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An Overview On Phaenomenal Nature – when I read about Cassandra Jenkins 2021 EP, I just felt this could be a perfect one for Flyctory.com. At least, I have been really curious about the nine songs, which will be released on 19th February 2021.
Cassandra Jenkins – About The Artist
Cassandra Jenkins is a native New York artist. The indie-folk singer started releasing music in 2014, when two singles, Perfect Day and Rabbit Single were published and her first EP EP became available. Her only full length album so far is the 2017 Play Till You Win, which also contains her likely most well-known track, Candy Crane.
Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature – Track by Track
The seven track EP lasts 31 minutes.
1. Michelangelo
I’m Michelangelo
I carve myself out of marble
When I don’t know how to grow flowers
The album starts with Michaelangelo, which has a touch of rock with its distorted guitar tracks. Overall, of course, Cassandra Jenkins does widely arranged songs, which still have a key focus on the lyrics, the story. Loved to listen to this first one.
2. New Bikini
While Michaelangelo had some rocking, almost angry parts, New Bikini is so contrastring gentle and atmospheric. The brass sounds and the shaker brush on the drum side create a very cosy, intimate feeling.
3. Hard Drive
Hard Drive starts with spoken words
So these are real things that happened
Where you can apply these these, um, important concepts
And understand that
When we lose our connection to nature
We lose our spirit, our humanity, our sense of self
The song feels like a story told. Jenkins is just using narrative lyrics with very scattered sung lyrics. The backing melodic part is, however, very rhythmic and quite present. Cool composition and the backbone of this EP.
4. Crosshairs
You should not try to guess what the next song will be like on An Overview on Phaenomenal Nature – you will likely fail in your bett anyway. Crosshairs stats with acoustic guitars in a singer-songwriter style. It almost feels like a radio track, before Jenkins’ music is going back to the sound-metaphoric compositions she is creating.
5. Ambiguous Norway
Scandinavia now 🙂 The way Jenkins describes the scenery and her thoughts about it in this track is simply beautiful. Again, listen an enjoy.
6. Hailey
With less than three minutes, Hailey is the shortest track on the EP. This time, Jenkins’ vocals are accoumpanied with harp-alike sounds. Hailey is simply the forename of her main character of the song – Jenkins is introducing characters in many of her songs.
7. The Ramble
The Ramble is something like the seven minute outro of the EP. If feels beautiful, relaxing, almost meditative and mixes instrumental sounds with natural recordings like birds singing.
Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature – Spotify
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Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature – My View
Of course, An Overview On Phaenomenal Nature is not mainstream. Cassandra Jenkins takes you on a melodic travel to other worlds, to new stories. The EP relaxes you, but also creates thoughts and dreams. It is driven by a single song, Hard Drive, but still has very different, but somehow linked elements. I feel it is very well done music. Many of you will nonetheless not listen to the EP (or at least not too long). But that’s about the genre, not the quality. You might not have a too deep dive into the artists’ work when I am reviewing Death Metal as well.
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Mastiff are doing a mixture of doom metal, sludge metal and metalcore. Last year, the band celebrated their tenth band ...
KISS World Las Vegas
There is a lot of stuff to see and experience in Las Vegas. The temple for hard rock fans in ...
Myrath – Karma
Karma by the Tunisian metal band Myrath is definitely one of these releases I looked forward to so much. I had ...
Skeletal Remains – Fragments of the Ageless
On 8th March 2024, the death metal band Skeletal Remains are releasing a new album. After the US-American band has ...
Anchors & Hearts – Deathlist
In June 2021, I shared the album Guns Against Liberty. The band behind that album is the Hamburg-based melodic hardcore act ...
Blood Opera – Songs in the Key of Death
I love the Finnish monster hard rockers Lordi. Thus, I just had an immediate crush when I ran into the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23rd February 2024)
February 2024 is quite an intense month for me. Even though the trips I have planned and done are comparably ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16th February 2024)
Coming back from the United Arab Emirates and about to head to Malaysia soon - thus, some really interesting experiences ...
Bright & Black – The Album
A Symphony Orchestra Composers from the World of Metal A Wild Conductor A truly unique Solist Attitude and Talent This ...
Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace
Almost four years after their last album, the Australian band Caligula's Horse is back. On 26th January 2024, they share ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26th January 2024)
In the relations of my home town Cologne, we are celebrating a big Songs of the Week anniversary with this edition. My ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19th January 2024)
This week, I published how I feel to concentrate on one Country Music Playlist - at least until I found ...
Horskh – Body
I rarely feature music from France on Flyctory.com. On this week, featuring the 19th January 2024 releases, there is one ...
Dead Eyed Creek – Out of Phase
This week, I am dealing with quite a lot of music postings during the week. There are two reasons for ...
Escuela Grind – DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL EP
If you don't find a title for your EP, you're in trouble... Just take the genre and make the letters ...
Last In Time – Too Late
After Christmas break, there is quite a bunch of interesting music on the weekend as of 12th January 2024. One ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2023
Yeah, I am still more of an album person. I feel that a long-play is still able to tell stories ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2023
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15th December 2023)
The Christmas countdown is steadily running to zero - which more and more means that new releases get sparse. I ...
