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Vlad in Tears – Relapse (Album Review)

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The categorization of Gothic Metal is quite a broad one that can range all the way from the work of England’s Paradise Lost to Finland’s H.I.M.  Two vastly different entities, to simplify matters, let us just say – to most, Gothic Metal falls somewhere between ... Read More
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Lucifer – Lucifer V (Album Review)

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The road traveled by Rock-n-Roll bands is almost never straight and narrow. An interaction of varying personalities, some bands work, and others sever ties due to conflicts. Fortunately for Johanna Sadonis (now Johanna Platow Andersson after marrying Nicke Andersson) several now defunct musical projects were ... Read More

Interview – Terri Nunn of Berlin

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Beginning over forty years ago, California’s Berlin has enough compelling detail in their story to write a novel. One of the first bands in America to experiment with Synthpop styles during the early ’80s, their pioneering attitude would lead them to success with 1981’s “The ... Read More