Germany’s Ahab warned fans to prepare for imminent musical growth as they neared the release of third album, The…
Ahab – The Giant (2012)
Dawn of Destiny – Praying to the World (2012)
Praying to the World is the fourth album released by German band Dawn of Destiny The album…
At Vance – Facing Your Enemy (2012)
Each year evidence mounts that, should the world indeed suffer a final and devastating apocalypse, only…
Running Wild – Shadowmaker (2012)
Shadowmaker is the 14th record by German heavy metal band Running Wild, a comeback album released…
Mekong Delta – Intersections (2012)
Intersections is the tenth album from progressive/thrash metal band Mekong Delta, released in April…
Exumer – Fire & Damnation (2012)
Fire & Damnation is the third studio album by the German thrash metal band Exumer. It was released twenty-five…
Axel Rudi Pell – Circle of the Oath (2012)
Circle of The Oath is the fifteenth studio album by German metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell, and was released in 2012 on Steamhammer/SPV records. The…
Obscura – Illegimitation (2012)
Illegimitation is a compilation album released by German Technical Death Metal band Obscura. It was independently released by…
Rage – Strings to a Web (2010)
Like a tree falling in a forest, Rage are one of those incredibly prolific bands that carries on releasing record after record after record, whether anyone’s there to hear them fall…
Rage – 21 (2012)
As its title suggests, 21 is the 21st studio album by German heavy metal veterans Rage. Revolving around topics such as mass murder, suicide, and serial killers, the songs are…
Freedom Call – Legend of the Shadowking (2010)
Having a European address is by no means mandatory if one wants to be part of a power metal revival band, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. And being from Germany — a country boasting a…
Freedom Call – Live in Hellvetia (2011)
It isn’t hard to understand why young headbangers who aren’t old enough to remember the ’70s/’80s heyday of power metal are drawn to Freedom Call’s live shows. On-stage, Freedom…
Freedom Call – Land of the Crimson Dawn (2012)
Land of the Crimson Dawn is the seventh full-length album by the German power metal band Freedom Call. It…
Xandria – Neverworld’s End (2012)
Five years after the release of their last album, 2007′s Salomé: The Seventh Veil, German symphonic metal band Xandria return with their fifth effort, Neverworld’s End, recorded…
Caliban – I Am Nemesis (2012)
I Am Nemesis is the 8th full-length album by the German metalcore band Caliban, which was released on February…
Gamma Ray – Skeletons & Majesties (2011)
In 2003, the men behind German power metal royalty Gamma Ray rewarded their most loyal fans with a double-live album named Skeletons in the Closet, collecting seldom-played cuts,,,
Scorpions – Comeblack (2011)
Released while Scorpions were still on their farewell world tour, Comeblack features the iconic German rockers delivering…
Obscura – Retribution (2010)
Technical metal for the sake of being technical? That certainly could be a fitting summary of Germany’s fleet-fingered metal act Obscura, who forgo anything…
Primal Fear – Unbreakable (2012)
Unbreakable is the ninth studio album by the German heavy metal band Primal Fear. The album was released on 20 January 2012 in Europe,[1] and 24 January in Nort…
Brainstorm – On the Spur of the Moment (2011)
Whatever its title may suggest, there’s nothing about Germanic heavy metal band Brainstorm that would imply…
Dark Suns – Orange (2011)
Orange is the fourth studio album by the German progressive metal band, Dark Suns. This album largely abandons the…
Van Canto – Break the Silence (2011)
The popularity of near a cappella group Van Canto is growing with their fourth album, Break the Silence, as indicated by the fact that the album debuted…
U.D.O. – Rev-Raptor (2011)
If younger listeners aren’t supposed to like the music that their parents listened to, that “fact” is lost on all the younger headbangers…
Sodom – In War and Pieces (2010)
The 13th album by German thrash/death metal institution Sodom deviates not a bit from the pattern established over its dozen…