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Category Archives: Pure Metal/Album reviews
Album review: ANVIL – Hope In Hell
The End Records – Out Now. Canadian Speed/Heavy Metal trio Anvil are, to put it simply, on fire! Since the release of the highly acclaimed documentary/movie ‘The Story Of Anvil’ back in 2009, long time friends and colleagues Steve “Lips” … Continue reading
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Album review: THE TANGENT – Le Sacre Du Travail
Inside Out – Out Now. The Tangent is one of those bands that have only recently come to my attention and after I realised what Andy Tillison and his highly skilled colleagues are capable of achieving, especially on the strength … Continue reading
Album review: AVANTASIA – The Mystery Of Time
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Some may find this pretty hard to believe but it has been two whole decades since the German vocalist/songwriter Tobias Sammet released his first documented musical contribution, specifically to Edguy’s 1994 demo release “Evil Minded”. … Continue reading
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Album review: QUEENSRYCHE – Queensryche
Century Media – [Release Date 24.06.13] There are undoubtedly many lessons one can learn in life, but the one I believe in most is not taking anything for granted, including in music. Take Seattle Prog Metallers Queensryche, for instance: if … Continue reading
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Album review: AMORPHIS – Circle
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. When Pasi Koskinen left Progressive/Melodic/Folk metallers Amorphis back in 2004, after nine years of dedicated service, many of the band’s loyal fans, myself included, were left fearing the worst concerning the band’s future. The addition … Continue reading
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Album review: ANTHRAX – Anthems E.P.
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Experiencing a line-up change now and again is inevitable for most long-serving bands, but the way the members of the legendary Thrash Metal combo Anthrax have come and gone over the years has always caused … Continue reading
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Album review: SPIRITUAL BEGGARS – Earth Blues
Inside Out – Out Now. Michael Amott is better known as the guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of the Swedish Melodic Death Metal quintet Arch Enemy – a band that has been under the media spotlight for quite some … Continue reading
Album review: HYPOCRISY – End Of Disclosure
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Peter Tagtgren is one of the busiest men in the music business. When not offering his production skills to artists like Destruction, Marduk, Overkill and Amorphis (to name a few) or when he’s not touring … Continue reading
Album review: MOSS – Horrible Night
Rise Above – Out Now. The Bass guitar and Doom Metal are two concepts that seem to go hand-in-hand and are inter-connected to such an extent that one simply can’t imagine the one without the other. Well, the Southampton-based trio … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Doom Metal, Horrible Night, Moss, Olly Pearson, review, Stoner
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Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Electric Punishment
SPV – Out Now. Thirty three years is a long time for any band, especially one that has survived the death of a frontman and the departure of enough members to fill two whole basketball teams, and then some. In … Continue reading
Album review: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – Ugly Noise
Metal Blade – Out Now. The relationship between the Arisona-based Metallers Flotsam And Jetsan and Brian Slagel’s Metal Blade Records has been marked by many highs and lows over the last three decades and the last time that these two … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Erik A.K, Flotsam And Jetsam, issue, metal, review, Ugly Noise
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Album review: INTRONAUT – Habitual Levitations
Century Media – Out Now. When it comes to choosing which albums to review for our site, the parameters I have set are actually pretty straightforward and simple: the more diverse, demanding and unique a band is the more inclined … Continue reading
Album review: MANILLA ROAD – Mysterium
ZYX Music – Out Now. Good promotion, or lack of it, can make the difference between life and death for most bands, especially at times like these when the music market has become over-saturated with hundreds, if not thousands, of … Continue reading
Album review: HAMMERFORCE – Access Denied
Metalism Records ( Release date – Out now ) A bit of synth driven power metal from St Petersburg this time. Hammerforce formed back in 2006 and this is the band’s second album, the first being ‘Dice’ … Continue reading
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Album review: U.D.O – Steelhammer
AFM Records – [Release date 21.05.13] Udo Dirkschneider is a man who simply does not understand the meaning of slowing down. Even though he has recently witnessed the departure from the U.D.O ranks of his long-time friend and collaborator Stefan … Continue reading
Album Review: DAGOBA – Post Mortem Nihil Est
earMUSIC Don’t be fooled by the plinky piano and music hall humming on the intro to album opener ‘When Winter…’ Within seconds, Shawter unleashes a death roar to split brains and splinter souls. This is damn fine album, full of … Continue reading
Album review: DELAIN – Interlude
Interview edit: Charlotte Wessels of Delain, 1 May 2013 First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 5 May 2013 The full version of this interview is available as a podcast (You can sign up to receive alerts of podcast … Continue reading
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Album review: TIME GRID – Life
Open Your Eyes Records [Release date: 21.01.13] Time Grid is French/Swiss prog metal band who have taken nearly a decade to realise their musical vision. ‘Life’ is by no means an unblemished slice of prog metal, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Franco Swiss rock, keyboards, King Crimson, Laetitia Fontannaz, Life, Mathias Reusser, metal, Procol Harum, prog metal, progressive, Remi Pussier, review, rock, Steve Huber, synths, Time Grid
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Album review: CTHULHU RISE – 42
Musea Records This incredible heavy but inventive album may sometimes border on the cacophonous as it blasts away the cobwebs of complacency with monumental fractured riffs, but the underlying fast changing time signatures, unrelenting metal dirge (sludge metal anybody?) and … Continue reading
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Album review: STONE SOUR – The House of Gold & Bones Part Two
Roadrunner Corey Taylor never seems to sleep as he is either penning books, comic books or music, in this case the rather good Stone Sour. If like me you’re no fan of Slipknot, Stone Sour are much more accessible and … Continue reading
Album review: THE RESISTANCE – Scars
earMUSIC [Release Date – 10.05.13] What is heavy music ? A One Direction fan may consider Bon Jovi heavy, whereas a Bon Jovi fan may consider Iron Maiden heavy. He or she in turn may consider Slayer heavy, but what about … Continue reading
Album review: SEPTICFLESH – Mystic Places Of Dawn
Season Of Mist – Out Now. Septicflesh (formerly known as Septic Flesh) are one of those bands whose target audience and greater impact was felt in the underground, however, since their reformation and the release of 2008’s magnum opus “Communion”, … Continue reading
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Album review: SATAN’S WRATH – Galloping Blasphemy
Metal Blade – Out Now. Classic, old-school, vintage, retro or whatever-else-you-want-to-call-it Metal has always been massively supported in Greece. I mean, this is the country whose fans covered all expenses themselves just to see bands like Omen and Manilla Road … Continue reading
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Album review: IN SOLITUDE – In Solitude
Season Of Mist – Out Now. In Solitude is an 80s influenced classic Heavy Metal band whose name should be familiar to you by now. Why? Because, even though their discography is ridiculously small for any band creating such a … Continue reading
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Album review: SIX FEET UNDER – Unborn
Metal Blade – Out Now. Constant band line up changes are normally the stuff of nightmares for any devoted fan as they normally tend to affect both the style and character of a band. In the case of the Floridian … Continue reading
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