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Nevermore - "Dead Heart In A Dead World"
(Century Media)

I cannot find the appropriate words to characterize the feelings that I have felt by listening to this pure masterpiece of art! One of the heaviest releases of the year, if not THE heaviest I have listened to... Everything that has to be combined, "Dead Heart..." has it! Perfect production, excellent structure, breath-taking razor-sharp guitar solos, unbelievably clever combinations of the aforementioned with tremendous melodies and "holy shit!" vocals!!! This release will convert your head to a never-stopping hammer!
11 immortal creations are waiting for you in this disc, plus two video clips: "Next In Line" & "What Tomorrow Knows"...

What? You are still reading this review? What are you waiting for?! IT'S ON THE FUCKIN' SHELVES OF EVERY DAMN METAL STORE ON THIS PLANET!!! GO AND BUY IT!!!!

9½/10

Dimitris "Slatan" Petrakis (slatan@excite.com)

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ACID DEATH - "RANDOM'S MANIFEST"
(Black Lotus)

Are you Greek? Be proud of your scene! Bands like Acid Death make us proud with this album! "Random's Manifest" is the improved continuance of "Pieces Of Mankind". Following the paths of tecnhical and -brutal in parts- fast progressive death metal, this album includes 12 tracks characterized by distorted excellence! Totally in your face, measured, well-tied and perfectly performed... these veterans won't let you down! If you compare this album with "Pieces Of Mankind", you will distinguish the difference in the vocal section. Remarkable is their cooperation with the vocalist of ex-Fatal Morgana / ex-Retrospect, Leonidas Hatzimihalis in "In Sorrow" (epos!!!), "Random's Manifest (Part II)" where his "celestial" vocals are perfectly combined with Savvas' "underground" ones!
I really do not know what to talk about firstly! Every section is perfect... The drums: astonishing. The bass: breath-taking... the guitars: throat-cutting razor attacks! the vocals: Murder!!!
No more words are needed. BUY OR DIE!

Top tracks of this release: Listen to Psycho Love, Curse Of Flesh, Random's Manifest (Part II), Teach To Kill and believe it... 'cause it's TRUE!!!

9/10
Dimitris "Slatan" Petrakis

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ROTTING CHRIST - "KHRONOS"
(Century Media)

After the dark hypnos in the cells of the underworld, "The Sleep Of The Angels", a new chapter fires the satanic continuance of Rotting Christ. Under the name "Khronos" (which means "Time" in Greek), 11 new songs and a cover will violate your inner cosmos with their aggressiveness, dark emotions, rawness and performing completeness and perfection. There are fast and mid-tempo songs. The second ones are very similar to the face of their previous release, while the rest include a new touch and feeling, as far as the melodic guitars and misty keyboards are concerned. The album was recorded in the northern Abyss studios by Sakis himself, while Peter Tägtgren is the responsible figure for the mixing part.
The album could pretty easily characterized as modern, since it meets all the appropriate requirements in order to offer the listener a dark journey in the curtains of time! So, enter this time-machine and explore new abyssal dimensions of dead worlds, lost throughout the millennia.
The only -for the writer- disappointment, might be the cover, as I have expected much more than that! However, I have to mention that it is made by Spyros Antoniou, vocalist of another pretty known Greek band, Septic Flesh.
Another thing that the writer would like to mention, is "Aeternatus". Great song, however, there has been a misunderstanding with the lyrics... doesn't matter anyway...
Personally, I believe that "Khronos" is an album that could be easily characterized as a lot better than "Sleep Of The Angels". If I was asked to distinguish a few songs from the new album, these would definitely be "Thou Art Blind", "Aeternatus" and "Fateless". Also, very interesting is the cover of Current 93's "Lucifer Over London".
I should not forget to mention that there is a very good secret keyboards track, hidden after "Glory Of Sadness", which is the 12th and last track of the album...

