Since I’d never heard of Coronatus before, I did some background research on them. After surfing the internet for about 5 minutes I found their homepage in German. And since their entire biography is written in that language I had to catch up with my German. Well Coronatus is a band from Germany which started in early 2005. After recording a demo, which brought them to several European stages, the first album was a logical step to follow. After the recording of Lux Noctis in 2006 the search for a record label started. Finally they ended up with Massacre Records who’d released their album last December.

Just to get in the mood the album starts with “Interrotte Speranze Part 1”, which immediately rose the question to part 2. Well there is no part 2. During this intro we immediately get to know the strongest part of Coronatus. The fact they have two female voices that are quite similar to each other is something you don’t run into very often these days. Most of the time it’s one female vocalist that has to stand against the brutal violence of the musicians and most of the time she doesn’t get away with it easily.