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Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, … Continued
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In … Continued
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Omnivium is the third studio album released by German death metal band Obscura. The album was recorded at Woodshed Studio in southern, Germany…
You can go ahead and count them: that’s exactly 14 long-necks poking out of the celebratory case of beer adorning…
The 13th album by German thrash/death metal institution Sodom deviates not a bit from the pattern established over its dozen…
German black/folk metallers Equilibrium have so far provided us with two rather enjoyable, if not very original albums, 2005′s Turis Fratyr and…
Heaven Shall Burn fans know what to expect by now — Germany’s premier metalcore band has been bringing…
German thrash group Dew-Scented are coming up on their 20th anniversary, having formed in 1992. They…
German multi-instrumentalist Markus Tümmers makes lightly blackened folk-metal under the name Falkenbach; on some of his early records, it was a one-man…
What a difference three years and a new vocalist make. German-Swiss band the Ocean has had nearly 40 members since songwriter/guitarist…
As befits their namesake, the Ocean think big. This album is the second half of a two-disc set; the first half, Heliocentric, was released at the…
Destruction were the most traditionalist of the big three German thrash bands: where Sodom and Kreator headed in a punkier…
One does an aural double take upon hearing the opening bars of “Raised on Rock,” the first track from the Scorpions Sting…
Set Sail to Mystery is the fourth album of German Gothic Metal band The Vision Bleak. It was released in April, 2010 in Europe, and…
In rock, the bandleader / musician / composer who doesn’t sing at all but records under his/her own name is a rarity. That has long been…
A couple of years after The Scarecrow shook things up, Tobi is back with not one, but two new albums of brand new material featuring the…
Gamma Ray, formed by Kai Hansen, formerly of Helloween, in 1989, have become something of a power metal institution at this point. Far from the pomp…
Over the years, metal has demonstrated that it can be quite flexible, incorporating everything from punk (thrash metal, death metal, black metal) to hip-hop (rap-metal) to…
Van Canto’s gimmick can be summed up in one sentence: they perform a cappella power metal. These Germans have five vocalist…
The last time there was a new studio album from German headbangers Accept, it was 1996, and heavy metal was quite possibly at an all-time low — completely…
Helloween have always shown an interest in numerology, or at least the number seven, specifically, which they’ve incorporated in no less…
Power metal will probably never regain the level of visibility it enjoyed during the ’80s heyday of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, but there is still plenty of power metal being recorded…
