- Jun 03 Sun 2007 20:55
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Vanity - definitely my favorite sin.
- May 10 Thu 2007 22:19
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Ghost Opera
- May 08 Tue 2007 00:17
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Sonata Arctica - Dont Say Word
- May 07 Mon 2007 00:41
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Eternal Tears of Sorrow - The Last One for Life
- May 02 Wed 2007 00:01
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Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli 2007
- Apr 26 Thu 2007 00:29
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Axamenta
Axamenta formed in 1993 and has gone through several lineup changes as well as musical style changes, as apparently they were into both brutal death metal and slower doomdeath at variuos times during their early years. The band formally debuted in 2001 with Codex Barathri, their first official release following several demos, the last of which was a CD demo entitled Non Draconis Argenti. Between Codex and its eventual followup five years later, the entire lineup sans vocalist Peter Meynckens was overhauled. Following a 2004 promo, the new album Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture was released in 2006. And quite an adventurous album it is, somewhat of a symphonic black metal album with some death metal influences (at times a bit of Cradle Of Filth or Dimmu Borgir can be heard), a complex and occasionally grandiose statement indeed. Though at times it sounds like they're trying to pack too many structures into one song (overall it's a rather dense recording), there's no denying the musical talent and potential that's on display here.
Discography：
Codex Barathri 2001 LSP
Liber Angelis
Beyond The Haunting
Echoes
Godsman
Deciphering Darkness
Elemental Dance
Liber Daemonis
Through The Scarlet Forever
Submissive To The All
Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture 2006 Shiver
Incognation
Demons Shelter Within
Ashes To Flesh
A Nation In Atrophy
The Midnight Grotesque
Prophet Set To Witness
Ever-arch-i-tech-ture
Threnody For An Endling
Ravager 1.6.6.3.
Of Genesis And Apocalypse
Foreboding
Shackles Cross
The Omniscient
Peter Meynckens
Ian Van Gemeren
Sven Deckers
Sven Janssens
Tom Van Oosterwijck
很久沒有聽到這麼道地的歐陸金屬，最近美式的玩意聽到相當的膩，Axamenta算是一股清流！
- Apr 25 Wed 2007 18:30
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Naglfar - I am Vengance
- Apr 25 Wed 2007 18:24
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Naglfar - The Perpetual Horrors
- Mar 18 Sun 2007 00:36
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Obtained Enslavement
簡單的介紹一下Obtained Enslavement，1989年在挪威成軍，也就是我九歲的時候，當時由Pest、Døden跟Torquemada三人所草創，1993年的時候錄製了名為『Out of the crypts』的Demo，94年才發行了第一張的錄音室專輯『Centuries Of Sorrow』。不過這張我沒有聽過，現在不知道要到哪裡才找得到這個在13年前發行的專輯，三年之後，第二張錄音室作品『Witchcraft』發行，這張名為『巫術』的專輯運用了相當大量的Keyboard，效果還不錯，背景以交響樂為主，個人覺得中古味道還蠻重的。在我的認知裡面，以往聽過的Symphonic Black Metal很少像Obtained Enslavement在大量的KB背景之下還可以把吉他的主旋律線表現的那麼清楚，Dimmu Borgir早期的專輯就很常出現這個問題，好處是提高黑金屬的旋律性，修飾的比較柔軟，不過多半造成反客為主的效果，但是從另一個角度來思考，或許是主角本身的演技不是很好，只好靠配角跟背景特效來護航。
- Mar 17 Sat 2007 01:47
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Noctes
Noctes也算是90年代瑞典樂團當中相當出色團體，成1992年成軍，1997的時候在No Fashion Records發行了第一張full-length的專輯『Pandemonic Requiem』。至於這個團其他的資料根本就很難在網路上找到，我只記得在第二張專輯之後這團就沒消息了，當時很多NFR的團也都消失的無影無蹤，當年發下狂語『Where We Go, Others Can Only Follow』的No Fashion Records現在早就屍骨無存，上杉謙信說『四十九年一睡夢，一期榮華一杯酒』，比起Hammer Heart這家公司，NFR曾經的榮景應該是好過一杯美酒。