Back in January of this year Finland's Sonata Arctica released the first part of their two-piece Acoustic Adventures project. A delightful collection of many obvious, but also some more obscure catalog selections, Acoustic Adventures - Volume One was nothing less than exhilarating. So now, more than one year later...
Germany is home to a very globally dominating music scene...
It has been three years since fans last heard new music from Swedish Power Metal force Sabaton. Last offering fans the World War I concept album The Great War back in 2019, it was another chart topping record for the band, and truthfully, a pretty hard...
When you think of the top tier of European Power Metal bands Nightwish (Finland), HammerFall (Sweden), and Helloween (Germany) are probably some which immediately come to mind. Well, right there with them, just as consistent and relevant over the last two plus decades are none...
Having formed back in 1981, Hamburg, Germany's beloved and accomplished veterans Helloween not only established itself as a Heavy Metal institution, the band arguably invented that special combination of Speed and Power Metal unique to themselves and a handful of other bands in the then...
Sometimes dreams do come true. For long-running German Metal institution Helloween, three separate vocalists representing each segment of the band’s storied career have manned the microphone, and each one occupies a place in the hearts of their legions of fans. To get all three of...
Out of the Great White North, the Power Metal quartet known as Unleash The Archers formed in Victoria, British Columbia way back in 2007. Lead by the awe inspiring four octave mezzo-soprano of Vocalist Brittney Slayes, Unleash The Archers put together a well oiled mix...
Twenty-two years and counting, the Power Metal veterans known as Primal Fear have been tearing up the globe since the late 1990s with a daunting array of piercing vocals and powerful melodies that can almost literally shake a concrete foundation. Even after all these years,...
It is hard for a band to reinvent themselves while still maintaining their signature sound. Usually, something has to give in order for that organic change to happen. Fortunately for fans of Swiss Thrash Metal band, Poltergeist, they not only have reinvented themselves, while keeping...
German masters of Melodic Heavy Metal, Beyond the Black are back with their brand new album Hørizøns, set for release Friday, June 19th through Napalm Records. Hørizøns marks the band's fourth overall LP and second following 2016's Heart of the Hurricane after Lead Vocalist Jennifer Haben...
