West Of Hell – Blood Of The Infidel (Album Review)
Holy war for the modern age. Though the metal world has been an ever-expanding one since the year of its inception, in recent years it…
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.
Holy war for the modern age. Though the metal world has been an ever-expanding one since the year of its inception, in recent years it…
From rivalry, improvement is born. Music is not something that you can just quit, according to the 1992 Beethoven Lives Upstairs depiction of said legendary…
A dragon’s evolution is a gradual one. Undaunted by changing lineups and grand strides of stylistic evolution that border on subgenre-hopping at times, the Swedish…
Schuldiner’s dragon still lives. When the topic of the good old days is brought up, the question that naturally arises is “which good old days”?…
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…