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(album review)CAEDEOUS-“Domini Tenebrarum”

Caedeous is Portuguese symphonic black metal band and this is their new album and I am proud that I listened and reviewed it for my webzine.

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This project was born in the dead of night as a child of  Portuguese composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and producer Paulo J. Mendes. The album was recorded at Studio7 and mastered at Finnvoxx Studios by Mika Jussila.

It contains 7 songs and I can surely say that this is by far the best symphonic black metal that I have listened in a last couple of years. Heavy riffs, aggressive passages, but also emotional and heartfelt melodies mixed with atmospheric parts and vocals sung in various voices, from whispering to screams, topped with choirs and excellent female vocals that sing, laugh, croon and talk, make this record a must. This record could easily be one of the best horror movie soundtracks that I have listened to in a while. I still love symphonic melodic black metal and this record is a must if you are a fan of such music. Top songs: “Fall of Mankind”, “Siege of Draedemor”.

10/10

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(album review)Poldur’s Gate Project-“Directions”

Is there such thing as synthesized metal? Yes there is! This is the most unusual thing that I have listened to and reviewed for this zine.

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This is a one man solo vision of Luca Bussolini and it is a concept album featuring two characters called Hanako and Shin. The concept theme is looking for the new objectives and about the failures along the way which help us in understanding the trail of our lives.

What is so new and different? Well, all the music and vocals on this album are synthesized from software, there is no real musicians, singers in a classical sense of band. And it works! The music is melodic power prog metal with nice riffs, melodic guitar hooks and memorable tunes which caught me humming all the time. In my opinion, the only thing which needs to be worked on is that in some songs, the vocals are too monotone, meaning too same sounding. But, that is only my opinion. I must applaud to Luca for having a vision which carries a bit of controversy but is important. Top song on this album for me is “Time for a Will”-

7,5/10

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(horror movie)GET OUT(2017.)-good one but not quite horror

Chris Washington is a man that has everything he desired in his life. He has a beautiful girlfriend and he prepares to meet her family the Armitages for the first time. He is a bit scared what will their reaction be when they see that he is black, although his girlfriend assures him that they are not racist or have no prejudices.

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When they arrive at her parents remote house, everything is nice and seems fun and smalltalk at first. During the dinner Chris realizes something is wrong talking with Allisons parents and her younger brother. Also, two coloured workers at the estate are acting strange. Suddenly, events unfold in fast and unexpected way.

Judging by all hype and media attention that rose around this movie I was determined to watch this one. Some of my friends have told me that its an excellent movie, so let us see how this one went for me.

This movie is placed nonchalantly and nominally under the banner of horror, but I will agree that the movie is more of a politically engaged thriller with racism still lingering in the world as a main theme. Daniel Kaluuya is brilliant as a main character Chris, but all of the cast is great mainly because of the great scenario.  Oh, that dream scare was a bit too much for me, but I love how the first fourty or so minutes of the movie go kinda slow, but then all hell breaks loose. The twist at the ending of the movie was great, but still calling this movie horror is a matter of discussion. This is a great movie, but maybe we should call it supernatural thriller instead.