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(novi post – recenzija) Nightwish – Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast)

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Moram priznati da sam bio očaran kada sam prvi puta poslušao debut album ovog finskog benda Angels Fall First. Odmah sam postao fan tog miksa simfonijskog metala, powera i gothica s opernim glasom dive pjevačice Tarje Turunen. Isto tako su mi legla svih prvih pet albuma ovog benda. Jake klavijaturne melodije Tuomasa Holopainena, odlična međuigra vokalima Tarje i basista Marca Hietale dizali su mi redovito dlačice na koži koliko sam se znao naježiti. Tada je bend promijenio pjevačicu i prestali su biti posebni, postali su samo jedni od mnogih. Tada su opet promijenili pjevačicu i Floor Jansen je već dugo frontwoman, mora njoj se priznati pojava koja je impresivna kao i dobar glas, ali ze mene nije to to. Nastavili su redati prosječne albume, ono okej, ali samo okej, mada se znala potkrasti koja dobra pjesma i na tim novijim albumima. Ovaj novi album sadrži 12 pjesama u trajanju jedan sat i jedanaest minuta. Tu se i dalje radi o epskom simfoničnom fantasy metalu, koji još uvijek sadrži podosta gitarskih jačih dionica da se može nazvati metal, plus podosta gothic utjecaja koji su uvijek bili tu. Tekstovi su i dalje fantasy priča, pomalo konceptualna, ali ne do kraja. Ima i nekih dužih stvari kao što je single An Ocean Of Strange Islands, koji meni nikako nije legao i ne znam zašto su ga baš odabrali za single. Većina pjesama je dosadna i nema nikakvih catchy dijelova i refrena, ničeg po čemu bih se sjećao ovog albuma kao nečeg dobrog. Okej, ima poneku dobru stvar kao The Children Of ‘Ata ili Something Whispered Follow me koji podsjete na stare dane slave, ali nisu dosta da album bude više od prosječnog. Floorin vokal je moćan, fino melodičan i jak, ali kada se radi o pjesmama koje su prosječne, ni ona ne može svojim glasom tu puno pomoći i dati im dodatnu snagu. Ovaj album je kao papirnati tanjur bijele riže. Jestiv, ali nezačinjen i praznjikav. Samo prosjek ništa drugo.

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(review) Deathstars – ‘Everything Destroys You'(Nuclear Blast)

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Sweden’s Deathstars are back with new, fifth studio opus. This is the first studio full length since 2014 and their last album ‘The Perfect Cult’. Anyway, this one contains ten songs of industrial cold, almost inhuman robotic metal like we are used to from this band. I was glad when I saw this album was announced because I like this band very much. Although they mix industrial cold metal with gothic, there are couple of really catchy and melancholic melodies in their song structures and their songs always had an appeal to me that was hard to grasp, but it was there. Vocals are gothic-like, sometimes almost spoken not sung but they evolve into great melody in many choruses backed with excellent female backing vocals that are somehow already a trademark for this band. This is not their best work ever, but songs like ‘This Is’, ‘Midnight Party’, the title song or ‘An Atomic Prayer’ are for sure killers and winners for me on this album. Good one indeed and welcome back Deathstars!

7/10

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(review) In Flames – ‘Foregone’ (Nuclear Blast)

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It is finally here! Gothenburg, Sweden’s melodic death metal legends In Flames released new full length opus with Nuclear Blast! After listening to the EP that went with Metal Hammer a week ago we got a taste of what is to come, but only a taste, now here is the full meal. Here are twelve songs of melodic death metal that take In Flames to their old school era leaning more on death metal than on influences they had in their songwriting as decades moved with them. There are still some electronic effects behind the riffs, some excursions into some more melodic and mellow waters but I love how Anders’ voice transforms between growling and clean melodic singing on epic choruses, sounding better than ever! Besides hits that were already on that EP like awesome ‘State Of Slow Decay’ and ‘Foregone Pt I’ and ‘Foregone Pt II’, there is also superb ‘Bleeding Out’, a perfect combo between harsh death metal and epic melodies. But, one of my personal highlights is for sure almost ballad like ‘Pure Light Of Mind’ having such gentle and beautiful lyrics topped with Anders’ vocal melodies and having almost pop influenced undertones beneath metal, me having Roxette in mind for a few seconds hehe. ‘In The Dark’ and ‘Become One’ are also songs to add as highlights. This is for sure to become one of the candidates for album of the year, it is an album of the month for sure.

10/10