With objectivity

8,5/10
Dimitris "Slatan" Petrakis

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R E V I E W S

BAND:	ALBUM:	LABEL:
Accomplice	"Accomplice"	Adrenaline Records
Acid Death	"Pieces of Mankind"	Copro Records
Acid Death	"Random's Manifest"	Black Lotus
Adramelech	"Pure Blood Doom"	Severe Music
Adversam	"Animadverte"	SPV
Agathodaimon	"Blacken The Angel"	Nuclear Blast
Altar	"In The Name Of The Father"	Spitzenburg/Rough Trade
Amorphis	"Tuonela"	Nuclear Blast
Ancient	"Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends"	Metal Blade
Ancient	"The Halls Of Eternity"	Metal Blade
Ancient Rites	"Fatherland"	Mascot Records
Ancient Wisdom	"And The Physical Shape Of Life Bled"	Avantgarde Music
Angeldust	"Sleep"	Century Media
Angelcorpse	"Exterminate"	Osmose Productions
Anvil	"Speed Of Sound"	Massacre
Arcturus And The Deception Circus	"Disguised Masters"	(Jester Records)
Arryan Path	"Return To Troy"	-
Art Inferno	"Abyssus Abyssum Invocat"	(Scarlet)
As Divine Grace	"Supermature"	Avantgarde
Ashes	"...And The Angels Wept"	Necropolis
Ashes To Ashes	"Shapes Of Spirits"	Self Produced
Athena	"A New Religion?"	Rising Sun Productions

Beheaded	"Perpetual Mockery"	-
Behemoth	"Satanica"	Avantgarde Music
Behemoth	"Thelema.6"	Avantgarde Music
Bewitched	"At The Gates Of Hell"	Osmose Productions
Beyond Dawn	"Electric Sulking Machine"	Peaceville
Bifrost	"Mithistory"	Hammerheart
Black Steel	"Battle Call"	Self-liquidated
Blind Guardian	"Nightfall In Middle Earth"	Virgin
Blood Red Throne	"Deathmix 2000"
Brainstorm	"Ambiguity"	Metal Blade
Bride of Chucky	Soundtrack (Various Artists)	CMC International / Steamhammer / SPV

Buried Dreams	Perceptions	?
Cage	"Unveiled"
Cannibal Corpse	"Gallery Of Suicide"	Metal Blade
Cannibal Corpse	"Bloodthirst"	Metal Blade
Carnal Forge	"Firedemon"	Century Media
Catamenia	"Halls Of Frozen North"	Massacre
Centinex/ Devilry/ Frostmoon/ Ork	Centinex/ Devilry/ Frostmoon/ Ork	(Oskorei Productions)
Council Of The Fallen	"Council Of The Fallen"
Cradle Of Filth	"Cruelty And The Beast"	Music For Nations
Cradle Of Filth	"From The Cradle To Enslave"	Music For Nations
Crematory	"Act Seven"	Nuclear Blast
Criminal	"Dead Soul"	Metal Blade

Dark Funeral	"Teach Children To Worship Satan"	No Fashion Records
Dark Moon	"Seas Of Unrest"	Music For Nations
Dark Nova	"1999 [A Step Beyond...?]"	Seven
Dark Tranquillity	"Projector"	Century Media
Dead Silent Slumber	"Entombed In The Midnight Hour"	Hammerheart
Deadline	"Violated Child" (demo)	-
Death	"The Sound Of Perseverance"	Nuclear Blast
Demons & Wizards	"Demons & Wizards"	SPV
Depresy	"Sighting"	Shindy Productions
Desperados	"The Dawn Of Dying"	Drakkar
Destruction	"All Hell Breaks Loose"	Nuclear Blast
Dethronement	"Survival of the Sickest"	-
Dew Scented	"Innoscent"	GSM - Grind Syndicate Media
Diabolical Masquerade	"Nightwork"	Avantgarde Music
Dimmu Borgir	"Godless Savage Garden"	Nuclear Blast
Dimmu Borgir	"Spiritual Black Dimensions"	Nuclear Blast
Dimmu Borgir/Old Man's Child	"Sons Of Satan Gather For Attack"	Hammerheart
Disarray	"A Lesson In Respect"	Eclipse
Dreams Of Sanity	"The Game"	-
Dwole	"A Requiem Of Euphoric Nihilism"	Left Alone Creations/ Root Of All Evil
Dying Fetus	"Killing On Adrenaline"	Morbid Records

