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.
Line-up:
Pär Sundström - Bass
Joakim Brodén - Keyboards, Vocals
Thobbe Englund - Guitar
Chris Rörland – Guitar
Hannes Van Dahl - Drums
The expectations for the new album of ‘Sabaton’ where very high after their super release of ‘Carolus Rex’. Because it was their first release with their new line up we had to wait and see if it could compete with their previous album. The record itself is not bad but it’s sometimes to rushed and uninspired in my opinion.
6 years after their previous studio album, the 2008 double-disc conceptual Nostradamus (which we at ConcreteWeb never got to review), Judas Priest is finally back with a new studio recording! In the meantime, the band not only did a couple of world tours, but also took some very dire decisions!
Line up :
David DeFais – Vocals, Keyboards, Orchestration, Bass
Edward Pursino – Guitars
Frank Gilchriest – Drums
Joshua Block – Guitars
When Carcass fell apart, two ex members Michael Amott and Johan Liiva joined forces with Daniel Erlandsson, and Amott’s younger brother Christopher, to form Arch Enemy. Their debut album ‘Black Earth’ was released in 1996, and obtained some success in Sweden but was better received in Japan.
