Ajal - Ajal Tiba Bila Seruan Menjelma

Ajal - Jahannarakah

Alkonost - Tales of Wanderings

Austerymn - In Death...We Speak

Belegost - Land av evig morke

Black Velvet Band - Pieśni obłąkane

Blaze of Sorrow - Echi

Blodorn - Demo

Bucovina - Sub stele

Chthonic - Bú-Tik

Dawn Of Tears - Act III The Dying Eve

Dead Meat - Stench of Rotten Years

Die Entweihung - Desecration

Ego Fall - Duguilang

Episod - Menanti Kebangkitan

Flegethon - The Absolute Laws of Darkness

Godcider - Triumph V

Invasive - Murder. Death. Kill

Kambing Sakti - Live Satan Apocalypse

King Stench - Ungod

Memorain - Seven Sacrifices

Norhod - The Blazing Lily

Poema Arcanvs - Transient Chronicles

Ram-Page - The Depths of Rage

Realmbuilder - Blue Flame Cavalry

Teardown - Inner Distortions

Trigger - Apocalypse Tomorrow

When Nothing Remains - Thy Dark Serenity

Band: AGHARTI

Country: Croatia

Title: Change

Label: WormHoleDeath

Year: 2013

Style: Gothic Metal

Review:

Young band coming from Croatia, Agharti was founded in 2009 and this is its debut album, a professional release featuring 13 tracks in almost 45 minutes of playing. Agharti seems to be still in experimental stage even though this debut album sounds good and I'm sure will get a lot of good responses. The music is a combination of Gothic Metal, Power Metal, Melodeath, and even Alternative Metal, the production is superb, very powerful and clean sounding, and it gives the impression of a well-thought and carefully crafted album, an impression that will win on listeners' credibility. There are 2 girls in the band, one on keys building up the whole mysterious background atmospheres, and one on vocals who's doing an excellent job as well, so all in all Agharti seems to be a very promising Gothic Metal band with complete potential to reach the top of the European part of this scene.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 9/10

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Band: AJAL

Country: Malaysia

Title: Ajal Tiba Bila Seruan Menjelma

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2010

Style: Black'n'Roll

Review:

I've just reviewed Ajal's debut album a couple of days ago, and here i have their debut demo from 2010. Huge difference between the two, as I suspected. The demo is made of 4 tracks (3 of their own and a cover) and sounds like a combination of Heavy Metal, Hard'n'Heavy, Punk Thrash and Black Metal, can you imagine something like that? Well, although it sounds interesting, it isn't. This is actually an attempt to sound Black Metal, but at the same time is an epic fail; the first track sounds like Black'n'Roll, the second is more Hard'n'Heavy, and the third is Punk Thrash influenced, all with childish Black Metal wannabe vocals and awful guitar solos. A worthless demo in my opinion, but in the end this gives me the oportunity to see how much this band has progressed in less than 3 years, now Ajal is a real band with good potential.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 4/10

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Band: AJAL

Country: Malaysia

Title: Jahannarakah

Label: MTD Productions

Year: 2012

Style: Black Metal

Review:

Ajal means death in Malay so I guess this is a pretty neat band name. They were featured in Pest Webzine's Blitz Quitz section in 2010 and it seems they didn't forget about that and listed Pest in the thanks list; thank you guys, much appreciated.

This is the band's debut album released in 2012 by MTD, limited to 666 numbered copies. Unfortunately the recordings quality is below demo level, I'd say close to a good quality rehearsal recording, so I have my doubts on calling this a proper full-length album, but the music on it is great and after all that's what counts. Ajal proves to be apowerful Black Metal demon unleashing its wrath in form of 7 catchy tracks totaling almost 25 minutes. Quite technical guitar riffs supported by a hard-working rhythm section, occasional solos, and a demented vocalist that screams from the start till the end. With a proper studio recording this material would have been much more powerful and destructive but I'd recommend this CD for the ones of you interested in discovering good South Asian bands, Ajal will soon have a strong say in that scene.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 7/10

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Band: ALKONOST

Country: Russia

Title: Tales of Wanderings

Label: Sound Age Productions

Year: 2013

Style: Folk Pagan Doom Black Metal

Review:

