EP REVIEW: The Lost & The Longing – Alpha Wolf and Holding Absence
What do you do when you’ve defeated that difficult second album syndrome by dropping a career-defining, chart-invading record during a
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Author: Jack Press
Powerwolf: A Heavy Metal Mass On Holy Grounds
Some bands spend their careers sculpting a masterpiece, an album that shapes a genre for years to come. Others will
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ALBUM REVIEW: Forgotten In Space – Voivod
VOIVOD aren’t an easy band to write about. Their early years saw them peddle out speed metal like they were
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Napalm Death: Festival Of Free Thought
Whilst some bands sour over time, others age like fine wines. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first sip or
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Alexisonfire: Sweet Dreams Of Otherness
When bands split up, they cause splinters in their scene. When ALEXISONFIRE downed tools in 2011, with several members swanning
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Holding Absence: The Greatest Festival Of My Life
Imagine releasing an album, crashing the UK album chart’s Top 100, and playing the first festival in the UK in
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ALBUM REVIEW: Pain Is Forever And This Is The End – Mantar
If art is a reflection of its creator’s reality, MANTAR’s Erinç Sakarya and Hanno Klänhardt are bleeding out in the
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Monumental Mass: A Cinematic Metal Event – Powerwolf
There must be something in the water in Germany. AVANTASIA’s ambitiousness makes MEAT LOAF’s rock opera theatrics look like its
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Download Festival 2022
When IRON MAIDEN’s Bruce Dickinson orders us to “scream for me, Donington”, it’s enough to send shivers down your spine.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Beyond The Macabre – Paganizer
If flux capacitors were real, someone may well want to go back in time and stop ENTOMBED from putting the
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