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(record review)STORMZONE-“Lucifer´s Factory” (Metal Nation Records)

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Stormzone already released five mighty albums and now is the time for the new, sixth one and judging by what I listened, this is going to be their best album yet.

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New album contains 13 tracks of melodic heroic power metal, not unlike the legendary first two Hammerfall records that I still love to this day. But, we are not talking about the Swedes here, we are talking about Stormzone. Hailing from Belfast, these guys simply did one of the best power metal records that I have listened to in a last couple of years. On this album the band lyrically oriented on myths and legends of their country, Ireland, so the lyrics are heavily based on folklore tales packed in excellent music and vocal arrangements. I personally loved “We Are Strong” and “The Heaven You Despise” the most on this record, but all of the tracks are indeed memorable with anthemic choruses and catchy vocal melodies and guitar hooks. I would love to bang my head and sing along their anthems with Stormzone at one of their gigs and hopefully one day will do so! Until then, I will listen to their albums to memorize the songs for the live show!

9,5/10

Follow the band: https://www.facebook.com/stormzoneuk/

The label: https://www.facebook.com/MetalNationRecords/

 

 

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

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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

Follow: https://www.facebook.com/poldursgateproject/