If we were to loosely assign the Big 4 of German power metal as being Accept, Halloween, Blind Guardian and Powerwolf (please @ me with your angry rebuttals), then Iron Savior would firmly sit as one of the bands next in line. Skycrest is the 12th album in their long […]
As fans within the metal community, we run this strange line of punishing bands for straying from their established style, whilst simultaneously vilifying them for releasing the same thing over and over again. However, some bands have a tried and tested no frills approach that works, and they stick rigidly […]
Not all music lasts forever. Psychedelia, Electro-Pop, Bitpop, Disco, Nu-metal, Pop Punk. All were huge mainstream success, but didn’t survive for long, mostly not beyond their decade. Thrash metal emerged in the 1980s to huge success, but by the 1990s had all but disappeared. Normally this would mean the end […]
Florida’s Trivium have been around long enough now to be mainstays in the heavy metal world and are onto their ninth studio album in 2020. Comprising of vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy, lead guitarist Corey Beaulieu, bassist Paulo Gregoletto and stickman Alex Bent, their lineup has been largely stable over their career. […]
To mark in the season of all that is spooky, looking at a band I have never understood – Ghost So here we are, ghost, ghouls and all that is terrible. And that’s just the evening news. Whilst this year is going to look a little different, if you are […]
System of a Down are an Armenian American band formed in 1994. Well known for innovative, politically charged and totally zany approach to song writing. Front man Serj Tankian and guitarist Daron Malakian sharing vocal duties, Shavo Odadjian on Bass and Jon Dolmayan on the sticks. In their time they […]
The Los Angeles metal stalwarts release their new album Punching The Sky. Armoured Saint have sat on the outskirts of the heavy metal big hitters since their inception in 1986. As such I have never really been exposed them or can confess to knowing much of their back catalogue. However, […]
Sometimes things completely pass me by. I like to think of myself as generally well researched and informed in earthly on goings, but multi-instrumentalist Nate Garrett and his band Spirit Adrift are one of the aforementioned items to avert my gaze. Releasing their second album in two years Enlightened in […]
