Player One - 055 - Juillet--Août 1995 [FRENCH] #magazine #retrogaming #reviews
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Amiga Action – Issue 43 – April 1993 [ENGLISH] #magazine #retrogaming #reviews
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SuperGamePower - Issue 036 (March 1997) [BRAZILIAN] #magazine #retrogaming #reviews
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By Samguineous Maximus
More than almost any other metal niche, folk metal has to walk a treacherously thin line between “actually good music” and “full-body cringe.” For every band that can fuse arena-sized melodies with genuine folk charm, there are three more tumbling headfirst into the Neckbeard Abyss™, condemned to soundtrack the Nordic-themed house parties of Reddit mods everywhere. Equilibrium has stood proudly on both sides of that divide. Their early triumphs of Turis Frayter and Sagas were mead-soaked romps packed with syrupy pagan hooks and enough triumphant Bjoriffs to level a longhouse, but ever since, the spark has dimmed, and each new release has brought diminishing returns. Armageddon (2016) was passable, and Renegades (2019) marked a true low point, trading their Viking swagger for a baffling electro-trance-metal makeover that landed with all the grace of a drunken troll. Now, six years later, Equilibrium returns with Equinox, a tightened lineup and a new vocalist in tow, promising a glorious reclamation of their folk-metal throne. Have they forged another worthy slab of epic, mead-raising metal? Or are they destined to spend eternity staring wistfully at the echoes of their own past conquests?
Equinox marks a clear return to form for Equilibrium after the detour of Renegades. The electronic and metalcore elements from their last record still linger, occasionally poking their neon-tinted heads out, but the heart of the band’s sound is back in full force: that boisterous blend of Finntroll and Ensiferum filtered through the Europower cheese of Rhapsody of Fire, now with a touch of Avatar added. The songs are built on a familiar mix of traditional woodwinds, thick distorted guitars, and gaudy synth lines, with newcomer Fabi’s fearsome growl leading the charge through straightforward verses and repeated choruses. When these ingredients click, and the newer sonic flourishes collide with the band’s classic, folk-driven sense of epic grandeur, the result can be exhilarating. Tracks like “Gnosis,” “Awakening” and “Bloodwood” move easily between core-tinged riffs and massive, sing-along Viking choruses, delivered with the bombast Equilibrium is known for. Unfortunately, the rest of the album doesn’t reach the same heights.
According to the band, Equinox was originally intended as an EP rather than a full-length release, and the pacing issues and filler make that easy to believe. Large sections of several songs feel like padding before the actual track begins. Both “Borrowed Waters” and “Legends” open with long, drawn-out “atmospheric” intros that sap the impact of what follows, and the album includes no fewer than three interludes (“Archivist,” “Rituals of Sun and Moon” and “Tides of Time”). These moments don’t do the record any favors. They’re often delivered through a jarring mix of electronic trap drums, over-the-top synth lines and the band’s more traditional woodwind flourishes, creating a stylistic mishmash that feels pulled straight from a fantasy-themed Fortnite event. At times, these elements collide with simplistic, “tribal,” repetition-heavy vocals (“Earth Tongue”), resulting in something that sounds closer to a hyper-dramatic Nordaboo YouTube montage than classic Equilibrium. Even though the album does contain plenty of fully formed songs, these detours make the overall experience feel uneven and lopsided.
There are moments on Equinox where Equilibrium’s updated approach works despite its flaws. “I’ll Be Thunder” is a concise, effective track that blends electronic and orchestral elements into a tightly written folk-metal package. Even the seemingly toxic trance-metal/rap/metalcore hybrid verse in “One Hundred Hands” is intriguing, though the autotuned chorus and generic breakdown drag the song down. To the band’s credit, the mixing is solid across the album. It’s polished without being crushed by excessive loudness for a Nuclear Blast release, and producer Daniel McCook does an admirable job balancing the electronic, orchestral, and metal components. The result is a surprisingly even production that rewards multiple listens. I just wish there were more aspects of Equinox I could praise without reservations.
Equinox is a difficult album to recommend despite its strengths. Equilibrium have mostly abandoned the divisive sound of their previous record, while adapting its electronic elements in a return to form. The singles here do capture the bombast of their earlier work and are fun enough on their own, but the record around them is inconsistent and, at time,s baffling in its execution. Equilibrium could certainly do a lot worse, but this is far from the re-conquest of the folk metal throne it could’ve been.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 256 kb/s mp3
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Websites: equilibrium-metal.net | facebook.com/equilibrium
Releases Worldwide: November 28th, 2025
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New on my #blog: "Books Reviewed: November 2025."
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A small wrap up this month, but still got something in.