Tittle of this album means „Tales of Wanderings” and Alkonost is a name of one of person from Russian/Eastern Slavonic mytgology. New album is a continuation of Alkonost’s way of metal, this is interesting mx of doom/black, folk and symphonic metal with lyrics based on old-russian tales and legends. Oin 2012 Alkonost changed his crew, now is only 4 person in this band, but album „?????? ??????????” was recorded with ex-members too. Not bad album, long ambient/electronic intro, a lot of quasi-opera female vocals, a lot of musicial nostalgy from Russian’s Tararstan steppes and great, wild spaces, a lot of interesting (for  fans, who speaks russian or understand it) ancient/pagan lyrics.

Reviewed by Vilcin

Rating: 7/10

Band: AUSTERYMN

Country: UK

Title: In Death...We Speak

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2013

Style: Death Metal

Review:

Probably one of the biggest surprises of 2013, Austerymn released this 2 tracks promo CD by themselves and already got a contract to re-release it in tape format, too, and as far as I know they are also swamped with deal offers for a debut album too. But what makes this band so interesting? First its perfect Swedish Death Metal guitar tone, reminding me mostly of Dismember, then the hoarse but at the same time comprehensive vocals, and lastly the catchy compositions. The 2 tracks here are awesome reminders of the best years of the Swedish scene we all miss and everyone's trying so much to copy nowadays. Austerymn succeeded, so grab yourselves a copy of this demo to see if I'm right. Curious how the debut album will sound like, if anything like these 2 tracks we'll have a 2014 Death Metal winner right here.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 9/10

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Band: BELEGOST

Country: Poland

Title: Land av evig morke

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2013

Style: Folk Metal

Review:

This release is essentially EP/ a professionally released demo. For studio recordings sound pretty good and you can hear  that the team has an idea for  a play folk/black/death metal dressed in a Scottish kilt. We'll see how the case develops.

Reviewed by Vilcin

Rating: 7/10

Band: BLACK VELVET BAND

Country: Poland

Title: Piesni oblakane

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2013

Style: Folk Metal

Review:

„Piesni oblakane” (Songs of Madness) is interesting debut album of one of the young Polish folk metal band. Black Velvet Band tries to combine a lot of folk and folklore motifs in lyrics and music with melodic heavy metal and rock. Some of lyrics based on Polish and Ukraine folklore tales and legends, I saw this band live in small club – that was great support for bigger folkmetal bands.  

Reviewed by Vilcin

Rating: 7/10

Band: BLAZE OF SORROW

Country: Italy

Title: Echi

Label: Sun & Moon Records

Year: 2012

Style: Atmospheric Black Metal

Review:

Enchanting, here's a word that could describe the new Blaze of Sorrow album; I've started reviewing it a handful of times and always ended up playing it over and over again and forgetting about the review. Well, in my books that's a well done album, and to be honest I'm also very proud it was released by a Romanian label. Echi basically continues the work started with Eterno Tramonto, so if you liked the 2011 album you'll definitely love this new one, there's much more melody, more acoustic passages, and the Black Metal parts this time seem to have even more feelings. For the ones of you who don't know this band yet I'd say it's a classy combination of fast yet melodic Black Metal with acoustic passages and plenty of rich atmospheres but at the same time keeping it somehow simple and dry, without using synthetic effects. A must have album!

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 10/10

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Band: BLODORN

Country: France

Title: Demo

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2013

Style: Black Death Metal

Review:

Born from the ashes of a former Deathcore act named Outcome, Blodorn released its debut demo this year. It's my first encounter with them and what a shocking encounter was that. Blodorn is following the Black Death Metal (well, probably more Death than Black though) path but they do it so brutally intense it's impossible to ignore them: ferocious vocals (both growls and screams), technical guitar work, walls of blastbeats and rhythms that are actually whipping your ears with brutality. I love it! It sounds so brutal, so modern and at the same time so honest and traditional that I find it sick. Curious where these guys will head next, there still room for improvement and they seem to be on the right lane.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 8/10

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Band: BUCOVINA

Country: Romania

Title: Sub Stele

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2013

Style: Folk Metal

Review:

Romanian melodies, Carpathian spirit and metal riffs reminiscent to the classic sounds 90s This is just the Bucovina! The CD contains 7 tracks where quality is the basis. Great pagan monolith!

