Jonathan is a long time contributor to The Encyclopaedia Metallum website under the pseudonym hells_unicorn and has written for The Metal Observer on and off for the past 10 years. He was previously a lead guitarist in the Philadelphia-based folk metal band Frost Giant and played Dave Murray’s parts for the Philly-based Iron Maiden tribute band Tailgunner. He is currently the guitarist and principal songwriter for the nascent symphonic power metal project Ominous Glory.
Californian death metal pioneers POSSESSED will release their first full-length album in over three decades on May 10 via Nuclear Blast. The first name in Death Metal…
Staring into its deadlights… The story of Iron Fire is one of perseverance, as one of Denmark’s two premier millennial power metal exports (the other…
The underworld rarely sounds so triumphant. The exploits, or sagas of the Viking age have been a fairly frequent topic of lyrical emulation in the…
The fall of mankind’s soundtrack. For those uninitiated into the world of the more extreme fringes of 80s thrash metal, where the early signs of…
The end finds a new beginning. Though many have come forth to construct their version of the colossal structure of impending woe that is epic…
The hero’s eye still beholds the distant horizon. The test of time has generally proven to be an easy pass for the high-impact, fantasy obsessed…
The black-clad beast gets a sexier upgrade. The musical journey of Finnish songwriter and arguably ironic innovator Anton Kabanen has been, if nothing else, impossible…
VENOM INC., the band featuring original VENOM guitarist Jeff “Mantas” Dunn (guitar) and ex-VENOM bassist/vocalist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan, will embark on a North American…
This old raven still cries the loudest. Heavy metal, like a fine wine, tends to get better with age, or at least that’s what the…
Veteran American thrash metallers SACRED REICH are currently in the studio recording their highly anticipated new studio album — the band’s first in 23 years — titled “Awakening”.…
