When a band has a particular skill set that places them ahead of the pack, matched with a distinct sound all their own, that band has few hard-earned kinks in their armor. A great example of this caliber of an act is England's Power Metal...
Winter is coming, and Sonata Arctica is bringing it along sooner than expected! How so? With their brand new album Talviyö set for release on Friday, September 6th through Nuclear Blast Records.Finnish for winter night, Talviyö marks the tenth overall studio album from the Power Metal...
One of the enduring torchbearers of what is known as Power Metal, HammerFall are set to return with their new album, Dominion, on Friday, August 16th through Napalm Records.Out of Gothenburg, Sweden, the relentless band has unleashed eleven studio albums since forming in 1993 -...
Following the release of their full-length album, Conqueror's Oath, last year, Visigoth return with a new 2 track 7” release on Friday, May 24th, entitled Bells of Awakening, through Metal Blade Records. Looking back at the band's history, they came together back in Salt Lake City,...
After three years of touring, EPs, and splits, Texas Doom quartet Doomstress are set to release Sleep Among the Dead, their first full-length, on Friday, May 10th through Ripple Music.The brainchild of Vocalist/Bassist Alexis Hollada, known throughout Heavy Metal circles as Doomstress Alexis, this...
Loud, dangerous, and outright nasty. These words best describe Finland's Metal assailants known globally as Children Of Bodom. A rabid mix of convulsing sounds, whether we label the style of the band as Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal, or Thrash, the fact remains that Children...
On the infamous track "Night Crawler," off 1990's Painkiller, the great Judas Priest sang: "Beware the Beast In Black." Truer words may have never been spoken, as Finland's newest Power Metal sensation, Beast In Black, christened their thunderous band after this demonic figure.Showcasing influences ranging...
Out of Switzerland, the ladies of Burning Witches arrived to scorch the Metal scene two short years ago, and now return Friday, November 9, 2018 with their latest album, Hexenhammer.A quick follow-up to the 2017 self-titled debut LP, and first since joining Nuclear Blast Records earlier...
When tragedy strikes, sometimes it seems like all hope is lost. Especially the case when a thriving musician, Warrel Dane, suddenly passed away in the midst of creating his next masterpiece back in December of 2017, it seemed as if the recordings may never see...
Finnish lyric soprano Heidi Parviainen may be just out of the first decade of her musical career, but her résumé reads with enough work to fill twice that amount of time. After entering the Metal scene with Finnish artist troupe Amberian Dawn, she recorded four strong...
