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(review) Fogweaver – Magelight

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Fogweaver from Colorado released new opus with 10 beautiful songs. As Fogweaver calls it, this is dungeon synth from the world of Earthsea. I must admit that I didn’t listen to the previous opuses but this one blew me away. It all starts with melancholic and fantasy filled melody of Illuminated by Magelight, with waves crashing beneath the haunting and a bit soothing, yet eerie melody. Opus continues with A Patterning Spell, a bit ominous yet strong synth melody takes us into the world of sorcery, magic and disbalance between light and darkness, not knowing which side can prevail in man as an individual, depending how you fight your personal demons which you must fight every single day. The music of this opus guides us through that battle to another more beautiful dimension where we can be our trueselves and not having to comply to others and darkness between our hearts and other hearts. Other parts of this opus that I must mention as my highlights are Windbringer and also The Isolate Tower, but I must confess that when listening to this opus, every time you find something more for yourself.

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(review) The Moans – Writhing On The Wall

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The Moans are hailing from California and this is their new second album and first release in six years. As you guessed it maybe from the cover and logo, this is horror punk, but much more influenced with punk n roll and punk, almost garage punk in some songs. There are 14 songs on this beauty. Vocals are nice, melodic and strong at the same time and this is not your Misfits or Blitzkid clone, this is varied and good album with lots of different hits like my favorite They’re Coming To Get You Barbara and doo wop influenced Then She Stabbed Me. Songs are mainly up tempo punk rock, with some Ramones core influences too, like in Hey Jamie Lee which reminded me of The Lillingtons a lot in many ways, vocally and musically. Songs I must also mention as my favorites are The Zodiac and also Nightmare Man. Welcome back, this is an awesome horror punk album.

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(recenzija) Dylan Dog Extra 149 – ‘Profesionalci’

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Za one koji me poznaju osobno nije čudno, jer uz Star Wars i kolekciju knjiga o SW expanded universeu koju skupljam, Dylan Dog je moja stripovska ljubav i skupljam i njegujem pozamašnu kolekciju izdanja još od bivše države, pa pokušaja Slobodne Dalmacije da ga izdaje ranih 90-ih, pa do sada kada Ludens izdaje Bonellijeva izdanja u Hrvatskoj. Eto, stigao je i novi broj zvan ‘Profesionalci’. Radnja epizode je o dvojici plaćenih killera zvanih Mr.Coke i Mr.Firebrand koji su unajmljeni da ubijaju pripadnike visokog engleskog plemstva oko para vrijednih sto milijuna funti. No, tu se upliće i naš Dylan kojeg bogata plemkinja unajmi. Tada slijedi twist u radnji. Koliko god metaka izbuši naše killere, oni jednostavno ustanu i ne umiru.

Što da velim na epizodu? Crtež kojeg je radio Freghieri je lijep i volim njegov način crtanja Dylana, scenario kojeg je radio De Nardo je solidan i u moru nedavnih loših epizoda, pogotovo redovnih izdanja Dylana, kao i nekih epizoda Old Boy Maxi izdanja, ova epizoda se čak može nazvati i solidnom. Ima nešto smrti i gore scena, ali malo u odnosu kako je nekada bilo u ranim DD epizodama. Valjda su nova vremena donijela i nove prohtjeve da se više ide na neki nadnaravni element, a manje na sam splatter i gore. Uglavnom, ne loša epizoda, nije ajnc a, ali je okej.