Reviewed by Vilcin

Rating: 9/10

Band: CHTHONIC

Country: Taiwan

Title: Bú-Tik

Label: Spinefarm Records

Year: 2013

Style: Melodic Black Death Metal

Review:

Chthonic is a team through unconventional. "Bu-Tik" is yet another album, referring to the complicated history and existence between cultivating tradition and futuristic darkness. Musically - worked out perfectly. It is melodic - but it is and claw. And, as formations of Asia are in the habit, a lot of local folklore is woven beautifully together.

Reviewed by Vilcin

Rating: 9/10

Band: DAWN OF TEARS

Country: Spain

Title: Act III: The Dying Eve

Label: Inverse Records

Year: 2013

Style: Melodic Death Metal

Review:

Ok, I have to admit it; reading the band music genre  I’ve thought of being in front of the yet another copy of Dark Tranquillity, so I have decided to do an experiment:  to listen to the latest album by Dawn of Tears while I was busy doing other things checking  if this one could affect my attention. Well, successful experiment: the album is really well structured, well-arranged, excellent mixing  production and very able band. Shortly, Dawn of Tears born in Spain in early 2000, their first album "Descent"  receives positive comments throughout Europe, as well as the second one that allows them to open the concerts  of the bands undoubtedly best known as Amon Amarth and Dimmu Borgir. Let's cut to the chase, mainly the album belongs to melodic death metal, but "It is not ashamed to wink the eye" to the gothic atmospheres, symphonic with male and female choirs. Very good singer that mostly relies on a deep and accurate growl with brief but well-executed parts of screaming.  A praise for the drummer who is able to support in a perfect way the time changes of the other instruments that make whole quite epic. Technical and prepared the two guitarists, aggressive in death and light as silk in goth parts.The bass player follows everyone with the right sound. The song that have struck me from the first listen is "Silent As Shade", just a word: amazing. It's melodic and decadent at the same time and it is perhaps the track with the best solos of the album. Flaws? Wanting to be so (too) pedant the album after the track number 5, "Silent As Shade", downs the rhythms a bit and it become a bit 'flat'. What can I say? An album that have surprised me, to be had for fans of the genre and to listen for the others.

Reviewed by Rob Gore

Rating: 8/10

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Band: DEAD MEAT

Country: Portugal

Title: Stench of Rotten Years

Label: Murder / Vomit Your Shirt / Sevared / Necrotic / Space Diving

Year: 2009

Style: Brutal Death Metal

Review:

Here's a compilation of all Dead Meat's work so far. The band never released an album although they are around since 1993, so this is the closest thing to an album they are offering, a 23 tracks effort totaling almost 70 minutes of Brutal Death, nothing more, nothing less. I don't like this kind of happy growling vocals that sound like a Little Red Riding Hood gone bad, but I do enjoy the guitar riffs pretty much. So if you're into the nowadays Brutal Death, especially the fun one like the one presented at Obscene Extreme Fest, you should get this CD, it's all you could expect: fast paced rhythms, plenty of blastbeats, uncomprehensive low-tunned growls (effects, of course), headbanging-friendly guitar riffs, unpolished sound. The band was actually darker and more menacing in their early days, so if I were to choose I'd say the earlier Dead Meat is for me.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: -/10

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Band: DIE ENTWEIHUNG

Country: Israel

Title: Desecration

Label: Satanarsa Records

Year: 2008

Style: Black Metal

Review:

Another old release from Satanarsa Records in my mailbox, this time by a one-man-project from Israel under a German moniker, singing, from what I can guess, in Russian... multiculturalism has reached the Black Metal scene too. This is the band's debut album (in the meantime there are already 5 more out) made of 6 tracks and totaling almost 45 minutes of mid-tempo to fast paced Black Metal with repetitive and at times boring rhythms, simple drum-programming and awful guitar solos. Except for the good Black Metal vocal tones I see noyhing worth mentioning here, at least this debut album is much below average, try new shit from Die Entweihung (maybe he improved in the meantime), don't waste your time with this.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 4/10

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Band: DRASTISCH

Country: Italy 

Title: Let Your Life Pass You By

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2012

Style: Instrumental Metal

Review:

