A.C.O.D. - Another Path...
Achelous - Al Iskandar
Amon Sethis - Part II - The Final Struggle
Anksunamoon / Esphares / Dor Feafaroth - The Mist
Arcane North - Enter the Arcane North
Ashes to Ashes - Borderline
Bioscrape - Exp. Zeroone
Det Vidaapne Gap - The Temple of the Mind
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Druknroll - Tochka kipeniya
Dunkelnacht - Revelatio
Epta7 - Eptasystem
Fathomhell - KvrX
Fred & The Living Deads - Fred & The Living Deads
Grimwald - The Berserker
Heboidophrenie - Origin of Madness
Infection - Acrotomophile Mutilator
Insulters - We Are the Plague
Iugulatus - Satanic Pride
Kvity Znedolenykh Berehiv - Za nebokray mriy
Levania - Renascentis
Page 2:
Meat Train - Flesh Made Man
Morbid Pest - Loculo D'Orrore
Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus - Synkka Tuuli
Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus - Vainamoinen
Nocturnal Depression - Near to the Stars
Poppy Seed Grinder - Promo 2014
Primal - Prophetae
Profundus Tenebrarum - Hate Decade (Demo Compilation)
Purulent Rites - '13
Restless Oblivion - Sands of Time
Selfmachine - Broadcast Your Identity
Sickness - Necrosymphonies of Necropsy
Sights of War - For I Am...
Sovengar - Vindicta et Gloria
Three Sixes - Know God, No Peace
Unswabbed - Tales from the Nightmares vol.1
Vengeful Ghoul - Timeless Warfare
Wintercult - The Last Winter
Ymir's Blood - Voluspa Doom Cold as Stone
Band: A.C.O.D.
Country: France
Title: Another Path...
Label: Self-released
Year: 2014
Style: Extreme Metal
Review:
First time I meet this French band although they are active since 2006 and have released 2 full-length albums until now. This EP is made of 5 new tracks with a total playing time of 21 minutes, a blend of evrything one could think of, on a Thrash Metal backbone though. The band makes use of 2 vocalists, but from my point of view the only track they do make sense and they are completing each other is the third, Unleash the Fools, track I find the be the best on this EP. The band has good instrumental skills and the music is quite catchy and modern enough to capture the attention of the new generation, too, so I'd see fans of Arch Enemy or Behemoth for example (this for you to get how large is these guys's range of influence) enjoying this band. Definitely not a boring release, I'd recommend it if you're in search for something different, something hard to label.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7.5/10
Contact:
www.reverbnation.com/AcoDtheband
Band: ACHELOUS
Country: Greece
Title: Al Iskandar
Label: Self-released
Year: 2014
Style: Epic Heavy Metal
Review:
Fresh duo from Greece presenting us here their debut demo, a 3 tracks effort totaling 15 minutes of old-school Metal. To some extent this demo reminds me of the begining of the 2000's Italian scene that was so full of new, uninteresting bands that went nowhere (of courseI'm not speaking about all of them, but the major part): the pronounciation is horrible and I have no idea why they haven't chosen their native language, especially since the lyrics are quite clichee and are bringing nothing new to the scene, the vocals are quite dull, both the male vocals from the first 2 tracks and the female vocals from the third track, the drum-machine is a minus as well, and to end this public slashing, I was also expecing some faster parts, at least here and there, but the whole is slow to mid-paced rhythmed, quite boring. I only liked the acoustic guitar insertion from the third track, the guitar leads from the first and second track, and the fact that they have some interesting ideas (unfortunately they are not skilled enough to build on those ideas). It's not an awful demo, but they need much, much more work to become a force...
