Tag Nightwish
This is an Italian power/symphonic metal band with a few traditional elements to their musical scores. Originally I have a preconception that this would be everything that was around over ten years ago in this age of regurgitation. However, I… Continue Reading →
Apparently this Spanish symphonic and operatic band formed in Spain in 2005 and recorded just one song which got immediate airplay and inspired the band to write more. I would kind of like to go and find whoever played the… Continue Reading →
Viking Metal bands have been ten-a-penny for some time, to the extent that to discover a NEW band of marauders is becoming tiring. One feels for Athelstan or Alfred the Great who had them popping up ad nauseam. God save… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the V-Lodge. Founded over 100 years ago in Victorian times, this was a place all about decadence when visual beauty was an aesthetic that had to be followed by anyone with serious notions about joining the aristocracy, well… Continue Reading →
This album unashamedly announces itself on the sleeve as “opera metal”, which brings to mind a number of possibilities, among them Nightwish, Therion and Diablo Swing Orchestra. This is a band comprising an operatic singer as you’d expect, a cellist,… Continue Reading →
I was thinking about who had got the most reviews on the site since it started a year ago. It should have no doubt been megalomaniac Devin who told me some time ago he was out from making music finito…. Continue Reading →
Founded in 2009, Italian symphonic metal band Sinheresy have released “The Spiders and The Butterfly”, their debut EP. With a dual but predominantly female-fronted vocal attack, comparison has been drawn with Nightwish and Within Temptation. It’s true that there’s a… Continue Reading →
Recorded over two nights at the El Circulo Theatre in Rosario, Argentina in March 2012 what we have here is a first live double album from ex Nightwish singer soprano Tarja Turunen. It has also been released on a double… Continue Reading →
These Finnish power metallers formed in 1996 and called themselves ‘Tricky Means, but in 1999 they changed to ‘Sonata Arctica’ with members such as Tony Kakkow also of Northern Kings, an 80s karaoke style band with Nightwish Bassist/Singer Marco Hietala…. Continue Reading →
We had a quick listen to a couple of tracks of this when we were offered it amongst the hundreds of download reviews we get pitched each month and thought “nah it’s a little too Eurovision,” for comfort. A while… Continue Reading →
Vitriolic is not a word I would use to describe this work from the Italian band Evenoire. A bombastic opening leads us into female-fronted majesty. The female in question has an angelic voice to bring on lazy comparisons with Tristania,… Continue Reading →
Artist: Xandria Title: Neverworld’s End Type: Album Label: Napalm Wow. Now this is not what I was expecting when I offered to take something from the growing Goth Frock pile. Wow. I mean rightly or wrongly I’d always considered Xandria… Continue Reading →