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Aeons – The Ghosts Of What We Knew (2024) – Review

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Now, wait a minute. The Isle of Man usually shines with its rebellious streak and – those totally crazy bike races. You know, these maniacs roaring about narrow country roads and trying not to end up as road kill.

But there’s more. Aeons dwell there, too. A band on the edge of prog with serious boy-band issues. And a knack for straying into nu territory and insisting on anything ‘core’. The RMR crew called them a band at a crossroads on Consequences, their last record. And the question is, have Aeons passed beyond their past alleged sins? Purgatory or … [...] Click to raid more!

Lower Hollow – Bloom & Expire (2023) – Review

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The metal gods are laughing. We don’t like ‘core over here very much, true. But unfathomable forces governing the smellier nether regions of our review pipe like to throw a wrench into the well-oiled review selection machine from time to time. And they do that with some ‘core wackos that continue to populate the metal multiverse somehow. Even if evil forces out there continue to tell us that they’re in no way near metal. And don’t even dare calling it that, thank you very much.

So, low and behold, Lower Hollow usurped our attention earlier with their new short blurb … [...] Click to raid more!

Evanescence, from Nu Metal to – Pop? An editorial.

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Polarization. That’s what comes to mind when the RMR crew starts discussing Evanescence and their career. Some think that Amy Lee can do nothing wrong and everything she and her mates created so far is just dandy. Others, however, feel that the band sorely got on the wrong side of pop over the years. A (not so) happy conversation of groovy chatterboxes but no resolution on the corporate stance the mighty RMR office suite should take. Sounds like those modern and totally wretched politics, doesn’t it?1

So, what’s it gonna be?

Early Evanescence, and then some.

Since its inception, … [...] Click to raid more!

Evanescence – Evanescence (2011) – Review

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Oh my! I am in mourning. Black clad, bound in leather, a painting of somber colors and polished silver.

What a total and sad downgrade from the heights of Fallen to this album, kind of unhappily named Evanescence. Only that the evanescence1 of this gig seems to have finally disappeared completely.

First signs for this to happen already appeared on their former record The Open Door. The record that suffered from a certain lack of direction and oomph in the lower parts of the tracklist. Yet, the latter contained a lot of good stuff to render it … [...] Click to raid more!