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 6/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/pages/Achelous/226987220830466
Band: AMON SETHIS
Country: France
Title: Part II - The Final Struggle
Label: Doweet Records
Year: 2014
Style: Progressive Metal
Review:
After a first audition, without reading the info material I got together with the disc, I thought I'm dealing here with an Egyptian band, that's how well they manage to immrse and confound themselves in/with the Egyptian culture and mythology, that's amazing. The French Amon Sethis offer us here their second full-length album, a 10 tracks effort totaling almost 70 minutes of Progressive Metal. In my humble opinion they would have better released a 50 minutes masterpiece instead of a 70 minutes album where some of the tracks are not at all at the high level these guys are as instrumentists and composers, and here I'm not referring to the last track that's 26 minutes (!!!) in length, on the contrary, that's the best track on this album. The Final Struggle (the final track) is a masterpiece in its own, it's its own world and its own master, way, way better than the previous tracks where I honestly thought they are trying to play Funeral Doom Metal and don't really know how, that's how much repetitive and monotonous some parts are. Amon Sethis' members are amazing instrumentists, but this is a controversial album, at least for me: I hate most of the first 9 tracks on it and really love a couple of the and of course the last track; the band plays an intricate (how else?) form of Progressive Metal highlighted by an excellent vocalists, powerful bass lines, occasional growling wocals and Prog Death Metal influenced parts, atmospheric keyboard backgrounds, frantic drums, catchy guitar riffs and above all an awesome Egypt-inspired lyrics themed concept. Try it yourselves, it definitely deserves a listen.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8/10
Contact:
www.amonsethis.com
Band: ANKSUNAMOON / ESPHARES / DOR FEAFAROTH
Country: Russia / France / Russia
Title: The Mist
Label: Dark East Productions
Year: 2013
Style: Black Metal
Review:
It's not often I see such a three-way split between Black Metal bands nowadays, although a decade ago they were being released by the ton. This is a 100% Black Metal split between 1 French and 2 Russian bands released by Dark East Productions in CD format with 4 pages booklet featuring lyrics and additional info.
Opening the split is the Russian duo Anksunamoon with 3 track totaling 6 minutes of catchy but unimpressive Black Metal, fast paced and supported by very good sound quality. Nothing to stand out but I can appreciate the traditional and honest approach and delivery.
Esphares from France is a one man band started in 2008 delivering fast paced Black Metal (a la second wave of Scandinavian Black Metal) with quite melodic guitar leads, a bit more variety and good technical skills but awful sound and awful vocals; although they sound ok in this context, they lack of any power, they all seem whispered, it gives you the impression the guy recorded in his bedroom while his parents were sleeping. Well, all in all it's an interesting 13 minutes, and if Mortiferiis improves the sound quality next time we might get a nice treat.
Russian Dor Feafaroth is the only live band on this split, a band founded back in 1999 that released a couple of other splits and EPs but no full-length album so far. Unfortunately beside the very good, raw and cruel vocal tone, I heard nothing interesting on their tracks; the guitar riffs are few and repetitive, with no identity, the drums seem to be programmed and sound way too synthetic, the rhythms are boring, and that's about it, a disapointment.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 6/10 7.5/10 4/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/pages/Esphares/326214997422300
www.vk.com/dorfeafaroth
www.darkeastproductions.weebly.com
Band: ARCANE NORTH
Country: UK
Title: Enter the Arcane North
Label: Self-released
Year: 2014
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Review:
Wow, a nice surprise from UK, this one man band's debut EP consists of 3 long tracks totaling half an hour of calm, relaxing but also evil and aggressive Black Metal. At first it clearly reminded me of Burzum, but later on I found out more in Arcane North's music, a combination of what we call Atmospheric Black Metal nowadays with what we used to call Medieval Black Metal back in the end of the '90's - begining of the '00's, very expressive, very well thought, composed and executed, with no trace of synthetic feelings even though it's a one man band, I'd say this Arcane North entrance is a glorious one, one that will certainly bring William a record deal, and already Glorious North Prod. is officially distributing this release, so the premises are great. Back to the music on this EP, I'd still strongly recommend it to fans of Burzum or Summoning although it's definitely not a copycat. A better sound quality would be a must for the next release although this is not bad either. Go grab a copy right away, as far as I know they are very limited.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/ArcaneNorth
Band: ASHES TO ASHES
Country: Italy
Title: Borderline
Label: Underground Symphony
Year: 2013
Style: Alternative Metal
Review:
These guys (and a girl) are much more Metal than they look, and their music is much more powerful than the genre labelling Alternative Metal would suggest, I was surprised to find in Ashes to Ashes beside the obvious melodic part, also a modern, very aggressive one that keeps the listener interested from start to finish. This debut album was recorded in USA, not a very usual thing to do for an Italian band, but that had an important touch on their sound. In fact it's quite difficult to pinpoint Ashes to Ashes in terms of infuences in both sound and music, but I'd say it's a combination of Alternative Metal with Gothic Metal, Power Metal and even a touch of Metalcore, the whole sounds fresh and highly interesting, the album has both energetic (filled with breakdowns and even growls) tracks and some more soft and even fit for regular noon radio shows. The highlights of this band are definitely the female vocalist, Marta, who besides her angelic and enchanting clean vocals throws in some amazing, outstanding screams and growls (in fact at first I thought the band has 2 vocalists, her and a guy...), and she also plays the keys part in the band, not to overlook; then the classy, technical and very tasteful guitar work that will make you fall in love with this album instantly. there are some tracks that are not at the overall level of this release, but time will correct those flaws. All in all an excellent debut album from a new band with impressive potential.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8.5/10
Contact:
www.ashestoashesband.com
www.undergroundsymphony.it
Band: BIOSCRAPE
Country: Italy
Title: Exp. Zeroone
Label: Overdub Records
Year: 2014
Style: Hardcore Groove Metal
Review:
Since I don't follow that much the Hardcore scene, I have no idea how the things are moving there nowadays, but I'm sure Bioscrape would have no restraints in attacking the tops. To me this debut album of their sounds like a successful combination of Hardcore, Thrash and Groove Metal heavily influenced by bands like: Pantera, Fear Factory, Korn, Machine Head or Soulfly. Catchy structures, fast rhythms, lots of anger, excellent guitar hooks, diversity, crystal clear sound and powerful production, and poetntial to be the next big thing, at least in their country. probably if the vocals vould have been a bit more comprehensive this album would have been even better, but that's only a minor complaint, as a whole Exp. Zeroone is a kick-ass dose of groovy and angry Metal.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8.5/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/BIOSCRAPE
www.overdubrec.com
Band: DET VIDAAPNE GAP
Country: Norway
Title: The Temple of the Mind
Label: Archaic Sound
Year: 2013
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Review:
Debut demo from this project fronted by Nevresch from Hat, a name you'd probably heard lately since their recent album on Abyss Records was quite well promoted. Nevresch first released this demo by himself and later got the re-release deal from Archaic Sound so he added an intro and a few more minutes to one of the tracks; The Temple of the Mind as released by Archaic Sound is made of 2 long tracls + intro + outro, totaling 21 minutes of misanthropic, nihilistic, horrifying mix of Ambient, Doom and mid-tempo Black Metal, with influences from Death Metal and even Gothic Rock as well, an expressive piece of music that I would have appreciated much more if I wouldn't knew it was mostly improvised and recorded in one take, and that to me means lack of care for the listener (why should we care about the artist if the artist doesn't give a fuck on us?). Well, it's much better and expressive than most of the stuff around these days so I have to give credit to this talented musician. What I liked the most about this demo were the spooky whispers inspiring death, and the elegant release by Archaic Records ( 3 folds digipack CD including lyrics), fans of Suicidal / Depressive stuff will definitely love it.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8.5/10
Contact:
www.archaic-sound.com
Band: DOMAINS
Country: Spain
Title: Sinister Ceremonies
Label: The Sinister Flame
Year: 2014
Style: Black Death Metal
Review:
I've read about this album just the other day in an interview with The Sinister Flame's owner and I was struck by how much dedication and trust he puts in this release of his, of how confident he is that Sinister Ceremonies is one of the best releases in this genre nowadays, so obviousely that made me curious, I had no idea I had a copy of it in my "to review" stack of material. So right from the first track the listener is greeted by a cryptic, obscure, evil and old-school (a la '90's) Death Metal with heavy influences from Black Metal on the atmosphere. There's so much variation and at the same time the trio keeps everything catchy and memorable in order for the listener to deeply enjoy their offering. I love the raspy but comprehensive vocals, the guitar solos and excellent leads, and the oppressive atmospheres, a really expressive piece of evil music, quite balanced in compositions without being boring at all but also without giving a definite album hit to pierce the scene with; and I think that's the only gap of this release, not having a track to stand out from the other. Anyway, Sinister Ceremonies is exactly what their label promotes, a masterpiece of our times, so make sure not to miss it!