Dritte Wahl – Urlaub in der Bredouille
A vacation album? The title Urlaub in der Bredouille sounds like a road trip album to some French region... But ...
Santa’s Soundtrack 2023? Some Christmas Releases This Season
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 8th December 2023)
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 1st December 2023)
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
Bjorko – Heartrot
You might not know Bjorko (or: Bjørkø, how it is spelled correctly) - but if you are a metal fan, ...
Pridian – Cybergnosis EP
Unfortunately, I so far did not take you to Estonia in the travel section of my blog so far. The ...
Paradogmata – Endetid
It is quite a range of music represented on Flyctory.com - which is also illustrated by two of the key ...
A Walk Around the Grounds of Wacken
Wacken could be just a normal village on the countryside of the German state of Schleswig-Hostein. However, when you mention the ...
Maelfoy – Failures, Fears and Forgiveness
After their debut album Hollow Throne has already been successful, the German melodic post hardcore band Maelfoy is releasing their sophomore album ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17th November 2023)
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
Palehorse – Hunting Grounds
I rather frequently receive promos from Scandinavian artists. Unfortunately, my capacity is often too limited to process all of them ...
Cabrakaän – Aztlan
In 2017, the band Cabrakaän had their first ever gig in Canada, at the Metalocalypstick Fest in Lone Butte, British ...
Dogma – Dogma
On their website and social media, the band Dogma states Who are we? A religion? A band? A sect? A ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10th November 2023)
I had a short trip to Hamburg this weekend, watching my last Nacht der Gitarren show (see my Reutlingen show report) ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3rd November 2023)
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Wayfarer – American Gothic
American Gothic is already the fifth studio album by the US-American band Wayfarer. I had the opportunity to listen to their ...
Doro – Conqueress – Forever Strong and Proud
40 years of Doro Pesch on stage - I really feel a bit of bad that I am not in ...
Angelus Apatrida – Aftermath
I think it's time for a thrash metal release as of 20th October 2023. The "Homeless Angels" - that's at ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13th October 2023)
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Beartooth – The Surface
With the mid-September 2023 single release The Better Me featuring country rocker HARDY, I felt that The Surface by Beartooth could definitely ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 6th October 2023)
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 September 2023)
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Atena – Subway Anthem
The domestic newspaper Dagbladet named the Norwegian band Atena a semi-exitic act in the Norwegian metal flora. Honestly, when I received ...
Rising Wings – Reach
The story of the hard rock project Rising Wings is indeed a rather unique one: the band was already active ...
Manntra – War of the Heathens
Monster Mind Consuming in 2021, Kreatura in 2022 - and now War of the Heathens. The 2023 album release is already the third one ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 September 2023)
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
Danko Jones – Electric Sounds
The Ontario hard rock band Danko Jones is almost looking back to three decades of stage appearance already. With Electric Sounds, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 01 September 2023)
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
Marduk – Memento Mori
Definitely, the band Marduk are an established act in the Swedish and international music scene. One obvious proof for that ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 August 2023)
I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
Alice Cooper – Road
Including his 1970's band releases, Road is already the 29th studio album by rock legend Alice Cooper. However, this "solo" release is ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 18 August 2023)
This weekend, I have been traveling through England, doing some musical-chasing. As mixed as the stuff I have been doing ...
Sleazy – Back on Track
Actually, we never stopped playing are the first words to the press notes to Back on Track, the comeback album of ...
Songs Of My Life: Doro – The Fortuneteller
Very often, a song I feature as a Song Of My Life is also a track which made me listen ...
Atreyu – The Moment You Find Your Flame EP
It's four songs on an EP, but also a teaser towards more material. The metalcore band Atreyu releases The Moment ...
Uncaved – Dogmatorraistes
I was a bit confused when I tried to prepare this posting about the Swiss death metal band Uncaved and ...
Mammoth WVH – Mammoth II
You might not know the the rock / hard rock project Mammoth WVH yet. However, once you know that WVH ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 July 2023)
I never know what is really happening when I compose a new episode of my Songs of the Week. Until Friday, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21 July 2023)
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Somnuri – Desiderium
Learning by reviewing: I have to admit that I haven't been aware of the heavy metal subgenre of sludge metal, ...
Later Sons – Rise Up
Some classic hard rock by a new German band project? I got curious when I ran into Rise Up, the debut ...
1476 – In Exile
It took the duo 1476 six years to release a new album. The US-American project publishes In Exile on 7th July ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 2 Concerts (1st July)
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23 June 2023)
Traveling out of nowehere: I compiled this set of songs in Swansea in Whales, watching the very last Rock of ...
Mental Cruelty – Zwielicht
Time to add some more death metal to the Media Reviews of Flyctory.com: after the May 2021 release A Hill To Die Upon, ...
Green Labyrinth – Sequences
The metal band Green Labyrinth debuted with their 2014 album Shadow of the Past. Since then, it took them almost nine ...
