Tag: Opeth

  • Soen – Memorial Review

    Soen – Memorial Review

    The new Soen is way less progressive and more commercially oriented, focusing on sentimental songs written well enough but which don’t go any further. Both singer Joel Ekelöf and the band distances themselves from Keenan/Åkerfeldt and Tool/Opeth, with a more screamed and touching vocal technique, and just hints of the mentioned bands rather than a…

  • Gorod – The Orb Review

    Gorod – The Orb Review

    The Orb is full of groovy technical death with crazy riffing. The Frenchmen manage once again to compile a varied, well-written album with many different parts per track without falling into making them sound awkward or different songs glued together. Listening again to the singles “Breeding Silence” and “Victory” just confirms the statement, making them…