Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus (Album Review)
This sonic stew calls for more blood. For any student of the history of music, Germany was not merely the home of many of the…
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.
This sonic stew calls for more blood. For any student of the history of music, Germany was not merely the home of many of the…
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The soul of a mighty playing machine. The 80s could rightly be regarded as the decade of the guitar god, and amongst the many heroic…