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Como Escolher a Melhor App para Planejar Seus Percursos de Corrida: Análise Completa e Preços! #Tecnologia #Reviews #Gadgets #Portugal
Introdução A corrida é uma atividade que oferece não apenas benefícios físicos, mas também uma oportunidade para explorar novos locais e apreciar a natureza. Porém, quando estamos longe de casa, encontrar rotas seguras e adequadas pode ser um desafio. A boa notícia é que existem várias aplicações que podem facilitar essa tarefa,…
Sepulchral – Beneath the Shroud Review
By Steel Druhm
I’m not at all well-versed on the Spanish death metal scene, but the descriptions for Sepulchral’s sophomore opus Beneath the Shroud intrigued me sufficiently to take a cautious flyer on them for a December review. End-of-year promo offerings are always a mötley stew of rejects, wannabes, never-weres, tricksy re-releases, and lo-fi basement black metal albums set to release on Christmas day, so I didn’t expect much. What I got was something interesting indeed. Sepulchral rock a very old school death metal approach with a prominent blackened streak that sometimes takes center stage. There are nods to early Entombed and the punkier Autopsy releases, and more than a little similarity to proto-black metal bands like Bathory and early Sodom. The resulting racket is brutish, slack-jawed, entertaining, and certainly nostalgia-inducing for olde heads like Yours Steely. This is pure throwback glory, and it isn’t going to move any needles forward, but it sure tries to bend them backward.
After a refined and tasteful instrumental intro, Sepulchral come out with a greasy, filthy bang on the title track, which splits the baby between d-beat-heavy Swedeath and Bathory’s immortal second album, The Return. It’s retro-as-fook, but endearing as all get out. Vocals are like early days Quothorn mixed with Autopsy’s Chris Reifert, and the frantic, bouncy riffs will remind the aged metalhead of any number of 80s proto-death and proto-metal acts. At its core, it’s just a fun, over-the-top dose of thrashy, punky death with swagger and charm. “Abandoned Feretrum” is a macap, thrashing, tantrum of a tune with awkward, stuttering riffs that bulldoze everything and everyone into a muddy mass grave as crazed vocals babble, croak, and vomit forth nonsense. I loved this one immediately and I just keep playing it. Those simple caveman power chugs that pop up are pure gainz fuel for gym time. With the basic template thus set, Sepulchral proceed to blast, hammer, smoosh, and squish you with slight variations of it over the next 35 minutes.
This very singular approach works great on “Conflagration of Sacred Bones” and the remorseless wargrinder that is “Cloaked Spectres,” which feels unstoppable due to its penchant for big, dumb, power chugs. Slower selections like “From the Crypt, the Putrid Mist” remind of long-buried 80s proto-black metallers N.M.E., due to that clonky bass sound.1 “Gravestone Covenant” is a rumbling, brain-crushing Panzer of a song that annihilates everything in its path, and “Poison Wind” is an unabated beat down, brainless and bloodthirsty. As fun as the core Sepulchral sound is, they can run into issues when they stretch songs out and try for different moods. “Torchless Crossroads” is good, but it attempts to mellow things out too much on the back-end, creating a dull, dead space that doesn’t add any real atmosphere. “Gravestone Covenant” opts for a doomy wind-out but pulls it off better, though it would be better if it were left off entirely. Another issue is the tendency for the songs to all bleed together into an agitated, writhing mush. It’s a fun one to be sure, but it does feel like a lot of the same hash and beans by the time the album wraps.
Guitarist “Gorka” digs deep into the 80s for inspiration, offering a rabid, rotten collection of riffs that sound like they were culled from the first few Bathory albums and then dumped into an Entombed-ifier filter, only to be abandoned in a public toilet with Autopsy’s Shitfun. It’s moldy, and the stench is formidable, but 90% of the fun here is generated by the frantic, unceasing riffage and chuggery. And boy, those power chugs drain IQ points at a startling rate, but I can’t get enough of them. “Gaueko” provides gruesome vocals that sit exactly between death and black metal and are often no more than a raw bark or croak. His penchant for adding frequent vomit and spewing noises as accents is a plus, and he’s a reliable narrator for the horrors Sepulchral describes. His thumping, thudding bass-work is a boon as well, bubbling away in the background and foreground as needed.
Venturing Beneath the Shroud reveals something nasty, profane, and grotesque that cannot be unheard. It’s more fun than expected, though there are noticeable warts, boils, and blemishes along the way. Sepulchral may never end up a household name outside of their area of influence, but they have something cool going on with this mega-retro sound. If you appreciate the early days of extreme metal, take a whiff of this piece of offal.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Soulseller Records
Websites: sepulchraldeathmetal.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/sepulchraldeathmetal | instagram.com/sepulchral.osdm
Releases Worldwide: December 5th, 2025
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A Modern Mod Revival? Sharp Class of ‘25
I take a look at some modern day mod revival music from Sharp Class, Food Fight and Block 33 #vinyl #reviews #ModRevival
https://revivalrecords.co.uk/2025/12/03/a-modern-mod-revival/
Octopath Traveler 0 (Switch 2) Review
0? Doesn't sound very Octo to me
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Análise: Os Erros da Xiaomi que Estão a Congelar Smartphones em Portugal – Vale a Pena Comprar? #Tecnologia #Reviews #Gadgets #Portugal
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Moor Mother, Wooden Elephant, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Dirk Kaftan – Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
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DUDE, MY DUDE – PITSTOP
“PITSTOP” is the latest release by DUDE, MY DUDE, an outstanding English duo based in London. It’s their first piece of work this year and first standalone single since “Brave It Together,” a critically acclaimed extended play released in 2022 that you should also check out as soon as possible. Their composition features many innovations in songwriting, composing, arranging, and producing, showcasing a new, improved sound and a natural progression for an already incredible band. Lyrically, “PITSTOP” talks about the existential dread of the daily grind, so it’s a highly relatable composition that will immediately resonate with the broader auditorium. Sonically, DUDE, MY DUDE are known for blending various techniques, approaches, and styles in order to depict a lush sonic imagery, so that’s the case with this track as well. Perhaps alternative rock comes to mind first, as all the fundamental elements dominate throughout the entire track, but you’ll unquestionably hear how some other music genres found their way in this sonic equation. Do not be surprised if you stumble upon some of the finest properties borrowed from indie rock, post-punk, garage, and many more. The duo uses all these additional sonic ingredients as more than necessary enhancements, accentuations, decorations, and other details to uplift this track to an entirely new level while simultaneously remaining loyal to the primary sonic direction. Also, the band combines polish and grit in such a distinctive, fresh, innovative way, making this song even more appealing to the ears. Therefore, these experimentations with many music styles, approaches, and techniques resulted in a memorable listening experience that will not appeal to alternative rock fans, but also to anyone who appreciates wisely assembled and flawlessly performed music.
