”Call to arms” is the 19th studio album from legendary British metal band Saxon and is due for release on 23rd May 2011. The opening track is ”Hammer of the gods”. Opening with some excellent guitar work it gets off to a great start then really kicks off when Biff starts singing. With a combination…
This is the second album from Finnish metallers Kivimetsan Druidi, and is the follow up to their 2008 debut album ”Shadowheart”. Kivimetsan Druidi have a heavy folk metal sound, with the use of traditional folk instruments. Vocals are mainly handled by their female singer Leeni Maria who provides clean operatic style singing, with male vocals…
”The enigma of life” is the fifth album from Sirenia. It features the same vocalist as on their previous album, ”The 13th floor”, Ailyn – making this the first time a Sirenia vocalist has lasted longer than one album since ex Tristania founding member Morten Veland founded Sirenia. As a big fan of this genre…
Artist: Amorphis Album: The Beginning Of Times (Nuclear Blast) Genre: Melodisk metal Amorphis fortsätter på samma spår och har gjort en ny platta i samma stil som de senare släppen. Jag blir direkt påmind om förra Skyforger, det är alltså inte mycket som har ändrats sedan sist. Och varför överge ett vinnande koncept? Det är…
I Hate/Sound Pollution I Hate kör vidare med sina återutgåvor av gammal och dammig öststatsmetall. Inte är den då glömd inte, för bandet återförenas för en spelning på Muskelrock i sommar. .. Denna recension gäller endast den tjeckiska originalvarianten, men i handeln kommer både den varianten, och den Europaanpassade engelska exportplattan att finnas på en…
Frontiers/BAM 1970 debuterade URIAH HEEP med klassikern “Very ´Eavy, Very ´Umble”. Succé och inte mindre än 30 miljoner sålda album är facit på de fyrtio åren. Men det har också funnits tider av sämre mottagna skivor, avhopp (David Byron, Ken Hensley, Lee Kerslake) och andra motgångar. Föregående skiva ”Wake the Sleeper” har jag hört blandade…
Quam Libet Records/www.cdbaby.com Swiss band PYLON releases their fourth full-length album on their Quam Libet Records. New on drums is technical new addition Andrea Tinner, and we are promised some double bass drums! Apart from that they claim to be both faster and slower, as well as ready to offer us a cover of CANDLEMASS`…
Frontiers/BAM 1984, det var startåret för KING KOBRA. Gruppen bildades av (redan då) erfarne trummisen Carmine Appice (VANILLA FUDGE, ROD STEWART, OZZY OSBOURNE), som samlade ihop ett ganska okänt gäng. Gitarristerna David Michael-Philips (senare i LIZZY BORDEN), och Mick Sveda (senare i BULLET BOYS), basisten Johnny Rod (senare i WASP) och sångaren Mark Free (senare…
Popadelica 7 maj 2011 Den lilla festivalen Popadelica hade sålt slut på sina 2000 biljetter redan innan portarna öppnades. Snart vimlade Huskvarnas Folkets Park av poppare uppblandat med diverse annat folk från framförallt Jönköpingstrakten. För även om den nu 6 år gamla festivalen försökt bredda sig lite med band som Graveyard och Royal Republic är…
Tonights show is going to be a busy night – five bands on one bill. Originally advertised as a Houston headlining tour, it was later changed to a Houston/Crashdiet co-headlining tour, but judging by the queue outside where most people seem to be wearing Crashdiet T-shirts then you could easily assume it was a Crashdiet…
Sensory Overload is the first album from Michael MOnroe’s new band. The lineup is impressive – Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks), Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks & New York DOlls), Steve Conte (New York Dolls), Ginger (Wildhearts), and Karl Rockfirst (Danzig), but an impressive lineup doesnt always translate into great albums. Thankfully in this case though, it…
Explorer is the latest album from Welsh Singer-songwriter Cerys Matthews. Cery’s first rose to fame as the singer of rock group Catatonia, but since the bands split in 2001 she has released several albums of folk and traditional music. She is unusual in that she sings in a mixture of English and Welsh. The album…