ALBUM REVIEW: Side By Side – Absolva
Formed from members of ICED EARTH and BLAZE BAYLEY‘s live band – and out of the ashes of FURY UK – Manchester’s ABSOLVA have been keeping
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Album Reviews
ALBUM REVIEW: Den Tredje Dagen – Ocean Chief
After a twenty year career, and nearly five years since their last release, Swedish four piece OCEAN CHIEF return to
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ALBUM REVIEW: Headwars – Jim Davies
For years, people have heard the work of Jim Davies and enjoyed it without truly knowing who he was. As the guitarist
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Ghost of Orion – My Dying Bride
Few bands have done as much for doom metal within the UK as MY DYING BRIDE. Now approaching their 30th anniversary, they
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ALBUM REVIEW: Extreme Power Metal – Dragonforce
The word ‘understated’ doesn’t appear in DRAGONFORCE‘s dictionary. Twenty years since their formation and, via a number of huge records, a
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ALBUM REVIEW: Evolution – Kobra and the Lotus
It’s been a period of upheaval for Canadian metallers KOBRA AND THE LOTUS. The quintet have steadily risen from humble,
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ALBUM REVIEW: West End – The 69 Eyes
There’s an old British phrase that states ‘today’s news is tomorrow’s chip paper’, and in a world that seems to
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ALBUM REVIEW: Common Foe – Bad Machines
For Gainsborough’s BAD MACHINES, the beginning is tinged with the bitter taste of departure. Evolving from THEY SAY FALL – who won the
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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: Epicenter – Aviana
Swedish natives AVIANA have had a tempestuous start to their career. Their debut album Polarise acted as something of a
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