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Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!

(news) BULLET TO THE HEART REVEALS VIDEO FOR BRAND NEW, IMPASSIONED SINGLE – BIRTH OF A TRAGEDY!

Female-fronted alternative metal quartet Bullet To The Heart is back – after the band’s previous and critically acclaimed, atmospheric “Falling Away” – with a brand new video for the group’s impassioned and poignant new single – “Birth Of A Tragedy”! Rolling along with lush production, slick beats and showcasing the band’s electronically conscious side, “Birth Of A Tragedy” is an innovative musical statement, as the lyricism in conjunction with the gorgeous, provided vocals evolve into a rich piece of music with exhilarating strings and a grandiose climax. Developing a clear example of Bullet To The Heart‘s ability to achieve a great balance between the different elements utilized throughout the song and creating an incredible flow in the track, while the symphonic parts add depth and texture, this single is a great representation of the group’s talent to perform huge, arena rock influenced, powerful, poignant choruses with a very climactic feel, with the deep, rigged guitar riffs underneath just enhancing it, all meld into a cohesive whole, including the nature of the video, which aims to present the original, energetic essence of this track.

Discussing the meaning and the influence behind “Birth Of A Tragedy”, Bullet To The Heart adds: “This is the continuation of our song “Breathe”, which presents the motion of trying to move on from the loss of someone you’ve loved and learning how to live without them. The video shows someone trying to transcend past their earthly form to reach the highest version of themself, while trying to battle societal standards, such as the two women in the video. It calls back to our previous video “Falling Away”, where the Queen reached
her crown and is now trying to move beyond. Always at a constant struggle to either stay put in set ways or move on to search for ones true self”.

(review) Primal Creation – News Feed

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Belgian thrashers Primal Creation have been in the scene since 2007 and this is their second full length album. There are nine songs on this opus and first one called Extremely Dangerous serves as kind of intro to the thrash mayhem that awaits us when it starts for real. The music of Primal Creation can be described as brutal thrash metal, bordering somewhere between old school of European thrash metal and American more modern version of groove and street smart thrash. Lyrics deal with failures of us as humans, injustice, sarcastic yet in your face and smart at the same time. Vocals are angry and shouted but there are enough death metal influenced growls to satisfy brutal fiends like in excellent Vial Play. Dual guitars deliver groovy and brutal riffs, but there are lots of catchy hooks and melodies underneath all the brutality. Rhythm section does its work impeccable destroying everything in their path. This is a lesson in thrash metal.

8,5/10

(review) Dark Wooden Cell – Undying stories of a fallen world

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Since I was a kid growing up like twenty five or thirty years ago, I have always loved hard and extreme music, metal and hardcore was my choice. You know, when you are a defiant outlaw kid, all other music and listening to other music is considered poser and treason. But, now when I am closer to forty five years than forty, I learned to enjoy other dark music and one of the genres is also dark folk. Dark Wooden Cell are hailing from Tours area, France. This entity is comprised of two individuals, namely Mike Gory (guitar-vocals) and Bruno Marmiroli (sax/trombone). This is their sophomore album containing nine songs. The music is dark folk with neo folk and even blues influences in the song structures with rich and darkened Mike´s voice carrying us listeners through the apocalypse and ghosts that roam our surroundings and other soundscapes bringing us kind of catharsis of a darkened heart after listening to the record as a whole. Songs are orchestrated in pairs offering a unique concept and aural journey. Acoustic guitar and sax in some songs, trombone in some add to the overall melancholic feeling prevailing through the whole album. My personal favorites are: The radio, The night. If you are a fan of such music, go grab this one.

https://darkwoodencell.bandcamp.com/album/undying-stories-of-a-fallen-world