ETERNAL DEFORMITY „The Serpent Design”
Eternal Deformity plays tremendously varied death/doom metal with lots of keyboards adding perhaps a gothic touch to their sound. Their original style has earned this group from Poland numerous spots in various underground printed ‘zines and a fair amount of positive press on the web.
EVERGREY „Recreation Day”
Evergrey continue on in 2003 with their fourth release overall, and the second available in North American markets. Recreation Day once again emphasizes dark and often progressive metal inventiveness from this Swedish outfit who rest somewhere in the power and progressive metal realm, but still in a league of their own.
EVOKEN „Embrace The Emptiness”
Funeral doom metal bands tend to fall into creative crisis, since there isn't much doubt about what musical elements to incorporate into music given this label. Thundering guitars, extremely slow pace, deep guttural tormented growls are almost mandatory.
EVOL „The Saga of the Horned King”
I still wonder why the hell this Italian group is not more famous? A really great album with a mixture of dark atmospheric, medieval music, female vocals, ambient, doom and black metal. And, this is for real, this group is very original, they have a really distinctive sound.
EXHIBITION „The Sign Of Tomorrow ”
After recording two CDs with Seven Witches, Second War In Heaven and City Of Lost Souls, and also working with the independent act Overlorde, Bobby “Leather Lungs” Lucas has appeared with Exhibition on Limb Music/SPV. But Exhibition's origins don't lie within Bobby Lucas; the formation actually began after the progmetal outfit Eternity X from New Jersey disbanded during 1998.
EXPLOITED, THE „Fuck The System”
Probably you'll get upset about me reviewing this “shit”, but I feel I really need to do this, because I believe that this is really cool shit.
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DUST TO DUST „Sick”
I actually became aware of Dust To Dust from the Capcom video game (head to head fighting) Heavy Metal Geomatrix which used a handful of songs off D-T-D's self-titled debut as a soundtrack along with material from other artists from the Sanctuary/Metal-Is roster Halford, Megadeth, W.A.S.P., Entombed and a few others. Prior to the game I had a sampler CD containing a few tracks off Dust To Dust's debut, but I never really paid much attention to this group before the game.
DAGOBA „s/t”
Let's be honest, you can count the number of good French metal bands on the fingers of a very deformed hand. Of course, there's the excellent Scarve and Tripod and on the technical death metal side there's the underrated Carcariass, but never has a band stood a chance of success than in the case of Dagoba.
DANCE ON GLASS „Daydreaming”
This is a project run by Dave Blomberg (New Model Army) and Anna Blomberg (former Batalion D'Amour). Dave takes care of the music and Anna sings.
DARK FORTRESS „Profane Genocidal Creations”
Profane Genocidal Creations is Dark Fortress' second album, after Tales From Eternal Dusk. PGC really is a masterpiece, all Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir and Dissection fans, eat this!
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DARK MOOR „Between Light And Darkness”
Actually I had never been fan of DARK MOOR and that whole New Wave Of Euro Power Metal. I like few of those bands, like let's say WHITE SKULL, FREEDOM CALL, STEEL ATTACK, IRON FIRE or some HAMMERFALL tunes, but most of those bands sounds like next HELLOWEEN / STRATOVARIUS clones, and it in most cases they sound too similar to each other…
DARK TRANQUILLITY „Damage Done”
Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, Soilwork and In Flames are THE bands that created the Gothenburg sound (also called Swedish or Melodic Death Metal) some years ago, and found the path that is nowadays being followed by many other bands like Norhter and Killswitch Engage.
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DARK TRANQUILLITY „Damage Done”
I have definitely been damaged by the sixth opus from the mighty and underrated Dark Tranquillity. It is really a pleasure to be able to hear something so refreshing, deep, aggressive and well done in the same package.
DARK TRANQUILLITY „The Gallery”
This album seems (or it's just plain reality?) to have more melodies than simple metallic riffs. It's just an amazing and astonishing album! For the newcomers, Dark Tranquillity it's one of the pioneers of the “gothenburg” sound (or it is “goteborg”?) that born in Sweden at the beggining of the 1990's.
