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New Music Reviews, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, AOR, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal
02.03.13
- Ogre: The Last Neanderthal
- Kirk: Masquerade
- Miracle Master: Tattooed Woman
- Freedom Call: Beyond
- Birth Of Joy: Prisoner
- Battleaxe: Heavy Metal Sanctuary
- Vanishing Point: Distant Is The Sun
23.02.13
- Sparta: Welcome To Hell
- Lothloryen: Some Ways Back Some More
- EZ Livin': Firestorm
- Various Artists: A Pysch Tribute to The Doors
- Azoria: Seasons Change
- Shadowdance: Future Negative Fantasy
- Dinner Music For The Gods: Beautiful and Treacherous
- Fallen Order: The Age of Kings (EP)
16.02.13
- Heavy Justice: Apocalyze
- House of Lords: Precious Metal
- W.E.T.: One Live In Stockholm
- Cooper, Alice: Billion Dollar Babies Limited, Numbered Edition SACD
- Vanden Plas: Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals - Netherworld - Path 1
- Ancillotti: The Chain Goes On
- Overland: Epic
- Metal Inquisitor: Ultima Ratio Regis
- Darkyra Black: Dragon Tears
09.02.13
- Bastardogs: No Pain No Gain
- Reese: Under The Carpet (EP)
- Seventrain: Seventrain
- Dark Forest: The Awakening
- Thoughts Factory: Lost
- Salvacion: God, Gold and Glory
- Leviathan: Beholden To Nothing, Braver Since Then
- Battle Beast: Battle Beast
- Appearance Of Nothing: A New Beginning
02.02.13
- XNA: When We Changed You
- Huis: Desptie Guardian Angels
- Sky Architect: A Billion Years of Solitude
- Suncrown: You're Not Alone
- Catalano: Into The Darkness
- Love Cream: First Taste
- Hawkwind: Space Hawks
26.01.13
- Transatlantic: Kaleidoscope
- Brand X: Missing Period
- Brand X: Live at the Roxy LA
- Brand X: Is There Anything About
- Van Canto: Dawn of the Brave
19.01.13
- Within Temptation: Hydra
- Leatherwolf: Unchained Live
- Grand Magus: Triumph and Power
- Stormwarrior: Thunder and Steele
- Ring Of Fire: Battle of Leningrad
- Red Dragon Cartel (Jake E. Lee): Red Dragon Cartel
- Primal Fear: Delivering The Black
- Love Under Cover: Into The Night
12.01.13
- Silent Force: Rising From The Ashes
- Nashville Pussy: Up The Dosage
- Crystal Viper: Possession
- Beautiful Beast, Julian Angel's: Kick Down the Barricades
- Astral Domine: Arcanium Gloriae
- Vital Science: Imaginations on the Subject of Infinity
- Stamina: Perseverance
- Pleonexia: Break All Chains
- Chrome Division: Infernal Rock Eternal
05.01.13
- Majesty of Revival: Iron Gods
- Persuader: The Fiction Maze
- Pell, Alex Rudi: Into The Storm
- Jack The Frost: Fool To Be Cool EP
- Cullooden: Silent Scream
- Vintage Caravan, The: Voyage
- Pretty Wild: Pretty Wild
- Mindfeeder: Endless Storm
12.22.13
- Des Barres, Michael: Hot N Sticky Live
- Flash: In Public
- Garghentini, Giulio: Believe
- REO Speedwagon: Live at Moondance Jam DVD/CD
12.15.13
- Tungsten: The Reservoir
- Henderson, Matte: The Veneer of Logic
- Jupiter Falls: Revolution
- Mad Architect: Journey to Madness
- Stud: Out of the Darkness
- Oceanborn: Hidden From The World
12.08.13
- Hockridge, Murray & Dave Kilminster: Closer to Earth
- Birds and Buildings: Multipurpose Trap
- Bluerose: Darkness and Light
- Seventh Veil: White Trash Attitude
- Saturday Overdose: Eat My Dust (EP)
- Veilside: Meanwhile ... (EP)
- Reckless In Vegas: The Hard Way
- Lorina, Dario: Dario Lorina
12.01.13
- Chastain: Surrender To No One
- Deliverance: Hear What I Say
- Salem: Forgotten Dreams
- Rustfield: Kingdom of Rust
- Boston: Life, Love & Hope
- Bloodgood: Dangerously Close
- Rhapsody Of Fire: Dark Wings of Steel
- Starsoup: Bazaar of Wonders
11.25.13
- Galysh, Adrian: Tone Poet
- Human Fortress: Raided Land
- Dragonhammer: The X Experiment
- Silent Voices: Reveal The Change
- Armory: Empyrean Realms
- Crystal Ball: Dawnbreaker
- Switchblade: Heavy Weapons
- Lunar Explosion: Lunar Explosion
- Almah: Unfold
- Big Guns: Down But Not Out
- Aeon Zen: Self Portrait (EP)
February 2014
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*Note: 23.02.2014 had over 64,000 visitors, therefore skewing February's figures.
