Mystified - Passing Through the Outer Gates

2011-05-08 / Ankara / Reads: 4049

First Fallen Star label serves us a kind of unusual concept of musical journey: Passing Through the Outer Gates is the first album of Eulogy Series, which is nothing but the artists’ ‘soundtrack for their own death’. An ambitious, untypical and controversial subject, that means being exactly the way a...

Leaether Strip - Civil Disobedience

2011-05-04 / LittleCuteWitch / Reads: 5345

Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry. These words from Manifesto of Futurism are a very good description of the Leaether Strip’s album entitled Civil Disobedience. This album is full of hate, venom and aggression. All this sounds like ideas cried out during a demonstration, brings...

Cold Fusion - Simmetria

2011-05-02 / witalis / Reads: 6129

Marcin Bachtiak and his Cold Fusion. The latest proposition comes in a form of Simmetria - the album which consists in the skillful amalgamation of the military music with neoclassical inspirations and the imperfection of the emerging sounds, which climbs upwards touching the redness of the Sun, while metal...

Stahlmann - Stahlmann

2011-04-24 / Jo Pawley / Reads: 3278

Stahlmann I discovered funnily enough through an advert for this album and me being me and liking to discover new bands whether good or bad thought id check them out out of curiosity. Founded in 2008, entered 2009 with the debut EP 'heartbeat' in the top 20 of theGerman...

Analog Angel - Dischord

2011-04-22 / FilipRoland / Reads: 5366

The best fragments from the Analog Angel’s debut album titled Dischord are these in which the band doesn’t sound familiar to Depeche Mode. Unfortunately, there are hardly any such moments. That‘s a pity because the group seems to have a potential and with respect to their performance it presents itself...

Sthilmann - Electro To The Trance

2011-04-18 / shade / Reads: 2702

As always happens with singles, they need a particular approach. The first step is to review the same piece which occurs in few different variations and secondly, to pay special attention to those positions which were favoured by the reviewer. However, sometimes the song sounds good only in one version...