The Finns Black Light Discipline look for a new guitar player, because Antti Salo is leaving the band. Send application to: bld@bld.fi
German Medieval Metallers ENID are back after a 7-year-hiatus, with a new album and an exclusive reuinion show at Waldeshall Festival II in Seebach/Thüringen, Oct 16, 2010: www.myspace.com/enidofficial Schwermetall – Der Film , the first German Hard´N´Heavy documentary, filmed in 2008 + 2009 on 90 Festivals and stages all over Germany, is out now: www.schwermetall-der-film.de. Sabaton-Cruise: Who wants more of Metal on a cruise ship should consider this one on December 2, 2010, with Sabaton, Raubtier, Steelwing, Prey, Mary Fay etc, Infos here . Sweden Rock Cruise will be a tribute to Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P.) and will take place on Oct 7, 2010. Details at our tourdates.
Raptor School, humph! Sounds a bit strange already. The album cover, apparently done with the most basic digital painting programme, ouch! Then the music starts…not so bad as the band name and the cover suggests. According to the band biography, the influences range from U2 over Slipknot to Iron Maiden but it´s mostly the NWOBHM that comes through and shows that the guys do know what they are doing with their instruments. The band also tries to put in some variation and so there is besides the typical metal numbers also a ballad. A lot is tried out from the 3,5 minute song to the one that lasts almost 10 minutes but that´s also one of the problems – what exactly do they want, what´s the band concept?
But there are a even more problems - the lyrics, rather socio-critically orientated, are more or less on elementary school level and even worse is the singing if it´s even possible to call it like that. The vocal outpourings give me spontaneous headaches and the only instrumental song on the album can soothe the pain only for a short time. Honestly, I didn´t make it to the end of the record…
So before Raptor School are able to graduate from said school, things definitely need to be changed or "redefined". The first thing to do is finding a new front dinosaur…
