In the mid- nineties Rykers, were no doubt together with a handful of other bands the leaders of the European hardcore pack. They were well seen guests at a many festivals and at clubshows. Live shows never were dull and the band was a force to reckon with.…. Rykers released four full lengths between 94 and calling it a day in 2000.
I Am The Avalanche is a rock/punk band from Brooklyn, New York formed in 2004. The groups name comes from a lyric written by Vinnie Caruana for a song which was later discarded. Current members are: Vinnie Caruana, Brett "The Ratt" Romnes, Brandon Swanson, John Oliva and Corey Perez.
Dictated a Dutch Death Metal group from Kampen, Overijssel (somewhere in the North of Holland) formed in 2006. Current members are York Keijzer – vocals, Sonja Schuringa – guitars, Jessica Otten – guitars, Henri Sattler - (session)bass and Michiel vd Plicht - (session)drums.
Brimstone Coven is a retro-hard rock / doom band founded in 2011 they life in West Verginia, US. Current members are: John Williams – vocals, Corey Roth – guitar, Andrew D'Cagna – bass and Justin Wood – drums.
The Osiris Club hail from the UK, and play a very strange type of music. They’ve apparently been able to combine a lot of different music styles, as well in genres, combining metal with grunge elements and I don’t know what else, as in time since some songs or parts of songs have a very seventies feeling, whereas others remind of the eighties and nineties.
Nota Amara is a band that hails from Novocherkassk a city that is situated in the Rostov region in Russia. And although the song titles are in English, the vocals are in Russian, a language that I have not mastered until today, so she could just as well be singing about how to cook borsjt, a Russian soup, as reciting the manual for a video recorder, anyway I don’t understand a jota of it.
When I first put on this CD, at the opening track I thought I had put on a wrong CD, cause the opening could easily have served as music in the Lord Of The Ring movies. But when the second track kicked in I knew it was the right album. What Diabulus In Musica brings us is symphonic metal with strong gothic influences. Although they hail from Spain, I cannot detect in in the English vocals. Basically this is almost a new band, since only the founding members Zuberoa Aznarez and Gorka Elsa have remained.
There are two Sieghetnar-re-issues that recently came my way, i.e. the partly re-recorded 2008-demo Endlösung (this version came via Kunsthauch), of which the review was posted very recently on this site (see update July 20th 2014), and this review will deal with the re-release of this project’s third full length, Bewußtseinserweiterung (after Verfallen & Verendet and Todessehnsucht).
Line up :
Chris Boltendahl - vocals
Hans Peter Katzenburg - keyboards
Axel "Ironfinger" Ritt - guitars
Stefan Arnold - drums
Jens Becker - bass
On July 20th 2014, Concreteweb posted the review of the new Feskarn-album, Östra Aros. Since Pesttanz Klangschmiede did send us the debut album Raise Your Swords as well, I will give a (small) review too on this material.
