Vandenberg at Skogsröjet
Dutch guitarist Adrian Vandenberg celebrated the music of Whitesnake and Vandenberg at the Skogsröjet festival in Sweden.
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Reviews
Deep Purple in Stockholm
Deep Purple isn’t a bunch of lazy sods. They are a hardworking veteran rock band that still delivers.
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Power metal at its best: HammerFall “Avenge the Fallen”
Swedish power metal band HammerFall is back with its 13th studio album. If catchy and bombastic power metal is your thing, HammerFall’s new album will not disappoint.
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Basement death metal: Open Surgery “Absolute Destruction”
Old-school Florida death metal from Sweden. Finspång’s finest, Open Surgery, serves up glorious meat-and-potatoes basement death metal on its new album.
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Swedish black metal: Devourer “The Wicked Ones”
This is music for those who drink their metal black and without sugar. It is another great album in Sweden’s proud tradition of black metal mastery.
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Angel: One helluva band on tour in Japan
47 years after their legendary Japan tour of 1977, Angel finally returned to Japan.
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Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse
Former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno is back with a new album featuring Mercyful Fate’s Becky Baldwin and a Depeche Mode cover!
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Boom! Skindred got Tokyo to jump
Welsh rockers Skindred slayed Tokyo with a headline show in Shibuya.
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Anvil “One and Only”
Canadian heavy metal trio Anvil is back with its 20th album. “We are what we are and we do what we do. We have our audience who we play for and that is what we have focused on our entire career.”
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NWOBHM weekend with Demon, Tytan and Paul Gaskin
Japanese metalheads got to experience a weekend of NWOBHM love when three veteran British acts came to perform in Japan for the first time.
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How We End “How We End”
Excellent debut album from How We End, a modern multi-national European metal band featuring folks from Evanescence, Nervosa, Primal Fear, Amaranthe and Cyhra.
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Nemophila and Loudness in Shibuya
Nemophila and Loudness turned on the beast mode for a terrific night in Shibuya.
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Praying Mantis in Tokyo
NWOBHM legends Praying Mantis returned to Tokyo to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary on its farewell (?) tour.
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