Lugburz - Songs from Forgotten Land

2011-01-12 / Medea / Reads: 3554

Lugburz is a project of Sathorys Elenorth, a musician related to rather commonly known bands: Narsilion and Der Blaue Reiter. While creating "Songs from Forgotten Land", the musician was being inspired by "The Lord of the Rings" written by J. R. R. Tolkien, therefore his record was somewhat forced to...

Beati Mortui - Let The Funeral Begin

2011-01-10 / Jo Pawley / Reads: 3786

Beati Mortui are a band I hadn't heard of before until the Enzeit Bunkertracks cd's where I stumbled across a song by them which I quite enjoyed. They have a sound thats like switchblade symphony bumped into reaper. After hearing their song on the Enzeit Bunkertracks album I thought Id...

L'Effet C'est Moi - Tomber En Heros

2011-01-03 / Szyszka / Reads: 4603

Part 1: Pour Le Splendeur D’Empeire Frankly speaking, I have expected something else. This is my first experience with L'Effet C'est Moi, but this doesn’t change anything. Well, I have been prepared for a big war battle but it turned out to be kind of a positional warfare....

The Stompcrash - Requiem Rosa

2010-12-30 / Ajłona / Reads: 3788

What are your associations with gothic music? Depressive mood full of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning is the first thing which crosses your mind, next to the lyrics of martyrdom, death, loneliness and traits of primeval legends. The most important part is that it should be dusky and sullen, placed...

Leaether Strip - Dark passages + Seasons Change - I Don't

2010-12-26 / Pandora / Reads: 5291

And that's the old Leaether Strip again, treating us to his new, 'movie-soundtrack' and electro sounding, two-disc album, which comes out today, that is 13th November. The release features two discs: "Dark passages" and "Seasons change - I don't". The masterpiece opens with an announcement of Claus Larsen, promoting...

Jesus On Extasy - Beloved Enemy + Bonus

2010-12-17 / Akash / Reads: 4530

We always hurt the ones we love, that's a fact which we can't deny. We never talk instead we shoot, that's how we learned it from TV. We're drifting apart. With these words begins the 2nd, re-released album of a German band Jesus On Extasy, entitled Beloved Enemy, featuring...