Where's dystopia4 when you need him!

Oh man, I was gonna make fun of Nokky M there. I guess that album's better than Lunar Poetry, but who cares? Shitty Nazis make crappy music.

Christ, you actually WANTED to review that mess? I thought I was being the nice guy and taking one for the team. You definitely could have had it.

Yeah, Demon Eyes may not be "top tier" as far as French heavy metal goes (what a small but powerful talent pool) but I think there is something fairly special about the album as a whole. Definitely would advise listening to the whole thing if you find the opportunity. The bonus tracks from 83 may be even better, and certainly have a more muscular production.

Come on, it's fun! Je serais curieux de voir ce que tu pourrais nous proposer de bon. Bonne traduction, by the way.

If you are interested in checking out more of Peste Noire, i would start with the album "La Sanie Des Siècles". Most songs don't sound like this one with respect to the folky part, but i find that song quite interesting so thats why i put that song in this thread...here is another song you could check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMTLSd2iRA8

Re: Destruction - Totally agree with you, it's definitely one of the highlights of their career in my eyes, even though it's a cover. The original is indeed punk-ish (well, more like punk-ized hard/heavy); it's just a great composition, and the song already had a lot of epic and dramatic potential in its original form, but it was a diamond in the rough before Destruction perfected it.

Re: Nocturnal Breed - Hey, I'm digging that track, thanks! The name sounds familiar, but I guess I had never given it a try, because the band's sound didn't ring any bells. Funny how I'd best describe this as punky speed metal (ie with a strong Motörhead influence) with just a few power metal undertones, but somehow to the guy who uploaded the track it's supposed to be "black/thrash", which seems very far off to me (thrash in the sense of speed, I can understand, but there's 0% of BM in that stuff no matter what). Good stuff, at any rate. I guess I'll look into it.

I had yet to give a proper listen to new Hirax (aka the old Hirax's singer/lyricist with an entirely different band behind him), and I must say I'm pleasantly surprised. This doesn't sound too far removed from the Hirax responsible for 'Hate, Fear & Power' and 'Raging Violence', while still pretty different: more speed metal and less punk music wise, but the biggest change is in Katon W. de Pena's vocals, who aged well and evolved in a direction I wouldn't really have expected. He used to have a much cleaner, slightly higher-pitched voice, and every other syllable was an intense vibrato (which tended to be a bit boring at times); now he clearly lost some range and smoothness, but he gained a completely badass raspy tone in return, and I also find his delivery more varied and, ironically, more melodic than it used to be in the old Hirax. In short, he has evolved into something fairly close to classic-era Bobby Blitz. The band accompanying him might as well be a reactivated Sentinel Beast with a slightly more "modern" sound, which isn't really like old Hirax, but pretty badass in and of itself. Me likes!

Thanks! This is really good stuff. I really like slower, rhythmical BM and this song really hits the spot. The fact that these guys don't shy way with experimenting with their music a la the folksy part in the other song is a huge plus in my book. Will definitely check out that full-length.

Honestly the whole Brain Damaged album is top-notch, so if you liked that song, I'd get the full album. I'd not recommend their debut, though.

They had a lot more BM influence in their earlier stuff, but honestly they never made it sound that good by my ear. They're a much better band when they just go balls-out thrash as they did in Fields of Rot. The song I linked is probably not the best representation of the album, since it's a straight-up homage to Motorhead. I chose it in part because it's rare that a band really captures the spirit of a Motorhead song without sounding like a cheap rip-off.

Désolé, ouais, je vais peut être contribuer après la fin de ma session

Glad you liked it mate. I totally get what you mean about their drummer being better at playing at a high tempo. His fills kick my ass every time. You definitely want to check bandcamp, as the album is available for free dowload.

Huh, never knew there were so many ways to be wrong. Oh well.

Hey, I really liked that Dark At Dawn song! I had recently checked a few songs off of this album after someone posted one in the Heavy/Power/Speed thread, but this wasn't one of them. What's more, critical though I may be of a lot of flowery EuroPM songs, I don't think Veracs' assessment of this one is fair. Sure, the bulk of the song is borderline melodic hard rock with a gothic touch, with only the breaks and solos evoking power metal (or indeed melodeath à la early In Flames for the first harmonized lead) but no, it's not sappy, and it sure isn't generic. Soft and with simple riffs, sure, but catchy, driving and rather creative. I really liked the little kid's toy sounding keyboard touch.

Mostly my issue was with his criticism of 'jumpdafuckup' parts - pretty much the furthest thing away from what DaD is. That album is really cool and has this great kind of 'dark romantic' aspect to it, while also still being heavy and viper-like as hell. It's just got this really awesome, weird songwriting aesthetic with some neat atmospherics, like you said, with the keyboards and such. Glad you liked it.