Progressive elements - Industrial/Gothic Metal - Deathstars - Night Electric Night(2009) and The Perfect Cult(2014)

Sorry for the long Silence. Sometimes the strength to write is not much, and i'm in a time of my life of discovering some new stuff in music and on my professional life.

But today I BRing you the Swedish band Deathstars.

Don't expect on Deathstars the kinf of sound from Rammstein, Turmion Kätilot or sonorities near Static-X. Deathstars know how to mix good old industrial, with gothic elements and even with some progressive(some guitar weight present, good rifs) and black metal elements. However despite all that mix, we have also another important element, it's maybe the best band to mix metal and electronical elements without making it too much. If you have an eclectic taste and you are looking for something different, than Deathstars is what you're looking for. I first met Deathstars in Night Electric Night, Death Dies Hard song and became totally addicted to deathstars sound, some mystic sound with somewhat godly environment is amazing. Don't get stuck in this album check the previous ones, has there is also talent and well made songs.
The band is formed by:

• Andreas "Whiplasher Bernadotte" Bergh (b. May 2, 1977) – lead vocals
• Emil "Nightmare Industries" Nödtveidt (b. November 11, 1976) – lead guitar, keyboards
• Jonas "Skinny Disco" Kangur (b. July 29, 1979) – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Oscar "Vice" Leander (b. February 5, 1990) - drums

This year they released the new album Perfect Cult, in June. The sound is more mature maybe some naivety that was left was substituted with that mature song. The song All the devil's toys are worth listening.
So the songs I will share with you today are official video from Death Dies hard and the video, also official, of All the Devil's Toys

Elements of Progressive - Ava Inferi - Onyx (2011)

Today or Tonight as you wish I will show you something different.

Ava Inferi is a project created by Rune Eriksen (Mayhem) with Carmen (from Aenima), here there are elements of progressive, like the heavy guitar, some ambience sounds, but the main style of Ava Inferi is Gothic, Opera, symphonic, Lyric and even Fado. It was created in 2005. The Portuguese singer is a remarkable piece on the band. Her voice is strong, clean and with great vocal range. makes a perfect combo with the guitar of Eriksen. This band despite of Rune has deep Portuguese roots, as some songs have Fado as influence

Onyx from 2011 is an album that brought more progressive elements, more dark ambience to the band, they will no longer be only Gothic, they will add other influences to their sound.

The band members on this album were the following

• Carmen Susana Simões - vocals
• Rune Eriksen - electric and clean guitars, effects
• André Sobral - guitar
• Joana Messias - bass
• João Samora - drums, percussion

The track list was this one

1. "Onyx" – 4:49
2. "The Living End" – 6:49
3. "A Portal" – 4:56
4. "((Ghostlights))" – 6:57
5. "Majesty" – 5:56
6. "The Heathen Island" – 9:19
7. "By Candlelight and Mirrors" – 5:48
8. "Venice in Fog" – 5:59

The Song I will share with you it's called Living End, strong song, melodic also, we can feel the emotion through the entire song.

Sadly in 2013, more or less two months after what we in Portugal Called, Lisbon Dark Failure (Lisbon Dark Fest), where Therion weren't fully payed as they deserved to be by a bunch of stupid promoters. Ava Inferi announced their end. However, even this year they released a new single in a compilation, and Rune and Carmen anounced a new coming project. We are eager to hear it in a near future.