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 9/10
Contact:
www.domainsoftheendless.com
www.thesinisterflame.com
Band: DRUKNROLL
Country: Russia
Title: Tochka kipeniya
Label: Metal Scrap Records
Year: 2014
Style: Melodic Heavy Thrash Metal
Review:
Not sure how much success this band could have outside Russian speaking territories, but I'm sure in their lands they have a pretty important chance of hitting high levels of the Metal scene with their Russian lyrics, catchy choirs, intricate but at the same time easy to digest compositions, melodic touches and hooks all over. This third album from Russian Druknroll is way better than the previous effort, the band is mature and now able to create memorable tunes for their fans. A mixture of Heavy Thrash with Hard'n'Heavy with a powerful melodic edge, quite a lot of grooves, excellent guitar work, good vocal part, and complex rhythm section, what else to say, I'm impressed by how much I liked this new release from Druknroll.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 9/10
Contact:
www.vk.com/druknrollcommunity
www.metalscraprecords.com
Band: DUNKELNACHT
Country: France
Title: Revelatio
Label: WormHoleDeath Records
Year: 2014
Style: Black Death Metal
Review:
Wow, here's exactly what I find missing in the Black Metal scene of Today (and even before...), intense, overwhelming and technical guitar work! Lille based DunkelNacht prove to have reached their complete maturity as a band 9 years after their foundation, with this second full-length album, Revelatio, an 11 tracks effort totaling around 45 minutes of technical, melodic, fierceful, expressive, tight and at the same time laid back mix of Black and Death Metal. The guitars are flowing from everywhere, all the time, diverse, jaw-dropping, intense guitar riffs, leads, solos and even melodic interludes (everything you can think of in a complete Heavy Metal band), the drums are tighter than a virgin, leading your thoughts to the mathematical precision of fellow countrymen Gojira, the vocals are vicious and razor-sharp, supported from time to time by good clean vocals, and the overall atmosphere is impressive, professional and fresh sounding. Great effort, these guys deserve more attention and credit, go check this album at once.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 9.5/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/pages/DunkelNacht/111329075584449
www.wormholedeath.com
Band: EPTA7
Country: Ireland
Title: Eptasystem
Label: Self-released
Year: 2014
Style: Industrial Metal
Review:
Industrial Metal is what these guys (and a girl) are trying to achieve through their band and the influences for this debut EP are quite obvious fromn the Industrial side of Metal, with a touch of Alternative and Nu-Metal also. I think the vocalist has great potential to make it in this scene, and I've also enjoyed a lot the bass lines, probably the only tough that makes the band stand out, but that's obviously not enough. The compositions are stale, the guitar riffs are dull and uninteresting, and the drums are too synthetic, probably programed. Anyway, if they step up a bit and keep the same vocalist and bassist, they might make it in this scene, but I might be wrong, too, since I'm not an expert in this genre, that's whay there's no rating either.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: -/10
Contact:
www.epta7dublin.blogspot.ie
Band: FATHOMHELL
Country: Spain
Title: KvrX
Label: Cold Raw Records
Year: 2014
Style: Black Metal
Review:
Basically a solo project of Ludwigar, Fathomhell started in 2010 and released its debut EP 2 years later, and EP that seems to have been heavily promoted by the artist himself (if you Google it you'll find quite a lot of reviews). Probably that made Cold Raw Records offer him a deal, and here's how this second release came to life. It's a 2 tracks (+ intro) material that also features the first EP as a bonus, the only problem from my point of view being its limitation to only 66 copies. The sound on these 2 new tracks improved, at least the guitar sound, but the drum programs didn't, and they are becoming annoying after a while (at least to me). The music is straight-forward mid tempo to fast paced Black Metal, Swedish type, with raw, blasphemous vocals, intelligent compositions, good guitar riffs, and is quite catchy and expressive at the same time. A bit more work on execution is needed, and a few more hooks, to make this band a strong name in the underground, but the basics are there, and this is a promising act already.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7.5/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/Fathomhell
www.pontefractummelancho.wix.com/coldrawrecords
Band: F.R.E.D. & THE LIVING DEADS
Country: France
Title: FRED & The Living Deads
Label: Self-released
Year: 2013
Style: Modern Melodic Rock
Review:
