Heavy Metal
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Album of the Week 49-2023: Black Sabbath – Seventh Star
‘Seventh Star’ is an album with a bit of a strange reputation, not in the least…
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Album of the Week 44-2023: Wolf – Shadowland
‘Shadowland’ initially escaped my attention when it was released last year. Possibly because of the big…
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Album of the Week 43-2023: Angra – Cycles of Pain
‘Cycles of Pain’ marks the first Angra album since 2006’s ‘Aurora Consurgens’ that was recorded with…
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Album of the Week 41-2023: Morifade – Domination
Back when I was a teenager, the Swedish power metal scene interested me greatly. There were…
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Album of the Week 39-2023: Miserable – Esclavo Miserable
Even the best newer thrash metal bands tend to sound so much like the classic bands…
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Interview Traversus: A Highly Personal Sound
Earlier this year at the Eurosonic festival, I came across Traversus: a young Dutch band playing…
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Album of the Week 37-2023: Contracara – 1307
Whenever I need the rebellious spirit that seems to have been middle-classed out of contemporary European…
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Interview Mari Hamada: No More Obstacles
Mari Hamada was one of the first female singers in Japan to devote herself to the…
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Album of the Week 36-2023: Ningen Isu – Shikisokuzekū
2021’s ‘Kuraku’ was as close to a median Ningen Isu album as we ever got. Solid,…
