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Tools for Discovery: Manigance Albums Ranked
Manigance may just be the best band the French metal scene ever brought forth. They play the kind of power/prog that was only properly made in the late nineties and early 2000’s. The kind of power metal that’s as close to progressive metal as it gets without actually being prog.…
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Interview StarForce: Putting the Dream Team Together
Very few bands play eighties-style speed metal with the energy and the conviction that Mexico’s young quintet StarForce does. After storming the scene with their already impressive 2022 debut EP ‘The Universe Is Mine’, the international release of their first full-length album ‘Beyond the Eternal Night’ introduces an even larger…
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Album of the Week 45-2025: Mägo de Oz – Malicia: La Noche de las Brujas
With a ten-piece line-up and a musical approach that just screams “let’s throw everything at the wall and see if it sticks”, Mägo de Oz may come across as sort of a traveling circus rather than a band. And, to be fair, ‘Malicia: La Noche de las Brujas’ is on…
Latest Interviews
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Interview Damna (Elvenking): “These Three Albums Are Special”
With the release of ‘Reader of the Runes – Luna’, Elvenking closes the book on the trilogy of concept albums that brought their folky power metal sound to a new level. Singer Damna looks back on how the songs and the concept took shape, and forward on how creating the…
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Interview DeWayne ‘Blackbyrd’ McKnight: The Possibilities of Music Not Experienced Before
Primarily known for his forty-plus-year stint with funk pioneers Parliament-Funkadelic, guitarist DeWayne ‘Blackbyrd’ McKnight is actually a fearless cross-genre pioneer, extensively experimenting with psychedelic rock, hard rock and jazz, playing with artists as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Warren Zevon, Macy Gray, Marc Anthony Thompson, Miles Davis and the…
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Interview Erja Lyytinen: A Message and Loud Guitar Solos
Known as Finland’s blues queen, as well as queen of the slide guitar, Erja Lyytinen’s recent releases have proven that she is so much more than that. Where 2022’s ‘Waiting for the Daylight’ was a showcase for her versatile songwriting and arranging skills, ‘Smell the Roses’ focuses on the energy…
Latest Reviews
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Album of the Week 02-2025: Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye
These are excellent times for those who enjoy Italian-styled progressive power metal of the highest order. Labÿrinth’s new album ‘In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye’ comes hot on the heels of the new album by guitarist Olaf Thörsen‘s other band Vision Divine, which was released in September. And it is…
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Album of the Week 01-2025: Saqqara – Harmadik Csapás
Saqqara was once brought to my attention when a promo of their second album ‘Második Csapás’ was included with an order from Hungary. It was promising enough, but since it is over five years old at this point, and there was only a year between their first two albums, I…
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Best of 2024: The Albums
In all honesty, I was not prepared for 2024 to be a year with such a great number of amazing new releases. In a way, it was great timing professionalizing the website halfway through a year with this release schedule, though it would be a blatant lie to chalk that…
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