What to write about a music you know nothing about or at least on a professional level? Well, once again I get material that's way out of our range, but as a fan of music in general I'd say I have enjoyed it quite a lot and I think this CD will visit my CD player again at least while travelling, because although it's modern and has that juvenile, US high-school-like feeling it also has a certain old-school Hard Rock atmosphere all over given especially by the tight guitar riffs. I have enjoyed this and I can actually see this band reaching a TV-level status in short time; as a debut EP this one is impressive, solid, mature and catchy Rock music.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: -/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/FredAndTheLivingDeads
Band: GRIMWALD
Country: Italy
Title: The Berserker
Label: Vacula Productions
Year: 2014 (re-release)
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Review:
This is Grimwald's second EP initially released by the band in 2009, and now re-released by Vacula Productions in CD format. The disc features the five initial tracks plus a bonus totaling more than half an hour of quite traditional type of Black Metal with heavy Ambient touches. Unfortunately the sound is not crystal clear, and I say unfortunately because I can (barely) hear some interesting backgrounds created by guitars and keys here and there, backgrounds that if mixed a bit more in front, would have made this release much more interesting. It's not a bad release but it doesn't stand out either. Dark and mysterious mid-tempo to fast paced Black Metal that's well aimed but not there yet.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7/10
Contact:
www.grimwaldofficial.com
www.vacula.com.ua
Band: HEBOIDOPHRENIE
Country: France
Title: Origin of Madness
Label: Self-released
Year: 2013
Style: Death Metal Deathcore
Review:
Debut album from this young Bordeaux based band founded in 2010, Origin of Madness is made of 9 tracks _ intro + outro totaling almost 40 minutes of groovy and quite catchy mix of Death Metal and Deathcore. The sound is crystal clear so you'll be able to follow each and every instrument in part, and luckily there's quite a lot to follow on guitars and vocals: the guitars are, from my point of view, the best element in Heboidophrenie's music, all riffs are killers, all of them hook you up, and the vocalist is trying his best to be as versatile as possible and on a certain degree he does a good job but the inhales are awful, I can't stand them at all, they have nothing scarry or menacing as the genre would require. The drums are programmed and at times sound awfully synthetic and cheap, and that brings down the whole release, but if you can get over that you'll discover a band that's keen to experiment, a band that has the potential to compose some tight stuff, I'd recommend this album just to get a taste of their potential, to get a taste of these solid and involving guitar riffs. The cover and booklet artwork is genious, I love it, the artist taking care of it is a real talent; the albums come is a professional digipack CD format including a 12 pages booklet featuring all lyrics and sick artwork, from this point of view it's well worth your money.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/Heboidophrenie
Band: INFECTION
Country: Peru
Title: Acrotomophile Mutilator
Label: Self-released
Year: 2014
Style: Death Metal
Review:
5 years after their debut album Necrokindergarden, the Peruvian combo Infection are back with a followup, an album made of 11 tracks totaling a bit more than half an hour, and highlighted by the insane vocal part (the guy seems to sing literally from start to finish - who the fuck remembers all these lyrics? The good thing is they are little comprehensive, so live he has an escape), the technical and somehow progressive guitar lines on both riffs, leads and solos, and the unrelenting rhythm section (also the bass lines are pretty upfront, and that's well built within the whole material). The album misses a soul, it sounds too mathematic, too programmatic, and there are less hooks than I would have expected, but as a display of technical skills Infection are top-notch. Still that's not enough and this album won't stand out in our nowadays overcrowded scene. Anyway, fans of brutal and technical Death Metal should give it a try, Infection deserve a chance, now it's up to them how many fans they convert.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7/10
Contact:
www.infectionmetal.com
Band: INSULTERS
Country: Spain
Title: We Are the Plague
Label: Unholy Prophecies
Year: 2013
Style: Death Metal
Review:
