Review – Sir Cadian Rhythm EP

SCR EP CoverAt first I was intrigued by the name. I had read “Sir Canadian something”, and was really close to just shake shake shake it off as I unapologetically do quite often, but I actually took the extra effort of re-reading those three words correctly. Sir Cadian Rhythm, there we have it! A somewhat awkward pun that makes it sound like they needed a name asap and it’s the only thing they could come up with.

But I kept reading the promoter’s message which was so devoid of formatting that I had to scroll right quite a lot to finish … Read more

News: Pangaea – The Balance music video

Pangaea recently released a music video for a song on their upcoming album, which has yet to be announced. The song in itself is really cool, and slowly, really slowly, builds on, progressively becoming heavier, and more complex, while going back to some smoother or more proggy moment from time to time. The band’s previous album, Unified, although pretty cool overall, didn’t have the drive or the originality of The Balance. So, we’re definitely looking forward to Pangaea’s new album, if this song is any indication of its overall quality. Even though the song isn’t perfect, there’s a … Read more

News: Alkaloid – Cthulu

New supergroup Alkaloid released a new song, Cthulu, today.

If you want our point of view, it’s a pretty interesting piece of music! Great leads with lots of dissonance and a sweet solo section. However, the rest of the song maybe sounds too much general, in terms of riffs, drum beats and vocal rendition.

We persist in thinking that The Malkuth Grimoire will be a decent to great album, but the hopes of it being absolutely amazing are falling with each release. So, I think we should expect a good album, but not an earth-shattering masterpiece.… Read more

News: New song from Der Weg Einen Freiheit

[Stream the track here]

The German post-metal bands with various influences such as black metal and hardcore Der Weg Einer Freihet premieres their new track Requiem on Metal-Hammer.de. This track makes us even more avid of listening to their upcoming album Stellar.

You can listen to their previous album teaser here.… Read more