ALBUM REVIEW: Talviyö – Sonata Arctica
Combining progressive metal with power metal is, on the surface, not a bad idea. The notion of combining two rather
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Author: Elliot Leaver
ALBUM REVIEW: Reader Of The Runes – Divination – Elvenking
Ten albums into their career and Italians ELVENKING have been experiencing something of a renaissance. The folk/power metallers struck gold five years
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ALBUM REVIEW: Dominion – HammerFall
When one thinks of Sweden’s impact on the world of metal, it general veers towards two areas. One is the
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ALBUM REVIEW: Curse These Metal Hands – Pijn & Conjurer
It’s no secret that the albums released last year by CONJURER and PIJN were scintillating works that ranked highly in End of Year lists
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ALBUM REVIEW: We Are Not Your Kind – Slipknot
Well, here we go again. In the normal course of events, a band that has been going for two decades,
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LINGUA IGNOTA: A Harsh Reality Made Human
Kristin Hayter has seen a side of life that very few people in this world would dare admit to, let
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INTERVIEW: Josh Gallop & Alexander Share – Phoxjaw
Given that most interviews with bands are done at gigs or festivals, over Skype, via email or even as a
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ALBUM REVIEW: CALIGULA – LINGUA IGNOTA
One of the beautiful things about music is the unlimited power it has to draw emotions in people, in both
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Great War – Sabaton
It’s perhaps quite surprising that it’s taken SABATON nine albums to write a record based on arguably the biggest war in modern
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LIVE REVIEW: Hands Off Gretel @ The Louisiana, Bristol
It’s a very balmy evening in Bristol; hot air balloons are drifting lazily through the sky and the waterfront is
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