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Tools for Discovery: Sex Machineguns Albums Ranked
Sex Machineguns was once one of the most popular rock bands in Japan, selling out massive venues with eight top 20 singles and five more reaching the top 40 of the Oricon charts. Five of their albums made the top 10. Quite impressive for a band this aggressive. While there…
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Interview Ulrich Rode (BAP, murks.): Musical Empathy
BAP is about to embark on a tour to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Although guitarist Ulrich Rode did not join the pioneers of Kölschrock – or rock music in the Cologne dialect – until 2014, his versatile guitar playing and compositions has become an indispensable part of the band’s sound.…
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Album of the Week 41-2026: Forbidden – Forbidden
Since Forbidden’s second split about a decade and a half ago, guitarist Craig Locicero has always been very vocal about not wanting to revive the band without singer Russ Anderson. Hearing Imagika’s Norman Skinner perform with Bay Area Interthrasional changed his mind, and that is a great thing, because that…
Latest Interviews
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Interview Ulrich Rode (BAP, murks.): Musical Empathy
BAP is about to embark on a tour to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Although guitarist Ulrich Rode did not join the pioneers of Kölschrock – or rock music in the Cologne dialect – until 2014, his versatile guitar playing and compositions has become an indispensable part of the band’s sound.…
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Interview Didier ‘Dog’ Bouchard (ADX): “We Have Toughened Up”
Over four decades after their debut album ‘Exécution’, ADX are still going strong, releasing some of their finest work to date in the last ten years or so. That includes their brand new album ‘13ème Choc’, which serves as evidence that the French heavy metal pioneers have lost nothing of…
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Interview John Norum (Europe): “I Have Calmed Down Quite a Bit”
‘Come This Madness’ is the first Europe album in nine years, ending the longest studio album drought since the band reunited in the early 2000s. Guitarist John Norum shares his experiences recording the album and talks about his equipment, including amplifiers that used to belong to Gary Moore and Scorpions…
Latest Reviews
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Album of the Week 41-2026: Forbidden – Forbidden
Since Forbidden’s second split about a decade and a half ago, guitarist Craig Locicero has always been very vocal about not wanting to revive the band without singer Russ Anderson. Hearing Imagika’s Norman Skinner perform with Bay Area Interthrasional changed his mind, and that is a great thing, because that…
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Album of the Week 40-2026: Insomnium – Netherworlds
It doesn’t happen very often that band with a sound as instantly recognizable as Insomnium manages to surprise me whilst sounding like no one but themselves. ‘Netherworlds’ features a similar surprisingly dreamy melodic death metal sound with subtle Scandinavian folk touches as their other albums, though with maybe less space…
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Album of the Week 39-2026: ADX – 13ème Choc
How many bands that have been around for over forty years can say that they are releasing their best material these days? The last three original ADX studio albums have been every bit as good as their classic material, and they somehow manage to maintain their classic heavy/speed metal sound…