Tag Archives: Napalm Records

Artist: Be’lakor Album Title: Vessels Label: Napalm Records Date Of Release: 24 June 2016 Some of you who regularly read my blog may have noticed something of a theme going on. Now that I am writing for myself, I can listen to exactly what I want. It means that I can now explore avenues that  Continue Reading »

Artist: Serenity Album Title: Codex Atlanticus Label: Napalm Records Year Of Release: 2016 Over the course of their career, Austria’s Serenity have made themselves ever-more indispensable in my world, slowly gathering momentum with each release. And then, with the release of ‘War Of Ages’ in 2013, I became entirely comfortable and had no qualms in  Continue Reading »

Ten days into this mammoth undertaken and I’m officially one third of the way through now. Or, another way to look at it is I’ve come to the end of the 50% extra free this year! Extending this series from 20 to 30 seemed like a good idea at the time but as my nights  Continue Reading »

Artist: Phantasma Album Title: The Deviant Hearts Label: Napalm Records Year Of Release: 2015 When you consider the clientele involved in this record, I’m genuinely surprised that there’s not been more of a buzz about ‘The Deviant Hearts’ by Phantasma in rock/metal circles. Ok, so it may have been voted by readers of Loudwire.com as  Continue Reading »

Isn’t it always the way? You think you’ve finished a series or a project, only to be proved wrong almost immediately! In my case, I’d gone through all of the albums that I was still looking forward to during 2015 and thought I’d exhausted every avenue. It turns out that I missed a few. Therefore,  Continue Reading »

So far, 2015 has been absolutely huge in terms of the sheer amount of great music that has been released. In fact, the first six months have been ridiculously strong. As such, it is very difficult to bring you my half-way round-up in the normal way – there’s just too much to fit in. And  Continue Reading »

Artist: Kamelot Album Title: Haven Label: Napalm Records Year Of Release: 2015 If I look back around 10-15 years, I had one go-to band for melodic metal: Kamelot. Their albums ‘Karma’ (2001) and ‘Epica’ (2003) remain firm favourites in my collection. The former was actually discovered via a trip to my favourite record store many  Continue Reading »

In a slight deviation to what I promised in my introduction, I want to start my more in-depth analysis of the musical strength of the Scandinavian countries with a country that I didn’t initially mention and that, strictly-speaking, is not part of Scandinavia. Let me explain… It may not be part of Scandinavia as such,  Continue Reading »

We’ve reached Day 6 in my ‘Album Of The Month 2013’ countdown. Thanks to everyone for reading these posts so far. Your support is invaluable and it is this that keeps me coming back day after day with another entry in this series. And, if I can introduce a few new bands to people, that’s  Continue Reading »

Today sees the last instalment of a series of blogs looking at albums that did not make my Top 20 rock and metal albums of 2012 for one reason or another. The final two albums that I have chosen offer very different listening experiences but are both excellent in their own right. Something here for  Continue Reading »