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Review from The Inarguable

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: The Inarguable
Published: September 28, 2012
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Ah, Stroszek, it has definitely been a while. Fronted by C. Alcara of Italian black metallers Frostmoon Eclipse, Stroszek explores the sounds of quiet, Americana-influenced folk rock painted in shades of late '90s post-grunge a la Mark Lanegan and Travis Meeks.

Following in the path set by this trio's previous album, 2009's Life Failures Made Music, Stroszek's latest effort Sound Graveyard Bound shows Alcara turning the volume and ...

Review from Don't count on it Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Don't count on it Reviews
Published: June 14, 2012
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I've been familiar with Claudio Alcara's solo project Stroszek for quite a while now and am certainly well aware of his mainstay band Frostmoon Eclipse, but this is the first time I think I've actually heard an entire album from Stroszek. I knew from the other songs I had heard that it was more of a singer-songwriter type of a vibe, but beyond that I didn't really come in expecting too much. Believe it or not, I was actually ...

Review from Music of Shadows Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Music of Shadows Webzine
Published: June 9, 2012
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stroszek, the band was founded by FROSTMOON ECLIPSE guitarist Claudio Alcara, has inked a deal with Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records for the release of the band’s third full length album. Titled “Sound Graveyard Bound”

"Can't make things undone" when I've read the title at first I've thought that it will be a very sad and depressive song. But I'm glad that I was wrong the song is calm, a bit melancholic and it gives ...

Review from Necro-web Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Necro-web Magazine
Published: June 8, 2012
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*Google translation of German review

Stroszek is an exceptional Italian band, probably by guitarist Claudio Alcara the band Frost Moon Eclipse, one of the most popular black metal bands in the country, was created. Musically, however, are only slight traces of black metal is visible.

The band name comes from the Werner Herzog film "Stroszek" back that filled in the late seventies as a celebrated, but also criticized drama to movie the...

Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: May 28, 2012
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*Google translation of Italian review

stroszek is the band, or the project if we want to define it, Claudio Alcara, known to the metal scene for his adventures with Gionatha Powerful Frostmoon act in Eclipse, Macabre Omen and his past in Handful Of Hate. But you can also put all this aside, as the black metal feeling in the world and enclosed behind this monicker, probably inspired by the films of Werner Herzog in 1977, somewhat pe...
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Review from Metallized Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Metallized Webzine
Published: May 28, 2012
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*Google translation of Italian review

Those of you who saw the film The Ballad of Stroszek by Werner Herzog , 1977 weblog? Not I, quite frankly. But apparently, was the last movie seen by the leader of Joy Division , Ian Curtis , the first of his dramatic suicide at the age of 24 years. The story told in the film, moreover, ends with the suicide of its protagonist, disillusioned and in despair after seeing all your hopes and dreams sh...

Review from Skartnak Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Skartnak Webzine
Published: May 5, 2012
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*Google translation of French review

After two albums released in God Is Myth ('Songs of Remorse "and" Life Failures Made Music '), Stroszek goes out with 'sound graveyard bound' his third album, Hypnotic Dirge Records at this time. Those who are already familiar with the music of Stroszek notice that the change of the fine has not had a major impact on the sound of gorupe: Claudio Alcara remains faithful to the folk project he leads in ...

Review from Doommantia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Doommantia Webzine
Published: April 19, 2012
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Stroszek’s music does not strictly belong to the genres normally dealt with here at Doommantia (so I’m not going to attribute any mark at the end of this writing). However I remember that at the Sludgeswamp the presence of Stroszek into one of the “legendary” Swamp Compilations and the authorized post of the 2007 debut album by Stroszek, Songs Of Remorse, had gathered much, I must confess unexpected, appreciation. I say “...

Review from Hierophant-Nox Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Hierophant-Nox Webzine
Published: April 14, 2012
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I’ve been following Stroszek since 2007’s beautiful “Songs of Remorse”, and was thrilled to receive the third instalment in Claudio, Davide and Richard’s whimsical, pensive, emotional ride along abandoned night-time highways, “Sound Graveyard Bound”. The aforementioned debut set the bar extremely high with its quiet power and ability to touch on so many raw, melancholy nerves, and I wondered if it would always rem...

Review from Midwinter Fires Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Midwinter Fires Webzine
Published: April 10, 2012
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Not an easy review, I have to say…I listened so many times to “Sound Graveyard Bound”, the third album from Italian project Stroszek, a band founded by FROSTMOON ECLIPSE guitarist Claudio Alcara…I’m not completely into this kind of music, but exploring new paths is something I was really looking for. And I completely enjoyed it. “Sound Graveyard Bound” is a melodic, intimate piece of work where acoustic guitar is...

Review from Alternativ-Musik

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Alternativ-Musik
Published: April 9, 2012
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*Google translation of German review

How can you come on band name: Stroszek is not only a film by Werner Herzog, it is also the last film to be seen to have seen Ian Curtis before his suicide. That should at least be a reason for the band name, but you must admit that it matches the music very well. Because the mood of sound Graveyard Bound is continuously morbid, which is not too surprising when you consider that the maker Claudio Al...

Review from ThreNodies Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: ThreNodies Webzine
Published: April 8, 2012
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Reading the name of Stroszek, many will think (well, if there are any thoughts) of the movie by the German regisseur Werner Herzog. This clearly has nothing to do with the movie, as this is a blog about metal records. We want to deal with the Italian Stroszek (and not with this Post-Punk band from Scottland) as they just released their latest record Sound Graveyard Bound.

C., the head behind Stroszek, should be quite known, as he is...

Review from Help Along the Way Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, November 5, 2012, In : Album Reviews

From: Help Along the Way Webzine
Published: April 7, 2012
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Should happen to stumble across the great Nordic Opeth, Swede Katatonia, American Alice In Chains, English Sisters of Mercy - you should make it a point to stumble into Stroszek.

Guitar-wise you have the tone and impression-making diligence as heard in Pearl Jam's "10", intellectual emotional trains as heard from Temple of The Dog. Equally important in the triumvirate's success are the bass lines that lean into Sisters of Me...

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