Keepers · 30/01/2023
184 days till W:O:A 2023. Finally another album that took my heart by storm. Amorphis' second studio album Tales From The Thousand Lakes from 1994 made it so easily to the stack of my favourite albums. This album is perfect as it is and I love every single track on it. Amorphis formed in 1990 and they have released 14 studio albums so far. Many albums for me to choose from. I chose Tales From The Thousand Lakes because it is said to be the first step into the direction of the Amorphis signature...
Genre Tourism · 02/12/2022
243 days till W:O:A 2023. With Dutch band Delain I am writing my first article in the category of symphonic metal. Coming from Deicide and Defleshed to Delain was quite a turn and it took me a couple of days to open up to this very different kind of metal. I picked Delain's latest studio album Apocalypse & Chill from 2020 and when I played the album for the first time my first thought was "Sounds like Within Temptation". Yeah, guess what - Delain was founded in 2002 by Martijn Westerhold,...
Keepers · 29/08/2022
Let me tell you, there is something really weird going on with me. I will be wearing full corpse paint in no time if I am not being careful. No, jokes aside. But I've found yet another "black metal" band I am absolutely celebrating. I am talking about Cradle of Filth and especially their fourth studio album Midian (2000), which was by chance the first album of the band that I played. And I've played it on repeat for the last couple of days. Have been listening to it in the car, on my headphones...