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2011 Reviews

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
Alestorm - Back Through Time
Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
Anthrax - Worship Music
Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance
Artillery - My Blood
Benedictum - Dominion
Benevolence - God
Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit
Bloodbound - Unholy Cross
Brainstorm - On The Spur Of The Moment
Castle - In Witch Order
Communic - The Bottom Deep
Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand
Cypher Seer - Origins
Edguy - Age Of The Joker
Evergrey - Glorious Collision
Falconer - Armod
HammerFall - Infected
Hell - Human Remains
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Imperia - Secret Passion
In Extremo - Sterneneisen
Iron Savior - The Landing
Jag Panzer - The Scourge Of The Light
Lake Of Tears - Illwill
Leaves Eyes - Meredead
Liv Moon - Golden Moon
Manilla Road - Playground Of The Damned
Mayan - Quarterpast
Megadeth - Th1rt3een
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Onslaught - Sounds Of Violence
Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy
Pentagram - Last Rites
Poisonblack - Drive
Queensryche - Dedicated To Chaos
Rhapsody Of Fire - From Chaos To Eternity
Riot - Immortal Soul
Royal Hunt - Show Me How To Live
Saxon - Call To Arms
Scheepers - Scheepers
Seven Witches - Call Upon The Wicked
Stratovarius - Elysium
Stream Of Passion - Darker Days
Symphony X - Iconoclast
The Bronx Casket Co. - Antihero
Turisas - Stand Up And Fight
Vicious Rumors - Razorback Killers
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
Wolf - Legions Of Bastards



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Featured Band

Liv Moon



For the new band featured on the blog I have chosen a japanese band by the name of Liv Moon. It was back in 2011 when I kind of stumbled across this album and decided to give it a shot. I do like female fronted symphonic metal and the fact this was from Japan was also a bit intriguing. In relative terms there aren't that many successful bands from the region and I don't listen to or review a lot of stuff from there. Basically, I considered this a chance to get a peak at a metal scene I don't normally pay as much attention to.

Well, Liv Moon were certainly worth a listen. Listening to the band' releases I believe they can best be described as familiar enough to appeal to symphonic metal fans, but just quirky enough to be interesting. At times the band draws on the somewhat standard female symphonic song relying on melodic/atmospheric soundscapes, but at others they inject some non-standard sort of influences. Liv Moon songs can draw on anything from pop to industrial to electronic/dance influences and the end result kinda reminds me of something that could be on the soundtrack to an Anime film. There's just a certain different cultural take here on the sound and I find it pretty refreshing really.

Simply put, Liv Moon draw on familiar influences I like from the female symphonic sound, but add their own touch that draws a bit upon Japan's own music culture. It's an interesting experience and I'd recommend that any fans of symphonic metal check this out. Maybe you'll enjoy broadening your horizons as I did.

Links

My review of Symphonic Moon
My review of The End Of The Beginning
My review of Golden Moon
Liv Moon on Facebook
Liv Moon - Amen! on YouTube
Liv Moon - Black Ruby on YouTube
Liv Moon - Yozakuran ~ Yozakura Arashi ~ on YouTube (For one of their quirkier, more different tunes)

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