[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Gold Cobra” publishers=”” genres=”Nu Metal” release_date=”June 27, 2011″ buy_link=”https://playcom.at/rocksins/12927940.html“] First things first, are you a Limp Bizkit fan? If your answer is no, you might as well stop reading now, this album is not for you. However, if you are a fan, and you’ve been patiently waiting for Gold Cobra since the…
I am by no means an expert of Symphony X, having heard some of their previous albums but not having much more than passing familarity. However when the chance to review their latest offering came along I jumped at the chance, anxious for the chance to review what could be one of the power metal…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Passion” publishers=”Candlelight Records” genres=”Black/grind/filthy metal” release_date=”23/05/11″ buy_link=”https://playcom.at/rocksins/19510678.html”] There is no doubt that Passion has very lofty expectations to live up to, after Anaal Nathrakh’s previous effort, In the Constellation of the Black Widow. Although it’s taken me a while to realise just how good Passion is, it more than lives up to…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Warm Winter” publishers=”Music Theories Recording” genres=”Prog Rock” release_date=”May 16, 2011″ buy_link=”https://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…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Human Remains” publishers=”Nuclear Blast” genres=”NWOBHM” release_date=”13/05/11″ buy_link=”https://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….
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Omnivium” publishers=”Relapse Records” genres=”Death Metal” release_date=”March 29, 2011″ buy_link=”https://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…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Quarterpast” publishers=”Nuclear Blast” genres=”Death Metal, Prog Metal” release_date=”19th May 2011″ buy_link=”https://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…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Wasting Light” publishers=”” genres=”Alternative rock, post-grunge,hard rock” release_date=”April 12, 2011″ buy_link=”https://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…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”The Beginning of Times” publishers=”Nuclear Blast” genres=”Melodic Death Metal” release_date=”May 30, 2011″ buy_link=”https://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….
Note: Dirge will be released for purchase on 23rd May 2011, however, due to the widespread leak on the internet, Earache decided to release the album for download early There can often be a problem with grindcore, and that problem is that after a while it all starts to sound the same, or that, often,…