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Band: Bereavement

Album: The Advent of Loss

Genre: Progressive Death Metal

Track List:

1. Exordium 1:47          

2. Axis 7:04

3. Ascension 5:19      

4. Eye of the Storm 4:30

5. Loss 5:04

6. Conviction 6:23

7. Wellspring 4:50

8. Ruin 1:18     

Total playing time 36:19

There are quite a few things that are special about the band Bereavement. First, three of the four band members are indeed brothers (Jeremiah, Jonathan and Daniel Martnick), which is a peculiarity......

Band: Akercocke

Genre: Avantgarde Black Metal

Discography: "Rape of the Bastard Nazarene" (2000), "The Goat of Mendes" (2000), "Choronzon" (2003), "Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone" (2005), "Antichrist" (2007)

When you have Satan worshipers playing black metal, the picture you immediately get in your head is a dude with painted face, long black hair, leather pants, jacket and spikes even in his ass. That's why the presentation of the guys of the black metal act Akercocke is so unexpected. They decided to wear complete suits (with tie and shit) ruling......

Another impressive extreme female vocalist goes by the name Cadaveria (the girl, not the band). This Italian metalhead was part of the gothic/black metal band Opera IX from the 90´s until 2001 and in that time she recorded with the band three incredible albums "The Call of the Wood" (1995), "Sacro Culto" (1998) and "The Black Opera" (2000).

Cadaveria´s vocal abilities are awesome, quite a throat there!! She can do with her voice whatever the fuck she pleases, she goes from growls to grunts to clean vocals to screams with no effort. Opera IX in those albums played a very......

Female fronted metal bands are an every day thing. Extreme female vocalists are not. I want to introduce a woman to you all who will make you think twice before calling women "the weak gender". She is Angela Gossow from the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy (if you don't know who they are, well, there's not much I can do for you except to tell you that Arch Enemy is a worldwide acclaim metal force and you should get their albums as soon as you can)

She was born in Cologne, Germany on the 5th of November, 1974.  After being part of two previous metal bands back in 1991 and 1998 (Asmodia and......

Band: Lux Occulta

Genre: Symphonic Black Metal (early)/Technical - Avantgarde Black Metal (late)

Discography: "Forever Alone Immortal" (1996), "Dionysos" (1997), "Major Arcana" (EP, 1998), "My Guardian Anger" (1999), "The Mother And The Enemy" (2001) 

Every band, with the years and every new album, faces the decision: to evolve or to remain the same. Sometimes evolution is subtle, almost imperceptive but other times it is a 180 degrees change.

Well, my......

Band: Age Of Silence 

Album: "Acceleration" (2004) 

Genre: Progressive/Avantgarde Metal 

Track List:  

 1. Auditorium of Modern Movements 03:36

 2. Acceleration 04:30

 3. The Concept of Haste 04:09

 4. A Song For D. Incorporated 04:59

 5. The Green Office and The Dark Desk Drawer 04:17

 6. The Flow at 09:30 am 06:25

 7. Of Concrete and Glass 03:14

 8. 90° Angles 07:19

 9. I No Longer Know If I Am Mad 02:28

 10. Synthetic, Fabricated, Calculated 04:11

 Total playing time 45:08

Another......

Musical taste changes with time. With 2007 gone, i thought in reviewing my list of best metal albums. A lot of good albums may be out of the list, but it will change in the future. Tell me which ones are your favorite metal albums, just to know.

1. "What Stirs Within" by Era Vulgaris

2. "A Sceptic´s Universe" by Spiral Architect

3. "Stronghold" by Summoning

4. "Sublimation" by Canvas Solaris

5. "Swampsong" by Kalmah

6. "Mabool" by Orphaned Land

7. "My Guardian Anger" by Lux Occulta

8. "Sham Mirrors" by Arcturus

9. "Fear Of The Dark" by Iron Maiden

10. "Arcaine Rain Fell" by Draconian

11. "Lake Of Sorrow" by The Sins Of Thy Beloved

12. "The Sound Of Perseverance" by Death

13. "A Virgin And A Whore" by Eternal Tears Of Sorrow

14. "Still......

Band: Shape Of Despair

Genre: Funeral Doom Metal

Discography: "Shades of..." (2000), "Angels of Distress" (2001), "Illusion's Play" (2004) 

I said in a previous post that doom/death metal is an acquire taste. If that is true, it is a lot more applicable to funeral doom metal. Just to give you an idea, funeral doom metal is like to enjoy getting fucked with a spike dildo in the ass (not for the masses!!). The target audience of this subgenre is very small indeed, as it is the number of bands playing this kind of music (Nortt, Pantheist, Skepticism......

Band: Pagan's Mind

Album: God's Equation

Genre: Progressive Metal

Track Listing:

 
01. The Conception 2:02 
02. God's Equation 7:56
03. United Alliance 5:04
04. Atomic Firelight 5:18
05. Hallo Spaceboy (David Bowie cover) 5:30
06. Evolution Exceed 6:08
07. Alien Kamikaze 4:36
08. Painted Skies 6:32
09. Spirit Starcruiser 6:01
10. Farewell 2:10
11. Osiris' Triumphant Return 8:44

A new Pagan's Mind album is always an event to celebrate. I discovered this band a couple of years ago and their debut album "Infinity Divine" made quite an impression in me with its excellent combination of melody,......

Band: Psycroptic

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Most people do not do the effort to really listen to music. That´s the reason why hip hop, pop and regueton exist and in fact they are popular. Just take some good looking fellow or girl, add some repetitive beats with a synthesizer and a catchy chorus and you have a hit in your hands. Music for lazy, stupid people.  

I think that´s atrocious. To me, real transcendental music is the one that obliges the listener to really pay attention, to use his/her brain to discover new things in every spin. This quality can be found......