GardensTale, Author at Angry Metal Guy

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Hot Lunch – Seconds Review

On March 16, 2019 By GardensTale

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Blacklist-9 – Mentally Ill, Legally Sane Review

On March 15, 2019 By GardensTale

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Iron Fire – Beyond the Void Review

On March 7, 2019 By GardensTale

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Dying Embers – Where Shadeless Dwell Frozen Review

On March 5, 2019 By GardensTale

"In the mid-00’s, I was just starting to dip my toes into the realms of metal. Maybe it was just the entry point I had with Children of Bodom, but there were a slew of bands that were called melodic death metal, but like a Scooby Doo villain, turned out to be power metal with some harsh vocals, some of them adding some cues from Gothic metal to seem a little darker. Bands like Eternal Tears of Sorrow or Before the Dawn went over well with pubescent me, with their straightforward, Maidenesque guitar harmonies and gloomy veneer. Dying Embers fall in this category as well, being tagged melodic death metal, and instead molding bits of Gothic and growls onto a mid-paced power metal album with the unwieldy title Where Shadeless Dwell Frozen. Time to feel like a teenager again." Drama Club metal.

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Dronte – Quelque Part Entre La Guerre Et La Lâcheté Review

On March 1, 2019 By GardensTale

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Into the Obscure: Brocas Helm – Defender of the Crown

On February 22, 2019 By GardensTale

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Dead Witches – The Final Exorcism Review

On February 21, 2019 By GardensTale

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Varego – I Prophetic Review

On February 15, 2019 By GardensTale

"I'm gonna go ahead and say it: making good music is hella difficult. Us reviewers have it easy; the only skill our trade requires is writing good. But an album has so many steps where it can falter and bring down the entire Jenga tower. The musicians have to be able to play their instruments reasonably well. If they have a vocalist it's double the trouble, judging by how many albums are tripped up by the vocals. Songwriting is a balancing exercise in and of itself; riffs, bridges, structure, all without sounding too derivative and trying for some originality. Then when you finally have everything put together, you have the recording and producing process, and it may still fall into traps of sounding lifeless or generic. It's a miracle any good albums are produced at all!" Me write good some day.

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