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When famous legendary musicians record a cover album, it is always no less than wandering. All the more in case of new super group (or...

I guess it would be very trivial to say that modern underground is not what it was years before. Everyone who has a computer nowadays...

Italian Symphonic Power Metal band Moonlight Haze was formed not a long time y, in 2018, yet already next year their debut album De Rerum...

According to established hideous tradition, I still continue to write reviews a month later after the album is out. This time it happened to Ukrainian...

Germans Grave Digger who celebrate 40-years anniversary of the band this year (40 years!) cannot be blamed for laziness for sure! Throughout their history the...

Talking about Scandinavian heavy Metal, the first name that springs to mind is Hammerfall, of course. Europe can be also categorized as Heavy Metal bend...

Technically, the Swiss band Gomorra exists since 2019, not for a long time at all. However it doesn’t means that these musicians are newcomers, no!...

With the passing of time some initially heavy bands make their sound softer. Frequently such experiments end unsuccessfully, while there are some surprisingly good exceptions....

There are lots of European bands, which play traditionally American music. But there are also some opposite examples: American bands that play quite European Metal....

Heavy biker Rock’-n’-Roll with some Blues, Southern and Dark Country isn’t solely American music for a long time, just like bikers themselves. Lots of famous...

People have always considered reunions and comebacks more favorably than long-term farewell tours (is it right, Scorpions?). And it’s not only about that the first...

Katatonia‘s story is quite similar to their countrymen Opeth one: started as very depressive Doom/Death Metal, the band strived to make their sound softener, Jonas...

In 2012 multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Tuomas Saukkonen closed all his numerous music projects to focus only on the single one. Then Wolfheart was born,...

Rhode Island is the smallest state of US but obviously it has its Metal scene also; nowadays you can find Metal in some unexpected corners...

Metal label is a quite controversial thing nowadays, not talking about some major labels but smaller ones. When I got the album, which was released...

I used the word “mix” in different variations pretty much in my reviews recently. The reason is simple: music is evolving, the genres’ frames became...

The number of female fronted bands is getting bigger and bigger while the music they play becomes more diverse. Nevertheless, there are some genres where...

The band Prophecy 23 or to be exact Prophecy23 was formed in 2001 in Mannheim, Germany. Initially the band was Thrash and Death Metal oriented...

Me And That Man, an Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski’s Dark Country/Blues side project suddenly gained attention in 2017 when the first album, Songs Of Love And...

It’s hard to be unbiased when one of your favorite bands releases a new album, especially when it’s a long-awaited album. Yes, it is hard...