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Bikes, Music, Alcohol and Anarchy. Also books, gigs, traveling and alcohol one more time.

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Review: Kurgan “Yggdrasil Burns” [Massacre Records]

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According to metal-archives.com there are eight bands named Kurgan. I wasn’t surprised to see the Ukrainian and Polish bands with such name because this word is very familiar to them. ...
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Premiere: Tresspass “Be Brave”

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Trespass, the legendary NWOBHM band from the ’80s, will release a new official video of the track “Be Brave”. The song is taken from Trespass’ latest album Footprints ...
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Gig Report: Hellfest @ 21-23.06.2019 | Clisson, France

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Day 0 (Arriving, Amon Amarth, Slipknot) On June, 20th at 5:30 am I left Tel Aviv and flew off to my first big festival in nine years: Hellfest! ...
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Review: Desert “Fortune Favors The Brave” [Self Release]

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Since 2002 Desert goes by not an easy way: line-up changes, experiments with the sound and meager budgets, which affected the records’ quality. Basically, all the problems that ...
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Review: Hereza “Death Metal Drunks” [Godz Ov War]

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We have already met Croatian/German formation Hereza two years ago, reviewing their second album I Become Death. Since then, it seems, a lot of things changed: now it’s ...
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Review: Jesus Chrüsler Supercar “Lücifer” [Dr. Music]

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I got acquainted with Jesus Chrüsler Supercar three years ago due to my disgusting tendency to choose a band by its name: the “curiouser” (as Lewis Caroll’s Alice ...
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Review: Bitchhammer “Offenders Of The Faith” [Iron Shield Records]

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Bitchhammer (lovely name, isn’t it?) is a trio from Leipzig, formed in 2008. Since then the band released an EP Raging Hell Rivers, participated in 4-in-1 split Thrashers ...
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Review: Protector “Summon The Hordes” [High Roller Records]

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Sometimes the band needs not only to work hard, play as much gigs as possible and get the right management. There is also a luck factor, no matter ...
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Interview: Pär Sundström from Sabaton

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This year Sabaton celebrate 20 years anniversary. So we had an opportunity to talk to Pär Sundström about upcoming album, North America tour and what is so great ...
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Review: Rebel Collective “Rebelism” [Sliptrick Records]

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“Drinking… that’s a great human tradition”, said Mr. Cody in the movie “Interstate 60” and he was damn right. But nowadays globalization prevails, so you can booze in ...
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Review: Possessed “Revelation Of Oblivion” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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How can you call a band that releases a new album after 30 years recess? Resurrected? Revenant? Or this comeback happens because of more mundane reasons? All of ...
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Review: Battle Beast “No More Hollywood Endings” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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Four years passed since Anton Kabanen and Battle Beast parted their ways. During this time Anton released two great albums with his band Beast In Black and the ...
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Review: Forever Still “Breathe In Colours” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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There are lots of female fronted bands nowadays and that’s good. The bad thing is that 70 percent of them are similar to each other, musically and visually. ...
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Review: Grand Magus “Wolf God” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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Since the release of their very first album, Grand Magus gained attention of many metalheads. And with every next release their fanbase became larger and larger. Started from ...
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Review: Eluveitie “Ategnatos” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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In 2016, during the work on Evocation II: Pantheon, three members of Eluveitie leave the band. One of them was Anna Murphy, female vocals and real embellishment of ...
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Exclusive premiere: Blackdraft “Out To The Open Sea”

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The single “Out to the Open Sea” is the fifth chapter from current concept-album The Quest. This song describes the journey out on the rough sea during the ...
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Review: Iron Savior “Kill Or Get Killed” [AFM Records]

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German metalers, sci-fi lovers and simply good musicians Iron Savior release their 12-th album with awesome name Kill Or Get Killed. What’s inside is also equally great. The ...
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Interview: Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land)

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Credit: Zohar Ron Their music is an incredible oriental ornament, composed of technically complex metal parts and delicate Arabic lace. It’s like bittersweet coffee with pepper. And this ...
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Exclusive premiere: Meridian “Second Best” (Official Music Video)

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Danish melodic metal band MERIDIAN are releasing the single “Second Best” from their upcoming new album Margin Of Error. “Second Best” is a upbeat hard-rocking song with a ...
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Review: In Flames “I, The Mask” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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It’s been a long time since slamming In Flames became good rule; for mainstream sound, back off their roots and all that stuff. But, as Albert Camus said ...
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