Category ALBUM
This is a Norwegian studio project that started in 2007 that features a couple of big names, mainly relating to vocal duty personnel. Graham Bonnet (yep – Rainbow/MSG etc.) and Michael Kiske (Unisonic/ex-Helloween) are the big hitters, the other musicians… Continue Reading →
Grand Magus are fast becoming one of the best metal bands anywhere. Following a big money (or not–drummer Sebastian Sippola left before recording started due to work and family commitments) transfer from the deceased Roadrunner Records to the relative big-time… Continue Reading →
Having reviewed the two reissues from Fester that came in rather nice digipacks I have to say, my reward I guess is to review the latest and newest album from a reformed Fester that only contains one original member, namely… Continue Reading →
Black Metal band Asaru has an irregular history. Having operated between 1995 and 2007 in Germany, the vocalist moved to Norway and re-formed the band in 2009. I didn’t hear the original incarnation but I imagine there’s not too much… Continue Reading →
Two years after the release of SFU’s third covers album, the band returns with a brand new original effort and some pretty major line-up changes. Gone are Terry Butler and drummer Greg Gall – both stalwarts for the entirety of… Continue Reading →
Let’s get one thing out of the way – when traditional or folk music meets heavy metal in all its guises, there are acres of ground between those that wear their plaid trousers with a misguided sense of pride and… Continue Reading →
It is often a puzzle as to why so many mediocre bands get such a lot of publicity. Look around, there are mundane, mediocre bands everywhere, being rammed down your throat by desperate record labels. Bands with no ideas (except… Continue Reading →
Music that truly evokes something within its listeners is generally the kind that needs to be absorbed slowly and meticulously, something of substance so abundant that it can’t be fully comprehended upon first listen. Time is needed for its true… Continue Reading →
Everly, Jackson, Gibb, Allman, Gallagher, Cavalera; I could go on but you should have joined the dots by now. Adding to that list of Bros in bands we now have the Von Hertzen’s who we are informed are the ‘wild… Continue Reading →
This was interesting from the start, a PR sheet with no track list and a CD with no track list, so as we are nice and organised at Ave Noctum, the track list was finally found via some method or… Continue Reading →
Arguably Dillinger Escape Plan pioneered the crazy mathcore sub genre of hardcore creating an explosion of outfits all trying to outdo each other in terms of manic hyper technicality and packing more riffs, hooks and leads per five second break… Continue Reading →
One of the good things about the ‘occult rock’ bandwagon had been the rise in profile of women in the slower arts. Not sure why that has happened but it’s welcome anyway as relief from the gothic waifs. New US… Continue Reading →