Sandra 12 articles

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Interview: Anton Kabanen from Beast In Black

Created in 2015 by Anton Kabanen, this band keeps growing strongly from year to year, releasing albums and sharing tours with top metal names around...

Interview: Apocalyptica

Once they were at the origins of a whole musical style called “cello metal”. Their first studio work, which still holds great popularity, was the...

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Review: Avantasia “Moonglow” [Nuclear Blast Records]

18 years after The Metal Opera, in the beginning of 2019 Tobias Sammet’s supergroup release their eighth album. The band’s mastermind assures again that the...

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Review: Beast In Black “From Hell With Love” [Nuclear Blast Records]

In 2015 guitarist Anton Kabanen, the founder of Battle Beast, left the band. Nevertheless, it wasn’t some kind of sabbatical and that year he founded...

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Review: SEPTA “Sounds Like Murder”

SEPTA “Sounds Like Murder” This is a long waited album, released in a last day of November. An album that got to the various «alternative»...

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Review: Serenity “Codex Atlanticus”

Serenity “Codex Atlanticus” Napalm records 2016 started with a couple interesting albums, especially in power-metal. Among them a new LP from Austrian band Serenity. Fifth...

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Review: Axel Rudi Pell “Game Of Sins”

Axel Rudi Pell “Game Of Sins” Steamhammer / SPV Beginning of the year has always commemorated the flow of fresh releases. Also from some legendary...

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Review: Avantasia “Ghostlights”

Avantasia “Ghostlights” Nuclear Blast records Tobias Sammet, certainly, one of the most productive composers at in power-metal. Releasing almost every year he doesn’t lose his...

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Review: Grenouer “Unwanted Today”

Grenouer “Unwanted Today” Mausoleum Records 2015 have passed, but there are some releases that cannot be not mentioned. One of them is a new album...

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Review: PHANTASMA “The Deviant Hearts”

PHANTASMA “The Deviant Hearts” Napalm Records When a couple of talented people are getting together for some creation, it’s always interesting and unexpected. You’ll never...

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Review: AMBERIAN DAWN “Innuendo”

AMBERIAN DAWN “Innuendo” Napalm Records Finland is a magic country and real treasure of talented musicians, which gave the world hundreds of beautiful albums in...

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Review: GRAVE DIGGER “Exhumation – The early years”

GRAVE DIGGER “Exhumation – The early years” Napalm Records It is well known that history repeats. Veterans and absolutely legends of German heavy metal scene...