Ayron Jones – Chronicles Of The Kid
Chronicles Of The Kid is a typical Flyctory.com album review. I scanned new releases in a promotion platform and stopped by ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16 June 2023)
I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
Saturnus – The Storm Within
Saturnus haven't been active in the record stores for quite a while. The Scandinavian's released their previous album Saturn in Ascension in ...
Extreme – Six
In 1991, there was a band from Boston who stormed the international charts with a song: More Than Words. Extreme released ...
Ray Alder – II
Ray Alder has been working as a vocalist and percussionist for several bands. In 2019, he released his first solo ...
Omnium Gatherum – Slasher EP
Some music for the metal-hearted listeners among you: Omnium Gatherum release their new melodic death metal EP on 2nd June ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26 May 2023)
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Oryad – Sacred & Profane
Sacred & Profane is the debut album by the two person-driven US band Oryad. I received it quite a while before ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19 May 2023)
A public holiday in (parts of) Germany gave me the opportunity to collect some status Tier Points for my British ...
Marathonmann – Maniac
I received the album Maniac by the Munich post-hardcore band Marathonmann way before its release on 19th May 2023. Short message: I ...
Moor – Heavy Heart
Catharsis by pain - that's a quote I read frequently about the Hamburg doom metal bnd Moor. For their debut ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12 May 2023)
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
Enforced – War Remains
War Remains is the third album of the US band Enforced. The press kit promises 32 minutes of aggressive, no frills ...
Storm Seeker – Nautic Force
Just at the end of the week in which I covered the concert of the Wellerman band The Longest Johns, I ran ...
As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet
As Everything Unfolds, the second stage: in March 2023, I introduced you to the debut album Within Each Lies the Other ...
Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On
Most people associate the abbreviation THC with Tetrahydrocannabinol, a psychoactive Cannabinoid. However, you can have a lot of fun with ...
Grand Design – Rawk
Rawk by the Swedish band Grand Design is already their sixth album. The rock / hard rock band will release ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 April 2023)
After some rather intense traveling, I am glad that there is just a short trip this week. I concentrated on ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 07 April 2023)
Not too many releases due to the Easter week. The week was dominated by my Rock of Ages coverage. First of all, ...
Vass / Katsionis – Cynical Silence
In the history of Flyctory.com, I had some quite remarkable reviews of Greek music already. The dark country album Nostrum Remedium by ...
Tribulation – Hamartia EP
Happy Easter with some death metal (what would be a better vibe for that?)! Right on Good Friday, 7th April ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 31 March 2023)
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
Lordi – Screem Writers Guild
Can you guess which music act is the most frequently reviewed one on Flyctory.com? It is of course Lordi, my ...
Black Hawk – Soulkeeper
Four decades of guitar riffs - the hard rockers / metalheads Black Hawk already have quite a long history. The ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 March 2023)
I am always impressed where the Songs of the Week each weekend finally end of. This time, for example, i have been ...
Night Demon – Outsider
The press kit to their new album Outsider calls Night Demon an "institution". At least the Californian heavy metal band grew a ...
Bad Bones – Hasta El Final!
Nice to have some Italian music on Flyctory.com again. I received the album Hasta El Final! by the Bad Bones ...
John Diva & The Rockets of Love – The Big Easy
They recorded songs like Bling Bling Marilyn or Drip Drip Baby - and I simply love them. I ran into John Diva & ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 March 2023)
Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but ...
Suicide Silence – Remember… You Must Die
Suicide Silence are definitely one of the most successful deathcore bands in the world. The quintet of the Californian band ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 03 March 2023)
After my most recent edition of my Songs of the Week majorly featured German artists and a lot of pop, my song ...
Endlevel – Weekend War
Endlevel are a German band, who mix thrash and death metal elements. On 24th February 2023, they released a new ...
Steel Panther – On The Prowl
Their last album was simply called Heavy Metal Rules - now Steel Panther is back with a new album. On 24th February ...
Tanzwut – Silberne Hochzeit
Medieval hard rock, Gothic, dance music? Tanzwut is definitely one of these bands in the German music scene, which are ...
Those Damn Crows – Inhale/Exhale
Inhale/Exhale is already the third album by the British band Those Damn Crows. As their latest major release has been quite ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 February 2023)
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
Dark Sarah – Attack of Orym
Some metal from Scandinavia: the Finnish band Dark Sarah releases their fifth album Attack of Orym on 27th January 2023. After ...
Pristine – The Lines We Cross
Despite Tromso is just having some 40,000 inhabitants, the city is quite well known as a touristic hotspot in Northern ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20 January 2023)
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
Black Star Riders – Wrong Side of Paradise
Wrong Side of Paradise is actually the second Black Star Riders album I share with you on Flyctory.com In September 2019, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 06 January 2023)
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week posting in 2023! Despite the music industry is slowly getting back to business, I ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2022
While the music market is more and more focusing on singles and even writes weird stories like Taylor Swift's "Top ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 09 December 2022)
I was quite amazed that there were quite a lot of interesting single releases this week. At least artists from ...
