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Reviews SUIDAKRA - SIGNS FOR THE FALLEN - CENTURY MEDIA
Boy, is this band and album a surprise. Germany's Suidakra is described as a metal band with Celtic influences which leaves one to expect the worst. Visions of Skyclad or Subway To Sally were dancing in the chambers of Metallian Towers upon laying eyes on that description.
Lo and behold, the quartet storms out of the gates with one of the tightest, most proficient and best-produced albums one will hear this year. From opener Revenant to album closer A Vision's Demise, the Germans deliver a solid and satisfying speed metal album with touches of thrash and death metal to boot. Sure, the odd acoustic or folksy interlude makes a cameo appearance on Signs For The Fallen, but the act is definitely more The Forsaken than Subway To Sally. In fact, about the only major criticism here is the undersupply of guitar solos - something the band is capable of delivering, just listen to the song A Vision's Demise. The band's singer is qualified for his role and drummer Lars has to be one of the most on-time and precise drummers this side of a drum machine. This band must rehearse seven times a week to be this together.
Suidakra is tight, powerful, heavy and melodic at the same time. It is a pity that the band is not a bigger name. For were more people exposed to this then the band would surely be a more popular on the scene. - Ali "The Metallian"
SUIDAKRA - 13 YEARS OF CELTIC WARTUNES (DVD+CD) - SPV 
If these are war tunes then Suidakra must mean they make the enemy either sick or bored. If bagpipes and fake sounding anger are not enough there is an acoustic concert in addition to the main feature, Wacken footage. The hints of death, black, or even typical German heavy metal cannot come close to compensating for the other stuff. The CD is a 'best of' and features 17 songs, four of them re-recorded (self-cover version). It is very difficult to take these Germans seriously. - Anna Tergel
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SUIDAKRA - CROGACHT - SPV 
In lieu of going on and on about the two-facedness of a band calling its style Pagan/Celtic Metal or how this band hails from Germany (hello French band Blut Aus Nord and Roman Viking metal!) the following quotations from the album’s biography should do the job for us. The band is “combining fast melodic death metal, Irish folk music”... How about the usage of “bagpipes, banjo, tin whistles” or “sixteen member choir and epic orchestral arrangements”? The folk strums and the female singer crooning exclusively on one track, called Feats Of War, do not require any more explanation.
The album’s simple and symbolic cover artwork is rather all right however. - Anna Tergel
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SUIDAKRA - DARKANAKRAD - MDD 
Suidakra's profile and prominence have fluctuated over the years. The press and industry have always loved the whole ethnic dilution of metal, but fans of metal are fans of metal and rightfully skeptical. Still, the band has been up, down and up again, which makes the listener more curious to hear what this record offers. This album concludes the Realms Of Odoric trilogy that began in 2016. The band reports that the album is both a nod to its earlier and simpler days and simultaneously looks forward to the future. The cover's colour scheme and general vibe are reminiscent of the Echoes Of Yore release, but this is a CD of newer material. Yes, there is an intro and yes there are Celtic melodies. There are bagpipes too, but the mixture of extreme metal and melodic guitar harmonies - when the band engages in metal - is well done. Some vocals are growling and extreme, with some amounts of speed in the music, but the commercial chants do kick in to often interrupt what is good programming. The band has to do what it likes and wants of course, but for my ears the impurity is always cause for disappointment. Tunes like Seven Sentinels, and its folk melodies, are just too soft. The same goes for the acoustic strumming and narration. Then the next track, A Tainted Dominion, begins as a purely metal one. The Heart Of Darkness is a worthwhile adventure as another good example. That's how it goes with these Ireland loving Germans. Let's be grateful that this album has toned down the Celtic stuff at least. - Anna Tergel
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