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Exclusive Interview With Erik Ravn of Wuthering Heights!
Wuthering Heights, the Danish power prog band that has just released the album of the sub-genre to beat this year, Salt. I had the pleasure of being able to review this album (which can be read here), so when I got the opportunity to ask some questions about the year’s best prog act so far, [...]
Hammerfall’s cover of My Sharona feat. Biff Byford is the shit
The above is the original cover present on Hammerfall’s last album No Sacrifice, No Glory just to give you a taste, but recently Nuclear Blast has released a new single with a brand new version of “My Sharona” featuring Biff Byford from Saxon and it fucking slays goats with no prejudice. And why, you ask, [...]
Review: Avantasia – Angel of Babylon (2010)
The newest additions to the Avantasia arsenal, The Wicked Symphony (as covered in an introductory review here), and the second half, Angel of Babylon, which I will be covering in this review, as well as an overall judgment of the complete package.
Angel of Babylon, much like The Wicked Symphony, has a much stronger emphasis on [...]
Review: Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony (2010)
The power metal is back ladies and gents! So many people frowned upon the last Avantastia because of it’s lean towards more traditional melodic styled metal. While I thought The Scarecrow was possibly the best Tobias has created, it was definitely less power metal inclined. Despite my immense interest in The Scarecrow, there were a [...]
Review: Wuthering Heights – Salt (2010)
Naming your band after a book that is so succinctly boring is truly a ballsy move. In fact, because of the band’s name, I never really got around to listening to them for years because of the very fact I fucking hate the book they are named after. However, when a promo for Wuthering Heights’ [...]
Review: Overmaster – Masters of War (2010)
Damn, it’s been awhile since I have heard something so blatantly power metal as Masters of War, the debut album of Italian based Overmaster. I mean, even the band’s name reeks power metal! And you know what? I quite enjoyed this album because of how power metally it really is. However, my enjoyment of Masters [...]
New Artist Watch: Scarred
U.S. Power metal is a rare commodity in America, perhaps even rarer than European imports, despite the title of this often misunderstood sub-genre. Unlike in Europe where neo-classical flavor and soaring melodies are the order of the day, U.S. Power Metal is much more subdued. While both regional power metal scenes have their base in [...]
Evince Ethos: The Rise of Symphonic American Metal
Very few times in my “career” as a critic have I come across an indie metal band that has legitimately WOW’ed me, but Worcester, Massachusett’s Evince Mythos have done just that ten fold. Evince Mythos plays a brand of symphonic power metal that is very Euro-centric (and considering virtually the entire genre of symphonic metal [...]
Review: Gamma Ray – To the Metal! (2010)
Legendary German power metallers, Gamma Ray, are back with their latest studio effort since 2007’s Land of the Free II which AMR’s Cole panned as stereotypically awful power metal. I consider myself to be a bit of a power metal buff, so I figured I’d take point on this review and see if Kai and [...]
Review: Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos (2009/10)
The Evolution of Chaos is an album a longtime coming for thrash fans, and more specifically Heathen fans such as myself. I have been a die hard fan of both of Heathen’s early albums, Breaking the Silence and Victims of Deception, so when I heard that the band was back together in the mid 2000’s, [...]
