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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, September 25, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6
Published: November 2014

Massive release from the camp of “Hypnotic Dirge Records”. I was a little surprised, but it turned out that Stroszek is a calm acoustic solo project of Claudio Alcara, guitarist of Italian Black Metal band Frostmoon Eclipse. It seems like the heart and soul of an angry Black Metal-head shows itself from a completely different perspective.

Despite “Wild Years of Remorse and Failures” being a compilation album,...

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Review from Necromance Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, July 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Necromance Webzine
Published: July 4, 2014
*Google translation of Spanish review

"Wild years of remorse and failures" is the latest work of Italian threesome Stroszek, who wanted to get back to light previous work and gathered in this edition (with a new mastering) the following material: The Album "songs of remorse "and" life failures made ​​music ", the EP" the wild hunt "and two versions. In total 26 subjects in which the band explores the grounds of the most atmospheri...

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Review from Pest Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, June 14, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pest Webzine
Published: June 1, 2014

Well, Gothic Metal is a bit too much of a label for Stroszek's music, but parts of it are hinting towards a really melodic Gothic Metal with Alternative and even Country influences. This is a huge release, a double CD release featuring 2 albums, both played on the same direction, using mostly guitars and vocals, with episodic insertions of drums and bass. Stroszek is the one-man project of Claudio Alcara from Frostmoon Eclipse, but this is...

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Review from Aristocrazia Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Aristocrazia Webzine
Published: May 5, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The recovered memory: the Stroszek look back, preparing for some kind of future. Two years ago, the reality of the inspiration of Claudius Arcara daughter had been a welcome discovery with the release of "Sound Graveyard Bound" and which subsequently had in-depth knowledge with "A Back In The Day" . Today, however, I find myself in his hands a double cd collection published by the Canadian Hypnot...

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Review from Metal Wave Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Wave Webzine
Published: February 25, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

Second release of the first two albums EP's solo project of Claudio Alcara guitarist Frostmoon Eclipse, Wild Years of Remorse and Failures summarizes the acoustic and dark approach that is the mentality. Much more oriented towards the side towards which the acoustic black metal, though with intervals of rock heaviness variable, there is a prevalence for dark atmosphere, enhanced by a very dim...

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Review from Legacy Magazine; Issue #89

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, February 28, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Legacy Magazine; Issue #89
Published: February 2014
*Google translation of German review

Claudio Alcara's Stroszek are the second pillar of the Italian creative. With Frost Moon Eclipse, he had already made a name in black metal, when he started this side project in 2007. "Wild Years Of Remorse Failures" is a retrospective of the past six years on a double CD. This is what the 2007 debut works are "Songs Of Remorse" and was published in 2009, second album "Life Failures Mad...

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Review from Rock Metal Essence Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 23, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essence Webzine
Published: February 20, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

The acclaimed early work of the project folk / acoustic dark rock Stroszek were republished in December 2013 by the Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records in the form of a double CD collection, by way of Wild Years of Remorse and Failures . 

Boasting a complete remastering and a re-recording of the vocals of the album Songs of Remorse , the compilation also includes the hard Life Failur...

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Review from Alarm 666 Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alarm 666 Webzine
Published: February 18, 2014
*Google translation of Danish review

"Wild Years of Remorse and Failures" is something of a case to get through. It is a remake of the Italian band Stroszek's two albums "Songs of Remorse" and "Life Failures Made Music" and the EP "The Wild Hunt" and two brand new cover songs. The two albums have apparently been hard to come by in a while, so now you have the chance again.

I personally knew nothing of Stroszek before I received dou...

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Review from Sic Maggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, February 16, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sic Maggot Webzine
Published: February 14, 2014
*Google translation of Czech review

Perhaps it is difficult to review the project as Stroszek begin otherwise than by talking about what this band actually was and where it came from. The group is responsible for a certain Claudio Alcara , which should be known to readers of the metal sites especially about as a founding guitarist of Italian black metallers Frostmoon Eclipse , who would be given the time of exposure on the stage ...

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Review from ZWare Metalen

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, February 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: ZWare Metalen
Published: February 7, 2014
*Google translation of Dutch review

The Italian behind Stroszek , Claudio , does not like capital letters . Everything in the small so . For years, he makes acoustic guitar music with a metal bar where he considers it necessary. Hypnotic Dirge felt the time had come to join his material and bring a reprise of the vocals of Claudio . Out as a double CD Why not .

Why not ? Well, because very few people here are waiting . Hours at a time t...

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Review from Feedback Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, February 13, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Feedback Metal 
Published: February 12, 2014

Wild Years of Remorse and Failures is a reissue of two albums by Stroszek. It incorporates the albums ‘Songs of Remorse’ and ‘Life Failures Made Music’ as well as the ‘Wild Hunt’ EP and two cover songs. The albums were originally released between 2007-2009 and were notoriously difficult to obtain hence the re-release. 

Both albums have been remastered and the ‘Songs of Remorse’ album has had all its vocals re-recorde...

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Review from Alternativ Musik Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, January 27, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik Webzine
Published: January 26, 2014
*Google translation of German review

After two years before the album Sound Graveyard Bound appeared, Stroszek published now everything foregoing on two CDs in the form of wild years of remorse and failures , which includes two albums and two EPs, and was composed of the name of the albums and the first EP. Together, the nearly two hours of music, wherein the backbone is always a guitar that remains rather quiet, melancholic...

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Review from Son of Flies Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, January 27, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Son of Flies Webzine
Published: January 25, 2014
*Google translation of Italian review

Claudio Alcara of Frostmoon Eclipse puts another point to its extensive creative source through the project Stroszek. The main difference lies in the sound of the new path that unlike the black metal of the FE prefers darker atmospheres, researched and developed in the most intimate part of the IO. As can be easily understood, musicians such form, eg me, a source of interest. It is no coinci...

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Review from Ave Noctum Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, January 20, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum Webzine
Published: January 19, 2014

There’s a clue on Stroszek’s Facebook where it is written that the band’s influences come from “highways, trains, gas stations, hotel rooms”. As you may gather, “Wild Years of Remorse and Failures” is no barrel of laughs, nor is it intended to be. This double album amounts to the re-release of two early albums, an EP “Wild Hunt” and cover tracks of songs by Dick Curless and Townes van Zandt, both originally rele...

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Review from Black Phoenix Rising

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, December 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Black Phoenix Rising
Published: December 1, 2013

Stroszek's early works have been unavailable for some time, so with the "Wild Years Of Remorse And Failures" double album release from Hypnotic Dirge Records we see some of these works remastered and made available once more. It includes the debut album "Songs Of Remorse" on the first disc (titled Remorse), then the album "Life Failures Made Music" as well as the EP "The Wild Hunt" on the second (titled Failures). Added to this...

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STROSZEK - WILD YEARS OF REMORSE AND FAILURES 2CD


 Released: December 7, 2013
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Dark Folk / Melancholic Rock


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