by Sebastian Kluth
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The Vision Bleak is one of my favourite bands. They mix dark Lovecraftian lyrics with epic gothic metal, basing their music beautiful melodic vocals and a few occasional blackened shrieks, great guitar play varying between melodic mid-tempo riffs and...
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When I first heard of Tierra Santa, somebody described the band as a Spanish equivalent of Iron Maiden. As similar things had been said about the Russian band Aria (which has become one of my favorite heavy metal bands ever), I decided to buy the band’s...
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Do you remember the Turisas that got a lot of attention with their mixture of folk, power, and symphonic metal over the last decade with tracks like “Battle Metal”, “To Holmgard And Beyond” or the funny Boney M cover “Rasputin”? Do you recall their stereotypical...
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Tobias Sammet wanted to close the Avantasia chapter after the conclusion of "The Wicked Trilogy" and focus on his main band Edguy. After the somewhat inconsistent assimilation compilation that was “The Wicked Symphony” and the rather lukewarm filler album...
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Orphaned Land is an ambitious band from Bat-Yam and Petah-Tikva in Israel that started as a death and doom metal band back in 1991. As time went by, the band shifted more and more towards Middle Eastern folk metal and developed a musical and lyrical approach...
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Back To R'Lyeh is a Spanish avant-garde metal band that is mainly inspired by Lovecraftian literature. The band just released its first full length recorded entitled “The Awakening / Last Fight Of The Primordial”. The album production is surprisingly...
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“Eyes In The Night” is the first regular studio record by the young Canadian speed metal outfit Striker. This release is a continuation of the previous EP “Road Warrior” and presents us an energizing, honest and powerful homage to the glorious eighties...
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Nerve is a technical death metal band from Genoa in Italy that released its third output entitled “Fracture” with the seventy-eighth issue of the famous French Metallian magazine last year. While the band is composed by a lot of talented musicians, their...
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For quite some time, I hesitated to buy the re-release of Iron Maiden’s “Maiden England” live set that had been recorded back in 1988 in support of the studio record “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” and was first released in 1989. I had several reasons...
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The mid and late nineties have always been underestimated in terms of groundbreaking metal releases because the big names didn’t deliver and the scene didn’t get that much attention anymore. Younger generations were rather exposed to the grunge hype,...
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