Photo courtesy of the band.As soon as you press play, you’ll notice that DUDE, MY DUDE poured heart and soul into this song. There’s so much emotion, soul, and sincerity packed in each vocal, sonic, and rhythmic maneuver, making “PITSTOP” such a memorable piece worth spinning over and over again. The song arrives with a perfect structure, garnered with many profoundly detailed segments, brilliant ideas, and superb musicianship, carefully implemented for maximum impact. Vocals play a significant role, as they act as the centerpiece of the song, as they elevate everything to new heights, command attention, and leadlisteners on an epic journey through the vast sonic universe. Somewhere between melodic chants and powerful shouts, they seamlessly balance low, mid, and high notes, emphasizing everything the duo intended to achieve with this track with such precision and finesse. Besides decorating every segment and orchestration, these vocal harmonies also contribute more than necessary emotional depth and complexity over an already intricate song structure. In the meantime, the guitars shape a perfect backdrop for all the vocals to shine upon. You’ll immediately notice generously distorted chord progressions, crafting a colossal sound that immediately wraps around your listening apparatus and refuses to let go. DUDE, MY DUDE also incorporates many beautiful themes, melodies, and harmonies, expertly incorporated over the rhythm guitars, and this interplay enhances the song’s ambiance to the max. It’s nearly mindblowing how all these layers articulate together without overwhelming each other, proving that DUDE, MY DUDE are experienced songwriters who know how to assemble catchy alternative rock songs. Beneath all these lush guitar works, the equally impressive, warm-sounding, vividly hearable, intricate basslines rumble, contributing more than necessary heaviness, clarity, and depth while simultaneously binding the mentioned instrumentations with rhythmic patterns. These rich, deep, dense, heavy notes offer more groove and detail, but also serve as a counterbalance to the distorted guitars. The exceptional drumming performance, based upon tastefully arranged, flawlessly performed, well-accentuated beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics, keep everything in line and dictate groove and pace. Each hit of the snare, kick of the bass drum, accentuation on hi-hats, and splash over cymbals has its place and purpose here, making this track even more dynamic, energetic, and powerful.
“PITSTOP” is a proper alternative rock banger, crafted by profoundly creative, talented, skilled musicians who continuously break the rules and shapeshift the boundaries of the genre. Their dedication to the craft is vividly hearable in vocal delivery, lush guitar works, intricate basslines, and energetic drumming, but this band will also amaze with their innovative arrangements and ideas. If you’re searching for a modern alternative rock track, performed straight from the heart, garnished with meaningful, intelligent lyrics, and packed with tremendous energy, then “PITSTOP” will be right up your alley. DUDE, MY DUDE is surely a band you should place on your music radar, as they deserve your utmost attention. Head to your favorite streaming platform and listen to it loud.
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It's Wednesday, it's movie review blog day! This week:
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“Análise Completa: ChatLLM Teams Reúne Todos os Assistentes de IA em Um Só Lugar – Vale a Pena?” #Tecnologia #Reviews #Gadgets #Portugal
Introdução A crescente velocidade com que novos modelos de inteligência artificial são lançados impacta não apenas os profissionais da área, mas também o público em geral. No espaço de poucos dias, surgem plataformas que prometem revolucionar o modo como interagimos com a tecnologia. Um exemplo recente é o ChatLLM da Abacus.AI, que…
“Análise: Os Óculos Inteligentes da Alibaba Vale a Pena por Menos de 500 Euros?” #Tecnologia #Reviews #Gadgets #Portugal
Introdução Os Quark AI Glasses, os novos óculos inteligentes da Alibaba, foram lançados com grandes expectativas. A companhia chinesa, reconhecida pela sua liderança em Inteligência Artificial (IA), aposta neste dispositivo como uma nova fronteira para a interação do consumidor com a tecnologia. Os óculos representam não apenas um avanço tecnológico,…
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