It’s been a long wait since British heavy metal band Beholder released their last album (The Awakening – released in 2009). Since then there has been one lineup change – Simon Cliffe being replaced on guitar by Scott Taylor (maybe having three Simons in the band just got too confusing). The four year gap doesn’t…
Combichrist’s latest release is ”No redemption”, which is thirteen new songs written for the computer game series Devil May Care. In addition to the standard 13 track cd, ‘No Redemption’ will be released as a limited deluxe 2 disc edition which contains a second disc which contains ten classic Combichrist tracks that are also used…
nulldB come from Würzburg in Germany and in 2008 won the ”German Rock and Pop Award” as the best newcomer in the category ”Hard ‘n’ Heavy”. In 2009 they released their debut album ”In the Eye of the Storm”. The bands biography describes them as ”Neue Deutsche Härte” (New German Hardness), which I have to…
ALESTORM AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND TOUR JANUARY 2013 Holy whale barnacles! ALESTORM are hauling themselves back to AUSTRALIA!!! Having plundered the world mercilessly on the back of their ‘Back Through Time’ album, ALESTORM are sailing their way through the seas of time, to their favourite place on the planet with one last mission in mind…….the…
Steamhammer/SPV/Playground FULLFORCE entered the scene in 2009 as a vehicle for vocalist Mike Andersson (CLOUDSCAPE), guitarists Stefan Elmgren (ex. HAMMERFALL) and C.J. Grimmark (ex. NARNIA), bassist Tommy Larsson, (ex. HEED) and well-travelled drummer Anders Johansson (ex. YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN, HAMMERFALL). Their debut “One” was unleashed in 2010. Now CJ has left and is replaced by…
Napalm/Sound Pollution The need for more genres and new ground to break leads to both digestible and indigestible results. Back in the year of your choice during the days of the Roman Empire they never foresaw this! Fronted by Kataklysm front man Mauriozio Iacono EX DEO devotes yet another album to the rather unbroken territory…
Napalm/Sound Pollution Californias newcomers HUNTRESS are contenders to the envious spot of the newcomer of 2012. Power and force can be found in most albums I review, but Jill Janus and her female approach to the chartered country of KING DIAMOND sure is interesting enough. The info says it´s epic and timeless, I´ll settle with…
A short conversation about the connection of cold, north, traditions, and metal, with the voice of Sabaton, Joakim. *Sabaton is already a sort of national symbol of Sweden- how do you feel that, as it’s a kind of mission, and also big responsibility, I guess.. I don’t really see it that serious way at all-…
German Power Metal legends Helloween are back with their fourteenth studio album. The first track on the album (and indeed the first single – check out the video on Youtube) is Nabatea. A departure from the typical subjects of rock and metal songs, this seven minute epic tells the tale of Nabatea (a real place)….
Greek singer/musician Tatiana Manolidou comes from a musical family, and has studied piano,vocal and theory of music from an early age. She has composed music for the Greek theatre and TV, as well performing many concerts across Greece and Cyprus. She provided vocals for the album ”Matricide” by Prog rockers La Tulipe Noire. Now she’s…
It’s been a long time since Wintersun released their debut album – eight years in fact. Jari Mäenpää appears to subscribe to the Axl Rose school of album making to take that long over an eagerly awaited album. So after eight years it would be reasonable to expect a superb album, but what Wintersun have…
”Lights out” is the follow up to 2011’s successful album ”Hisingen Blues” Since the release of that album they’ve seen their popularity soar and have toured and played festivals to capitalise on the album’s success. Expectations then for this new album, their third, are high. The band’s sound is still heavily influenced by 70s hard…