres="Prog Rock" release_date="May 16, 2011" buy_link="http://playcom.at/rocksins/19397645.html"] As beautiful and atmospherically moody prog rock can be, it often lets itself down by offering up a rather flat, flaccid affair. At times, however, it can create something verging on the spectacular; it was only last year that Anathema achieved this in sublime fashion with We’re… Read More »
Hell – Human Remains (Classic Metal)
12th May 2011 -[gameinfo title="Album Info" album_name="Human Remains" publishers="Nuclear Blast" genres="NWOBHM" release_date="13/05/11" buy_link="http://playcom.at/rocksins/19055475.html"] Albums like this really don’t come along too often. In an age where music is so easily accessible and consequentially disposable, it is rare to find an album that will bully its way into your eardrums, kicking out any other bands vying for your attention. Way back when, I would… Read More »
Obscura – Omnivium (Death Metal)
9th May 2011 -[gameinfo title="Album Info" album_name="Omnivium" publishers="Relapse Records" genres="Death Metal" release_date="March 29, 2011" buy_link="http://playcom.at/rocksins/19102227.html"] Whilst many modern day Death Metal bands follow the well-trodden path formed by the genres founding fathers; few deviate from the path in their own unique way quite like Obscura do. Never a band fond of keeping things the same, this German four piece experiment with the peculiar… Read More »
Mayan – Quarterpast Album Review (Death Metal, Prog Metal)
5th May 2011 -[gameinfo title="Album Info" album_name="Quarterpast" publishers="Nuclear Blast" genres="Death Metal, Prog Metal" release_date="19th May 2011" buy_link="http://playcom.at/rocksins/19312258.html"] What would happen if distinctive elements of Epica, Amon Amarth, Dimmu Borgir and Skeletonwitch were thrown into a large mixing bowl, stirred around considerably and then poured into an album? You’d get something along the lines of Mayan. The new supergroup put together by Epica’s Mark… Read More »
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light (Rock)
26th April 2011 -[gameinfo title="Album Info" album_name="Wasting Light" publishers="" genres="Alternative rock, post-grunge,hard rock" release_date="April 12, 2011" buy_link="http://playcom.at/rocksins/18280273.html"] There’s always a considerable amount of hype surrounding a new release by Foo Fighters and Wasting Light has been no different. With promises being made that the album will return to the earlier Foo Fighters sound and the return of original guitarist Pat Smear, excitement for this… Read More »
Amorphis – The Beginning of Times (Folk Metal, Metal, Prog Metal)
25th April 2011 -[gameinfo title="Album Info" album_name="The Beginning of Times" publishers="Nuclear Blast" genres="Melodic Death Metal" release_date="May 30, 2011" buy_link="http://playcom.at/rocksins/19312263.html"] When a band part ways with their frontman it can often send them on a downward spiral of uninspiring fodder, or, it can rejuvenate the collective creativity and send them on a surging incline with a new found purpose. Amorphis, undeniably, are part of… Read More »
Between the Buried and Me – Parallax Hypersleep Dialogues (Metal)
25th April 2011 -From the moment that this EP kicks in, it is clear that this is a Between the Buried and Me album, and they’re not messing around. The first track, Specular Reflection opens with a short orchestral introduction, which sets a grandiose tone for the EP, before launching in to one of BtBaM’s trademark progressive riffs, which despite feeling a tad… Read More »