Well, Instrumental Metal isn't really a genre of its own, but neither Drastisch's music is on a path of its own. Drastisch is a one man band started in '95 and this seems to be its third full-length album. Basically this feels like a compilation of tracks or track ideas each of them exploring different horizons, different styles. The drum-machine is too synthetic and annoying for my taste, but the guitar work is quite enjoyable, melodic and technical enough to succeed in painting a different dimension, a melancholic but still very synthetic different dimension. To me this music lacks a vocal, lacks a real drummer and a bit more human spirit to be able to generate and inspire emotions, but as a one man studio project, if presented as Chris Buchman's demo for his instrumental abilities, I'd say it's acceptable. I wouldn't pay for it, honestly.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 6.5/10

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Band: DUOBETIC HOMUNKULUS

Country: Czech Republic

Title: Ani já ani ty robit nebudzeme, šedneme do koca, vozit še budzeme

Label: Zero Budget Productions

Year: 2013

Style: Progressive Death Metal

Review:

The fuck was this??? Besides the fact it's completely mind-blowing, it's also very short in length. I wouldn't call this a full-length album simply because it lasts for only 24 minutes, and Duobetic Homunkulus isn't a grindcore band either, so let's say it's the band's debut EP, professionally produced and released in nice digipack format. The music, since one of the 2 guys was previously a member of Czech sickos !T.O.O.H.! (another mind-numbing, crazy-ass outfit unfortunately now defunct), is an insane collage of sounds, sounds that at first audition wouldn't fit at all one with another, but that surprisingly enough are building a solid monolith in the end. The material, as insane and challenging as it is, sounds solid enough to keep you glued to it from start to finish. The guys added lots and lots of effects and instruments/sounds to their core music, imagine a Goran Bregovic gone Death Metal, locked in a Mental Institute but still creating music. You can't? Well, just give these Czechs a listen. The only disapointment is the "album" is only 24 minutes in length.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 9/10

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Band: EGO FALL

Country: China / Mongolia

Title: Duguilang

Label: Mort Productions

Year: 2013

Style: Melodic Death Metal Metalcore

Review:

Death metal with deathcore and thrash additions and a powerful dose of folk. Thrash and steppes of Inner Mongolia In one. 40 minutes 15 seconds specifics! In Asia, the combination of metal and folk are frequent and "Duguilang" confirms that the gentlemen of the Ego Fall are in good form and irrespective of whether these scene also has a good time.

Reviewed by Vilcin

Rating: 8/10

Band: EPISOD

Country: Malaysia

Title: Menanti Kebangkitan

Label: Bloody Bat Production / Empaya Production

Year: 2013

Style: Melodic Death Metal

Review:

Not sure if this is considered a full-length album or an EP, but it's made of 6 tracks totaling a bit more than 25 minutes and the sound quality, although crystal clear, is too dry, too unpolished to be considered a real full-length album (even though I've seen/heard much worse). So as I said the clear recordings allow you to fully discover a band that builds its music on very good melodic guitar leads and solos and generic guitar riffs. The vocals could have been better as the guy seems a bit afraid to give his best, his screams are actually half-screams if you know what I mean, he seems afraid to wake up his neighbors (a common practice nowadays...). The guitars are working well with eachother, and especially the lead guitarist is killer, he give a lot of potential to the band. Also the drum parts are complex and if the drummer performs like this live too, he's to be admired. All in all, although I have no info on this band, I have no idea if this is a debut or if it's the band's 10th release, I'd say it's worth half an hour of your time especially since it's limited to only 50 hand-numbered copies. I'd like to listen more upcoming stuff from this band.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 7/10

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Band: ESOTERICA

Country: USA

Title: Aseity

Label: Forever Plagued Records

Year: 2013

Style: Black Metal

Review:

Debut album from this band or project featuring members with a certain experience already from previous or current bands like: Vital Remains, Benighted In Sodom, Chaos Moon, Krieg, In Ruins, and many other. This is their debut album, a 6 tracks (almost 45 minutes) effort that failed to impress me. Listening to the same drum patterns on each track gets annoying after short time, and the guitars or vocals are not helping much either. Yes, it's brutal as hell, fast and raw sounding, but except for a few Ambient passages there's simply not enough variation on this album, it's dull and boring. Sorry, there are plenty of better releases out there to waste your money on this one even if the guys are experienced musicians.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 5/10

