by Sebastian Kluth
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Two years after the average self-titled effort that started the new era of progressive metal veterans Queensrÿche on a lukewarm note, Condition Hüman is the second album to feature new singer Todd La Torre and offers some more value for money. The record...
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Cover albums can be quite hit and miss and coming from a band such as versatile American rock and metal group Queensrÿche, the quality on display might even be more meandering than usual. This is certainly the case here as Take Cover includes highlights,...
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Aside from some semi-amateurish cuts from the early years, Queensrÿche hasn't released any live material in a decade and a half which is surprising with its significant line-up change on the vocals. Mindcrime at the Moore is already fourteen years old...
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Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensrÿche is the compilation that introduced me to the variable progressive metal band almost a decade and a half ago. While not exactly compiling the band's very best moments, it accurately portrays the band's genre changes,...
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For several decades, power metal fans had been dreaming of a reunion of Helloween with its former guitarist and singer Kai Hansen and former singer Michael Kiske. Just when such a reunion seemed to be definitely impossible, the septet finally got together...
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Timo Tolkki's Avalon was on a dangerous downward spiral with the terribly produced and lifeless Angels of the Apocalypse and the boring and formulaic Return to Eden but the fourth instalment in form of The Enigma Birth marks a certain return to form....
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American power metal quartet Pharaoh had some notable success in the underground scene about a decade ago and released a series of decent albums. What followed then was an odd break of more than nine years between the predecessor and this release that...
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Japanese Folk Metal's first eponymous output was all over the place meandering from extreme metal sounds over folk metal passages to idol pop music. It sounded at times like a mixture of Finntroll, Alestorm and Ladybaby and while I like all these bands,...
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Mai Yajima is a Japanese symphonic power metal singer that initially started as a rock singer before shifting towards more atmospheric, epic, fast, melodic and technical soundscapes. Surrounded by four highly talented musicians, the charismatic singer...
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This extended play's title track is the song that made me appreciate In Flames back when I was eighteen years old. I have since attended two concerts of the band and purchased all its studio albums. In my humble opinion, ''The Mirror's Truth'' represents...
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