Edge Of Sanity	"Evolution"
Edguy	"Theater Of Salvation"	AFM Records
Einherjer	"Norwegian Native Art"	Native North Records
Ember	"Concession"	Shadow Play
Emerald	"Under The Veil Of Eternal Heaven"	Self-produced
Emperor	"IX Equilibrium"
Enchant	"Break"
Enochian Crescent	Omega Telocvovim	Avantgarde
Enslavement Of Beauty	"Traces o' Red"	Head Not Found/ Voices Of Wonder
Ephel Duath	"Phormula"	Code666 Productions
Evoke	"Dreaming The Reality"	System Shock
Evoke	"The Fury Written"
Exhumation	"Traumaticon"	Holy Records

Gluecifer	"Tender Is The Savage"	-
Hammerfall	"Renegade"	Nuclear Blast
Hateplow	"Everybody Dies"	System Shock / SPV
Heritage	"Heritage #1 & LIVE 98" demo	-
Heritage	"Heritage"	Eternal Energy/Vigilante Inc.
Hypnosis	"Shadoworld	Black Lotus
Hypocrisy	"Hypocrisy"	Nuclear Blast

Iced Earth	"Alive In Athens"	Century Media
Immolation	"Failures For Gods"	Metal Blade
Immortal	"At The Heart Of Winter"	Osmose Productions
Immortal	"Damned In Black"	Osmose Productions
Impaled Nazarene	"Rapture"	Osmose Productions
Impaled Nazarene vs Driller Killer	Split mini	Solardisk
Impaler	"It Won't Die"	Root Of All Evil
In Aeternum	"Forever Blasphemy"	Necropolis
In Flames	"Colony"	Nuclear Blast
In Solitude	"Opus: Universe"	Recital Records
Iron Maiden	"The Wicker Man"	(1 song review)
Ishtar	"Krig"	Hammerheart

Malevolence	"Martyrialized"	Mauiavel Music Entertainment
Malevolent Creation	"In Cold Blood"	SPV
Manowar	"Hell On Stage"	Nuclear Blast
Marduk	"Panzer Division Marduk" (Reviewed by Melissa)	Osmose Productions
Marduk	"Panzer Division Marduk" (Reviewed By Abbas Jaffary)	Osmose Productions
Master	"Faith Is In Season"	System Shock
Medieval Demon	"Demonolatria"	-
Mercyful Fate	"Dead Again"	Unisound
Mercyful Fate	"9"	Metal Blade
Mind Odyssey	"Nailed To The Shade"	???
Misericordia	"Painful Dream"	Black Lotus
Mob Rules	"Savage Land"	(LMP)
Morbid Angel	"Formulas Fatal To The Flesh"	Earache
Morifade	"Possesion Of Power"	Loud 'N' Proud Records
Morta Skuld	"Surface"	System Shock
Murder 1	"Shopping for Porn"	System Shock
Motörhead	"Everything Louder Than Everyone Else"	SPV/Steamhammer
Mutiny	"Guilty As Charged"	-
My Dying Bride	"The Light At The End Of The World"	Peaceville
Mystery	"Tales..."	-

Pessimist	"Blood For The Gods"	Lost Disciple Records
Phantom Lord	"In Twilight World"	Black Lotus
Plasma Pool	"Drowned"	Scarlet
Raise Hell	"Not Dead Yet"	Nuclear Blast
Raism	"Aesthetic Terrorism"	-
Rakoth	"Planeshift"	Code666
Reflections Revert	"The Judgement Of Shallow Life"	-
Rhapsody	"Emerald Sword" & "Symphony Of Enchanted Lands"	Limb Music
Ritual Carnage	"The Highest Law"	Osmose Productions
Rockbitch	"Motor Driven Bimbo"	SPV
Roots III	"A Trilogy"	Root Of All Evil
Rotting Christ	"Sleep Of The Angels"	Century Media
Rotting Christ	"Khronos"	Century Media
Runemagick	"Enter The Realm Of Death"	Century Media