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Artist: Asenblut Album Title: Legenden Label: AFM Records Release date: 16 February 2018 This is something of a rarity for me – a briefer review of an EP. However, I felt the need to write something about this release because it certainly deserves it, at least as far as I’m concerned anyway. The subject of  Continue Reading »

Welcome to day 7 of my ‘Album of the Year 2017 top 30 countdown’. It is now a week since I began this little adventure, as I do every year. Somehow, it gets me in the festive spirit because I know that it can’t be long until my Christmas holidays, when I allow myself a  Continue Reading »

Artist: Communic Album Title: Where Echoes Gather Label: AFM Records Date Of Release: 27 October 2017 If ever there was a band that deserved more success than they have achieved, it is Communic. I mean, how can a band with this amount of talent not break into the heavy metal mainstream? Four records have been  Continue Reading »

Artist: Nocturnal Rites Album Title: Phoenix Label: AFM Records Date Of Release: 29 September 2017 A good decade ago, Swedish melodic power metal band Nocturnal Rites released the eighth album of their career, ‘The 8th Sin’. It received generally very positive reviews and I certainly enjoyed the content. What I didn’t realise then was that  Continue Reading »

Artist: Serious Black Album Title: Magic Label: AFM Records Date Of Release: 25 August 2017 What do you get if you put together vocalist Urban Breed (Pyramaze, Tad Morose, Bloodbound) , guitarists Bob Katsionis (Firewind) and Dominik Sebastian (Edenbridge), bassist Mario Lochert (ex-Visions Of Atlantis), keyboardist Jan Vacik (ex-Dreamscape) and drummer Alex Holzwarth (ex-Rhapsody of  Continue Reading »

Welcome to my latest round-up of anticipated rock and metal releases on their way in the near future. It’s a big one today, so no big introduction from me. Let’s just get straight on with it. Enslaved release more details about their new album… Enslaved – E Date of release: 13 October 2017 Label: Nuclear  Continue Reading »

Well, while I’m on a roll, I may as well continue. And while so many bands are also on a roll of late it seems, I owe it to them to keep the news flowing. If you’ve missed any of my other posts in this series, links to all of them can be found at  Continue Reading »

Artist: Orden Ogan Album Title: Gunmen Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 7 July 2017 This is getting embarrassing. Over the past couple of decades, I have built up what I would like to think is a fairly extensive and varied knowledge of vast swathes of the heavy metal world, even occasionally veering into rockier  Continue Reading »

Artist: Pyogenesis Album Title: A Kingdom To Disappear Label: AFM Records Date Of Release: 24 February 2017 German metal band Pyogenesis have been around since the beginning of the 90s and, despite a prolonged hiatus between 2002 and 2015, have released seven albums in that time. The return of the Stuttgart-based quartet in 2015 with  Continue Reading »

Artist: Helion Prime Album Title: Helion Prime Label: AFM Records Release Date: 24 February 2017 Science-based power metal. These four words will go a long way to determine whether or not you carry on reading the remainder of this review. It is a description that it likely to either draw you in like a tractor  Continue Reading »