REQUIEM „Mask Of Damnation”
What's with the Finnish Bands and me? I have no idea! Most of bands I listen to and then I decide to review, it turns up to be “Finnish”… I love Finland anyway….
TWILIGHT „Born undivine”
TWILIGHT is a Spanish metal formation that tries to connect their bombastic, but never too full, epic power metal with folk music.
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CRIMSONFIRE „Crimsonfire”
Mostly before I review any band, I would love to get to know them, you know, like going to their official site, biography, discography… and that's what I use to do in all my reviews, but this band changed this rule.
EDGUY „Rocket Ride”
Cool Songs: Catch of the Century, Wasted Time, Rocket Ride, Fucking With Fire, Scarifice
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FAHRENHEIT „Uncharted Dreams”
Fahrenheit is descent band from Mexico. The first full-length album “Uncharted Dreams” -in my point of view- is one of the most startling albums I've heard in this genre “Power Metal”.
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BLACK SUN „Tyrant from a foreign land”
Offspring bands come from everywhere You already know that really good stuff comes from South America. A new hope in the power metal area are here BLACK SUN from Equador.
HELLOWEEN „Chameleon”
This can happen to everyone. After years of successes, comes the time, when things go not in the direction, we would like them to go.
PRIMAL FEAR „Seven Seals”
Cool Songs: Evil Spell, In Memory, Diabolus, Seven Seals, The Immortal Ones, Diabolus
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GAMMA RAY „Majestic”
First a comment on this promo: Its interesting to note the lengths that Record label go to in order to discourage MP3 ripping and burning of their product. Clearly there are the desperate few who hock promo copies on the net months before their official release, so any deterrent is worth putting in place.
NOCTURNAL RITES „Grand Illusion”
In the year of 2005 the Swedish power metalheads in NOCTURNAL RITES celebrate their 10th anniversary. For the party the two albums In a time of blood and fire (exhausted debut album of 1995) and Tales of mystery and imagination (from the year 1998) were released in a double CD called Lost in time The early years of Nocturnal Rites including interesting bonus tracks for example the acoustic title song In a time of blood and fire, furthermore with the in the year 2000 joined singer Jonny Lindqvist, who substitues their former singer Anders Zackrisson with his powerful voice.
CHINCHILLA „Take no prisoners”
Last year I had the pleasure to see a CHINCHILLA live show. I already new the guys by name, but I have never thought it could be real power metal! Somehow I lost the path to the band and although sometimes I read something about the Swabians in different metal magazines, I didn´t dare to listen to the CD.
STRATOVARIUS „Stratovarius”
Cool Songs: Maniac Dance, Fight!!!, Götterdämmerung (Zenith Of Power), Leave The Tribe
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SAVAGE CIRCUS „Dreamland Manor”
Cool Songs: Evil Eyes, Ghost Story, Born Again By The Night, When Hell Awakes, Tomorrowland, It – The Gathering
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ROSAE CRUSIS „Worms of the Earth”
Another power metal band with a message from a past time, one has to really admit Rosae Crusis has balls enough to create music for an album that has more of a movie theme atmosphere if anything. Talk about a blast from the 80s metal era, with high screaming tones to the flashy guitar workings of Andrea Magini for whom is accomplished enough axe player whom gives an added flair this group.
DEMONS AND WIZARDS „Touched By The Crimson King”
When vocal god Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) and guitarist/song writer John Schaffer (Iced Earth) teamed up some 5-6 years ago for their Demons & Wizards project, I was excited by the prospect of what would result from their collaboration. Needless to say, the self titled debut disc was nothing short of brilliant.
FORGOTTEN TALES „All The Sinners”
Forgotten Tales is a new symphonic power metal band from Canada and this is their second album. They had released The Promise back in 2001 and now it was time for All The Sinners.
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