Alrighty, I’ve been ingesting a lot of new music recently and can’t be bothered writing full reviews, so short reviews are the go! All my game soundtrack reviews will be on gamepron.com!

Sigh – Scenes From Hell

Stand-out: Musica In Tempora Belli. Lots of orchestra and choir. Explores a lot of ideas and executes them well.
Let down: Prelude To The Oracle. Doesn’t fit with the rest of the album and not as spectacular.
8th album from Japanese black metal band Sigh. Loved the 7th album, Hangman’s Hymn but prefer this one, even though it has less brass in it! Explores more ground that Hangman’s Hymn and instead of being an onslaught of noise, it has some nice slow(er) parts.

Van Canto – Tribe Of Force

Stand-out: Hearted. Features the wonderful Tony Kakko. Epic sounding but I wish the guitar solo was done A capella as well. It does rival some regular power metal.
Let down: To Sing A Metal Song. It’s way too cheesy for me. Cheesy and dull.
3rd album from A capella metal band Van Canto. Always a nice change! Their cover of Metallica’s ‘Master Of Puppets’ is just marvellous!

Isole – Silent Ruins

Stand-out: Hollow Shrine. Closest track to funeral doom metal but faster! The vocals are just amazing!
Let down: Forlorn. Not really a let down, just not my least favourite track on the album.
4th album from Swedish doom metal band Isole. Not strictly one style of doom metal but takes note from most of the variations. I must get their other albums. Finnish doom is still better though! ;)

Hevisaurus – Jurahevin kuninkaat

Stand-out:Louhikäärme ja ritari. This really shows the quality of the musicians!
Let down:Rupu-Rupu Mörkö. It’s very similar to 80s heavy metal, not all that interesting. The vocals are still awesome though!
The debut album from Finnish children’s metal band Hevisaurus makes me jealous that I didn’t grow up with this. I also wish I knew what the lyrics were.

Arthemesia – a.O.a

Stand-out:Valkoinen Susi. Layers and textures galore. Similar in style to many WITTR and Enslaved tracks.
Let down:Liber Omega (& The Macrocosm Manifest III). It just doesn’t fit with the rest of the album. It really sounds like it belongs on a seperate EP.
2nd album for Finnish symphonic black metal band Arthemesia. Very different black metal, similar to Ihsahn’s solo stuff just with more speed and force.