(7/10) After having published the sophomore album “Mirrorworld” in 2016, Serious Black is back with a new longplayer. “Magic”, that’s the name of the album that comes with 14 songs, providing you with an hour of powerful metal music. Serious Black’s newest...
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(6/10) Here comes a short and crispy review in bulletpoint-fashion: "The Raven Ride" was originally released in 2006. This version is a re-issue. It comes with one 'new' song which is another version of "Carbon Based Lifeform". Tony Martin is doing the...
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( 8/10 ) "Alpha Tiger" is the self-titled fourth longplayer of the Freiberg, Germany based metal outfit. After having published "iDENTITY" in 2015 things evolved. While the third album was more a wild horse it's the new longplayer that reflects a more...
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( 7/10 ) If a band like Quiet Riot announces a new album, expectation are sky-high. In a time when heavy metal was still in the starting blocks it was Quiet Riot that acted as a trailblazer for hard rock music. These guys released with "Metal Health"...
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(8/10) July is a tough months for melodic metal fans with quite some releases that will bringing enjoyment to this group of metalheads. Not only that big players such as Blind Guardian and Edguy have interesting releases in the starting blocks, also German-based...
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(*/10) Here comes Graham Bonnet part 2. After having released an album with Ezoo a few weeks ago it’s again Frontiers Music that comes up with another Graham Bonnet release. This time it’s a live album, featuring a show the singer did in 2016 at the Frontiers...
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(8/10) Ten is a more than constant factor when it comes to melodic hardrock. What started in 1995 by Gary Hughes led to 12 studio albums to date with each of them manifesting Ten’s trademarks and sound with records like “Spellbound” and “Stormwarning”...
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Produced by Chris "The Wizard" Collier (Lynch Mob; Flotsam And Jetsam; Prong; KXM), “The Brotherhood” features eleven brand new hard rock tracks from Lynch Mob. This album will surely resonate with long time fans of the band, as well as those longing...
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(*/10) Edguy is a phenomena. The band from Fulda started their successful journey through metal in the beginning of the nineties, a time when more traditional metal was in a decline. Many metal bands that grew rapidly during the 80’s started to struggle...
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(8/10) earMusic releases end of June a Hansen & Friends live album (see review), recorded 2016 at the famous Wacken festival.T he guys played a 75 minutes set with Unisonic folowing them on the same stage one hour later. This meant two shifts for Kai...
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(7/10) Swiss rock outfit Cellar Darling could wrap up a deal with Nuclear Blast, leading to a debut called “This is the Sound”. So, what is the sound? The trio, Anna Murphy (v), Ivo Henzi (g,b) and Merlin Sutter (d), is fascinated by folk-based rock and...
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(8/10) Not only that the summer period is the time of the year that’s filled with festivals and open airs, it also feels like quite some bands releasing live albums as we speak. Swabian power outfit Kissin’ Dynamite is one of them, having their first...
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Here comes the line-up of this years edition of the Rock On festival in Switzerland. I guess Friday and Saturday could be quite interesting for fans of powerful and melodic metal music. Freitag 11. August 2017 BATTLE BEAST XANDRIA SERENITY SONS OF SOUNDS...
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(7/10) Guitarist Dario Mollo and singer Graham Bonnet united forces, working on an album entitled "Feeding the Beast". The guys, firming under the banner of EZoo, unveiled twelve new songs that can be found on this longplayer. 'New' is actually the wrong...
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