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Band: EVIL

Country: Slovakia

Title: Legenda neskrotných živlov

Label: Hexencave Productions

Year: 2013

Style: Black Metal

Review:

Founded in 2001, Slovakian Evil managed to release its debut album only in 2013, even though in the meantime it released numerous demos, splits and compilations. There are only 6 tracks featured on this album but the total playing time is more than 40 minutes. Music-wise the band reminds me of the '90's Swedish Black Metal scene: fast paced rhythms with occasional melodic touches, and the vocals in Czech/Slovak tradition, Black Metal screams with loads of effects to create a darker atmosphere. Nothing impressive here, but the compsitions are straight-forward, uncompromising, nice-flowing and not boring at all. The sound is good, the packing looks nice (booklet features the lyrics in both Slovak and English), and the release is limited to 500 copies, so there's nothing wrong in giving this a try, you might like it a lot even if its not outstanding.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 7/10

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Band: FETO IN FETUS

Country: Poland

Title: Condemned to the Torture

Label: Black Team Media / Green Lungs Records

Year: 2013

Style: Death Grind

Review:

First of all I must say the cover artwork and the overall presentation of this new Feto In Fetus album is absolutely delicious (luxurious digipack including 12 pages booklet filled with sick artworks). Michal, the band's guitarist seems to have done it all, so respect! A professional artwork always gives an album a unique heaviness and luckily enough in this case the music backs up this heaviness. Feto In Fetus plays an energetic combination of solid Death Metal and ?intense Grindcore, a perfect blend of old-school brutality with modern sound and technology. I can see this album being enjoyed equally by fans of Death and Grind, it's professional to the bone, carefully crafted, aggressive, groovy and catchy, and album that will visit my CD player again, for sure. Recommended!

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 9/10

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Band: FLEGETHON

Country: Russia

Title: The Absolute Laws of Darkness

Label: Satanarsa Records

Year: 2004 (re-release)

Style: Black Metal

Review:

I really don't understand why these 10 years old releases are not sold-out by now, or why is the label still promoting them, it's 10 years for fuck's sake; an explaination would be if the label would keep pressing these CDs every now and then. This is Flegethon's 5th album self-released in 2003 and picked up by Satanarsa a year later. 6 tracks in almost half an hour of fast-paced Black Metal with simple compositions, low-quality drum-programming (also very monotonous), and occasional Funeral Doom-like passages. The only things I like on this release are the very cruel and raw vocals and the cold, desolate atmosphere, the rest is too simple and uninteresting for nowadays, there are plenty of other better bands out there.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 6/10

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Band: GODCIDER

Country: Russia

Title: Triumph V

Label: MTD Production

Year: 2013

Style: Black Metal

Review:

Some acts fail terribly while trying to act as the meanest and most evil of them all, and that's the case of this Russian one-man-project too; I quote from the booklet: "Godcider is always about the hate and misanthropy. We're proud to be true. If you want to support us, kill yourself and somebody else!" Really??? Besides the stupid message, who's "us" if Godcider is acually made by only 1 person? :)) And is this "true" trend still in fashion nowadays??? Sicarius, think twice before listing something on the booklet, otherwise you'll only mock your music...

About the music on this 6 tracks EP limited to only 66 handnumbered copies I'd say it's pretty good, actually much better than I expected after reading the booklet message. Godcider actually sounds quite convincing and catchy even though it chose the traditional Black Metal path without compromises and without any attempt of innovating anything. Triumph V sounds curdled, catchy and above all dark and menacing as any such release should sound. Sicarius has some neat skills on guitar and he manages to come up with interesting structures sounding like limitless walls of death and horror, and even though he uses a drum-machine I have to admit it all sounds good and in the end I'm actually glad to have had the chance to meet with this project's music. I'll certainly keep an eye on Godcider and I suggest you do the same.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 8.5/10

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Band: GUERRA TOTAL

Country: Colombia

Title: El Armagedón Continúa

Label: I Hate Records

Year: 2013

Style: Speed Black Metal

Review:

