So everyone wants the best tickets to whatever concert they’re going to see and it always seems like tickets are sold out in about 2 seconds and all that’s left are the nosebleeds or the lawn seats. And of course Metallica being the monsters of rock that they are it can seem impossible to get [...]
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Two Ton Anvil – Two Ton Anvil Dark Star Records [Rating: 3/5] Written by Niek of Deathmetalbaboon.com This heavy metal band, going by the name of Two Ton Anvil, formed just a few years ago, in 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. Now, some three years later, they have just released their self-titled debut record. Twelve originally [...]
Continue reading → Dark Tranquillity – We Are the Void Century Media [Rating: 3/5] Written by Niek of Deathmetalbaboon.com We Are the Void is already the ninth album of these fathers of Swedish melodeath, a.k.a. the Gothenburn style. Their previous one was Fiction and was released in 2007. We Are the Void has been baptized to be the [...]
Continue reading → The Jasser Arafats – Condemnation Violent Journey Records [Rating: 4/5] Written by Niek of Deathmetalbaboon.com They’re Finnish, fast and furious. As original and unorthodox as their name is, as violent, raw and unpolished is their play. And that’s all in the good way. The Jasser Arafats have released their debut album on April 14th and [...]
Continue reading → Solution .45 – For Aeons Past AFM Records [Rating: 4/5] Written by Niek of Deathmetalbaboon.com Solution .45 is the joining of forces of musical talents of several Swedish Death Metal bands, making this a genuine metal supergroup. The project was founded by masterminds Jani Stefanovic (Miseration, Essence of Sorrow, The Few Against Many, and many [...]
Continue reading → Sonata Arctica – The Days of Grays Nuclear Blast Records [Rating: 4/5] In my opinion, Power metal is one of the best styles of Metal you can find and one of the bands that has been a round for a while to represent that style is Sonata Arctica. In their newest/sixth full length release entitled [...]
Continue reading → Epica – Design Your Universe Nuclear Blast Records [Rating: 4.5/5] Symphonic metal band Epica is back with their fifth full length release, entitled Design Your Universe, and they still sound phenomenal! The mixture of the epic and heavy music, the beautiful singing of Simone Simons, and the screams/growls of guitarist/vocalist Mark Jansen is excellent! This [...]
Continue reading → Pan.A.Ce.A – We the Broken Susquehanna Entertainment [Rating: 4.5/5] Pan.A.Ce.A is back with their follow-up album to their February 2009 release All Or Nothing entitled We the Broken, and they are back with a vengeance! Weighing in with 13 brand new tracks, We the Broken picks right up where All Or Nothing left off and [...]
Continue reading → Echoes of Eternity – As Shadows Burn Nuclear Blast Records [Rating:4.5/5] For years, Heavy metal has been a male dominated style of music, but Progressive metal band Echoes of Eternity is one of the many bands out today that are proving that there is certainly a place for women in Metal. Echoes of Eternity’s place [...]
Continue reading → Oh, Sleeper – Son of the Morning Solid State Records [Rating:4/5] Since the first time I heard Oh, Sleeper, they have been in the top of my list of favorite Metalcore bands and with releases like their newest full length album Son of the Morning, it shouldn’t be hard to see why they have stayed [...]
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