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Meandering - A review of Queensrÿche's Take Cover

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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,...

A band in excellent form performing for a dynamic crowd - A review of Queensrÿche's Mindcrime at the Moore

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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...

An honest introduction but nothing to write home about - A review of Queensrÿche's Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensrÿche

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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,...

Kluseba's World of Sports - Fifteenth Episode

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Ladies and gentlemen! For this fifteenth episode of my Kluseba's World of Sports podcasts, I'm going to be discussing my honest predictions for the round of sixteen of the UEFA Euro 2020 that is actually taking place in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic....

Fifteenth Episode

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Ladies and gentlemen! For this fifteenth episode of my Kluseba's World of Sports podcasts, I'm going to be discussing my honest predictions for the round of sixteen of the UEFA Euro 2020 that is actually taking place in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic....

Joyeuse Saint-Jean-Baptiste!

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Living up to high expectations - A review of Helloween's Helloween

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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...

An unexpected positive surprise and return to form - A review of Timo Tolkki's Avalon's The Enigma Birth

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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....

Good things take time - A review of Pharaoh's The Powers That Be

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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...

All over the place again - A review of Japanese Folk Metal's Japanese Folk Metal 2

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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,...