Turilli/Lione Rhapsody – Zero Gravity [Rebirth And Evolution] (Album Review)
Familiar sounds under a new moniker. A sort of musical mitosis has been running rampant in power metal circles over the past decade or so,…
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.
Familiar sounds under a new moniker. A sort of musical mitosis has been running rampant in power metal circles over the past decade or so,…
An iconic voice of the past reemerges. Whenever a veteran of the rock or metal world makes a long awaited comeback to the studio, this…
Withering flowers meet a pummeling colossus. As one of the early Gothic metal bands to emerge out of the early aftermath of the mid-90s death/doom…
Onward to the misty mountains cold! The background regarding Italy’s latest purveyor of Folksy power metal exploits set to a Tolkien lyrical gloss Wind Rose…
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden and formed in 1988 as one of the first thrash bands in this area INTOXICATE is returning to the metal music…
New is old and old is new. As the next decade approaches and the 10 year mark of Ronnie Dio’s untimely passing has come and…
Heaviness is next to godliness. Michael Sweet, often referred to as the Dennis DeYoung of heavy metal, and front man of the iconic purveyors of…
The woman’s blade cuts deepest. The past couple decades has seen a lot of change in the melodic death metal landscape, as every pioneering outfit…
Making heavy metal rock again. Heavy metal has long been pinned as a male-only art form, perhaps owing to the gender ratio exemplified in both…
Where the extreme becomes commonplace. Despite being one of the more popular and arguably iconic figures to come out of the millennial power metal revival,…