Blog

With four bonus tracks.

The post Evanescence’s “The Open Door” To Receive Remastered 20th Anniversary Edition appeared first on Theprp.com.

Album Review: Shores of Null – Homesick

Reviewed by Oli Gonzalez

Time for a bit of doom metal, this time from Shores of Null, with their 5th album “Homesick”. A new band for me but one I was eager to get my teeth into.

Coming in as a five piece, the Scandinavian act…oh wait hang on *checks notes* Shores Of Null are actually ITALIAN! One listen to the ice-cold melancholic doom vibes radiating from the speakers and you’d be sure they were from frosty Finland. Take the album’s opening track ‘Allies Before Defeat’ for instance. The Swallow The Sun style bleakness is there for all to admire (which sounds like an odd sentence, admittedly), whilst Davide’s vocals have the strength and melodic weight of Amorphis frontman Tomi! The strong hypnotic bass lines propel the band, laying a foundation for the blazing leads and the aforementioned anthemic vocals of Davide. Though ‘Son Of The Tide’ ups the ante of bleakness via piercing lead guitars that shatter any shred of joy in your heart. Though when combined with Davide’s array of colossal growled vocals, this makes for a cocktail that’s oddly intoxicating and addictive! Especially with that closing passage!

If ‘Son Of The Tide’ was bleak, ‘Dreaming Of A Scar’ ensures any residual serotonin is depleted from your system. If you feel nothing here, if you aren’t moved by the weight of the piano and violins, you may be a cyborg!

You wouldn’t normally think of doom metal bands as having huge anthemic choruses, would you? Well that’s what you get with ‘Society Is The Murderer’. One iteration of the instantly memorable and infectious vocal line here will have you hooked! The band understands the inherent power here and wastes no time in deploying this weapon early on, at around about the 25 second mark! This feels like a song where the chorus was created first, and the rest of the song built around it.

As “Homesick” progresses, Shores Of Null continue to outdo themselves! The sheer gravity and apocalyptic density of ‘The Numbing Void’ is enough to send shivers down your spine and make you contemplate your own fragile mortality! Genuinely, this is lethal and should be handled with caution.

Then comes ‘Another Breath’. Seemingly happy to stay on the marauding and bludgeoning path, Emiliano seems to have remembered his double kick pedal and unleashed a ferocious assault on the bass drum that would make any thrash metal drummer purr in admiration! This is an injection of energy that we didn’t think we needed but we’re sure happier for having been given it! Surely this would have worked better earlier in the album? As a bit of an energizer at the midpoint, when people’s attention spans naturally start to wane? In either case, this represents one of the highs for the album.

“Homesick” captures the essence of Finnish doom metal elegantly, seamlessly blending individual musical prowess with an underlining glacial bite. Deeply emotional and powerful, Shores Of Null are onto something here!

For all the latest news, reviews, interviews across the heavy metal spectrum follow THE RAZORS’S EDGE on facebook, twitter and instagram.

The post Album Review: Shores of Null – Homesick appeared first on The Razor's Edge.

In 4th century BC Athens, women were forbidden from studying or practicing medicine, and breaking that law could mean death. For women, this created a horrifying situation. Athenian society demanded extreme modesty from freeborn women, to the point that many wives and daughters would rather endure the pain of childbirth without medical help than be examined by a male physician. Women were dying because they could not get the care they needed, and the people who made the laws were willing to live with that. As long as the rules of their society stayed untouched, the suffering of these women was apparently an acceptable price to pay. Agnodice could not accept that. She saw a system that was leaving women to die, and she decided she would find a way to practice medicine anyway.

Agnodice did not go to the archons and ask them to change the law. She cut her hair, dressed as a man, and left Athens. She went to study under Herophilus, a respected physician and anatomist of the ancient world. After learning medicine, she returned to Athens disguised as a young male doctor. She knew she could not openly practice, so she had to hide who she was while treating the women who needed her.

When Agnodice came across a woman in labor, she would offer to help. If the woman refused because she believed Agnodice was a man, she would lift her tunic and reveal that she was a woman. The woman would then trust her enough to accept her help. Agnodice delivered their babies and treated them when they were sick. The women began telling other women about her. Before long, she had become the doctor they wanted to see, even though the city had made it illegal for someone like her to do the work.

The male physicians in Athens were not concerned with the fact that women were getting better care. They were concerned that their patients were leaving. Unable to understand why this young doctor was so successful, they accused Agnodice of seducing their wives and daughters. She was brought before the Areopagus and faced the death penalty. Agnodice lifted her clothes in front of the judges and showed them that she was a woman, immediately proving that the accusation was false. But that only gave the court another reason to punish her. She had been practicing medicine while being a freeborn woman, which was against the law. So they sentenced her to death.

The women who heard the verdict were not willing to let that happen. Among them were the wives of the same magistrates, judges, and aristocrats who had condemned Agnodice. They went to the Areopagus and confronted their husbands. Women who were expected to stay quiet inside their homes were suddenly standing together in the court and demanding that Agnodice be spared. They told their husbands, “You are not our husbands, but our enemies, if you execute the woman who saved us.” The pressure became impossible to ignore. The court acquitted Agnodice, and the laws of Athens were changed to allow freeborn women to practice medicine.

Not all historians and archaeologists agree that Agnodice was a real historical figure. But whether she was a real woman or a legend, the lesson remains the same. A system can protect its rules even when those rules are hurting the people living under them. Agnodice did not let those rules stop her from becoming a doctor. She saved the women who needed her, and eventually those women stood up for her.

The post She’s In Charge | Agnodice and the Athenian Uprising of Wives first appeared on FemMetal – Goddesses of Metal.

Ill Nino's Dave Chavarri and Laz Pina and their wives are seeking legal help over what they claim is a campaign of online harassment coming from ex-guitarist Marc Rizzo and his girlfriend. Continue reading…

The latest single from their upcoming album ‘Graceless.’

Source

The group expect to get back out in October.

The post Earshot Cancel Immediate Shows Due To A Member Departing Mid-Tour appeared first on Theprp.com.

Their first new song with guitarist Victoria Villarreal, ahead of their upcoming North American tour

Source

Tony Kruszka has been sidelined by illness, while Ed Cuozzo has exited the band.

The post Cold Announce A Pair Of Lineup Changes appeared first on Theprp.com.

Stream the title track

Source

This is the second album by UK extreme metal band Burner. Burner bring us 48 minutes of material to abandon all hope to on No One Is Coming to Save Us. Playing a hybrid style that’s as effective as it is unexpectedly multifaceted, Burner’s new record is a real powerhouse. No One Is Coming to … Continue reading “Burner – No One Is Coming to Save Us (Review)”