For Iced Earth’s 12th studio album, gone are the tedious album spanning story arcs and conceptual themes, with the band favoring a much more straightforward approach. Incorruptible raises the bar somewhat for a band that …READ MORE
Tune in the Daily Album Premiere Show to hear the finest metal releases just now hitting the streets! See this week’s schedule here! DAY BAND ALBUM Monday Iced Earth Incorruptible Tuesday Starsick Systems Lies, Hopes …READ MORE
Thursday, June 8th Iced Earth In his second stint with the band, the 2011-edition of Sweden Rock Festival was one of Matt Barlows last performances as Iced Earths singer. Six years later, the Iced Earth …READ MORE
Over the decades, Iced Earth has been one of those Power/Traditional/Epic Metal bands that has been hugely respected, but for one reason or another they’ve never “made it” as big as they probably deserved. Nonetheless, …READ MORE
Normal human beings usually don’t like living under nightmarish dystopia. However, taking interest in that same dystopia turns out to be suitable ground on which to write Metal songs. Dystopian themes have been usually ignored …READ MORE
Mr. Big The biggest reunion in Melodic Rock in the recent years has been Mr. Big. Spending 2009 touring Japan and a small number of European venues, this winter saw them releasing their comeback album …READ MORE
Walking by himself It’s no easy feat being Jon Schaffer. Not often has someone with short hair received as much praise from a Metal legend, as Tim «Ripper» Owens did the last time this reporter …READ MORE
When Messrs Dio, Iommi, Butler, and Appice reunited to record three new tracks for Black Sabbath’s The Dio Years compilation, it set the ball rolling for what was one of the most eagerly awaited reunions …READ MORE
ANNIHILATOR Annihilator left no doubt they were about to rock, opening the show with “King Of The Kill,” one of their very best tracks. One of the main tasks of any opening act is to …READ MORE
FALCONER (Finally) reunited with original singer Mathias Blad, Falconer were able to gather a respectably-sized crowd of mostly Swedish (it seemed) and quite enthusiastic fans in front of the Zeppelin Stage Saturday morning. Blad has …READ MORE