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The Best Debut Album - Metal Storm Awards 2008 | 
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The Best Debut Album
Nominations
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| A Forest Of Stars takes you back to the England, nineteenth century. Sophistication and mystery are the keywords when it comes to this band. Their weeping violin melodies will have you shed a tear, while the strength of the riffs will have you pumping with malicious energy. Such dualism is also present in the vocals, ranging from beautiful female vocals to possessed male shrieks. Are you craving for something new in Black metal? Your search has ended. MySpace ›› Full review... |
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| The general topic of this album is not very difficult to guess. Acid Witch is somewhat of an oddity, but hey - whatever gives you a lease of life (and a good trip) in this economically stressful time is okay. Bored, frustrated death/doomsters dope up and ride the broom with you to Stoneyville. Note that this is a one-way trip and copying this formula will not be a good idea. MySpace ›› Full review... |
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| From the sorrowful beginning of this debut from Coldworld until its grief-stricken end, the listener will fell helpless in its cold abyss. Harsh rasps, beautifully raw guitars and chilling atmospheres haunt this landscape. This perfect soundtrack to anyone's melancholic mood shows that it really is a cold world... MySpace |
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| "Into The Night" just breathes an air of perfect old school Heavy metal with a few Speed touches, and yet this is only the unbelievable successful debut album of this new Swedish promising band. These guys really have the potential to make it big: their up tempo music is catchy as hell and has a lot of memorable riffs and terrific solo moments, and let's not forget about the high-pitched vocals giving the music a remarkable character, making "Into The Night" an instant classic. Get those air guitars ready, Enforcer is pure dynamite! MySpace |
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| Faal is musically relentless and moderately original. "Abhorrence-Salvation" cycles between haunting funereal tunes and fast aggressive moments. The music is a little subdued, but with a remarkable atmosphere hiding under the haze of guitars, surfacing whenever keyboards take precedence. There is something mysterious about their sound, awaiting to be discovered. MySpace |
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| The beautiful and mournful symphonic intro track to "...Of Frost And War" really is something striking. Towards the end though it gives you a feeling of wariness. And with good reason; this debut album from Hail Of Bullets is stunningly good. The band comes at you with everything they've got. Crunchy and heavy-as-hell guitars mixed with solid drumming and vocals that are screamed forth with every inch of effort make ...Of Frost And War drool-worthy. It's the full on Death Metal face-slap you can't not have! That this is Hail Of Bullets first album is amazing. This could be the next big Death Metal band. MySpace |
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| In this debut from the Finnish folksters, they showcase metal music with folk instruments and their cousins the symphonic arrangements. Harsh vocals with female operatic ones work well together as they alternate with one another (and sometimes even harmonise). The folk instruments and clever solo work handle the catchiness behind Shadowheart while the symphonic music makes for good atmospheres and just good general background music. A good album for those into "epic" kinds of metal; the symphonic and folk sides combine actually rather well. MySpace |
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| Krallice represents the initial Black Metal offering of Avant-Garde Metal guitarist Mick Barr and friends, and quite the offering it is. Six tracks spanning nearly an hour of Weakling-inspired metal ensue. The howling, haunting vocals are virtually buried amongst the pounding drums and the hurricane wall of guitars as the tracks rage on. Somehow even though the average length of each song is 10 minutes, it doesn't drag; Krallice captivates the listener. MySpace |
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| Finland is still the forerunner in the gloom and doom department and bands like Saattue are the reason. With their accesible, but no less beautiful and despairing debut "Jäähyvästi" they immediately brought themselves to the top of the genre. What makes this album stand out above other, similar bands? Saattue does not stick solely to the despairing moments, but occasionally bursts out into a "it's now or never, all or nothing, nothing to lose" epic power surge. Awesome. MySpace |
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| Warbringer was one of the Thrash surprises of the year. After two demos and an EP, they decided to go for it and released the blistering Thrash monster "War Without End". Mixing Bay Area Thrash with Teutonic Thrash, these guys bring the best of the two subgenres together in one annihilating killfest. Riff riff riff riff riff - break your neck - Thrash metal is aliiiiiiiive!!!! MySpace |
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