Shaam Larein – Stick En Kniv I Världen
The music of Shaam Larein is somewhere between post punk, doom metal and gothic rock. On 9th December 2022, the ...
Sündflut – Basta! EP
Basta by the German band Sündflut is one of these records, which I just had a short listen to and just ...
Amberian Dawn – Take a Chance (A Metal Tribute To ABBA)
I've seen so many floorball and ice hockey battles between Finland and Sweden - one of the most classic local ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 November 2022)
"Little Christmas" - as there is Thanksgiving in the United States, the volume of new releases is significantly reduced, just ...
Induction – Born from Fire
Born from Fire is the sophomore album by the power metal band Induction. I ran into the twelve songs while scanning ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 October 2022)
Just two months until Christmas - but I still refused to have an according song in my Songs of the Week ...
Hostage – Memento Mori
On their website the German band Hostage states. "There is only one rule: Stylistic boundaries do not exist." I received ...
Avantasia – A Paranormal Evening With The Moonflower Society
Avantasia is back... again and again and again... What started as a one album... or two album metal opera turned ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 October 2022)
Freddie! Who would have thought that Mr Mercury is part of my Songs Of The Week one day. Not sure if Bryan ...
Alter Bridge – Pawns And Kings
Pawns & Kings is already the seventh album by the rock band Alter Bridge. Songs like Isolation (2010) paved the band's path to ...
Orianthi – Rock Candy
Fans had to wait seven years, until Orianthi released her album O in November 2020. This time, they just had ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 7 October 2022)
I had an amazing week in Cyprus and am just about to prepare for my second trip to the Weird ...
Sleeping Romance – We All Are Shadows
Five years after their last album, the Italian band Sleeping Romance are back with their third album We All Are Shadows ...
Magical Heart – Heartsonic
Melodic rock from Munich: Magical Heart are delivering right what you really need after spending a few days at the ...
Monster Truck – Warriors
Warriors is the fourth and latest studio album by the Canadian rock band Monster Truck. They had some rather successful songs ...
Slipknot – The End, So Far
The metal guys with the mask... No, I am not talking about my beloved monsters Lordi, but about Slipknot. The ...
Silent Knight – Full Force
The album is called Full Force - what a suitable name for a power metal release. It is the first full and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16 September 2022)
While the last week brought me to Sunderland, Hamburg and Lillehammer in Norway, the song selection of the week comes ...
I Am – Eternal Steel
The US-American death metal band I Am already releases their third album. I received Eternal Steel rather early, well before ...
Blind Guardian – The God Machine
Power metal from Germany: Blind Guardian are a German band from the Rheinland region. They are active since 1984 and ...
Fire Horse – Out of the Ashes
I do not have the opportunity to present music from the Netherlands too often. Sylvia Aimee is one of my ...
Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… and The Dead!
I guess it is hard to argue against when somebody calls Megadeth a legendary heavy metal band. The US-American act ...
Lugnet – Tales From The Great Beyond
Okay, I have to admit: when I think about Lugnet, I intiially think about the sports complex in Falun, Sweden, ...
Bad Baron – Ace of Hearts
There are so many genres of rock music that I so often just don't feel like a worthy music reviewer ...
Thundermother – Black And Gold
The most rocking girls of Sweden are back - Thundermother are releasing their 2022 album Black And Gold on 19th August ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12 August 2022)
Rock and harder rock styles have been a bit of under-represented in here the last weeks. The more I am ...
Versus Goliath – Liebe & Chaos
Rather dark rock tunes from Munich: the Band Versus Goliath is releasing their album Liebe & Chaos on 12th August 2022 ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 05 August 2022)
My 5th August 2022 update of the Songs of the Week this time features 15 songs. Again, there is a wide ...
Manntra – Kreatura
I unfortunately don't feature music from Croatia too frequently on Flyctory.com. The more I was happy to run into the ...
Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army
That's a dozen for Amon Amarth: the Scandinavian metal band is releasing The Great Heathen Army on 5th August 2022. The album ...
H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure
Hard rock with a touch of glam metal: the Swedish band H.E.A.T. is rocking our souls since 2007. On 5th ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22 July 2022)
Typically, I first collect tracks for my Songs Of The Week and, once the set is complete, pick my favorite and ...
Heischneida – Heischneida II
Powerful party tunes which are made to be great on stage: five years after their first release, the Bavarian band ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 July 2022)
The list of songs as of 15th July 2022 is rather compact. I open with a very interesting British pop ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 08 July 2022)
Okay, this week, my Songs Of The Week listeners need to stay strong: I started my list with schlager (with a touch ...
Traitor – Exiled To The Surface
The German magazine Rock Hard wrote about Traitor, that the band "is playing the most persuading new-old-school-thrash, which I have ...
Breathe Your Last – Apocalypse
The album preview of the week this time is a bit of darker than the beautiful melodies of A Smell of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 June 2022)
Whenever I start working for my Songs of the Week, I typically scan the candidates I archived for that reason and ...
