by Sebastian Kluth
Saxon has been playing heavy metal by the numbers for four decades but for some unfathomable reason, the British quintet is still around and quite popular. I've decided to give the band's new record a few spins since Saxon is going on tour with the much...
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Could a band whose last studio album would have deserved a Nobel Peace Prize and whose title track was arguably one of the best metal songs ever written possibly beat its shining opus magnum? No, it couldn't. After the colossal All Is One, Israeli quintet...
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Could a band whose last studio album would have deserved a Nobel Peace Prize and whose title track was arguably one of the best metal songs ever written possibly beat its shining opus magnum? No, it couldn't. After the colossal All Is One, Israeli quintet...
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The first live action and CGI-animated Paddington movie was a triumphant return for the greatest children's book franchise in the world. This second movie even outclasses it and might be the best animated movie ever made. The movie tells the story of...
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Smuggler is a live action movie based upon a Japanese manga series by Manabe Shohei that stands out with an eclectic genre mixture and a fusion of extremes that is quite particular for Japanese cinema. The movie follows three main plots that complement...
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Usually, I'm not a very nostalgic person and I'm certainly not a person who watches Dinsey films as an adult. However, Michael Bond's Paddington has always fascinated me since my early childhood. The idea of an innoent bear from darkest Peru integrating...
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The Commuter is another movie with Liam Neeson being Liam Neeson. This time, he plays a family father who loses his job and is about to lose everything he has. On his train ride back home, he gets approached by a woman who offers him twenty-five thousand...
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Here comes the only minor spoiler of my review: Octavia Spencer doesn't talk about chicken in this movie. This is great. Now, let's move on. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a modern fairy tale that takes place during the sixties. It tells the...
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Orphaned Land & Friends 25th Anniversary is a limited edition of four seven inch vinyl records collecting rare cover songs introducing Orphaned Land's cultural and artistic background, live tracks from Israel and alternative versions or remixes of several...
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Omnium Gatherum is a quite complicated case. The Finnish melodic death metal band is absolutely captivating in concert but rarely transmits this certain type of magic onto its regular studio albums. This is particularly obvious on Grey Heavens. The band...
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