Igors Metal Blog

Band: Siren’s Rain Album: Rise Forth Release date: 8. October 2021 Record label: self released Genre: Dark Folk Metal From: Tacoma, USA       Siren’s Rain was founded in 2014 and has released to EPs: Beneath The Narrows in 2016 and Nightmares From The Abyss in 2019. The band consists of Rena Hellzinger- vocals, harp and percussion, William Beritich: bass, percussion and backing vocals. Scott Eugene Jones: percussion, Michael Heaney: mandolin and guitar, Ed Miller: guitar, nyckelharpa and backing vocals.   This band makes me think of 90s metal bands and Gothenburg metal, particularly Arch Enemy. These songs sound like they were written the old way, in the rehearsal room, not on computers with all parts programmed. This is a band I imagine I could have discovered while looking the cds at my record store when such things still existed. A major part of the sound of Siren’s Rain is the use of folk instruments and folk inspired melodies, as well as the use of folk inst

  Band: Sorceress of Sin Album: Constantine Release date: 6. August 2021 Record label: self released Genre: melodic power metal From: Cambridge, UK        I have followed Lisa and Paul Skinner since before they started the band Sorceress of Sin. This is now their 2 nd album under this name, and I’m happy to review their progress. (You can find my review of their first album here ) The core of the band is the same since the previous album, namely Lisa Skinner on vocals, Paul Skinner on drums, Constantine Kanakis on guitars and Tom Maclean on bass (in studio), keyboards and orchestral arrangements as well as being responsible for mixing and producing this album. For their live shows they are joined by John Turner on guitar and Daniel Mackender on bass guitar.   The songs vary from fast paced heavy metal to epic metal, often with a symphonic side. At 1 hour 1 minute, with 9 songs, it is exactly long enough. No songs are filler tracks, and the epic l