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

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Review: Grave Digger “The Living Dead”

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Grave Digger has been playing for 38 years, since 1980. Just think about it: 38 years! It’s a lot for a Heavy Metal band, but with their 20-th ...
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Review: Korpiklaani “Kulkija”

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I came to Korpiklaani through their drink-and-dance Folk Metal like many others, I guess and their album Tales Along This Road was in my playlist for a long ...
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Review: Parasite Inc “Dead And Alive”

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Five years ago in 2013 German Melodic Death metallers Parasite Inc. released their debut album Time Tears Down. It was highly demanded by the crowd and got lots ...
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Review: Beyond The Katakomb “Beyond The Katakomb”

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Beyond The Katakomb is a Heavy/Power Metal brainchild of L-G Persson, vocalist from the band Storyteller. Formed not a long time ago the band starts to record their ...
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Review: U.D.O. “Steelfactory”

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Three years passed since the release of U.D.O.‘s last album Decadent. During these three years the band parted their ways with the drummer Francesco Jovino (now Sven Dirkschneider, ...
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Review: 69 Chambers – “Machine”

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In some mysterious way lots of Alternative and Post Grunge bands passed by me. This is also about such artists like Tori Amos, Björk and PJ Harvey. To ...
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Review: Mad Max “35”

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The fashion for 80s is back: it’s in clothes, in movies and of course in the music. This gain an interest for the bands, which developed Hard’N’Heavy and ...
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Review: Powerwolf “The Sacrament Of Sin”

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For 15 years Powerwolf release albums on schedule every two years. Yes, Blessed And Possessed was released in 2015 but in a year the band released their DVD ...
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Review: DevilDriver “Outlaws ‘Til The End Vol. 1”

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Two years ago, in 2016 DevilDriver released Trust No One where they weaved ferocious groove with catchy melodies tightly. This year the time of experiments has come and ...
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Review: Necrytis “Dread En Ruin”

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American band Necrytis formed not a long time ago but already released their debut LP Countersighns in 2017. Not wasting time the band record their second album ‘Dread ...
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Review: Bullet For My Valentine: “Gravity”

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Being quite naive I hoped that Bullet For My Valentine will some time release something like “Scream! Aim! Fire!” which I heard in 2008 and bought their album ...
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Review: Second To Sun “The Black”

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I sincerely consider the Blackbound, which was released in the end of 2016 as one of the best albums released that year. And certainly an outstanding one. Because ...
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Review: Ghost “Prequelle”

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Three years passed since Meliora was released. During this time Ghost took Grammy award, released a short EP Popestar, quarreled, took off each other’s masks and met in ...
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Review: Amorphis “Queen Of Time”

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Three years ago in 2015 Amorphis released solid Under The Red Cloud that was rightfully a highest point of their art that time. The band went to a ...
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Review: Lordi “Sexorcism”

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Since 1992 Lordi goes to success. So one might think that in 2006 the band reached all that it could: lots of fans all over the world (including ...
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Review: At The Gates “To Drink From The Night Itself”

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In contradistinction to many bands and some fellow countrymen, Swedes At The Gates are remain true to themselves and chosen genre Melodic Death Metal, no matter what: break ...
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Review: Skindred “Big Tings”

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Three years passed since great and quite hard Volume was released. So now the time has come for the new, seventh album from British ragga-metalers Skindred, named Big ...
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Live interview with Christofer Johnsson of Therion

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Interview with Therion‘s mastermind Christofer Johnsson about Beloved Antichrist background, 2018 European tour and the band. Tel-Aviv, 10.04.18. Interview – Droll, camera – Eugene Sokolenko (Zhes Photo) http://therion.se http://www.nuclearblast.de/ ...
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Review: Cruachan “Nine Years Of Blood”

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One of the Celtic folk metal pioneers Cruachan, mixing anger and atmosphere of Black Metal with folk instruments, release their new album Nine Years Of Blood. It’s the ...
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Review: Ross The Boss “By Blood Sworn”

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Unlike his former band mates from Manowar, which declared about ending their career and last tour, Ross ‘Ross The Boss’ Friedman in age of 64 is not going ...
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