RXPTRS – Living Without Death’s Permission
A debut album from the United Kingdom: I received Living Without Death's Permission from a promotion agency. The band is named RXPTRS, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 June 2022)
I am looking back to a really interesting week of music. For me personally, I have been so happy to ...
April Art – P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.
Rock from Germany: on 17th June, the German rock band April Art releases their second album, P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.. I ran into the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 June 2022)
I had a long list of songs for my Songs of the Week... and after I composed a nice order of ...
Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World
Just one week after I featured Motionless In White in my weekly edition of Songs of the Week, the band is ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3 June 2022)
I am still in the process of recovering from illness - not sure if that had any influence on my ...
Def Leppard – Diamond Star Halos
They gave us songs like Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard are truly hard rock and glam metal legends ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20 May 2022)
I had a quite long list of songs for my Songs of the Week this time. The 20th May 2022 list is ...
Wucan – Heretic Tongues
"Magic Hard Rock from The Krauts" - that's the key slogan the German band Wucan puts on her Facebook profile ...
Shameless – So Good, You Should….
I typically love glam rock - and thus, the German band Shameless had a rather easy time to get into ...
Famyne – II: The Ground Below
Sophomore album by the doom metal band Famyne: on 13th May 2022, they release The Ground Below. I already had a ...
J.B.O. – Planet Pink
J.B.O. are one of the key players in the German fun metal scene. Over the last decades, they steadily grew ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 April 2022)
A week full of music: my Weird Al Yankovic Tour Trip was of course the key event of my last ...
Silver Dust – Lullabies
I really enjoyed running into the music of the Swiss band Silver Dust again. I already seen the rockers on ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22 April 2022)
The week after the 2022 Easter Bunny features some really interesting music. The heading song comes with a touch of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 April 2022)
I was quite amazed that not only Christmas, but also Easter feels to have an impact on the volume of ...
Axel Rudi Pell – Lost XXIII
Axel Rudi Pell is definitely one of the most well-known hard rock and metal acts from Germany. On 15th April ...
DeVicious – Black Heart
The different genres of metal are becoming a significant part of my Flyctory.com music coverage. This posting is about the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 08 April 2022)
Oh, I feel that the Songs Of The Week are really a tradition on Flyctory.com now. More than three months since I ...
Askara – Lights Of Night
Askara is a melodic dark metal band from Switzerland. They grew steadily over the last years and are now ready ...
Papa Roach – Ego Trip
Papa Roach are on the final straight to complete their (first?) thirty years of band history in 2023. On 8th ...
Joe Satriani – The Elephants of Mars
Some two years after I reviewed his album Shapeshifting, Joe Satriani is back with a new album, Elephants of Mars. I was ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 01 April 2022)
Not really sure why the release calendars are so seasonal (apart from major holidays like Christmas) - but I generally ...
Disconnected – We Are Disconnected
You are not running in too many French artists on Flyctory.com. The more, I was glad to receive the promo ...
Circle of Friends – The Garden
The Garden by Circle of Friends is a very special album I happened to get access to on an online ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets CJ of Paleface (29th March 2022)
Just this weekend, I introduced you to Fear & Dagger, the second album by the Swiss beatdown band Paleface. Even though ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 March 2022)
While the last week's edition solely covered a few songs, my 25th March 2022 version of the Songs Of The Week ...
Paleface – Fear & Dagger
Paleface is naming themselves to be the best beatdown band of their home country, Switzerland. With Fear & Dagger, the band is ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 March 2022)
Not really sure whether it is my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins or other influences, but this time, ...
Der To – Hand aufs Herz
Der To is a German rock artist, who is active since 2010. On 11th March 2022, he is releasing his ...
Sunrunner – Sacred Arts of Navigation
Sunrunner call their music "heavy prog-rock". Thus, this review of their 2022 album Sacred Arts of Navigation feels to be a ...
Messa – Close
Doom metal from Italy: Messa means nothing but (religious) mass. On 11th March 2022, they will release a new album, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 March 2022)
I feel that this week, there is really a nice range of songs in my Songs Of My Life. There is ...
Crowbar – Zero and Below
About a year ago, I reviewed Dream in Motion by Crowbar's singer Kirk Windstein. On 4th March 2022, it has been ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 Feb 2022)
Definitely my toughest edition of the Songs of the Week so far. It is very hard for me to concentrate knowing what ...
Gutrectomy – Manifestation Of Human Suffering
Some hard sounds from Germany: Gutrectomy are doing brutal deathcore. I was really curious if their music is as scary ...
Thunderor – Fire It Up
Thunderor are a relatively new band from Canada. They have been founded during the pandemic. On 25th February 2022, they ...
Corey Taylor – CMFB… Sides EP
Corey Taylor does not really feel to be sufficiently busy. Being the lead singer of two major bands in the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 18 Feb 2022)
One thing I really love about this new category Songs Of The Week is that it surprises me again and again ...
Matt Pike – Pike vs the Automaton
The promotion package I received for Matt Pike's album Pike vs. the Automaton states "Matt Pike wrote new rules for the ...
