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(8/10) There are some records that you listen to for the first time and you're caught by their sound. "The Sheltering Day" from Dead Soul is such a longplayer. In case you haven't from the band earlier, it is a musical collaboration of Anders Landelius...

(6/10) Heavy Metal and Japan is for me: Loudness. Those guys left more than a footprint in metal coming from the land of the rising sun. But that was decades ago and the next generation took over. If the result is what you like is something you have to...

(9/10) Molok is the biblical demon in whose jaws children were sactificed. Molok is the name of a machine that can predict the future, based on a rational relation of action and reaction in the past. "Molok" is also the title of Gazpacho's new studio...

(8/10) A few months after having published their debut Deadheads are around with "Loadead". The second album picks it up where "This is Deadheads First Album" stops. Ten new songs will be a serious option for your next party. Ten new songs that are kicking...

(9/10) Wohoo. Where do those guys all of a sudden come from? The trio is from Landstuhl in Germany and they are playing in the current line-up since end of December last year. Lord Vigo wasn't on my list and I obviously missed their demo EP a few month...

(9/10) Avatarium is finally releasing their long awaited second album. I must say that I was very curious. How will it sound? Can the guys from Stockholm, Sweden live up to the expctations that tremendously raised after the debut and the EP? Is the melancholic...

(8/10) Finland is a country that brought quite some successful bands up to surface. But also the underground is alive in the country of the thousand lakes. Crimson Day is a new band. It might be the case that you haven't heard about the five guys from...

(8/10) Almost two years after the pretty good "Retribution" Zoltan Farkas invites to a new 'jump party'. The groove metal institution didn't only face the glorious side of rock'n'roll. Ektomorf was often described as a copycat of esp. Soulfly but the...

(8/10) It's again High Roller the revealed another pearl of traditional heavy metal. And as RAM and Enforcer the guys are from Sweden. They named themselfs Ambush and the guys fire with all their guns. Oskar Jacobsson (v), Adam Hagelin (g), Olof Enqvist...

(7/10) Swedish singer Martina Edoff began her career as singer in a genre outside of rock music. She was recording and touring with pop multiseller Dr. Alban before she found her way into rock. After being absent from the scene for a few years Edoff returns...

(7/10) Vinnie Moore belongs to the golden generation of shred guitarists from the eighties. The first time I heard the sixstringer was on Vicious Rumors' "Soldiers of the Night" which he enriched with is guitar play. But very soon Moore started to release...

(9/10) Wow. In which fontaine of youth felt those guys? It seems that the British megasellers of Def Leppard found back to their own roots. But let's take it step by step. I haven't expected a lot of Def Leppard. I grew up with "Pyromania" which was one...

(8/10) One of the death metal dinosaurs, Grave, is back with a new longplayer called "Out of Respect for the Dead". As you know, Grave is the brainchild of Ola Lindgren and it's the Swedish guitarist that's the only remaining member who is with the band...

(8/10) Tesseract is a four-dimensional analog of a cube. Sounds comlicated. I guess it is, but I also think that it describes the music of UK-based TesseracT pretty good. The British prog rockers started not too far back in time. It was in 2007 when the...