DARKANE „Expending Senses”
Damn, NO songs on this album that jump out, the album in itsself is just a jump-out! Yeah, this is what I wanted, this is wat I needed, this is what allays my hunger for good music! Melodic, heavy and thrashy. Adrenaline filled tracks that hit you like a fist in your face (as they should).
DARK DISCIPLE „Under The Inverted Cross”
DARK DISCIPLE are a band that hails from baltimore MD. The only works this band has to offer is in the form of a small demo cd intitled UNDER THE INVERTED CROSS.
DARKNESS REMAINS „Lamia”
I first heard this group last year when they released “To touch the depths of sorrow”. This was impressive enough, but nothing prepared me for the brilliance of this new album.
DARZAMAT „In The Opium Of Black Veil”
This is the second re-release for Darzamat. “In the opium of black veil” was released in 1999 and now we can find it again on the stores.
DEATH „Human”
The story of Death is an intricate one. You could write a book about it so I'll just try to shed some light on the creation of “Human”, which is a true breaking point.
DEATH „Individual Thought Patterns”
Death never have dissapointings in their albums, every album have their charm and power. But this album have one thing that mark the difference: It has the best musician combo in the band's history (and one of the best in metal history):
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DEEDS OF FLESH „Mark of the Legion”
The American brutal Death Metal scene seems to take a lot of stick, which is a crying shame, because underneath all of the crap that saturates the scene, there are some real diamonds poking their heads through, who produce some downright brutal music. In my opinion, Deeds of Flesh are one of those bands.
DEEDS OF FLESH „Reduced To Ashes”
I eagerly await a new Deeds Of Flesh album as much as a new Katatonia or Opeth – such is the effect they have on me. Their music tends to be able to reach the parts other groups just can't reach.
DEICIDE „Scars of the crucifix”
When I first heard that Deicide had signed to Earache over a year ago, I was expecting great things from them. And I mean great things.
DELIGHT „Eternity”
This 9-tracker starts with a rock-fueled nu-metal riff in the vein of Papa Roach then followed by a powerful Life of Agony-like chorus… damn this is good stuff! The chick sings the chorus and it's really enjoyable as on the rest of the album. Every now and then she sings like Tori Amos or even Enya… she's not bitchin´ but singing.
DEMIMONDE „Mutant Star”
More and more appear this of type discs – that is to say multimedially editions, on of which is music audio in once with Mp3, video clips, biography of band, photos, whether with texts and other things worth interests. In this of event is similarly, but let us assemble only on music DEMIMONDE and concretely on their following material „Mutant Star”.
DESCEND „Requiem Of Flame”
No, this band has nothing to do with the Greek Descend (ex-Epidemic). These guys are from USA and are into death metal with brutal vocals and some technical riffs.
DESIRE „Locus Horrenaus – The Night Cries of a Sullen Soul”
I must say I quite enjoyed this album, even though I have not been aware of this band prior to my initial listen. Desire hail from Portugal and they have been around for 10 years now.
DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND, THE „Accelerated Evolution”
Perhaps the highest profile Devin Townsend project at this moment is Strapping Young Lad whose 2003 self-titled Century Media release has been gaining write-ups in many metal magazines worldwide including the May '03 feature in Metal Maniacs. This solo release showcases music from the hardworking mastermind in a dense creation encompassing progressive hard rock and taking it to a new level.
TOWNSEND, DEVIN „Terria”
Terria is the counterpart to Devin's Ocean Machine album, which was released with high praise in 1997. Ocean Machine was the water aspect and Terria is the earth aspect.
DEVISER „Thy Blackest Love (The Early Years)”
Deviser is one of the most well known Greek black metal bands. The whole story started back at 1989 and at 1995 they released one of the greatest demos in Greece ever! That was “Thy blackest love”.