Ard – Take Up My Bones
Six tracks, 43 minutes - that's already telling you that Take Up My Bones by the English band Ard is not ...
Goodbye June – See Where The Night Goes
Nashville is Music City - not Country Music City. Even though there is a dominating genre, the city attracts many ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 Feb 2022)
A new week, a new edition of the Songs Of The Week. This time, I ran into a lot of rocking ...
Once Human – Scar Weaver
Time for the hard guitar sounds: Once Human is releasing their third album Scar Weaver on 11th Feburary 2022. Five years after ...
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators – 4
SMKC is a magical abbreviation in rock music business. It merges guitar giant slash, legendary Myles Kennedy and band member ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 Feb 2022)
The last two editions of the Songs Of The Week had a really nice load of positive feedback. Thus, I am really ...
Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory
Rolo Tomassi are already releasing their sixth studio album. It is very hard to define their exact style of music ...
Saxon – Carpe Diem
Album #23: Saxon is truly a band, which you have to name being legends in the heavy metal business. 45 ...
Validor – Full Triumphed
It's quite a while ago since I presented some Greek metal to you. Time to change that with this posting. Full ...
The Sleeper – Radiant
Metalcore from Germany: already before Christmas 2021, I received the album Radiant from The Sleeper. A good opportunity to rock with Santa ...
Herman Rarebell & The Hurricane Orchestra – Scorpion’s Songs Symphonic
The Scorpions are definitely one of Germany's finest international rock music acts. Herman Rarebell has been part of the band ...
Claus Trophobia – Space Rock Voodoo
Claus Trophobia is calling his music space rock - or Solid Rock - Drifiting Through Outer Space, as the Austrian is ...
Great American Ghost – Torture World EP
According to the press kit, the metal magazine Metal Injection named Great American Ghost and their music "Always hateful, always ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 Jan 2022)
This week I again present you a nice range of songs again. From Australian pop / R&B artists, who do ...
Magnum – The Monster Roars
New tunes from Magnum: almost exactly two years after The Serpent Rings, the hard rockers are back with The Monster ...
Skillet – Dominion
Hard rock from Tennessee: the band Skillet is releasing their eleventh studio album on 14th January 2022. Here is my ...
Tristan Harders’ Twilight Theatre – Drifting Into Insanity
Quite some artists used the Covid-19 limitation for some additional creativity. Tristan Harders, for example, invested the time during which ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2021
2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2021
Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 Dec 2021)
The week of Christmas is typically one of the weeks of the year with the lowest amount of new music ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 Dec 2021)
Every week, I am scanning hundreds of new releases, albums and singles, to pick the right (and sometimes: the wrong) ...
Fuer den Faehrmann – Blutmond EP
I always enjoy to listen to bands I haven't heard of before. One of them is the German band Fuer ...
Volbeat – Servant Of The Mind
New tunes from Volbeat: the successful Danish rockers are back in the record stores from 3rd December 2021. Their new ...
Hämatom – Die Liebe ist Tot
Hämatom feels to be a truly active band: just some eight months after I reviewed - and enjoyed their album ...
Lordi – Lordiversity (Full Box Review)
It's been a lot of work - but it has also been a lot of fun. The "monster weekend" on ...
Lordi – Spooky Sextravaganza Spectacular (from: Lordiversity)
Lordiversity completed: the seventh and thus last album of the album compilation Lordiversity is Spooky Sextravaganza Spectacular. Last, but not least, the band ...
Lordi – Abracadaver (from: Lordiversity)
Abracadaver is the sixth episode of the Lordiversity. This time, the album feature twelve songs around thrash metal and groove metal, ...
Lordi – Humanimals (from: Lordiversity)
The fifth Lordiversity album Humanimals is showing Lordi in their comfort zone: the album is dedicated to glam rock, hard rock and ...
Lordi – Abusement Park (from: Lordiversity)
Not only because there will be a Lordi-featured ghost train ride on Finnish fun fairs in 2021, Abusement Park feels to be ...
Lordi – The Masterbeast From The Moon (from: Lordiversity)
The third album from the Lordiversity septuplet is The Masterbeast From The Moon. The album cover feels a lot like scary stories - ...
Lordi – SuperFlyTrap (from: Lordiversity)
The second album by Lordi from the Lordiversity box is SuperFlyTrap. It comes with another ten songs, but is significantly longer ...
Lordi – Skelectric Dinosaur (from: Lordiversity)
The Finnish monsters do it in extra large - on 26th November 2021 Lordi are releasing their new latest CD ...
Navian – Cosmos
What are you doing when you are making new friends at the party celebrating your recent Bachelor graduation in contemporary ...
Running Wild – Blood on Blood
Seventeen studio albums so far - #17 on 29th October 2021 - the German band Running Wild has quite an ...
Hulkoff – Ragnarök
It is hard to describe the sound of Hulkoff, which is the solo project of songwriter and composer Pär Hulkoff ...
Bodyguerra – Fire & Soul
Rock from Germany: On 15th October 2021, the Western German band Bodyguerra will release their second album Fire & Soul ...
