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Cradle Of Filth - Hammer Of The Witches: The British notorious band continues with its tradition of infusing each album with conceptual elements that embolden the songs' dramatic execution. Cradle Of Filth's 11th studio album is without doubt a strong player in their large discography, it unites the elements from bands past without losing the modern approach utilized on a couple of previous albums. The hammer is coming down, hard, and revenge will be sweet indeed. [Review]
Diary Of Dreams - Grau Im Licht: One of the most respected gothic/electro/darkwave acts is back with their album number twelve. Diary Of Dreams this time don't really discover new teritories, like they did it on the previous album, but rather stay loyal to their traditional sound, which is dark, elegant, yet strong, very emotional and tender where most needed. Adrian Hates and co. talk about war, destruction, fanaticism, egoism, suffering and mourning, and they perfectly blend those themes into music.
Ecnephias - Ecnephias: Ecnephias is one hell of a compositional structure, it's very well divided in four parts, and showing the most matured, deep, atmospheric and spirited work so far they ever did. There was always something special in Ecnephias sound, kind of a mediteranean touch brought into surface by a sinister occult character weighting through their compositions, and this very thing that made their sound often very atmospheric and even dramatic is present now more than ever. [Review]
Luciferian Light Orchestra - Luciferian Light Orchestra: Luciferian Light Orchestra' debut is an elegant vintage sounding album, it's still fresh, in a twisted way modern and offers many different elements which take the listener from one mood into another with such a lighty way. When you think that the music in here could became too complex, psychedelic or perverse, Luciferian Light Orchestra immediately kicks off with such a catchy structure that you'll be in an instant put again into the corridor of this musical occultistic, yet conceptual journey. [Review]
Marduk - Frontschwein: Legends will be legends and Marduk obviously still have a lot of fuel in their tank. The veterans of black metal executed another sonic assault with Frontschwein and gave the audience the fast paced and quite diverse version of Marduk’s trademark sound.
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within: The Plague Within is maybe the heaviest and probably the darkest album Paradise Lost ever did. But yet, it's not everything about the past on The Plague Within, it's as well a modern album by all means that in an intriguing way shows a constant evolution of the band. The Plague Within will satisfy most of the bands fans as it's regardless of everything a killer release, a demanding one, a dark jevel in its own way. [Review]
Red Sun Revival - Identities: Red Sun Revival have done without any doubt a kind of an album that will for sure become one of the most significant gothic rock releases of the so called third wave of goth rock bands. Identities offers a myriad of amazing moments that flow like a tender warm breeze of the most refined darkness, thus exposing all of its beauty to the one who'll give to this release a careful listen. It's an album that offers mind seducing emotions pouring out with every chord, every beat and every word. [Review]