
The always impressive Arcturus strikes again with this release. An unique metal musical, bizarreand twisted, that´s a nice description for this music.

Masked guitarist Buckethead seems to have two schemes in his releases: high profile, well budgetted releases like Monsters & Robots and Giant Robot and low profile, quick and dirty recordings like Cobra Strike and this project.

As a taster for the Buck Fever album (scheduled for September 2001), Estradasphere released this 73 minute EP with four songs from the album and a bunch of liverecordings.

Garmarna chose to pay tribute to the works of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), a mystic woman who lived in a monastery and was physician, scientist, preacher, composer and poet.

How can anyone not give an Emperor CD the full score ? After all, the band is legendary. Especially since the release of "Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk" the black metal hordes have held Emperor in extremely high regards,

This legendary cult black metal band who were one of the founders of the whole black metal soundand generation of bands starts a second youth with this "Grand Declaration of War".

For a band originally tagged as being Black Metal this eight-track CD sure has a REALLY long playing time

The Gathering always sees to amaze me with every new album they bring out. Everytime they release something fresh and original.

Fleurety, once a black metal band from Norway, but now active in the more stranger regions of music.

Who said that black metal would never been taken serious by the 'outside' crowd has his facts wrong since this new Diabolical Masquerade album is an official motion picture soundtrack.

Once again, a Borknagar CD sees many changes from the previous album. One of those changes should come as no surprise to those who have been following the band over the past couple of years.

Russian geniuses Rakoth have returned with a new CD. Well... not new exactly. This a remake of old Demos by the band and two brand spanking new songs.

Soilwork's previous album "The Chainheart Machine" was were hailed by me as a good album.

This might be a really cool question for the TV-show "Who wants to be a Milionaire". In the beginning of the show when

This is Arise From Thorns first album which was actually released in 1999, but is now it's rereleased by Dark Symphonies.

After losing half of their death-metal fanbase and winning new fans in the prog-rock scene withtheir last album 'Tuonela', Amorphis are back with a new album which is the logical evolutionof said album.

Opeth doesn't play a lot live, but if they do then it's a great show. I saw them in october on Prog Power and it was one of the best shows I ever saw.