Alcatrazz – V
Alcatrazz had a couple of break-ups and hiatuses during their song history. Since their founding in 1983, they were active ...
Creeping Death – The Edge of Existence EP
"We just want to be heavy and create fun" - that's how Creeping Death describe themselves in the press information ...
Naraka – In Tenebris
Some metal on Flyctory.com (again): on 8th October 2021, the French metal band Naraka release their debut album, In Tenebris ...
Rage – Resurrection Day
Some new guitar riffs made in Germany: it is hard to think about the German metal music scene without thinking ...
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
Big name - big album? When Iron Maiden stated that they will release Senjutsuon 3rd September 2021, this release had ...
Danko Jones – Power Trio
Hard riffs from Canada: Danko Jones is active since a quarter of a century already and have fans worldwide. Their ...
Freakstorm – Storm Inside My Heart
A tribute band growing to an album with seven very own songs and two covers: Freakstorm from Gummersbach near Cologne ...
All Good Things – A Hope In Hell
A new album from All Good Things after some four years of absence in the record store with a very ...
Mentalist – A Journey Into The Unknown
Mentalist is definitely an interesting German metal band. Even though A Journey Into The Unknown is just their second album, ...
CueStack – Diagnosis:Human
Like quite likely many of you, I ran into the Austrian metal / metalcore band CueStack due to a Crowdfunding ...
Existent – Kartenhaus EP
Some German rock to be released on 23rd July 2021: I ran into the music of the band Existent and ...
Buckcherry – Hellbound
Cool hard rock with Californian roots: via promotion agencies, I ran into Hellbound by the band Buckcherry. The band is ...
Helloween – Helloween
Time to bang your head again: the German metal big guns Helloween are back in the record stores, six years ...
Cleopatrick – Bummer
Hard rock from Canada: with Bummer, the band Cleopatrick is releasing their first-ever album on 4th June 2021. The album ...
Anchors & Hearts – Guns Against Liberty
New hardcore album from the North of Germany: Anchors & Hearts recorded their fourth album Guns Against Liberty and will ...
SILVER LAKE by Esa Holopainen – SILVER LAKE by Esa Holopainen
Covid-19 felt to be a good opportunity for Esa Holopainen to go solo. Instead of releasing new stuff with Amorphis, ...
Mental Cruelty – A Hill To Die Upon
About the album A Hill To Die Upon, its composer and guitarist Marvin Kessler said, This is the album I ...
Pop Evil – Versatile
Pop Evil are definitely in the top spheres of the US hard rock scene. Their album regularly hit upper rankings ...
Manntra – Monster Mind Consuming
Croatian folk-rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music ...
Evanescence – The Bitter Truth
It has been quite amazing for me to read that The Bitter Truth is only the fifth studio album by the ...
As Everything Unfolds – Within Each Lies The Other
This release is for the guitar lovers. As Everything Unfolds is a band from Southern England, which has developed very ...
Burn Down Eden – Burn Down Eden
Even though their press package praises them as the new German lead in the melodic death metal scene, I have ...
The L.A. Maybe – Dirty Damn Tricks
As frequent readers of Flyctory.com might now, I do keep a certain mental distance to press releases and press kits ...
Silent Winter – Empire of Sins
I did not have Greek music for quite a while. The more I am glad that I received another sample ...
Thunder – All The Right Noises
The release list as of 12th March 2021 was just massive. Even though I had quite a lot of albums ...
Heart Healer – The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson
I love metal operas. Avantasia, for example, are one of my absolute favorite acts over all genres. Thus, I was ...
Orden Ogan – Final Days
I have to admit that I did not know Orden Ogan before this review. Quite a gap in my music ...
A Day To Remember – You’re Welcome
Some new tunes by A Day To Remember: the US rockers released You're Welcome, their latest album, on 5th March ...
Definition of Insanity – Into The Abyss
A typical life of a music blogger: the information about Definition of Insanity has been sparse when I ran into ...
Dreamshade – A Pale Blue Dot
Metalcore made in Switzerland: Dreamshade are doing music since 2006. On 5th March 2021, they will release their fourth album ...
Erik Cohen – Northern Soul
Quite some interesting rock music to be released on 26th February 2021. I originally wanted to start my reviews of ...
Flaming Wrekage – Cathedral of Bones
Hard guitar riffs from Australia: Flaming Wrekage are a treat for the metal heads among you. After having some successful ...
Damon Johnson & The Get Ready – Battle Lessons
Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders - Damon Johnson has indeed worked with some of the really big names ...
Mentally Blind – Stage: Zero
Mentally Blind are one of the key acts of the Polish metal scene. Despite being active since 2010 already and ...
Korpiklaani – Jylhä
Since I ran into the music of Korpiklaani at a Lordi gig in Helsinki, I am really a fan of ...
(Over) 400 Media Reviews on Flyctory.com – your most popular ones
It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
Accept – Too Mean To Die
Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
Michael Schenker Group – Immortal
Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
Tragedian – Seven Dimensions
Even though Tragedian is a Hamburg-based project, their members come from quite some parts of Europe. I got to have ...
