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Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Few bands have gone through as many line-up changes as Annihilator. The first four studio albums alone featured four different lead vocalists. This is why it's not a bad idea at all to record some of the classics again with one single line-up as a potential...

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Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Few bands have gone through as many line-up changes as Annihilator. The first four studio albums alone featured four different lead vocalists. This is why it's not a bad idea at all to record some of the classics again with one single line-up as a potential...

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Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Few bands have gone through as many line-up changes as Annihilator. The first four studio albums alone featured four different lead vocalists. This is why it's not a bad idea at all to record some of the classics again with one single line-up as a potential...

Lire la suite

Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Improving the Past While Enjoying the Present - A Review of Annihilator's Re-Kill

Few bands have gone through as many line-up changes as Annihilator. The first four studio albums alone featured four different lead vocalists. This is why it's not a bad idea at all to record some of the classics again with one single line-up as a potential...

Lire la suite

Purity and Simplicity of the Early Years - A Review of Apocalyptica's Live

Purity and Simplicity of the Early Years - A Review of Apocalyptica's Live

Live might be a bland title for the first concert release by Finnish symphonic metal quartet Apocalyptica but this is actually a damn fine output that has aged particularly well and captures the band's early years splendidly. Back in those years, Apocalyptica...

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Soundtrack to a Road Trip to Some Unknown Sunny Location - A Review of Motor Sister's Get Off

Soundtrack to a Road Trip to Some Unknown Sunny Location - A Review of Motor Sister's Get Off

Seven years afters its debut album Ride, hard rock side project Motor Sister is back with its second output Get Off. The huge difference between the debut and the sophomore release is that the former only consisted of Mother Superior covers while the...

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Still Burning Brightly - A Review of Apocalyptica's The Life Burns Tour

Still Burning Brightly - A Review of Apocalyptica's The Life Burns Tour

The Life Burns Tour might capture Finnish symphonic metal band Apocalyptica at its height, being released right after the exceptional self-titled album and its successful tour. The three cellists and one drummer are joined by session cellist Antero Manninen...

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Genuine Heavy Metal with Unique Vocals and Inspiring Messages - A Review of Blaze Bayley's War Within Me

Genuine Heavy Metal with Unique Vocals and Inspiring Messages - A Review of Blaze Bayley's War Within Me

Few people represent passion and resilience as well as Blaze Bayley who deserves much attention and support. However, his Infinite Entanglement trilogy might have received too much acclaim since the project got weaker as time went by and didn't impress...

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Nostalgic Gothic Metal with Folkloristic and Symphonic Sounds - A Review of Nì Yù's Hidden Depression

Nostalgic Gothic Metal with Folkloristic and Symphonic Sounds - A Review of Nì Yù's Hidden Depression

匿郁 is pronounced Nì Yù and roughly translates to Hidden. The gothic metal band hails from Lanzhou in Gansu Province and has been around for five years now. The band's first release is an extended play entitled Hidden Depression. It has been released digitally...

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That Album Sucks - A Review of Avril Lavigne's Love Sux

That Album Sucks - A Review of Avril Lavigne's Love Sux

Avril Lavigne from Belleville, Ontario was once introduced to us as the rebellious teenage girl next door who wears baggy pants and sports shoes and hangs around with punks and skaters. She was refreshingly different from pop artists such as Britney Spears...

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