Tag Power Metal
Comprised of Roland Grapow (Masterplan, ex-Helloween), Thomen Stauch (ex-Blind Guardian), Mario Lochert (ex-Visions Of Atlantis), Dominik Sebastian (Edenbridge), Jan Vacik (ex-Dreamscape) and Urban breed (ex Tad Morose), Serious Black have some weight behind them to back up the tag of… Continue Reading →
Setting off with album number 3 is going to be a tough one to follow their most excellent ‘Steel’ and ‘Battle Beast’ records, but here we have it. The first two tracks follow a more power metal path and a… Continue Reading →
It’s not easy reviewing a two track, especially when one of those two tracks is a cover and the other features a guest vocalist! But that’s what I got, and that’s what I gotta do. Crossnail used to be known… Continue Reading →
German Power Metal has a history, a tradition. If you are going to step up and be the future of German Power Metal then you have to make damn sure you have it’s past covered. You can’t cover it all… Continue Reading →
Neptune Fragrance? Hmm, smells a bit fishy to me! Hahahahaha – Oh come on, like I’m the only reviewer who’s going to use THAT line? Besides, I reviewed VXM’s debut at the beginning of last year, so I feel I… Continue Reading →
Neonfly are a promising band who just seem to keep growing from strength to strength. Having shared the stage with the likes of Alice Cooper, Sonata Arctica, Magnum and more recently, Dragonforce, the power metal five piece from London are… Continue Reading →
Power Metal. Mocked by many, revered by some – but what exactly is it? For me it has encompassed so many bands that the actual genre is HUGE. In the 80’s it included acts as diverse as Running Wild, Savatage,… Continue Reading →
Luckily I live in a detached house. I’m not gloating or anything – it’s my potential neighbours I’m thinking of, because when an album like Triosphere’s 3rd release “The Heart Of The Matter” comes along (a bit like I felt… Continue Reading →
Riot are one of those bands that come with the “should have been much bigger” tag, there are distinct periods of Riot’s music that feature heavily with fans around the world, to me five distinct periods exist, mainly around the… Continue Reading →
On first listening, Gormathon bring to mind the image of some shadowy warrior trying to surf on the backs of two crocodiles called melodic death metal and power metal who don’t like each other much and both have a tendency… Continue Reading →
The accompanying press release states that Evergrey very nearly called it quits a couple of years ago – I guess there’s only so many songs of despair and misery some band members can stomach – but it would have been… Continue Reading →
Shiny Realistic Plastic Sword…CHECK Painted Wooden Shield….CHECK Denim Jacket with patches and the sleeves cut off…CHECK Tight Leather Trousers…CH…Nope…hang on…damn things must have shrunk somehow…hnnnnnggg…CH….E…CK 24 Bottles of Lager…CHECK (…and there goes the top button on the trousers….) Martina… Continue Reading →