by Sebastian Kluth
Highway is a traditional heavy metal band from Bogota in Columbia that stands out for two facts. First of all, all lyrics are sung in Spanish which makes this release an exotic gem for people of the Northern hemisphere. Second, we talk about an all women...
Lire la suiteBức Tường is a hard rock band from Hanoi that is quite famous in Vietnam but rather unknown outside the country. The band recorded three records in the hard rock genre with some prudent heavy and power metal influences before they split up to reunite...
Lire la suiteWhen I discovered Voivod I always thought the original band's Achilles' tendon was singer Denis "Snake" Bélanger. As time passed by, I realized that his voice was just as unique as the vivid drum play by creative mastermind Michel "Away" Langevin, the...
Lire la suiteBlaze Bayley has always been one of my favourite singers with his authentic, dark and perfectly imperfect voice that helped him to create a couple of pretty solid records with Wolfsbane, later on with the British heavy metal legend Iron Maiden and lately...
Lire la suiteManowar have always been a controversial band because of their primitive lyrics, exagerated bombastic sound experiments and a ridicolously martial image. Even though the band’s last entirely convincing record was “Kings Of Metal” that came out almost...
Lire la suiteThis album got quite a load of negative reviews. I can understand some of the reasons. First of all, the artificial drum sound always quite sounds the same and is a quite negative factor for the dynamics of the songs. The vocals sound as if the band recruited...
Lire la suiteAfter so many positive comments and favorable reviews about the last two Accept records in the entire metal scene I decided to try out the two new albums starting with their newest one which is Stalingrad. After several tries, I realize that the metal...
Lire la suiteA live in studio record featuring old Aria tracks recorded with the brand new vocalist instead of a real live record or a new regular album, who needs that? This was my very first impression when I got my first information on this release that was not...
Lire la suiteWith their very first album that presents a potpourri of songs from early demos and smaller releases plus a few new tracks, Waltari definitely introduce themselves as a party band. These guys don't take themselves too serious and you should be open to...
Lire la suiteWith their very first EP, the French Canadian band Rusted deliver a strong old school heavy metal records about the usual topics such as making party, living your life in pure freedom and being tough rockers. The pictures in the booklet prove that these...
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