Theatres Des Vampires - Moonlight Waltz

As previously with Pain's You Only Live Twice I also got published as agustes reviewer on Metal Storm - one of the biggest and IMHO the best metal communities on the web. This time reviewing Moonlight Waltz by Theatres Des Vampires. If you'd like, you can read the review here.

Presenting Ars Moriendi!

So as I have nothing better to write about, I decided to present  you an awesome on-line radio, created by DJ Ravendeath - Ars Moriendi. It's a fairly new radio, mainly dedicated to goth metal, goth rock and atmospheric music, but you will also find a lot of great black metal, darkwave, EBM, industrial, snythpop and more. But better than to read about it is to find out yourself, so you can check out the radio here. If you're in luck you just may have to honor to hear one of my playlists, but even if you're not, you will witness some great music.

Neurotech's Blue Screen Planet - a futuristic cyber symphony

Neuorotech is a band that got my attention due to their first full length album, Antagonist, an album with very intense sound, dense in electronics with flowing, edgy melodies. The fact that the band originates from Slovenia was another factor why I needed to check these guys out. But let’s leave Antagonist behind. Neurotech released their second EP, entitled Blue Screen Planet just a day ago and of course I had to check it out as soon as possible.

My thoughts? Brilliant! Excellent! Superb! Astonishing! I was blown away by the compositions of the songs, as Blue Screen Planet features ‘’just’’ two tracks, Axiom (10:05) and the instrumental Revelation (8:32). Blue Screen Planet is somehow a futuristic, ambient, industrial, cyber odyssey. Both songs achieve such greatness, because what Wulf (the man responsible for Blue Screen Planet to become what it is) did is upgrade the basic cyber metal sound Neurotech were going for, with some goth like adding of fragile choirs, piano melodies that flow into growls and intense drumming, so the music in its origin is still metal. Revelation then is Axiom’s instrumental brother, again, a composition of greatness.

If you like industrial music, cyber metal, futuristic music, electronics and atmospheric music, you really need to give Blue Screen Planet a chance. I’m actually so glad that Slovenia has to offer such greatness to the metal community and I can’t wait for Neurotech to give as another full length album. 

Pain - You Only Live Twice

You see, the world has a lot of Peter, but Peter Tägtgren is only one! The genius behind metal music (who is also quite pleasant to look at) left me cold a couple of years back, when releasing Cynic Paradise. This year he released Pain's 7th studio album, entitled You Only Live Twice (Bond fans, I am sorry, it's not about you or your precious 007 agent this time) and a couple of days back my review finally got its epilogue, so I published it on Metal Storm. Since I agreed with the terms of my publication, MS now has the rights over it, so I can't copy it here, but you can read it here. Enjoy :)