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Moody metal from Sonata Arctica

Friday, February 8, 2008

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Sonata Arctica is one of the most loved bands of the genre and in Europe they have already appealed to the masses with their talented and very skillful playing. When they needed a keyboardist back in 2002, they received applications from many of Europe’s finest, and since they were aware of the competition, they decided [...]

Wednesday smilejerker: the epic sequel to the 101 rules of power metal

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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Hope you enjoyed last week’s article, and you find this to be just as epic (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, read and you’ll find out); this comes from metalstorm.ee too. So without further ado, here it is: 1. Denim and leather went out with Saxon. Silk and steel is the new thing. 2. If [...]

Wednesday smilejerker: 101 rules of power metal

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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Now before you venture on to read this there is a thing you should know; I listen to a lot of power metal and pretty much every kind of *cough*true*cough* good metal there is.Yes and I spend some time with www.metalstorm.ee; that’s where I found this list which is just delicious, provided you know what [...]

Helloween: ‘Gambling With The Devil’

Thursday, October 25, 2007

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Artist name: Helloween Album name: Gambling With The Devil Label: SPV Records Gender: Power Metal/Heavy metal Release date: October 23, 2007 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: http://www.helloween.org Their gamble is the fact that thay are not adventuring from what they are able to play. They made it big in 80s with what were to be classic metal tracks. By doing that they are one [...]

Iced Earth: ‘Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1′

Thursday, September 20, 2007

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Artist name: Iced Earth Album name: Framing Armageddon: Sometheing Wicked I Gender: Power Meta Label: SPV Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.icedearth.com/ There are some metal bands which like to wallow in their misery, some which like to party hard, and some which refuse categoricaly to indulge in any of the aforementioned well-traveled roads. Iced Earth is that [...]

HELLISH ROCK 2007/2008 set for mid-november

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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German Power Metal legends [tag]Helloween[/tag] are set to embark in a all out “hellish” rock tour, starting sometime in mid November and ending sometime in mid January. The tour, dubed “HELLISH ROCK 2007/2008″, is an all European tour in which the band will tour much of the continent, from London to Bremen to Bucharest etc., [...]

Ghost Opera [Bonus Track] [Bonus DVD] by Kamelot review

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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Until about ten years ago, metal meant just hardcore instrumental and fast guitar playing. Mostly, it is the same today, but some changes in the genre delivered albums which in the early ’90s would just not be possible. A thing which probably nobody could have predicted is for a band to merge heavy metal with a [...]