Canvas Solaris - Cortical Tectonis
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 05.06.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Sensory Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.4
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I fell in love with Canvas Solaris when I first heard Sinusoid Mirage. Perhaps this is also because I had listened to the more restless Berserker Hypothesis, full of nerve and upheavals, and the mirage brought by the second... |
Nightingale - White Darkness
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 04.06.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Black Mark 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.3
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Iron Savior - Megatropolis
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 04.06.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Locomotive Music 7.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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The Germans of Iron Savior come back with an album, but unfortunately it is an unconvincing one. Although it has a modern sound, nice riffs and it’s metal from beginning to end, inspiration (damn it!) lacks like a variable... |
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 04.06.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Hardingrock - Grimen
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 01.06.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Mnemosyne Records 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Hardingrock the latest project from Ihsahn (Emperor), who, together with his wife Starofash (Heidi Solberg Tveitan) and Knut Buen (a well-known Norwegian instrument player) presents a homage to ancient Norse culture with this album, entitled Grimen. It’s a collection... |
3 Inches of Blood - Fire up the Blades
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 28.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Svafnir - Aufbruch
FORMAT: MCD REALEASE DATE: 27.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Self Release 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 0.0
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Svafnir is the solo project of Alexander Suplie, played almost entirely on clean guitar, with a style that is hard to pigeonhole in a genre. However, for classification’s sake, I’ll call it folk/pagan metal, to keep everyone happy. While... |
Sonata Arctica - Unia
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 25.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Nuclear Blast Records 7.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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I have rarely come across an album from a relatively well-known band that had great tracks mixed with so poor offerings. If they had only split it in two, so that I was not forced to listen to the... |
The Cursed (US) - Room Full of Sinners
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 22.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Locomotive Music 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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“Hmmmmm”: this was pretty much my first reaction when I listened to this album. To be honest, I didn’t know where to put it; actually, I'm still not convinced that I know. For most of you, it is not... |
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 22.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Epic Records 7.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.2
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After 1 live album, 2 compilations and 1 cover albums, Ozzy "enemy of Christ, idol of the MTV generation" Osbourne released 2 months ago (yet) another studio album, which made such a strong impression among our editors that just... |
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 21.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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Souldrainer - Reborn
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 18.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Mascot Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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To start the band in 1998 and release the debut album in 2007 is not really an enviable performance, even more so as Souldrainer comes for Sweden, a very friendly place for any kind of album release. This becomes... |
Mustasch - Latest Version of the Truth
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 18.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Regain Records 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 0.0
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I’ll skip the band name that generated much hilarity with Klawz and made him ask me where I managed to find them (by the way, it was in Sweden, where it appears that two of their previous albums were... |
UDO - Mastercutor
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 18.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: AFM Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Megadeth - United Abominations
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 15.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 12.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Escapi Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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Twelve years from the previous album is quite something, isn’t it, so I had expected a come-back to rock my world from the American doom, or “white” doom band. This wasn’t exactly the case. Simple Mind Condition is not... |
Dial - Synchronized
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 08.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: ProgRock Records 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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A prog-rock gem, this is how I would sum up Synchronized, including elements of progressive metal, gothic, atmospheric, new wave, pop, jazz and even soul, on an electronic skeleton. The keyword here is “experimental”, and the result is not... |
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 08.05.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Neurot Recordings 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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Gotthard - Domino Effect
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 27.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Nuclear Blast Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Freedom Call - Dimensions
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 20.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Steamhammer 6.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Honestly, I didn’t expect from Freedom Call anything to make the world gasp in awe or break the so-well-establish patterns of European power metal. But I didn’t expect such a poor offering as Dimensions either. They must have drunk... |
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 17.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Nuclear Blast Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Six Feet Under - Commandment
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 17.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 6.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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W.A.S.P. - Dominator
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Demolition Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Annihilator - Metal
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Steamhammer /SPV 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.4
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Shining (Swe) - V - Halmstad (Niklas Angående Niklas)
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Osmose Productions 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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Pain - Psalms of Extinction
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Roadrunner 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.4
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Cap De Craniu - First EP for a Surgery
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 11.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: 8.7
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Poison The Well - Versions
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 02.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Ferret Music 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 0.0
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Albumul anterior You Come Before You editat de Atlantic Records s-a vandut doar el in peste 130,000 de exemplare numai in State, asta ca sa nu mai pun la socoteala celelalte albume care in total au insemnat peste 300.000... |
Susperia - Cut from Stone
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 02.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: Tabu Recordings 7.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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«Susperia is a band with black metal roots, who currently play extreme metal combined with melodic parts«, writes a presentation on the band’s official site. Extreme metal my ass. The first 3 songs of the album are overtly Pantera,... |
The Psyke Project - Apnea
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 02.04.2007 RECORD COMPANY: CPH Sound 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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The third release of the Danish band The Psyke Project is at least as heterogeneous as the previous ones; in fact, style differences are even more obvious from one track to the next. Dark and sometimes violent, the music... |