Sonata Arctica: Pariah's Child
Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
4.5/5.0
As of late, at least with their previous album, and the current Pariah's Child, Finland's Sonata Arctica has been throwing their faithful some musical curve balls ... [ Read More ]
Linda and The Punch: Obsession
Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
4.0/5.0
Linda and The Punch are a young English band with a firm foot in modern rock music with an ear tuned to the long tradition of AOR melodic rock. Linda has a strong ... [ Read More ]
Primeval Realm: Primordial Light
Heavy/Doom Metal
3.5/5.0
It's curious: Primeval Realm creator Joe Potash wanted to form a band where he was the only guitarist, and thought doom metal was his best choice. It makes ... [ Read More ]
Million Dollar Fix: Psychedelephant EP
Heavy Rock
3.5/5.0
Million Dollar Fix could be the proverbial elephant in the room, pushing every other band off the stage at their chosen venue. This Calgary Canada band ... [ Read More ]
Armageddon: Sundown On Humanity
Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
4.0/5.0
According to press material, Armageddon is oldest active metal band from the island of Cyprus, operating since 1984. Curiously, but not all that strange, in 30 years ... [ Read More ]
Ogre: The Last Neanderthal
Heavy/Stoner/Psych/Doom Rock/Metal
3.5/5.0
I find it perplexing at the very least. How does an obscure band from a small American city playing music from a basically underground and largely ignored ... [ Read More ]
Kirk: Masquerade
Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
5.0/5.0
We haven't heard from Switzerland's Kirk in better than a decade. After a successful debut album in 2003 and some touring, the band took a hiatus after their ... [ Read More ]
Miracle Master: Tattooed Woman
Melodic Hard Rock/Metal
4.0/5.0
Fans of German hard and heavy rockers Pump will recognize Miracle Master: it's Pump with new vocalist Oliver Weers (Oliver Weers Band, Ripe, D.I.M.) It appears founding ... [ Read More ]
Freedom Call: Beyond
Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
4.0/5.0
Vocalist and guitarist Chris Bay calls Freedom Call 'the happiest metal band in the world.' I guess that rules them out being a black metal band ... [ Read More ]
Birth Of Joy: Prisoner
Heavy/Psychedelic Rock
4.0/5.0
Warping back in time once more to the psychedelic Sixties is Dutch rockers Birth Of Joy with Prisoner, their fourth long player. They band steals some ... [ Read More ]
Battleaxe: Heavy Metal Sanctuary
Heavy Metal (NWoBHM)
4.0/5.0
England's Battleaxe history dates to the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the early Eighties. They have the distinction of being one of the first bands ... [ Read More ]
Vanishing Point: Distant Is The Sun
Melodic/Progressive/Power Metal
5.0/5.0
To think Aussie band Vanishing Point had disappeared, vanished into thin air as were. Actually, they were likely laying low in the Australia outback conjuring ... [ Read More ]
Sparta: Welcome To Hell
Heavy Metal (NWoBHM)
4.5/5.0
There's more than a few bands in every genre and period that never quite got the attention or had the success of lucky peers. England's Sparta is another one who arrived ... [ Read More ]
Lothloryen: Some Ways Back Some More
Melodic/Folk/Power Metal
4.0/5.0
Thanks to J.R.R. Tolkien and many other fantasy fiction writers, metal bands have had plenty of inspiration for their lyrics and music. Here's another band, Lothloryen ... [ Read More ]
EZ Livin': Firestorm
(Melodic) Hard Rock/Metal
3.5/5.0
The origins of EZ Livin' date back to 1991, when Bonfire guitarist Hans Ziller formed the band and had a one-off debut album, After The Fire. Better than 20 years later ... [ Read More ]
Various Artists: A Pysch Tribute to The Doors
Pyschedelic/Stoner Rock
2.5/5.0
My first question was simple. Why? Why this pyschedelic rock tribute to The Doors? Oh yeah, with Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and others, they're the ... [ Read More ]
Azoria: Seasons Change
Melodic Hard Rock/Metal
3.5/5.0
One of the great things about the music business is that, if things aren't going well with your band or career, you can always reinvent yourself. Such is the ... [ Read More ]
Shadowdance: Future Negative Fantasy
Heavy/Power Metal
3.0/5.0
Excepting an EP in 2003 Shadowdance has been basically under the radar for almost 10 year. Now they return with their second album, Future Negative Fantasy ... [ Read More ]
Dinner Music For The Gods: Beautiful and Treacherous
(Instrumental) Metal Fusion
5.0/5.0
Hidden in the midst of the lights and glitter of Sin City is Dinner Music For The Gods, a four piece instrumental ... [ Read More ]
Fallen Order: The Age of Kings (EP)
Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal (NWoBHM)
3.5/5.0
From the land where Peter Jackson filmed the Lord of the Rings trilogy comes traditional metallers Fallen Order with their debut EP, The Age of Kings ... [ Read More ]
We haven't heard from Switzerland's Kirk in better than a decade. After a successful debut album in 2003 and some touring, the band took a hiatus after their original drummer took ill. The other members ... [ Read More ]
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