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War Eternal Arch Ememyäs ninth studio Album. It’s a bit amusing when bands have female growlers. Arch Enemy, in this case, has a new addition to the album as well. Alissa White-Gluz is new to the band, taking over the vocal role. Admittedly, I’m not a big fan of this vocal technique, but one must commend the uniqueness in itself. You can’t hear at all that it’s a woman. I didn’t expect that! Musically, it’s...
Take a Bite is Girlschools seventh studio album. The cover art is hideous, to say the least. I’m sure there are people out there who love it though. We all have differences in tests, both in painted art and music. The cover art usually seems percisted though and I can’t find that in the Girlschool discography. It’s all over the place artwork-wise. But the music, Oj, the music! Take a Bite is pure rock and...
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...
Circle of Stone is a 2024 album by British singer Blaze Bailey. Undoubtedly, he’s mostly known because he took over the singing duties in Iron Maiden while Bruce Dickinson was away doing solo stuff. He’s a good singer, not the best in the world but he does what he does good! I had totally missed this album. I saw a comparison on Facebook of what people thought about Circle of Stone compared to Bruce Dickinson’s...
Invincible Shield is the nineteenth studio album by British Heavy Metal band Judas Priest. And you know, when Judas Priest releases a new album, it’s a big deal. It’s huge news! Especially these days when most of the classic members aren’t even in the band anymore. I guess that depends on how you look at it though. This lineup has been the reality for so long that it might be considered the classic lineup nowadays....
The Mandrake Project is the seventh solo album by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson. It has been all over social media for several months now. Or so it seems. And I guess it’s as much anticipated as Mick Mars’s solo album The Other Side of Mars. I haven’t really thought anything about the project so far. It seems like a publicity stunt to release a long-awaited solo album at this time. But of course, I...
The Other Side of Mars might be one of the most anticipated albums in a long time. We have all followed the feud between Mick Mars and his former bandmates in Mötley Crüe. I’m not sure if I got all the latest and greatest details in the story. Apparently, he quit touring with the band due to health issues. I’m pretty impressed he managed to keep going for so long with his ankylosing spondylitis –...
Tuba Mirum is an EP from the German band Neopera. I guess the band name is a play with words really. There’s the word neo in there, meaning modern or new. There’s also the word Opera in there and both words combined become just what the music sounds like. It’s gothic or symphonic metal with both death growls and soprano voices. It’s not that unusual anymore and we have words to describe it these days....
The album art of Breaker is both kinda funny and immensely childish. I love the humor of it but I also hate the stupidity of it. I guess it was made that way to rebel against something. Hardrock- and Heavy Metal music were not really mainstream and I guess that Accept what to show that their music wasn’t for everybody. Maybe it’s even a comment to some critics who might have complained about Ud0 Dirkshneider’s...
I’m a Rebel was an album that I when I was in my teens, thought was quite an old Accept album. Of course, as it came out when I was 10 years old, it was kinda old when I was 15 or 16. But it wasn’t so much the age of the album that was the issue I think. It was more the punkish attitude on the title song of the album. I love it,...
Fans of Annihilator are aware that Jeff Waters typically comments on either individual songs or the albums somewhere in the liner notes. Criteria for Black Widow is no exception, and one can read that he recently went through a personal family crisis. The details might not be of interest, but it’s evident that he has gone through it is reflected in the lyrics. There is, how should I say, considerably less aggression and more hatred...
For those familiar with Canadian Annihilator’s earlier albums, the sound on Refresh the Demon won’t come as a surprise. Most elements are recognizable but still relatively fresh, and Jeff Waters manages to be innovative with the guitars once again. Already during the intro of the first song – the title track Refresh the Demon, you get a taste of originality, nothing extraordinary, just a guitar panning in stereo, but it works excellently as an atmospheric...
