The debut album of this melodic Black Metal band from Germany is brought again to life by Century Media with a new approach to the original cover art, remastered sound and with additional bonus songs. Originally released way back in 2001, this new edition still sounds fresh and powerful after all these years. The band […]
Isn’t it beautiful when history repeats itself, as it always does with IRON MAIDEN. The Brits are doing the same thing over and over again, decade after decade, releasing a new album, tour for a couple of years, release a live album of said tour, and then either a new album or a release of […]
IRON MAIDEN are known for their powerful, captivating and energetic live performances and this latest live album recorded on their worldwide jaunt touring in support of the widely acclaimed "Book Of Souls" album showcases a band who although might have a combined age of over 300 years are clearly still firing on all cylinders and […]
IRON MAIDEN, the elder statesmen of the Heavy Metal world have been around since the 70s, producing some memorable music that helped define and continue to define generations. Through the line-up changes and changes in music they have stood their ground showing just how to withstand the storm. The band has issued another live album […]
Well, I’m not the biggest fan of live recordings and in my humble opinion "The Book Of Souls" was a pretty lame and boring album. So I wasn’t too enthusiastic about listening to "The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter". But hey, IRON MAIDEN is one of the greatest and most influential bands ever and as […]
In this millennium, it has become custom for IRON MAIDEN to release a live album along with a live DVD after each new studio album. And this politics of release was chosen with the intention to stop bootleggers. So it was just a question of time until IRON MAIDEN put out a documentation of their […]
It was a dark night, the winter season had just kicked in, though it wasn’t as cold as it could have been, but the wind was howling, and as I live near water it was quite intense, the few trees standing near the shore of the fjord were living in jeopardy, as each blast of […]
It hardly ever happens anymore that bands or labels send out physical copies of their releases, but HAMVAK goes all the way – not only in terms of getting his music heard, but especially when it comes to songwriting, brutality and technical proficiency… especially when it comes to brutality, but we’ll get to that in […]
From the moment this album begins the listener is thrown into a vortex of musical chaos and sucked down into a dark cavernous musical underworld. And for just over 40 minutes taken on a journey through a soundscape full of deep bellowing coarse growls, soaring clean vocal bursts, blasting blistering bludgeoning percussion, razor sharp riffing, […]
Greek Death Metal can sometimes be a foul, putrid kind of Metal… the kind that oozes like a puss-filled blister. And WAR POSSESSION fits the description easily. And is it any wonder with Haris, the guitarist of EMBRACE OF THORNS grinding his way throughout WAR POSSESSION’s first full-length? Their doom-filled Death Metal is a disease […]