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Avenge the Fallen is the gazillionth album from Swedish Power Metal Band Hammerfall. Not really, of course, I think it’s their thirteenth album actually. You recognize yourself right away which is both a strength and a weakness. On the one hand, you know what you get, but on the other hand, knowing what you get is a little bit boring. And with a bond like Hammerfall, who I place somewhere between mockery of the Power...
Warp Speed Warriors is the ninth studio album by the Power Metal band Dragonforce. The title itself fits perfectly. Dragonforce has always delivered fast Power Metal and I have usually liked it. At least to a point. But there’s also a limit to it. Just playing fast for the sake of it is usually not a good thing. When the notes start to create a blur instead of individual notes you have a problem. I...
Judgement Day is an album by the Japanese, all-female band Lovebites. It’s hard and heavy and FAST! The melodies are nice and all the member are known only by their first names. Or if it’s their last names. I must admit that I cannot tell if Faimi, Haruna, Midori, Miyako, and Asami are first or last names. But it doesn’t really matter. There are many bands out there who use stage names anyway. The songs...
A Voice Unheard is another album I wouldn’t have heard if it wasn’t for a commercial campaign on social media. The band Tomorrow’s Outlook claims they’re from northern Norway. It’s kind of refreshing hearing this kind of Metal from Normay. Maybe I’m narrowminded but I associated Norwegian Metal first and foremost with the dark Black Metal Scene. Tomorrow’s Outlook is certainly not Black Metal. They have pretty catchy tunes and it’s hard to really put...
Path of Destruction is the full-length sophomore album from 2020 by Canadian Metal band Warning Sign. I think it’s a wonderful name for a band and I this the album title is a really cool title too. It sounds so Armageddon-ish. And it somehow gathers the essence of what this type of metal is all about. In one way or another at least. When I looked up Warning Sign and did some research I found...
Once in a while, you can actually see on the album cover what kind of music it is. Code Red by Primal Fear is such an album. At least in part. I mean, you can certainly tell that it’s some kind of Heavy/Power Metal. Now, Power Metel is usually pretty fast played with raging guitar runs and superfast scales. But every band cannot be Dragonforce or Statovarious. With that said. Primal Fear, is not superfast,...
Kardinal Sin is a Swedish Power/Heavy Metal band and their latest album, S.A.L.I.G.I.A., is the first I hear with them. At least the first that I can remember or is conscious of hearing. You get to hear just about what you expect from the genre, noting more and nothing less. It tends to get a bit boring after a few songs and it’s quite monotone in the song structure and sound for me. There are...
There’s really nothing else to do but confess. I don’t follow bands and album releases in the same the way I used to in my youth. Battle Beast and therefore Circus of Doom has completely passed me by. But I did a quick google search and Battle Beast is a band from Finland. They have been around since 2005 and Circus of Doom is their sixth studio album. The signature sound of Power Metal is...
I know that I said it before, but to explore unknown territories is the most rewarding chore of reviewing. You get to hear and see so many things that you wouldn’t have if you didn’t search for new and “other” stuff that you already know about. I can’t remember where I heard about Ancient Bards but I figured, based on the band name and the album title – A New Dawn Ending, that this would...
Arturius is a Swedish power metal band from Gothenburg. I don’t know why so many heavy metal band originates from that city but it’s a fact. There are many bands coming from Gothenburg. I can’t say that they have much in common. Of course they are all metal band (at least those that I refer to) but apart from that I don’t see any similarities. My heart beats extra fast for metal music so I...
I have listened enough to this album now. With that I mean that I have had in in my earphones etc. for quite some time by now. Not that I’m tired of it yet, I’m not! It’s a great and interesting album. But I feel I should move on and explore something else for a while. But that’s how it is sometimes. You get stock with some music and you can’t really lay it down....
Back in the old days. The days when there was still a heavy metal radio show in Sweden. I remember that Grave Digger was played on that show. Yes, since Sweden is a very small country there was only on such radio show. Once a week they played metal at a great broadcasting time. I used to tape them just to expand my library of metal music. Those days are gone now of course. These...
