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Yngwie Malmsteen may very well be the Buddy Rich of heavy metal guitar. In the jazz world, Rich was as famous (or infamous) for…
After going a more traditional rock & roll route on his last album, 2009′s United States (which featured singer Freddie Nelson), Paul Gilbert gets…
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Immediately following the death of Ozzy Osbourne’s dear friend and collaborator Randy Rhoads, tentative plans for a live recording from the Rhoads tours…
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Ozzy Osbourne finds a permanent replacement for Randy Rhoads in Jake E. Lee, a more standard metal guitarist without Rhoads’ neo-classical…
Ah, Dark Moor. I’ve enjoyed the vast majority of this band’s discography over the years, even their post-Elisa Martin albums which are a sore spot for some…
Van Canto’s gimmick can be summed up in one sentence: they perform a cappella power metal. These Germans have five vocalist…
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Ozzy Osbourne’s tenth studio album was originally called Soul Sucka before fans shut the working title down. The resulting Scream may not win any awards for brain cell…
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When a band hires the great British horror icon Christopher Lee to provide spoken narration on some of its albums, you know that the band takes its fantasy seriously.
