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Vanishing Vision is the debut album om Japanese Metal act X Japan. At the time of the release they just called themselves X though. Apperaltny this was mean to be a tempoary name until something better came along but I guess the name stuck. At least partly. I have read up a bit about X Japan and they seem to have an “interesting” story to say the least. There is information about the breaking up...
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...
I’ve always found Jeff Waters’ guitar riffs innovative and fresh on all of Annihilator’s albums. Never Neverland is a huge development from Alice in Hell. This is where you truly notice that he doesn’t choose conventional paths and is eager to incorporate odd tones and tempo changes for effect! It’s not as straightforward Speed Metal as the debut, and it feels overall more thought-out. Coburn Pharr handles the vocals on Never Neverland, and he performs...
