Author Charlie Rance
Tuomas Holopainen, The brains behind Nightwish read Scrooge by Don Rosa nearly 20 years ago. But in 1999 he thought about making a soundtrack to the book. 14 years later and Tuomas spent most of 2013 writing and recording for… Continue Reading →
Finnish cheese-metal masters Sonata Arctica have a bulbous 7 albums under their belt in their 18 years of existence, with the first in 1999 ‘Ecliptica’. Throughout the years the band built up a good following and releasing at least something… Continue Reading →
I have to say, before I listened to this cd, I first looked these guys up and found this quote on metal Archives; “Adamus Exul are strictly apolitical, performing and promoting misanthropic and anti-social black metal art forms only” I… Continue Reading →
A Norwegian Rock n Roll band? Hmmmm….. wait!! Before you throw it back in my face, let me just point out that Shagrath from Dimmu is in the band! Yep! Who knew the wee fella had a burning desire to… Continue Reading →
Netherbird, Swedish Death metal, black metal, symphonic etc. etc., metallers have unknowingly been around for nearly 10 years. I for one will hold my hand up and say ‘who?’ With an array of previous releases including their first single in 2005… Continue Reading →
Yankee Thrash metal titans; Warbringer have probably not been on the scene as long as you think. Hailing from California and forming in 2004 and releasing their first demo’s in 2004 and then 2005. In 2006 their first EP was… Continue Reading →
I’m expecting nothing but the best coming from fellow Mancunian death metallers ‘Foetal Juice’. Formed in 2005 they released their first demo ‘Donnakababy’ in 2007and a year later another demo ‘Consume the Consumed’ then an EP in 2009 followed it…. Continue Reading →
In 1996, Max Cavelera of Sepultura decided to part ways with the band and form his own group ‘Soulfly’ due to wanting a new musical direction with a more spiritual feel to the music. In the earlier days of Soulfly,… Continue Reading →
Battle metal from Finland is already a winning concoction. Originally named Köyliö back in 1997 but changing their moniker to Turisas around 1998 to 1999 their name apparently relates to a Sea Monster in Finnish Mythology. The band have had a significant… Continue Reading →
The Defiled, a hardcore metal bunch of guys from London, were formed in 2005 and released their first EP in 2009 titled ‘1888’ and shortly after, they released their first album “Grave Times’ which was given away free with Metal… Continue Reading →
Japanese doom/death metal you say? Count me in! I tried to research this band but information on them is like gold dust… However, they have been making music since back in 1995, an impressive 6 album releases before this one… Continue Reading →
Canadian rockers ‘Famous underground’ are just releasing their debut album. However, Nick (Frontman) and Laurie-Anne (Bass) are no strangers to the scene. Their first band ‘Slik Toxic’ were a sleazy glam band and managed to bag a Juno award (Canada’s answer to a… Continue Reading →