Moonglow, the upcoming release of metal opera project Avantasia, is ready to take metal fans by storm. From the first glance, it is clear that creator Tobias Sammet had great plans with this album. Besides [Read »]
Side project of Edguy vocalist Tobias Sammet. Avantasia was originally intended only to be a one-off double album concept, but was later reformed with a new group of musicians and continued as an ongoing project. Avantasia performed a [Read »]
Rhapsody of Fire (formerly known as Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band formed by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, widely seen as a pioneer of the symphonic power metal subgenre.
Although for me Rhapsody Of Fire have always embodied the appeal of the Symphonic Metal genre, I felt that the band’s last few albums struggled to recapture the magic of “Symphony Of Enchanted Lands” (1998) [Read »]
This female fronted Swedish combo is the band with Ken Kängström who also wrote several songs for Sabaton. For a band without a keyboard player in the line up, the keys play a rather big [Read »]
The Dark Element is the much anticipated and welcomed return of former Nightwish vocalist Anette Olzon to her true environment: symphonic metal. Working together with former Sonata Arctica guitarist and the main man behind Cain’s [Read »]
For many bands, an EP is a quick release in between albums to keep the fans satisfied in the long wait for a new album. This is not the case for Epica with The Solace System. Not [Read »]
In every part of the world and in every industry, there are often hidden treasures. In this case, it’s a band called Edenbridge and they hail from Linz, Austria. They are due to release a [Read »]
Already a superficial first listening to Red Cain’s self-titled EP will convince many a listener that we are dealing with a very ambitious band here. The production is good and one can literally feel that [Read »]