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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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Exclusive premiere: Oculum Dei “Dreams of Desire and Torment”

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Hailing from the ashes of Charlotte, USA’s darker side comes forth the blackened death trio, Oculum Dei. Mixing different elements and influences of black metal, the band is ...
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Review: Rhapsody Of Fire “The Eighth Mountain” [AFM Records]

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2010s aren’t easy years for Rhapsody Of Fire: almost every member systematically leaved the band. Meanwhile, the band’s founder Alex Staropoli renew the line-up and release the 13-th ...
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Interview: Anton Kabanen (Beast In Black)

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Music can be endlessly divided for genres and sub-genres, there will always be arguing about techniques, “true/fake” and all this stuff. But in the end there is only ...
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Review: Evergrey “The Atlantic” [AFM records]

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Since 1995 Evergrey shows the dark side of Progressive Metal. Fear, paranoia, death, mourning, shame – all these somber feelings and thoughts were in their songs throughout ten ...
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Review: Furor Gallico “Dusk Of The Ages” [Scarlet Records]

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Mixing different genres is not something new, but a quite hard task. Italians Furor Gallico play their mix of Death Metal and Celtic Folk since 2007, and now, ...
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Review: Flotsam and Jetsam “The End Of Chaos” [AFM Records]

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Christofer Johnsson once said: “In a fair world they would be platinum selling”. Actually, he talked about Voivod, but this this statement can be easily attributed to Flotsam ...
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Review: Arch Enemy “Covered In Blood” [Century Media Records]

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Bands always played covers. It can be a tribute, some kind of starting point for a band, anything you want. Arch Enemy isn’t an exception: for a long ...
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Review: Delfinia “Deep Elevation”

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Konstantin and Daria Naumenko are well-known persons in Ukrainian metal: they both play in Power Metal band Sunrise. Daria also has her own project called Novi; Konstantin also ...
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Interview video: Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ

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In October Rotting Christ performed in Tel Aviv, so we had an opportunity to talk to the band’s founder and frontman Sakis Tolis. A little backstage conversation about ...
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Review: Dragonlord “Dominion” [Spinefarm Records]

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After long 13-years lull Testament guitarist Eric Peterson found some strength, time and release the long waited third album of his side project Dragonlord – Dominion. A little ...
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Review: Second To Sun “The Walk” [Self Release]

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Second To Sun surprise again with their efficiency and it seems that the band decided to break all productivity records: six month ago The Black was released and ...
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