After some 13 studio albums and a complete symphony, Yngwie J. Malmsteen has reached quite a cult status in Metal circles, as he relentlessly continues to pursue his guitar-driven style of Neo-Classical Metal without caring …READ MORE
2005 marks Motörhead’s 30th anniversary – may it be 30 more – and the ‘heads have decided to mark this with the release of a double DVD package. It contains a full take of the …READ MORE
From the USA underground comes the quartet Throwdown, playing a relatively aggressive mix of Hardcore with a scent of Melodic Death thrown in for good measure. Although the music is not of the most technical …READ MORE
Hailing from Horten, Norway, this Black Metal trio has, after having existed for almost ten years, come up with a pretty impressive first album. Dødheimsgård, Satyricon, and maybe Mayhem are other reference points – this …READ MORE
Demons & Wizards is, for those of you who didn’t know, what Hansi Kürsch and Jon Schaffer are up to when their main bands, Blind Guardian and Iced Earth, respectively, enjoys some time off. Their …READ MORE
The Metalcore genre has really exploded lately, with lots of new bands coming up, and although the genre definitely has a certain creativity problem – way too many new bands sound very much the same …READ MORE
The story behind this album is a rather cool one. The intention behind it was nothing short of “celebrating a phase in history that changes our lands forever” (quoting from the promo sheet). The band/project, …READ MORE
After the new waves of British Heavy Metal, German Power Metal, Italian Spaghetti Metal, and Swedish Melo-Death Metal, it’s tempting to say Norwegian Prog Metal is the new “thing” in Heavy Metal. Conception paved the …READ MORE
Norwegian Prog Metal has, several years after conception, experienced an upswing in popularity led by Ark, Pagan’s Mind, and Kamelot (which, of course, is far from being an all-Norwegian band, but much of the music …READ MORE
For those not familiar with Stefan Weinerhall, he was once guitarist and main songwriter in a quite awesome Viking Metal band called Mithotyn, one of the foremost acts on the Viking/Pagan Metal scene a few …READ MORE