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 · 07/09/2022
After Cradle of Filth's Midian totally blew my mind, Dimmu Borgir was only a stone's throw away. Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir are probably two of the most disputed black metal bands, dismissed and scorned by die-hard black metal fans and vastly successful with the general public. Dimmu Borgir was formed in 1993 by Silenoz (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Tjodalv (lead guitar). Shagrath (then on drums) joined the band soon after in 1994 together with Brynyard Tristan (bass) and Stian Aarstad...
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...