Tag Heavy Metal
After doing numerous reviews of this band previously, you really don’t need a history lesson, everyone knows what they are about and the classic German heavy metal style that you know you are going to get. So with this latest… Continue Reading →
Many may have caught the hype in April when these American chaps rocked the European shores. For us in the UK we got London and Newcastle, for me personally, I caught them in Germany. Live they are pretty amazing, on… Continue Reading →
I do rather admire Flotsam and Jetsam for sticking with it. They’re not one of the “Thrash is popular again – let’s reform” type bands, they’ve kept plugging away since that debut in 1986. Best known for giving Metallica a… Continue Reading →
When Mssrs Turner (drums), Millard (bass), Hoare (Guitar) and Ward (vocals) told the world that in 2012 after, what, 17 years together and having just dropped a career best album on us, they were going full time, I bet I… Continue Reading →
Famed and ridiculed for their beliefs and Christian values, Stryper (“Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness”) have always been more about their lyrics alone, certainly to me anyway. ‘Second Coming’ features two new tracks and fourteen re-recorded versions… Continue Reading →
You may recall how impressed and taken I was with the Shadow Kingdom debut album from US rockers Corsair, and as it came so out of the blue to me I was intrigued as to who these classy upstarts were… Continue Reading →
U.D.O. the band and Udo Dirkschneider the man is somewhat of a metal music institution worldwide, coming to the scene via Accept, I myself have been guilty of laying many Accept references at this bands door over the years and… Continue Reading →
People will look at the band name and immediately form a particular opinion, but love them or ridicule them, Stryper were and are (having reformed in 2005) a valid, genuine heavy metal band. Their lyrical content may not be to… Continue Reading →
UK band Deceptor are it’s fair to say pretty old school heavy metal/thrash. No death metal here, just galloping rhythms and neck-break leads with occasional soaring vocals. And vocoder interludes. And songs about war, science fiction and so on. See?… Continue Reading →
For some reason this Swedish band’s debut album did not connect with me at the time of the review cycle, since its release I’ve learnt to live with it, but ‘Phoenix’, their second full length album is an absolute metal… Continue Reading →
I have followed this band from their debut release and thus have been genuinely pleased with the level of development of this West Midlands based band. Reading some of the PR material that pin points the opener ‘Embrace the Night’… Continue Reading →
In January 2013 Finnish metal band Masterstroke release their fourth album “Broken”. To find out more, Andrew Doherty interviewed Janne Juutinen and Jussi Kulomaa the band’s drummer and keyboardist respectively. AN: Hello! Thanks for agreeing to answer a few questions… Continue Reading →