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Band: Swallow the Sun Album: Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Genre: Melodic Death/Doom Metal Label: Spinefarm Records Release Date:  February 1, 2012 Vivid beauty and a strong imaginative concept come together with goth-doom instrumentation and spacious melodic atmosphere to produce SWALLOW THE SUN’s fifth and latest full length release entitled, “Emerald Forest and the Blackbird.”  This album is a captivating ... Read More »

Hello everyone, Sam here. I’m back again with another review for Der Metal Krieger. This time around, we have something a little interesting. This is definitely one of the more creative albums to be released this year. Hailing from Sweden, we have the new album from BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION entitled Drop = Dead on Napalm Records. Having that strong melodeath ... Read More »

Folk Metal: many thoughts and scenarios come to mind when you hear that term. Maybe you picture Medieval times, or maybe you picture Vikings charging into battle. However there is a theme that rarely sees the surface, and that is the rich Mongolian-Oriental folklore which has had a strong influence on nearly every Western civilization.  The Mongolian Empire was arguably the ... Read More »

A few years ago you may have thought that the idea of Pirates and Metal mixing into an unholy concoction of awesome would be absolutely preposterous.  Then a couple of scallywags, led by the infamous Captain Christopher Bowes, berthed Alestorm, that one band of Scottish-Irish drunkards who successfully brought the Pirate Metal scene to the mainstream.  While there are a ... Read More »

Ein weiteres Folk Metal-Review? Warum nicht. Diesmal geht es um eine relativ unbekannte, finnische Band namens Ensiferum. Scherz beiseite. Es ist mir eine Ehre, zu denen zu gehören, die dieses Album zuerst hören und reviewen durften. Schließlich sind Ensiferum einer der meist-bekannten Folk Metal Bands, was daran liegt das sie wissen, wie man spannende Geschichten zusammen mit epischer Musik zu einem Meisterwerk ... Read More »

Das 10-Jährige Bandjubiläum steht an! Und wie könnte man das besser feiern, als mit einer Neuauflage  der ersten Werke (die EP Vên von 2003 und das Debütalbum Spirit von 2006), die die Band aufgenommen hat.  Zugegeben, das klang anfangs doch relativ unspannend.  Man denkt sich: “Brauche ich sowas?” Und ich muss sagen, ja, denn das Album ist nicht nur was für die absoluten Eluveitie-Fans, ... Read More »

You know you are in hallowed grounds when your name is in the same sentence as Wintersun, Necrophagist, and Duke Nukum Forever.  Artist: The Faceless Genre: Technical Death Metal Album: Autotheism Label: Sumerian Records Release: August 14, 2012 Except this time, The Faceless, are here to play. Autotheism is here, and it is every bit we have come to love ... Read More »

Hello there fellow metalheads! Have you been searching for some new tunes? I bet you have come across some pretty interesting albums over the summer, and making additions to your iPods. I’ll make a bold assumption here, but I’m going to say that most of your favorite bands are made up of epic manly dudes with veins flowing with liquid ... Read More »

Another death metal review? Well why not! This band is much different in the death metal genre, given that they originally started off as a deathcore band. From their Doom EP, to Ruination, to Demonocracy, this band has much to offer. If these albums don’t sound familiar, then you must have never heard of Job For A Cowboy! Their new ... Read More »

My metal brothers and sisters, I bring you something new in the metal world: Djent! Now I know when you all hear Djent, you probably think about Meshuggah and very strange time signatures in the music. Yes they set the grounds for this genre, but there is another name out there who is perfecting this genre. Periphery! Releasing their second ... Read More »