by Sebastian Kluth
Hamada Mari is a legend in Japan who celebrates the fortieth anniversary of her career this year. Rightfully known as the Queen of Metal who easily eclipses similar artists like Doro Pesch, she has now released an impressive twenty-seventh studio album...
Lire la suiteWhenever the world's most famous metal band Metallica releases a new album, a lot of people who really don't have much to say claim to be genre experts and usually dismiss the band's newest effort no matter which direction it favours. Well, let's cut...
Lire la suiteOver Kill's twentieth official full length effort Scorched comes as a massive positive surprise and might qualify for one of the greatest records of the year. The quintet from the Garden State had celebrated a ferocious return to force with Ironbound...
Lire la suiteWhite Zombie had been a highly influential band in new genres such as noise rock, groove metal and industrial metal for one decade. The release of its final full length effort of original material with Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and...
Lire la suiteSoundgarden is one of the most influential alternative rock and grunge bands throughout the nineties and Telephantasm remains the group's best compilation to date. It was initially released to hype the band's reunion that ended up being rather short-lived....
Lire la suiteMotörhead has been a highly influential blues rock, hard rock and heavy metal band that has existed for exactly forty years. After its conclusion, numerous reissues, compilations and boxed sets have been thrown onto the market that aren't even worth to...
Lire la suiteKamelot is a band that should certainly please me on paper. The international group plays power metal with at times progressive songwriting and symphonic arrangements that often flirt with gothic stylistics. However, the band's discography had numerous...
Lire la suiteHaken is a band that painfully lacks cohesion to fusion its multiple genre-breaking broad ideas. This had become obvious to me when a friend of mine introduced me to this band about a decade in the past, this impression became even more solid when I saw...
Lire la suiteLive records have become less appreciated in the age of digital access to music via streaming platforms and the likes. However, some veteran bands have stayed faithful to this type of release and Japanese heavy metal legends Loudness are an excellent...
Lire la suiteSaor translates to ''free'' or ''unconstrained'' in Scottish Gaelic and this might be the most fitting name chosen by a metal band since diversified Finnish band Amorphis formed in the early nineties. Despite its incredible diversity, Saor is actually...
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