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Strong Vocals Meet Excellent Musicianship and Inspired Lyrics - A Review of Hamada Mari's Soar

Strong Vocals Meet Excellent Musicianship and Inspired Lyrics - A Review of Hamada Mari's Soar

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...

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Show of Shadows - A Review of Metallica's 72 Seasons

Show of Shadows - A Review of Metallica's 72 Seasons

Whenever 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...

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Back in Business, Baby! - A Review of Over Kill's Scorched

Back in Business, Baby! - A Review of Over Kill's Scorched

Over 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...

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Danceable Industrial Metal with Classic Horror Imagery - A Review of White Zombie's Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

Danceable Industrial Metal with Classic Horror Imagery - A Review of White Zombie's Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

White 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...

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Excellent Vocals but Flawed Songwriting - A Review of Soundgarden's Telephantasm

Excellent Vocals but Flawed Songwriting - A Review of Soundgarden's Telephantasm

Soundgarden 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....

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Celebrating Heavy Metal Legacy Appropriately - A Review of Motörhead's Bad Magic - Seriously Bad Magic

Celebrating Heavy Metal Legacy Appropriately - A Review of Motörhead's Bad Magic - Seriously Bad Magic

Motörhead 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...

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Oblivion - A Review of Kamelot's The Awakening

Oblivion - A Review of Kamelot's The Awakening

Kamelot 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...

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Puzzles Built by Unguided Toddlers - A Review of Haken's Fauna

Puzzles Built by Unguided Toddlers - A Review of Haken's Fauna

Haken 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...

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One of the Greatest Live Records in the Band's Impressive Career - A Review of Loudness' Japan Tour 19 - Hurricane Eyes + Jealousy - Live at Zepp Tokyo 31 May, 2019

One of the Greatest Live Records in the Band's Impressive Career - A Review of Loudness' Japan Tour 19 - Hurricane Eyes + Jealousy - Live at Zepp Tokyo 31 May, 2019

Live 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...

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One of the Biggest Surprises in the Contemporary Metal Scene - A Review of Saor's Origins

One of the Biggest Surprises in the Contemporary Metal Scene - A Review of Saor's Origins

Saor 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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