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On April 14th, Swedish Opeth published a book that is more than impressive. Opeth is celebrating their 25th anniversary and Mikael Åkerfeldt had the brilliant idea to honour such a milestone with a book about the band, a documentatation is more than just...

After having hosted a show of German thrashers Exumer earlier this year it was the right moment for another thrash metal night in Leiden. This time it's the legendary Overkill that stopped for one show in Holland, inviting fans to a journey back in time....

Chief growler Chris Barnes continues with Six Feet Under's 'Graveyard Classics' series. In the meantime it in number four that's upcoming. The guys decided to focus on NWoBHM legends Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Six Feet Under covered five songs of each...

(7/10) Halstenbek is the homebase of German thrashers Minotaur. The four-piece, that can look back on a 33 years long history in metal, have worked on a new EP entitled "Beast of Nations". This disc is the first real sign of life after the guys have published...

Fans always wanted Udo Dirkschneider doing Accept songs as being part of the regular U.D.O. shows. And of course, these old classic are awesome and milestones in metal music. But U.D.O. is not Accept and therefore Udo Dirkschneider decided to do a tour...

German thrash dinosaur Paradox will release a new album on June 3rd and the longplayer will come via AFM. It's the first album of Charly Steinhauer and his gang since four years and it will provide you with 60 minutes of excellent German thrash metal....

For all my Dutch and Belgium readers - don't forget that Udo Dirkschneider, together with his band, will play a show in Tilburg tomorrow night. It will become an evening full of Accept songs, which sounds very exciting.

(*/10) André Andersen and his gang are at the start with a new live album. After having published the quite good "Devil's Dozen" album Royal Hunt joined a few festivals around the globe. The guys have been part of the billing of ProgPower(USA), Loud Park...

(8/10) The only walls I can accept nowadays are walls of sound. Actually I love them. This time it's Finnish pagan powerhouse that builds those walls on their new longplayer "Jumalten Aika". The guys from Helsinki, Finland do not need a lot of songs to...

(6/10) Good and bad news from Lita Ford. The good news is that Lita's new album is far away from the very strange "Wicked Wonderland" release. The bad news is that "Time Capsule" can't live up to the successful 80's releases either. It doesn't even get...

(8/10) Thunderstone is one of these bands which proves that Finland has also a very solid melodic metal scene. The band, founded in 2002, always stood partly in the shadow of genre kings like Stratovarious and Sonata Arctica. But knowing the ups and downs...

Weathermaker Music will publish a new 12" from US four-piece Clutch as a special release for 2016 Record Store Day. Side One feautures two unreleased tracks from the "Psychich Warfare" session while the other side comes with an etching similar to the...

(8/10) Spanish powerhouse Lords Of Black is interesting for two reasons. First of all the guys from Madrid releases with "II" their second album which is full of pretty good power metal hymns. Each of these is well-crafted and csn easily love up to international...

(8/10) Guitar wizard Ace Frehley took a bunch of songs that influenced him and his style, recorded his version of those classics and put them on a new album entitled "Origins Vol. 1". The immediate question is, if there will be more of these releases...