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Gig review: BRAVE RIVAL- Thames Side Brewery, Staines, 8 December 2024
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Album review: RING OF FIRE – Gravity
Frontiers [Release date: 11.11.22] Spend an hour with Ring Of Fire’s new album, Gravity, and you’re sure to find the music impossible to nail down. It’s a moving target. A neo-classical, Prog/Power Metal sub genre, or maybe that’s a a … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Aldo Lonobile, Artension, Johnny Cash, Malmsteen, Mark Boals, neoclassical metal, power metal, prog metal, review, Secret Sphere, Shining Black, TSO, Vitali Kuprij
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Album review: SHINING BLACK
Frontiers Records [Release date 10.07.20] For afficionados, these are instantly recognisable protagonists. Shining Black matches up Mark Boals, a gun for hire vocalist, with the perhaps lesser known Olaf Thorsen, guitarist with Labyrinth and Vision Divine. It plays out along … Continue reading →
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Tagged album, Frontiers, Labyrinth, Mark Boals, melodic metal, Olaf Thorsen, progressive metal, review, Shining Black, Vision Divine, Yngwie Malmsteen
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