Tag Heavy Metal
With few major labels willing to take risks on new and genre music, unless that music is new from a talent show or the genre is the shite that passes for R’n’B these days, it is always good when… Continue Reading →
Love them or hate them for their style and often scribed emulation of a particular cult artist and group, Sweden’s Portrait know a thing or two about atmosphere, eerie atmosphere that is. With a fresh new recording line up in… Continue Reading →
Damn pandas, even when the females put on a vulgar display the males are often too nonchalant and indifferent, that’s why breeding them in captivity is such a difficult task! But this is no sexually explicit nature documentary. I am… Continue Reading →
Winger? On Ave Noctum??? What’s the world coming to? Actually I thought something very similar when I heard their largely overlooked “Pull” album back in 1993. Reportedly feeling annoyed and misrepresented by Beavis and Butthead’s portrayal of the band as… Continue Reading →
This guy needs no introduction, so rather than revert back to his former band and career, I am going to get straight to the point and move on as Sebastian has. This is an album that features Duff McKagan (Guns… Continue Reading →
An unknown chap that could play guitar like a god heard that guitarist Jake E Lee had departed from Ozzy Osbourne. The man in question named Jeffrey Wielandt sent in a demo tape to Ozzy who then bagged an audition A… Continue Reading →
After seven-odd years under an array of different titles, Triumphant appear to have finally settled into their new form to release a debut that fits their new name. Frantic Tormentor, Manic Disease and Nekromantik are a thing of the past,… Continue Reading →
There’s no denying that you know what you’re going to get with a new Brainstorm release. Heavy Power Metal with great vocals, well written songs and expert musicianship. And at this stage, three factions of readers have formed, those who… Continue Reading →
What the hell do they put in the water in Finland? You can keep your fluoride additives Cameron – we need some of what they’ve got!! How do they instinctively know how to do Metal…and do it so well? Maybe… Continue Reading →
Dark Forest (UK) have been high on my radar since their demo days when I first caught them live in London one evening. Since then, record deals have come along and their general persona and musical talent has also grown;… Continue Reading →
Taint, for all the love people had for them somehow always skipped under my radar, so I happily come to this without any ‘does it sounds like Taint ‘ baggage. What does it sound like? Well, friends, I’ve been seeing… Continue Reading →
The world needs mavericks… nay, eccentrics like Slough Feg (ne The Lord Weird Slough Feg). If you have never heard them an off the cuff one liner is difficult: There be a bit of a Celtic folk influence somewhere for… Continue Reading →