Tag Austria
A few years ago, Austrian actor Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Carnage) visited an American late night show (check YouTube, if you feel like it) and quizzed his host on the meaning of some tricky German words. Some were silly, some… Continue Reading →
Back in 2013 I reviewed Edenbridge’s “The Bonding”, for these hallowed pages and I stated that I had heard many Edenbridge releases, didn’t really gel with them and wasn’t really sure why. I’ve become kind of the go-to guy for… Continue Reading →
Taking one look at the album title I expected it was going to be a case of “get thee to a nunnery” here. Then again it doesn’t take much for visions of novices gripped in ecstatically manic activity at alleged… Continue Reading →
This is the fourth album over the span of 20 years for In Slumber, with Wolfgang Rothbauer taking care of vocals, guitars, bass, song writing and lyrics, i.e.: pretty much everything other than drums which were dealt with by Flo… Continue Reading →
Fallen Sanctuary are a brand new and much anticipated Melodic Symphonic Power Metal band formed by, and featuring the twin vocal approach of Georg Neuhauser (Serenity, Warkings, Phantasma etc) and guitarist/vocalist Marco Pastorino (Temperance, Virtual Symmetry, Wonders etc), who developed… Continue Reading →
Austrian’s Venator are a traditional heavy metal band quite known in the underground. Their 2020 split with Germany’s Angel Blade (now Acid Blade) was a great introduction. These songs were also released in their own right as the ‘Paradiser’ EP… Continue Reading →
I’m writing this on the 24th of February 2022, the day that Russia invaded Ukraine and began a war. A war in Europe, in the 21st century. If you had asked me only a week ago if war was a… Continue Reading →
That is a lot of title in brackets eh especially for a band of few words. Arctic Sea Survivors are a quartet of Austrian instrumentalists named Survivor I through IV and these six tracks constitute their 2nd full length album, The Longest Dawn is… Continue Reading →
Relocated to Austria, Canadian act Antediluvian have a fairly extensive discography with a raft of splits and EPs, but previously only two other full lengths as they land a sonic scourge on the Earth with their third album. If you… Continue Reading →
Well why give something a name when you can call it “//180703//”? It’s a hard one to discuss with your mates, so I guess you’d better ask them if they’ve heard the new EP by that Austrian band Demersus ad… Continue Reading →
It is time to escape to the tranquil and pastoral Austrian Tyrol. Watch that cow-pat it’s freshly laid and still steaming, ouch, damn bitey bugs, achoo, stupid hay-fever. Ah it’s OK, still in the comfort of the living room, but… Continue Reading →
A release appeared in October 2020 and followed this Austrian band’s debut ‘Shareholder Of Shit’ released in February of 2020 both of which were pressed onto picture discs. The band defies categorisation on the five tracks here, something that was… Continue Reading →