Well, if Thrash Black Metal seems to be a fashion in the nowadays underground scene, this Colombian band offers us something different that might just be the next fashion: Speed Black Metal, meaning a relentless form of Thrash Metal with Black Metal type of vocals and satanic lyrics and attitude, a Thrash Black Metal on unrelenting speed. Unfortunately the compositions have little of no variety, but you can enjoy the catchy choruses and great guitar solos now and then. The sound is raw and unpolished but that's exactly the right sound for such a release. Recommended to fans of old-school Blackened Thrash Metal.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 7/10

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Band: HELLLIGHT

Country: Brazil

Title: No God Above, No Devil Below

Label: Solitude Productions

Year: 2013

Style: Funeral Doom Death Metal

Review:

Probably the most known Funeral Doom band from Brazil are back with their fourth studio album 3 years after the critically acclaimed ...and Then, the Light of Consciousness Became Hell..., an album I was very impressed myself, too. Judging by that I'd say No God Above, No Devil Below was a highly expected album and the expectations were high, too. The album is very long, the 8 tracks featured totaling 77 minutes of heavy, oppressive and traditional Funeral Doom Death Metal, recommended only to the most fanatics of fans. The vocal part improved and got a bit more versatile than on the previous album, the guitar leads kepts the same catchiness, and the highlight of the band (beside the crushingly heavy atmosphere) remained the few guitar solos thrown in here and there. Overall I wouldn't say the band improved or worsened their music, but I think the expectations were a bit higher than the final offer; nonetheless a recommended album.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 8/10

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Band: ILLINOIS' LOVE FOR CARNAGE

Country: USA

Title: Slam Syndicate

Label: Permeated Records

Year: 2013

Style: Brutal Death Metal

Review:

What I have here is a promo of the Slam Syndicate album, album scheduled to be released in late 2013, but I have no idea if it was released yet. This promo contains 2 new tracks plus 4 featured on the band's 2010 demo and the total playing time is around 25 minutes, but since it looks like a normal CD I think it's available for buying, too. The band is made of 2 guys, an instrumentist taking care of guitars and drums, and a vocal, and they did a pretty good job on the new tracks. The demo has one of the most awful drum (read drum-machine) sound recordings I've ever heard, it literally makes me laugh, and even if the guitar work is ok, the drums' sound and the simple, low-quality guttural vocal approach makes this demo fail. The two new tracks, on the other hand, are much more natural sounding, better produced, the drums are very good this time and the vocals are more versatile; a notable improvement. Brutal and Slam Death Metallers will enjoy this piece of brutality.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 8/10

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Band: IMPERY

Country: Venezuela

Title: I

Label: Satanarsa Records

Year: 2012

Style: Black Metal

Review:

Not sure if this demo was released by the band too before being picked up by Satanarsa as I have the later version which is a good quality pro CDr. Impery is a project of 2 Sagoth members (Sagoth seems to be signed with French label Legion of Death Records now) founded in 2005 and this is their third demo featuring 8 tracks and totaling almost half an hour of fast and intense Black Metal with occasional slow tempoed passages. The drum-machine use is quite annoying but the music is not bad at all eve if not complex or original. I have especially enjoyed the bass lines, and the guitar part could have been on the same level if they would have avoided being so repetitive at times. All in all I is a good demo that made me want to hear more from this band, and I guess that's the primordial point of any demo.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 7/10

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Band: INVASIVE

Country: UK

Title: Murder. Death. Kill

Label: Selfreleased

Year: 2013

Style: Heavy Thrash Metal

Review:

Debut album from this Ipswich based band, Murder. Death. Kill offers us 11 tracks totaling almost 45 minutes of traditional Heavy Thrash Metal with minor Punk influences. Fast rhythms, angry attitude, powerful yet unpolished sound, and Slayer influenced vocals, that's how one could characterize Invasive's music. The tracks sound pretty catchy and they actually remind me of the '80's scene enthusiasm, listeners will certainly feel the same and respect the band, but the only thing they are missing in order to become an influential name, is a better (meaner) band image. I'm sure if they'll adopt a leather'n'spikes image they'll only have to win from it.

Reviewed by Adrian

Rating: 7.5/10

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