by Sebastian Kluth
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Vision Divine's blandly titled Best Of is a cheap attempt by its label earMUSIC to cash in. As a matter of fact, eleven out of these thirteen songs had already been published on the second disc of the limited digipak edition of previous studio album Destination...
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Italian sextet Vision Divine convincingly plays progressive power metal on its sixth studio album 9 Degrees West of the Moon. The six gentlemen from Massa in Tuscany start the record with the epic ''Letter to My Child Never Born'' that could easily come...
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Helloween's fifteenth studio album 7 Sinners was announced as the band's heaviest release ever which already made me fear the worst after the overtly aggressive loudness war production that had worn down overrated predecessor Gambling with the Devil....
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Xue Chen is a Chinese folk metal quintet that hails from Taiyuan in Shanxi Province in the North-Eastern part of the People's Republic of China. The band name approximatively translates to Snow Falls but the group is also known under the Snowsedim moniker....
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Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams started his career as a teenager in the seventies and has risen to fame with iconic pop rock albums such as Cuts Like a Knife, Reckless and Waking Up the Neighbours. Singles such as ''Summer of '69'', ''(Everything...
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Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand has been around for twenty years and filled dancefloors in alternative bars since its immensely successful self-titled debut record that also spun in my parents' car for many months when it was released back in...
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Helloween's Unarmed was essentially released because the band's label Nuclear Blast wanted the band to put out something special to underline the power metal quintet's twenty-fifth anniversary. While bassist Markus Grosskopf described the recording sessions...
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Gambling with the Devil is Helloween's thirteen studio album and the perfect example for a record that starts on a strong note and gradually declines in quality until it finally peters out after sixteen songs and eighty minutes on the reissued version...
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Requiem is the fourteenth studio album of American nu metal veterans KoRn who will already be celebrating their thirtieth year of existence next year. Other genre bands are struggling to get attention, recognition and support such as Drowning Pool. Others...
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Roughly seven years ago, I came across the exaggerated hype around Finnish power metal sextet Battle Beast and listened to the abysmally formulaic pop music with heavy guitar chugging on Unholy Savior. About three years ago, I attended a concert headlined...
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