Tagged: Heavy Metal

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Dark Lord – 1988 – It’s Nigh’ Time

I often make a point out of listening and view stuff that I know nothing about. I come over som gems from time to time. Most often it’s quite forgettable stuff though. In the case of Dark Lord, it’s a band that I never heard of before. I can’t remember where I found it but it came to be in my possession. At the beginning I started out by really liking the record. Why it’s...

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Megadeth – Dystopia – 2016

Megadeth has been pretty uneven over the years. In earlier years they performed fast thrash metal but in recent years they have slowed down quite a bit. Personally, I like both styles depending on my mood. The important thing is that the riffs are good and that the melodies are nice. Megadeth seems to manage this pretty well over the years. I don’t feel like Dave Mustaine has sold his soul to commercialism as some...

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Accept – Blood of the Nations – 2010

There are some epithets that have stayed with Accept for (almost) all years of the band’s active history. At least that was the case when I first wrote this text some years ago. Back then Blood of the Nations was new and it was almost unimaginable that anyone could take over the charismatic vocal duties from Udo Dirkschneider. But that was then. Today Mark Tornillo is the obvious singer of the band and I wouldn’t...

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King Diamond – The Graveyard – 1996

My relationship with King Diamond is kinda ambivalent. I most often like the ideas behind the albums and I like the background music. I often have a problem with the vocals though, which is more or less the calling card of King Diamond. He has a gimmick of using falsetto, the Graveyard album is not an exception. Well, if you have a problem with that singing technique you have… well… a problem. King Diamong doesn’t...

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