Tag Symphonic
You’ve got to admire Atrocity for being totally un-taggable! You can’t pigeon-hole Atrocity…usually because the band themselves don’t really know what particular genre their next album will be! They’ve given us albums in the style of Death/Industrial/Gothic/Technical Death/Folk/Dark…you get the… Continue Reading →
I’ve heard enough of Persefone to know that they don’t operate in half measures. I go back with them to “Core” (2006), their second album which exuded heavily complex patterns, which are clearly their trademark. So it was too with… Continue Reading →
On first listen it’s an easy job to review this Austrian Metal band’s 4th CD of premier-league, top quality, Symphonic Power Metal. It hasn’t deviated in style from previous release ‘Death & Legacy’, so most of it sounds like Sonata… Continue Reading →
‘Limbo’. Quite apt as it goes… Italy’s Symphonic Neoclassical Progressive Power Metallers (!) Derdian have spent their last 3 albums exploring the realms of their self enforced Fantasy land trilogy, limiting them lyrically and planting them firmly in the shadow… Continue Reading →
Abiding candidly to the musical cultivation of their roots, inherent to Germany is the Symphonic Black Metal act “Totengeflüster” with their debut release “Vom Seelensterben”. What is very compelling and interesting about the album is their choice to perform in… Continue Reading →
Firstly being advocate of the English language it annoys the hell out of me when I see words like saviour, colour etc spelt without the ‘u’; crikey it really annoys me in fact. Be that as it may I will… Continue Reading →
This is an Italian power/symphonic metal band with a few traditional elements to their musical scores. Originally I have a preconception that this would be everything that was around over ten years ago in this age of regurgitation. However, I… Continue Reading →
Apparently this Spanish symphonic and operatic band formed in Spain in 2005 and recorded just one song which got immediate airplay and inspired the band to write more. I would kind of like to go and find whoever played the… Continue Reading →
Ooh this sounds good, thought I as giving it a spin. It also sounded slightly familiar too and I tried to place it all in the grand scheme of things. Luckily a quick glance at the ever useful Metal Archives… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the V-Lodge. Founded over 100 years ago in Victorian times, this was a place all about decadence when visual beauty was an aesthetic that had to be followed by anyone with serious notions about joining the aristocracy, well… Continue Reading →
Yes indeedy, things do not get much more Germanic than this. Hailing from deepest darkest Bavaria Draumar is the name of this project as well as the assumed moniker of the main man behind it, the person we are told… Continue Reading →
This German quartet is definitely melodic metal, and while I tend to listen to a fair share of melodic death metal this stuff is different, though not a million miles away. I guess the primary difference has to be the… Continue Reading →