Sick-looking release from Unholy Prophecies: vinyl-like CD in 7" vinyl booklet on black/white cardboard, old-school to the bone, although this might confuse some vinyl affictionados at some point, too. Anyway, the look of this CD is in perfect tone with the music on it: old-school Death Metal, putrid, fast, dirty as hell, heavily influenced by the old Punk/Thrash/Black scenes and also by the Swedish Death Metal movement, too. 11 tracks in a bit more than 30 minutes, not a groun-breaking album, but definitely one that will bring this band a lot of fans that are recently supporting this old-school revival. The vocalist is damn ferocious, insane and makes 75% of this band although the instrumental part is not bad at all either, but the band misses an own path, something original. Hopefully they'll find their own way soon, but until then you should definitely get this album, at least for its vinyl look.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/insulters666
www.unholyprophecies.com
Band: IUGULATUS
Country: Poland
Title: Satanic Pride
Label: The End of Time Records
Year: 2013
Style: Black Death Metal
Review:
This band now activates under a new moniker, Architects of Disease, and they already have a new album under the new name, album that was reviewed by me earlier this year, but since I have received this for a review I can't just ignore it. Satanic Pride is Iugulatus' second full-length album, a 5 tracks effort totaling almost 45 minutes of technical Black Metal with Death Metal influences. The problem is they are trying to be as intricate as possible and that leaves a lot of empty spaces where the listener might get bored, all this although they seem to be pretty good instrumentists, and the rest of their music is tight and interesting featuring old-school type guitar riffs, leads and solos, a powerful bass line, good drumming and almost comprehensive hoarse vocals all combined offering a dark, mysterious and with a hint of progressive (well, at the '90's standards) Extreme Metal. The sound is organic, good enough, but the mix becomes chaotic at times and you have a hard time understanding what happens. Anyway all in all this is not a bad album, although Poland has much better offerings nowadays.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7/10
Contact:
www.facebook.com/pages/Iugulatus/172966546085152
theendoftimerecords@gmail.com
Band: KVITY ZNEDOLENYKH BEREHIV
Country: Ukraine
Title: Za nebokray mriy
Label: Self-released
Year: 2014
Style: Atmospheric Doom Death Metal
Review:
Metal Archives says that the band name can roughly be translated as The Flowers of Crestfallen Shores, and with a debut EP titled (as Google Translate says) Over the Horizon of Dreams, I think you can get a pretty clear idea on what kind of music we're treated with here. This is not a real band, it's actually a one man project started last year, and Za nebokray mriy is its first studio material featuring 2 tracks and lasting for more than 20 minutes of Atmospheric Doom Death Metal. Nothing out of the ordinary or excessively interesting here, but I'd have to give credit to Dmytro Pryymak for not delivering a boring release; the 2 tracks are interesting, emotional and have a pretty good flow and catchiness, so for a debut release it can be an impressive display, it's a good starting point. The sound is very good, the compositions are not monotonous even if they are following already overused Doom Death patterns and bring nothing new to the table. fans of Solitude Productions' releases will certainly find this project interesting, and it's also interesting to see where this guy will go in the future, he's a promise.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 7.5/10
Contact:
www.uakvity.com
Band: LEVANIA
Country: Italy
Title: Renascentis
Label: WormHoleDeath Records
Year: 2013
Style: Gothic Metal
Review:
A year after the release of their debut album Levania are back with a new studio full-length release and that proves seriousness and dedication, in my books that's a plus in their favor. I have reviewed the first album and wasn't impressed that much, but they've stepped up a bit in the meantime, the band image is more professional and the music is nuch more solid. The guitar parts are the best element in Levania's music, but I have to appreciate the good approach of the keyboard parts and also most part of the vocals reaching lots of tonalities, from clean, melodic vocals to operatic female vocals, to male whispers and male growls and clean vocals, a broad range, although at some point the vocals sound really awkward (when the girl tries to go higher than her abilities allow and when the guy bets too much on is clean vocals, or when he supports the female vocals with Black Metal like shrieks in the background), but all in all the new album is much better than their debut on compositional level, the next step would be to define their abilities, stick to what they can and try to improve, but I'm sure they have all the chances to succeed. A good taste of Italian Gothic Metal.
Reviewed by Adrian
Rating: 8.5/10
Contact:
www.levania.net
www.wormholedeath.com