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Tag Archives: Primal Fear
Album review : SCREAM MAKER – Bloodking
Frontiers [release date 9.12.22] Third album from Polish Metal band, Scream Maker. Bloodking begins where 2016′s Backs Against The World left off. This is a band who’ve spent much of their pre and post pandemic time on tour (Europe and … Continue reading →
Album review: MAGNUS KARLSSON’S FREE FALL – We Are The Night
Frontiers [Release date 12.06.20] Album number three from the Free Fall project fronted by Primal Fear guitarist Magnus Karlsson, who has been busy of late having had a hand in the recent Allen/Olzen album also released by Frontiers. Karlsson handles … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Freefall, guitarist, Magnus Karlsson, melodic metal, Primal Fear, pwoer metal, review, symphonic metal, Tony Martin, We Are The Night
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Album review: THE FERRYMEN – A New Evil
Frontiers Music [Release date 11.10.19] Although the name may conjure up images of a Gerry & The Pacemakers tribute act playing package tours to provincial theatres, The Ferrymen are actually a European metal outfit fronted by Ronnie Romero on vocals … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, classic metal, Dio, Magnus Karlsson, melodic metal, Mike Terrana, Primal Fear, Rainbow, review, Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie Romero, the Ferrymen
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Quick plays: STARBREAKER, WEST BOUND
STARBREAKER Dysphoria Frontiers [Release date 25.01.19] Third album from the Starbreaker project featuring Primal Fear guitarist Magnus Karlsson and former TNT vocalist Tony Harnell. It has been awhile as their second album was released back in 2008. With Tony Harnell’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, blues rock, Bonham, Chas West, hard rock, Judas Priest, Magnus Karlsson, melodic metal, metal, Primal Fear, review, rock, Roy Z, TNT, Tony Harnell, West Bound
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Gig review: PRIMAL FEAR – Biebob, Vosselaar, 12 October 2018
Ask me to compose a list with the best Metal albums for 2018 and you are almost certainly guaranteed to find Primal Fear’s latest studio effort “Apocalypse” somewhere near the very top. It may be a good two decades since … Continue reading →
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Tagged 12 October 2018, Belgium, Biebob, gig, heavy metal, metal, Primal Fear, Ralph Scheepers, review, Riot V, Vosselaar
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Quick plays: PRIMAL FEAR, KRANKSCHAFT
PRIMAL FEAR Best Of Fear Frontiers [Release date 10.11.17] Primal Fear have been around since 1997 and to celebrate their twentieth year we have a two disc best of. Disc one has four new songs, although one ‘Area 16′ is … Continue reading →
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Tagged albums, best of, Best Of Fear, Hawkwind, III Mysteries, Krankschaft, Matt Sinner, metal, Primal Fear, punk, Ralf Scheepers, reviews, space rock
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Album review: PRIMAL FEAR – Rulebreaker
Frontiers Records [Release date 22.11.15] Teutonic metal merchants Primal Fear return with their 11th studio album “Rulebreaker” which follows a similar path to 2014’s well received “Delivering The Black” opus. Primal Fear were founded way back in 1997 when bassist … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Alex Beyrodt, Francesco Jovino, Frontiers, Magnus Karlsson, Mat Sinner, metal, Primal Fear, Ralf Scheepers, review, Rulebreaker, Tom Naumann
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Album review: LEVEL 10 – Chapter 1
Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Released 27.01.14] Level 10 is another Frontiers project hooking-up vocalist Russell Allen (Symphony X/Adrenaline Mob) and bassist/producer/writer Mat Sinner (Primal Fear/Sinner). They are joined by Primal Fear band members Randy Black (drums) and Alex Beyrodt (guitar), along with … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Frontiers, Level 10, Matt Sinner, metal, power metal, Primal Fear, review, Russell Allen, Symphony X
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Album review: PRIMAL FEAR – Delivering The Black
Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Release date 24.01.14] Another year…another Primal Fear album (it seems that way anyway)…and with Primal Fear you know exactly what to expect – Teutonic metal a la Judas Priest. It’s predictable but is that always bad – look … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Delivering The Black, Judas Priest, Kamelot, Mats Sinner, power metal, Primal Fear, Ralf Scheepers, review, rock
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Album review: MAGNUS KARLSSON’S FREE FALL
Frontiers Records [Release Date 14.6.13] He may not be a household name, but Magnus Karlsson has been one of European hard rock’s go-to people for some time, assembling critically acclaimed projects like Starbreaker and Allen-Lande, writing prolifically, and for the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Free Fall, Magnus Karlsson, melodic hard rock, power metal, Primal Fear, Ralf Scheepers, Tony Harnell
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Album review: MAT SINNER – Back To The Bullet
Re-issue AFM Records Mat Sinner released this long lost solo album back in 1990 in between releases from his own band Sinner and long before the formation of his current band, Primal Fear. AFM have seen fit to re-release Back … Continue reading →
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Tagged AFM Records, Back to the Bullet, Mat Sinner, Primal Fear, Sinner
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