You’re sat there one day, listening to your plain old traditional power metal, dreaming of a world where epic could be turned up to a gloriously new extreme. So you put on your favourite melodic death metal artist, and once again you are left with a sense of forlorn emptiness. […]
Rejoice defenders of the ethereal realm, Extreme Wizard Metal is back. Wizardthrone have released their second single Forbidden Equations Deep Within The Epimethean Wasteland. Try saying that after a few Sambucas. Harnessing the devastating energy of folk inspired melodic death metal – think Wintersun on interdimensional steroids. Wizardthrone‘s debut album […]
Mortal beings, the time has finally come. After generations of anticipation, the ancient prophecy has finally been realised. The mighty supergroup Wizardthrone have released their first single, and it’s totally not what I was expecting. Frozen Winds Of Thyraxia is a technical blackened melodic death metal odyssey, honed through light […]
The sophomore slump. When a second offering is vastly inferior to a high quality initial offering. The Jaws 2 syndrome. Or RGIII. There aren’t many things in the world more disappointing then a terrible follow up effort. You know it very well in the music world. When an artist breaks […]
After the turmoil the world went through in 2020, it is fitting to now look forward to 2021. I am cautiously optimistic that we will resume to some sort of normality this year. Either way we have plenty to look forward to. Like the proverbial Phoenix we have some new […]
You have no doubt been involved in a conversation where a version of the following question has been asked; “If you could only take 10 albums with you to a desert island to listen to forevermore, what would you take?” Which is just a fancy way of saying what is […]
