Tim Bolitho-Jones, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: War Hearts – Frozen Crown

It’ll take less than a second for you to decide if you like War Hearts. The latest album from FROZEN

In a normal world, we wouldn’t be reviewing the new WIND ROSE album. By all conventional logic, a Dwarf-themed metal

When is a cover song not a cover song? Well, War by SHADOWS FALL is a good example. At first

The past decade has seen POWERWOLF’s fortunes improve at a gradual but unstoppable pace. The lupine-obsessed German five-piece have risen

The backstory to the new ORDEN OGAN album sounds like the plot to a Stephen Spielberg movie. The band are

If the history of metal has taught us anything, it’s that it’s incredibly risky for a band to change their

Anyone that’s read Ian Winwood’s excellent Bodies: Life And Death In Music will have some understanding of how difficult it

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When an album opens with the rattle of machine gun fire and the wail of an air raid siren, you

Things have really been taking off for WHEEL since 2021. After years of hard work, the Finnish progressive trio released