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I wonder, whether I should write an ordinary report from a concert. When I say ordinary, I mean the kind of report, where a reporter writes about many mistakes made by bands, then list the songs on playlist and finally surmise some pros and cons. I don’t want to write such report, for an exceptional experience requires an exceptional writing. I was witness of a music. And that music was exceptional, so even the report should be a bit different. Three bands, which I like very much, visited Prague on their tour. Insomnium, Barren Earth and Wolfheart. Three bands and…

The Evening of January 12th full of symphonic metal started after 7 p.m. in Rock Cafe in the center of Prague. The line-up included three bands – Nightland, Carach Angren and the headliner Fleshgod Apocalypse. I must admit I was looking forward to this occasion for more than a month. The evening was finally here and I arrived in Rock Café. It was the first time I was there and I was quite suprised. The relatively small music hall was comfortable with pleasant environment. The thankless role of the first band belonged to the symphonic death metal band called Nightland…

Three excellent bands from Finland are coming to Prague on 24.1.: Famous Insomnium supported by progressive Barren Earth featuring vocalist Jón Aldará from Faroe Islands and Wolfheart, a band founded by Tuomas Saukkonen, who is known from his previous projects Before the Dawn or Sun of Aeon. Katja Gessner, a photographer and for this moment our exclusive reporter form abroad, wrote about one their concert held in Germany on 12.1. If you like to experience a similar atmosphere, come to Prague club Futurum. All the bands worth listening to.   Barren Earth – live I was very much looking forward…

Sometimes, a reviewer writes a review because someone asked him to. Sometimes, he writes a review, because he promised it. Sometimes he writes a review simply because he hasn’t written anything for a long time and sometimes, but this is very rare, he writs a review because he feels that if he doesn’t shout his excitement to the world, his head may explode. To prevent explosion of my head (and the cleaning my flat afterwards], I’m writing a review. Drearyym is not only quite young band, founded in 2014, only now releasing their first full-length album. Drearyym, whatever the pronunciation…

Jyväskylä is jolly good address when you desperately need to be born as a musician and for some reason do not want to be born in Kotka, which is a city with overproduction of brilliant metal wizards. On the other hand, having such a good address also mean having quite a competition. And you need to succeed. It can be bit of a problem in a country, where every house has its own metal band. However, for a reviewer this comes as a gold mine, for competition often means quality. And so, from the beginning of the year, I’m bathing…

SadDoLLs latest music video is called „Jigsaw“ and it is a Tribute to Saw made by the band out of pure love for the SAW franchise. The song was recorded along with the new album „Blood Of A Kind“ and it’s mixed and mastered by Finnish mastermind Hiili Hiilesmaa. The song will not be included in the upcoming album but instead is given for free through a download link and from the band’s official Soundcloud page as a gift not only to SadDoLLs fans but to SAW fans as well. It is also an opportunity for people to have a…

Some children begin their lives under very cruel circumstances. Of course, I’m talking about that terrible case of torture, when a mother gives birth to her child right on the Christmas day. That necessarily leads to complicated and sad childhood, because having birthday on the Christmas day is intolerable injustice. Mikko Kotamäki was born on Christmas day 1984 and I suppose that every Christmas had to leave a deep wound on him, a child wanting to celebrate his own birthday, while everyone else had been celebrating a birth of some other child, who was bathing in the light of all…

Some listeners are easy to catch on famous names. Write ‘Metalica’ and they’ll read the article. The situation is similar to that of mushroom-pickers. Some of those pick only mushrooms they know well. There is nothing wrong with that, even I like picking tasty mushrooms which are familiar to me. Nevertheless, there is one more group of listeners, and it’s not that small. There are people, who likes discovering deep forests, mapping unmapped places in the dim light. Those people come out of the forest, carrying unseen mushrooms, for the feeling of satisfaction when you say: ‘I know this one.…

First digital single for the upcoming new album „Blood Of A Kind“ is called „Cold Blood Inside“ and will be released along with the official music video on February 24th 2017 via Trisol Music Group and will be followed by the European release of „Blood Of A Kind“ on March 31st 2017. The upcoming album is mixed and mastered by Finnish producer Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, The 69 Eyes, Lordi, Sentenced, Moonspell). Cold Blood Inside tracklist: 01. Cold Blood Inside (Album Version) Mixed & Mastered By Hiili Hiilesmaa 02. Cold Blood Inside (Sean Of The Dead RMX) Mixed By…

When an unsuccessful author ponders about the target group of his book, (s)he usually hit the walls of despair or run into the dead-end streets. Imagine an author, who writes books of a very specific genre such as Metal Fantasy. There is no such genre, of course. Or there is, but only a few people know about its existence. It’s clear that the author knows that it exists, for (s)he is quite sure of his or her geniality. And the author’s family knows of it as well. It is a must if its members want to get dinner and clean…

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