Secret Rule

Secret Rule – Uninverse Review

Secret Rule – Uninverse Review

By GardensTale on February 6, 2024 in Reviews, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, 42 comments

“Well folks, it’s been a good run. This is without a doubt the longest I have gone without landing myself an awful corset-core album. I cherry-picked from the promo bin a little more, I got lucky with a few random rolls. But the dice always turn against you sometime, as any D&D player will attest. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the genre and the worst band name since Significant Point. Then I saw the cover and my fears were confirmed because LOOK AT IT! Gaze upon this absolute debacle and weep for laughter.” Fear and secret rulers.

Secret Rule – Against Review

Secret Rule – Against Review

By Emya on February 24, 2020 in 2020, Heavy Metal, Italian Metal, Pride & Joy Music, Reviews, Heavy Metal, Rock, 20 comments

“Secret Rule is an Italian quartet gracing the metal scene with their fifth studio album. Reading through the band’s promo gave me a glimmer of hope that I got my hands on something exciting. They’ve shared the stage with the likes of Xandria and Delain and are recommended for fans of Within Temptation, all three of which are exuberant bands full of energy and marked by grandiose, winsome sounds.” Double secret probation.

Secret Rule – The 7 Endless Review

Secret Rule – The 7 Endless Review

By Lokasenna on January 31, 2019 in 2019, Heavy Metal, Italian Metal, Pride & Joy Music, Reviews, Heavy Metal, Pop Metal, 119 comments

“There’s a category of music you don’t see much outside certain nerd circles, that of the “filk song,” or fan-fiction-as-music, even in a genre of music as intrinsically nerdy as metal. Oh, sure, you can rattle off a number of prominent examples, even excluding edge cases like Symphony X’s Paradise Lost. Hell, a sizable chunk of Blind Guardian’s output falls firmly in this camp. But overall, it’s not as big a thing as you might expect, especially on the poppier side of the genre. So imagine my surprise when, slogging through the wasteland of the promo bin, I discover an album by a band billing themselves under “melodic metal,” written around Neil Gaiman’s classic The Sandman.” Nerds unite.

Secret Rule – Machination Review

Secret Rule – Machination Review

By Diabolus in Muzaka on June 22, 2016 in 2016, Alt-Metal, Italian Metal, Reviews, Scarlet Records, 105 comments

“Remember Amaranthe? Say what you want about them as a metal band (which, if you’re being six figure tax return levels of charitable, would be “not so great”), but as a pop band they’re alright. Massive Addictive was catchy, regardless of the fact that it was meticulously crafted by Swedish pop robots, made of 100% candy-coated processed cheese, and equal in substance to a sugar rush. Italy’s Secret Rule is pure processed cheese too.” Cheese and sugar go together like dynamite and napalm.