Ahsoka Tano, former Jedi knight investigates threat imminent to the young New Republic, because rumors continue that legendary Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn is not dead and is coming back. Rosario Dawson is excellent as Ahsoka Tano but many will not recognize characters of Sabine Wren or Ezra Bridger if they didn’t watch Star Wars Rebels animated series because this one I consider real continuation of that series. Action in these eight episodes is satisfiable, characters written good and I love Lars Mikkelsen as Thrawn, also unfortunately late Ray Stevenson was brilliant as new character, fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll. Finale of the first season was also good and decently done, so we can expect season two some time in the future. Thrawn and his Night Troopers are enigmatic and charismatic enough as villains to carry the series also the witches of Dathomir, Night Sisters were done superb. I don’t want to spoil the story to someone who didn’t watch it yet, but it connects many dots in SW expanded universum with Anakin Skywalker appearing, so I enjoyed this one very much. There are no filler episodes.
Conclusion: 8 / 10 axes Eight episodes left me wishing for more.
Thousand Year War are hailing from USA and apparently there are only two entities in this band, namely Hiram Lohr-Guitars, Keys, Bass and Bryan Arant- Drums. This is band’s second EP and it contains five songs of pagan Viking metal. Some of the song parts reminded me of Bathory a lot, like ‘Kingdom Of Nastrond’. I love the mixture of screeching vocals with clean sung parts and you can understand what is being sung most of the time. Music? A mixture of melodic death/black metal with pagan Viking metal and guitar and keyboard melodies are very catchy and get into your ear like for example excellent title song. The music is warrior pride and aggressive, but at the same time has that melancholy in guitar riffs and sometimes sadness, at least I hear it like that. My personal favorites are the title song and ‘Hammer to the Heart of Christ’. Great pagan Viking metal indeed!
Eight Feet Fine were founded in January 2021 and are hailing from Rhineland area in Germany. This is their new EP containing five excellent songs. What can we expect here? There is nineties melodic punk rock reminding me a lot of Bouncing Souls but being so much more. They are fronted by singer Sascha who has such beautiful voice, just made for songs like these, reminding me a bit of Greg from Bouncing Souls mixed with color of voice Frank Turner has, who also influenced songwriting of these guys. Lyrics are personal but you can relate to most of the stuff being sung about. I love songs like ‘She’s Got Your Smile’ or the title track and am a bit saddened to have only this EP because I would love to see these guys perform live and also a whole full length album would be in order of course. So, if you are into melodic punk with indie and some tiny folk influences check these guys out. I love it!
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