At 7:15 PM Danish Symphonic Metal band ETHEREAL KINGDOMS enters the stage and my first thought is how “ordinary” and “normal” they look. A friend told me before the show that this was a [Read »]
EPICA “The Essence Of EPICA” is available for pre-order now! THE ESSENCE OF EPICA, the lavishly designed and fully illustrated, high-quality hardback which tells the story of symphonic metal titans EPICA in their own words, [Read »]
This is going to be my first time seeing HEXED live and as I really enjoy listening to bands with strong female fronted vocalists I am very much looking forward to it. I do have [Read »]
EPICA-announce additional »Design Your Universe« 10th anniversary shows for Latin America Dutch Symphonic metal band EPICA will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of their fan-favorite album »Design Your Universe«. After a phenomenal response from their [Read »]
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 »]
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 »]
