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Rage – Strings To A Web
By Jason Wellwood My first listen to this record had me tagging it as a possibility for my album of the year, my second listen had me not too sure about it, but my third, fourth and fifth brought me...
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Lantlôs – .neon
By Jonathan Smith There’s not a great deal that can be said about Germany’s Lantlôs and their sophomore release that can’t be explained by pointing to the man who makes up half of the band. .neon will...
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Blind Guardian – At The Edge of Time
By Jason Wellwood At The Edge of Time is a power metal/fantasy fiction nerd’s dream. Intro song ‘Sacred Worlds’ was originally written for a video game (Sacred 2: Fallen Angel) , the second track is...
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German heavy metal legends ACCEPT… coming soon to a suburb near you!
This week, on Metal Jeopardy… Mud: “I’ll take Bands That Got Me Into Heavy Metal for 500, Alex.” Alex: “Which semi-obscure classic heavy metal band played a huge role in your formative years as a...
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Accept – Blood Of The Nations
By Rob Kachluba There have been some great albums by veteran metal bands in 2010. First Overkill issued Iron Bound and now German metal merchants Accept have released Blood of the Nations. These...
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Accept – Blood of the Nations
By Gruesome Greg In preparation for the arrival of the new Accept album, I dug out my old cassette copy of Eat the Heat, their last recording sans Udo. A terribly dated piece of late 80′s pap metal,...
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Sodom – Lords of Depravity Part II
By Sean Palmerston You have to hand it to Tom Angelripper. Here is one musician that makes the most of everything he has. After wowing us all five years ago with the very extensive Lords of Depravity...
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War From A Harlots Mouth – MMX
By Matt Lewis An ambitious disaster is how I would describe this record. As complex a record as this is, its this simplest description that sums it up. War From A Harlots Mouth, hailing from Germany,...
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Heaven & Hell – Neon Nights:30 Years of Heaven & Hell DVD
By Adrien Begrand You can see the sadness and frustration in the eyes of the surviving members of Heaven and Hell as they talk about their wonderful four year run on their new DVD. After so many...
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ACCEPT: In Conversation With Wolf Hoffmann
Photo courtesy of acceptworldwide.com By Allan Grusie We’ve all seen the Phoenix Effect before in the world of classic rock bands. Bands rise from slumber, put together an album, sometimes good,...
View ArticleSOUNDS FROM THE STONER ROCK UNDERGROUND: Electric Magic Edition
Because I have all kinds of write-ups on my hard-drive for all sorts of albums you’ve never heard by all numbers of bands you’ve never heard of, it’s time for another high-in-fiber edition of Sounds...
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Slaughterday – Nightmare Vortex
By Rob Kachluba FDA Rekotz, the home of dirty rotten metal, is fast becoming one of my fave metal labels. Already in the past few years they have released many faves of mine including Deserted Fear...
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Downfall of Gaia – Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay is in many ways similar to Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes, the last album from Germany’s Downfall of Gaia. It’s also heavier in sound and less immediately...
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The Oath – The Oath
It says a lot for The Oath that their music actually matches the images created by the album’s cover. I’ve seen this album described as occult rock, but that’s beginning to become a catch-all term,...
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Helloween – My God-Given Right
There is indeed no happy medium with Euro-metal, either it is very good or very bad. Thankfully, on this album, Helloween are very good. Musically, we have some great Iron Maiden-esque songs. One thing...
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Downfall of Gaia – Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay is in many ways similar to Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes, the last album from Germany’s Downfall of Gaia. It’s also heavier in sound and less immediately...
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The Oath – The Oath
It says a lot for The Oath that their music actually matches the images created by the album’s cover. I’ve seen this album described as occult rock, but that’s beginning to become a catch-all term,...
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Helloween – My God-Given Right
There is indeed no happy medium with Euro-metal, either it is very good or very bad. Thankfully, on this album, Helloween are very good. Musically, we have some great Iron Maiden-esque songs. One thing...
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HEAVEN SHALL BURN and more in Saarbrücken, Germany – March 2018
Heaven Shall Burn / August Burns Red / Whitechapel / In Hearts Wake @ the Garage, 21 March 2018 Sweat, thick air and powerful beats: In Hearts Wake, Whitechapel, August Burns Red and Heaven Shall Burn...
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Preview: Out of Line Weekender 2019
04.-06.04. Astra Kulturhaus Berlin, Germany Out Of Line Weekender 2019 edition will take place April 04-06 and the Out Of Line team have put together a very exciting program for us. There will be...
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