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Seventh Key is the project of Billy Greer (previously known from Kansas) and guitarist/producer Mike Slamer (Streets, Steelhouse Lane and City Boy). ‘I will survive’ is their third studio album, and their first in almost nine years. It follows the tradition of the two previous albums which means premium quality AOR with a touch of melodic hard rock. Greer/Slamer is an excellent song writing duo and that really shines...

Sometimes the technical death metal genre gets criticized for only producing bands being technical for the sake of technicallity, and in some cases the critics are right to a certain degree. Fortunately this is not the case with Canadian band Deity. On their self-titled debut album they have managed to keep focus on songwriting, good riffs and song structures as the main objective, while individual brilliant technical skills are...

Østerrikske Freund Hein spiller mye på humor i sin fremtreden, noe låt titler som Sugar Honey Iced Tea Guy, European Fuckface og Werechicken Horror Show alle er eksempler på. At det tydeligvis er Dirty Harry som står bak vokalen var også noe uventet… Musikalsk sett kategoriserer Freund Hein under Thrash banneren og har i tillegg et usannsynlig irriterende hammond orgel i bakgrunnen som sitt...

Michael Kiske is without doubt one of my all-time favorite singers with his charismatic and wide range voice. He’s got an amazing voice control and I’m not sure he would be able to sing out of pitch even if he tried. Place Vendome is where Michael get the chance to show the melodic hard rock side of himself in collaboration with Dennis Ward, Kosta Safiriou and Uwe Reitenauer of...

The Faceless mastermind Michael Keene has gathered a completely new line up for 'In Becoming A Ghost', the fourth in line of The Faceless studio albums, including Abigail Williams' Ken Sorceron on vocals, The Zenit Passage's Justin McKinney on guitar and Bryce Butler on drums. The Faceless are normally referred to as a technical death metal band, but theres also plenty of progressive metal elements in their sound while...

Vratyas Vakyas strikes again with his one-man folk/black metal project Falkenbach. Since the formation in 1989 Falkenbach have released five studio albums and a bunch of demos previous to this new one entitled ‘Asa’. While his previous effort, ‘Tiurida’, didn’t quite live up to my expectations ‘Asa’ sees Falkenbach back on track again and in my opinion it contains some of his best work to date. The mixture of...

Orange Goblin er tilbake med et brak! Nesten 5 år etter forrige album "Healing Through Fire" får vi omsider en fet oppfølger. Engelskmennene var en stund i tvil om de noengang ville gi ut flere plater. Heldigvis tok de til vett, for deres syvende album "A Eulogy For The Damned", er nemlig en utsøkt blanding av stoner, heavy metal og hard rock, ispedd litt blues her og der. Det...

Finske Tenhi gjør det ikke enkelt for hverken seg selv eller lytteren, og 70 minutter med neddempet og gitar/piano basert melankoli blir nok muligens i overkant for de fleste. Men det er selvsagt ikke ensbetydende med at kvaliteten på noen som helst måte er dårlig, langt ifra, alt til sin tid nemlig, noe som uten tvil er tilfelle her. Jeg har kjørt albumet rundt 10-12 ganger nå på forholdsvis...

Ninth Circle er et nytt norsk band, hvis navn er hentet fra Dante's Inferno. De omtaler seg selv som et groove metal band som henter inspirasjon fra alt fra black metal til stoner rock i sin søken etter et unikt uttrykk. Hvis jeg har forstått dette rett så kommer debutalbumet ut i form av en trilogi, der 'Judecca' er første del bestående av seks låter. Det er ikke spesielt...

It has been a long wait for the follow up album to the excellent 2007 effort from Vesania, ‘Distractive Killusions’, but now it’s finally here. Featuring present and past members of Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir and Decapitated it’s impossible for Vesania to avoid the ‘Super group’ stamp whether they like it or not, but with a lineup like this the expectations ahead of a new album release are always sky...