Kommando XY - Welcome to Gestrikland

2009-08-19 / mashenah / Reads: 4538

With their debut album ‘Welcome to Gestrikland’, Kommando XY absolutely stands in the tradition of great Swedish EBM bands such as Pouppee Fabrikk, Spetsnaz or Scapa Flow. ‘Gestrikland’ is the name of a region in Eastern Sweden. It is home to the two members of Kommando XY as well as...

Gary Numan - Pure

2009-08-14 / alucard / Reads: 19236

On "Pure" Gary Numan has definitively proved who is the boss. He’s not a depressed heretic anymore – now he’s the dark messiah himself, what we can already see on the great album cover (Numan has finally ended with his silly photos). For most of his life, Gary composed easy...

Diary Of Dreams - If

2009-08-03 / _Morfeusz_ / Reads: 8352

A little over a year and a half took Adrian Hates to save diary pages and binding his lirycs in music. 12 songs came into being closed on a disc titled "If". After hearing the first-I asked myself whether there is a doctor in the courtroom? Patient-Diary...

A Spell Inside - Loginside

2009-07-25 / Medea / Reads: 3742

‘Loginside’ is the fourth and long awaited album of A Spell Inside. It was published nearly five years after the previous album, ‘Vitalizer’. The reason for this delay was a PC malfunction, that erased almost all tracks prepared for production. Nevertheless, it was definately worth waiting those five years....

Xandria - Salome - The seventh veil

2009-07-17 / mashenah / Reads: 3153

Xandria’s new album is a symphonic goth-metal filled with neoclassical pathos. Unfortunately, the banal pop melodies force us to deal with (forgive me) a metal version of Modern Talking ('Sisters of the light'). Quite a few songs included on ‘Salome’ seem to be perfectly fit for the qualifying rounds of...

Technoir - Deliberately Fragile

2009-07-13 / arachna / Reads: 4527

The album „Deliberately Fragile” was released 19th February 2007 in limited and usual versions. My first meeting with Technoir was by accident (if we are to believe in such things) but if someone calls feeling-lucky search on myspace a purposeful then I agree it was done on purpose. And so...