Wig Wam – Never Say Die
There is not just Lordi and their Hard Rock Hallelujah - also some other bands who love the harder guitar sounds made ...
Bashdown – Pushing the Envelope
After they got quite some good critics for their debut album, the German metal / hardcore band Bashdown starts 2021 ...
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – American Amadeus
Hair Metal - the fusion of pop and metal is a genre for some quite strange - but successful - ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2020
292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2020
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
Majestica – A Christmas Carol
I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Though I am especially favoring the Muppets movie version, I was absolutely fond ...
Sodom – Genesis XIX
Sodom is one of the finest names for Thrash Metal made in Germany. The band is already having a 38 ...
AC/DC – Power Up
When AC/DC updated their social media accounts with the Power Up album logo marketing, this felt like small hard rock sensation ...
Songs Of My Life: Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah
After the first episode of my new category Songs of My Life was about Ultravox, 1980's pop and a story around ...
Orianthi – O
Australian weekend on Flyctory.com: after I already reviewed the albums by Kylie Minogue and Caitlyn Shadbolt, the third release from ...
Averlanche – Life’s Phenomenon
If you are thinking about moving to Finland, but feel afraid of the (indeed strange) language - maybe it is ...
Solstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Iceland - one of the most painful experiences this year for me. I already had booked a trip to the ...
Paradise in Flames – Devil’s Collection
Paradise in Flames are a Death Metal / Black Metal band from Brazil. Even though they already exist since 2002, ...
The Struts – Strange Days
Even despite their first two albums had rather average success, The Struts gained a lot of reputation in Great Britain ...
Benediction – Scriptures
Benediction are quite a big name in the Death Metal scene. The British, however, haven't released any album since twelve ...
Artificial Eden – Artificial Eden
The Flyctory.com week before 16th October 2020 will be quite packed with rock and metal albums. There will be two ...
Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 2
When a Rock'n'Rock Hall of Famer (which he was inducted to in 2014 as original KISS member) is releasing a ...
Thundermother – Heat Wave
Four girls and hard rock? Thundermother is definitely a cool bunch of ladies. On 31st July 2020, they released the ...
U.D.O. & The German Armed Forces Concert Band – We Are One
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
Beyond the Black – Horizons
Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
Asking Alexandria – Like a House on Fire
Three years after their previous album, Asking Alexandria released another studio album, Like A House on Fire, on 15th May 2020. The ...
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
From time to time, Flyctory.com needs to care about the dark tunes in music as well. The British Gothic Metal ...
Axel Rudi Pell – Sign of The Times
60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
Nightwish – Human :||: Nature
Nightwish are somehow the undisputed kings of Finnish metal (even though I personally prefer Lordi). Being in the business since the ...
Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting
It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
Gotthard – #13 (Album Review)
The Swiss band Gotthard is something like their nation's national monument in the Hard Rock genre. They publish music since the ...
Böhse Onkelz – Böhse Onkelz (2020 Album)
Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Likely, being an Ordinary Man is one of the attributes you would least assign to Ozzy Ozbourne spontaneously. Nevertheless, the former Black Sabbath ...
Seven Spires – Emerald Seas
I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as ...
Sepultura – Quadra
Sepuiltura are true Heavy Metal legends - with Quadra, the Brazilians already released their 15th studio album, 24 years after their ...
Richie Kotzen – 50 for 50
What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...
Lordi – Killection
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 - a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a ...
Kirk Windstein – Dream In Motion
24th January 2020 felt to be the "Metal Heroes do solo album" day of the year. Shortly after I had ...
Marko Hietala – Pyre Of The Black Heart
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut ...
Skull Koraptor – Chaos Station
Due to my contacts to the Greek metal scene, which really seems to have a lot of musical talents, I ...
Shadowmass – Shadowmass (Album Review)
Due to my contact to a Greek metal music promotion agency, I ran into another Greek metal album. The band ...
Frog Leap – An Amazing Project Back On Tour 2020
Leo Moracchioli sounds very Italian, but in fact, the metal musician and producer is Norwegian citiizen. Despite his Youtube has ...
Project Renegade – Order of The Minus
Project Renegade are the first Greek act I am reviewing on Flyctory.com. The metal quartet present their debut album Order Of ...
Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
There is not just Vivaldi and Pavarotti - Italy also has quite a strong Metal scene. One of the key ...
Steel Panther – Heavy Metal Rules
If you record songs like Death to All But Metal or Bukkake Tears and you do it good, you may make it big ...
Black Star Riders – Another State of Grace
I saw the Black Star Rides some years ago as a support act of Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their ...
Tarja – In the Raw
Tarja Turunen - the Finnish Opera and metal voice became a legend with Nightwish. After the split from her band ...
Hammerfall – Dominion
Sometimes, Flyctory.com is covering quite a range of topics within one day: while I started the day with the review ...
Avantasia – Moonglow (Album Review)
Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
My Favorite Songs 2018
As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
Doro – Forever Warriors // Forever United (Album Review)
Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
