power metal

(7/10) Quite interesting stuff is coming from Salt Lake City, Utah these days. Visigoth (named after an ancient German tribe) is coming from this area with a cool debut album in their bag. The band plays classical heavy metal with some power metal influences....

(7/10) Germany's Nordrhein-Westfalen is well known for good thrash bands. The Ruhrgebiet, as a part of the region, is the home of bands like Kreator and Sodom - the spearheads of German thrash metal. Eradicator is coming from Nordrhein-Westfalen too;...

(7/10) German Orden Organ has released a new album called "Ravenhead". According to the label info the record will have "more metal, more chorusses, more Orden Organ". Something I can't say 'no' to. "Ravenhead" comes with ten song plus the dramatic intro...

Sonata Artica is in tour in Europe in May 2015. Together with Freedom Call and Twilight Force the band will play shows in France, Germany, Netherlands plus some more. Here are all the dates.

War Dance have published a video for their song "Freedom". The band from Athens, Greece plays power metal with a certain prog influence. But also Manowar are for sure well known by the Greece band. Esp. singer Eleftherios Pletsis shows some parallels...

Even though it is still some month to go; Jeff Water's Annihilator are coming to Europe for playing some shows in autumn 2015. Here are the dates:

(8/10) Udo Dirkschneider; the name stands for powerful German metal since decades. Regardless if it was with Accept for many years or with his own band U.D.O. the man from Wuppertal, Germany always released records that have been from great quality and...

(8/10) Four years after their last album "Aqua" Angra is back with a new studio record. In those years, again, a lot of things happened with the line-up. Angra was never in the fortunate situation of a steady group constellation. It's the two guitarists...

(7/10) Serious Black is a new band with well know band members. The most known one is Roland Grapow (ex- Helloween and Masterplan) that teamed up with bass player Mario Lochert (Emergency Gate). Lochert had the idea of such a band like Serious Black already...

(8/10) It was a few mounth ago when I was putting a CD into the player from a band I haven't heard before. Their name was Night Demon and the EP contained four songs. I haven't had any extra information and therefore didn't know what to expect. What I...

(8/10) I would not have thought in my wildest dreams about a comeback from German speed metaliacs Scanner. The band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany had two pretty good records in the end of the 80's. In 2002 their latest record "Scantropolis" was published...

Some of you might still remember Toxik. The US thrash metal band released two brilliant records in the end of the 80's. Their debut "World circus" and the following "Think this" record have been milestones in the history of progressive thrash metal. Eventhough...

(6/10) “Season of the witch” is the title of the tenth Stormwitch album. After eleven years the iconic band from Southern Germany has recorded eleven new songs which will be released in these days. Since the band comes from my hometown Heidenheim, Germany,...

(8/10) The story of Satans Host started many years ago. The band begun in 1986 on initiative of guitarist Patrick Evil and Leviathan Thisiren. The last one mentioned is better known as Harry 'The Tyrant' Conklin; the voice of Titan Force and Jag Panzer....