Wind Rose – Wintersaga (Album Review)
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…
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The Ferrymen – A New Evil (Album Review)
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…
Michael Sweet – Ten (Album Review)
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…
Frantic Amber – Bellatrix (Album Review)
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…
Kobra And The Lotus – Evolution (Album Review)
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…
DragonForce – Extreme Power Metal (Album Review)
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,…
Everfrost – Winterider (Album Review)
Ride with the winter’s rage. Though it may seem counter-intuitive, there is a certain novelty and freshness to be had from the most familiar of…
Sonata Arctica – Talviyö (Album Review)
The war of seasons gets convoluted. It goes without saying that the name Sonata Arctica is an iconic brand within the power metal realm. They…
Sinner – Santa Muerte (Album Review)
Old school heavy metal never dies. Few nations have more proudly carried the banner of heavy metal than that of Germany, having been heavily steeped…
Entombed A.D. – Bowels Of Earth (Album Review)
Bubbling up to the decrepit surface. In even the most unceremonious of splits, eventually calmer heads will tend to prevail, though this will usually occur…
