The high voice, the dragons, the happy chords, the armour, the speed, the American nineties and the extreme underground: every charge against power metal, what is true in it and where it misreads the music.
By Julien Vasseur
19 October · 10 min read
Essential Albums
The decade power metal stopped answering the rest of metal and started answering itself: a re-recorded debut, a replacement singer written to his predecessor's records, one catalogue claimed...
By Julien Vasseur
Essential Albums
The first decade of power metal written by people who had the finished genre as their model, and the records that survive it are the ones that put a clause down of the inheritance: the major...
By Julien Vasseur
Genre Histories
A riff about pirates on a Hamburg speed metal record in 1987, a Scottish studio project twenty years later, and a chorus built like a shanty: how pirate metal was made and why the joke holds...
By Julien Vasseur
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
The Black Metal Records Collectors Chase
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
The Death Metal Records Collectors Chase
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal vs Rock
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Uhritulet | Ruumissavotta | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Absolute Darkness | Witness To A Dying World | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Turmion KÄtilÖt | Resodance | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Mental Cruelty | Echoes of a Forlorn Land | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Mental Cruelty | Echoes of a Forlorn Land (24-bit HD audio) | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Forbidden | Forbidden | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Entheos | Empty on the Inside | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | After Infinity | Beyond Eternity | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Windwaker | smile, you're on camera. | Full-length |
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