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Kaledon – Carnagus – Emperor of Darkness Review

By Steel Druhm on May 10, 2017 in 2017, Italian Metal, Power Metal, Reviews, Sleaszy Rider Records, Power Metal, 18 comments

“I don’t know how I get myself into these things sometimes. I reviewed Kaledon’s 2013 opus, Altor: the King’s Blacksmith for reasons now completely unknown to me and was mightily unimpressed by the third-tier Italian power metal cheese therein. Because I reviewed Altor, I was on the hook for 2014s Antillius: the King of the Light, which was considerably heavier and much better, but still too dairy-intensive for my long-term listening tastes. Now they’re back with a reshuffled lineup including a new singer and set to deliver Carnagus – Emperor of Darkness.” Cheeses H. Christ.

Defect Designer – Ageing Accelerator Review

By Grymm on July 14, 2015 in 2015, Death Metal, Norwegian Metal, Reviews, Russian Metal, Sleaszy Rider Records, Technical Death Metal, 20 comments

“Russian tech-death machine Defect Designer had an interesting couple of years since their 2009 debut, Wax. Bassist, guitarist & vocalist Dmitry Soukhinin decided to relocate from the Russian city of Novosibirsk to the much-easier-to-pronounce Olso, Norway, taking everything but his band with him. To help round out his recording line-up, Dmitry enlisted members of SepticFlesh, Trollfest, and Cryptopsy to aid in recording what would become the oddly spelled Ageing Accelerator. Now, you would think that having people from the aforementioned bands perform for your record would have the masses salivating for progressive tech-deathy goodness, and in words on a screen, it does look inviting, doesn’t it?” So where’s all the drool?

Dantalion – Where Fear is Born Review

By Steel Druhm on December 2, 2014 in 2014, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Reviews, Sleaszy Rider Records, Spanish Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 7 comments

“The Spaniards in Dantalion have been knocking around for quite some time in Iberian obscurity. Having never heard of them, it was the cover for their fifth album, Where Fear is Born that grabbed my steely eye and got me to listen, and I’m quite thankful I did. Though their older albums feature a blend of depressive black metal and melancholic doom, they abandoned the blackened aspect of their sound in favor of melodic, goth-tinged doom death, and from what I’ve heard of their older style, they’re all the better for the switch.” Don’t you just love a surprise? Steel Druhm does. He also loves arts and crafts and long walks in the woods.