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AYREON The Source Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen May 02, 2017 3879 1 2

Arjen Anthony Lucassen is finally back with a brand new Ayreon album to follow up The Theory Of Everything which saw the light of day in 2013, and as always it's a massive piece of music to consume. I'm not going to spend much...

AETERNAM Ruins Of Empires Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated March 01, 2017 3393 1 1

‘Ruins Of Empires’ is third full length album from Canadian death metallers Aeternam, and I’ve been waiting in anticipation for this band to follow up their excellent 2012 release ‘Moongod’. Aeternam is by no means a mainstream death metal band since their music and...

ABYSSIC A Winter's Tale Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated March 14, 2016 7625 1 1

In 1997 Memnock (Susperia) founded Abyssic Dreams and recorded a two song demo, but not much happened after that since Susperia was founded and became the main focus for Memnoc. Fifteen years later he decided to bring the project back to life after a...

ABHORRENT DEFORMITY Entity Of Malevolence Hot

6.0

Album EK Even Knudsen November 25, 2015 5130 0 1

Entity Of Malevolence is det debut album of American band Abhorrent Deformity and this is definitely not music for tender souls. Brutal death metal with massive blast beats and hard riffing guitars topped with deep guttural vocal grunts. There are parts where vocals changes...

ALL IT'S GRACE Transience Hot

8.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated November 12, 2015 3343 0 1

'Transience' is the title of the new effort from German melodic death metallers All It's Grace. The debut album was released back in 2007, followed up by an EP in 2010, but now they are finally back with their second full length album. It...

ALLEN - LANDE The Great Divide Hot

8.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated December 15, 2014 3362 1 1

While the first three Allen/Lande albums were written by Swedish guitarist and songwriter Magnus Karlsson, this new one features the song writing talent of ex-Stratovarius guitarist Timo Tolkki who has also produced the album as well as playing all guitars, bass and keyboards on...

ABYSMAL DAWN Obsolescence Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated December 04, 2014 3016 1 1

No matter what sub-genre of death metal you prefer you will find some of it in Abysmal Dawn. Brutality, groovy riffs, fast riffs, harmonies, technicallity and melody....its all there, delivered with surgical precision in an excellent and organic production. On top of that you...

ACCEPT Blind Rage Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated December 04, 2014 3218 2 1

If I was asked to make a list of my top 5 favorite bands of all time it would be impossible to leave out Accept, and I still love to listen to their classic albums such as ‘Balls To The Wall’, ‘Metalheart’ and ‘Russian...

ALIEN Eternity Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated December 04, 2014 3599 1 1

Those out there who have lived a while might remember Swedish act Alien making an impact on the melodic hard rock scene in the late eighties/early nineties, but since then the band has more or less been surrounded by silence. In 2010 Alien re-united...

ASCENSION Far Beyond The Stars Hot

7.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated December 04, 2014 5712 1 1

Emerging from Aberdeen, at the foot of the Scottish Highlands, comes Ascension, a five man strong melodic power metal band with their debut album. My first reaction after having heard ´Somewhere back in time´, the opening track of the album was something like; ”What...