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Queensrÿche's Todd La Torre Warms Up on Powerslave and Films It
Heavy Metal Power Metal
He says plainly that he does not care if it cracks. The reason he was singing at all is that demo work on the next album was about to continue.
Tomas Berglund · Nov 1, 2026
DRACONICON Open Empire With We Are Tyrants
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The first song from the third album, and the singer is plain about why it matters: after what went on behind the scenes, there is finally music to share.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
CARMERIA Call Ex Cathedra Misery You Can Dance To
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Four words from the man who wrote and produced it describe the third album better than a genre list would, and he means both halves of them.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
SAVATAGE's Hall Of The Mountain King Gets a Cover From Tommy Johansson
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The song turns forty next year and has just been played twice in public by two different parties, once at Wacken by the band and once in a bedroom studio.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
DGM Sail on 70000 Tons of Metal 2027 in January
Power Metal
The Rome band join a bill that is now half announced, on a ship leaving Miami for the Dominican Republic in the middle of January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 31, 2026
Samy Elbanna Says the CHILDREN OF BODOM Plan Stops Where the Announcements Do
Power Metal Death Metal
Two nights became a run of festivals. The singer carrying the songs says he knows no more about what follows than anyone reading the announcements.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
WIND ROSE Lose Federico Gatti After Almost Eight Years
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The drummer goes with no replacement named and a statement short enough to fit on a postcard, which is usually a sign nobody is angry.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026
METAL CHURCH Film Dead To Rights at a Festival and Put It Out as the Video
Heavy Metal Power Metal
No studio clip, no concept: the title track gets a video made entirely of the current line-up playing it in front of a European crowd in August.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
ALESTORM Start a Ninth Album and Name a Song After the Pope
Power Metal Folk Metal
Recording began today in Czechia with their usual producer, and the band have listed the song titles before anybody asked for them.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
EDGUY Get Three Albums Back in Print Through Reaper in December
Power Metal
Hellfire Club, Age Of The Joker and Space Police return on CD and vinyl on 11 December, with pre-orders already open.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 30, 2026
CHILDREN OF BODOM's Return Will Not Clash With Lost Society, Samy Elbanna Says
Power Metal Death Metal
The man singing those songs now has a day job in another band, and he says the two calendars have not collided once so far.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 30, 2026
CRYSTAL EYES Send Out Remembrance on the Day Thunder God Arrives
Power Metal
A second video lands with the ninth album rather than before it, which is a band confident that the record will do the selling.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
MANOWAR's First Guitarist Gets a Brooklyn Tribute Night in January
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Ross The Boss died in March, seven months after an ALS diagnosis. His son has called everyone who knew him to one night at The Meadows.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 30, 2026
TRICK OR TREAT Put Their Debut Out Again Tomorrow, Played Rather Than Remastered
Power Metal
Twenty years on, the Modena band have recorded their first album again instead of polishing the tapes, Cyndi Lauper cover included.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
HELLOWEEN Take the Forty Years Tour to Heavy Week-End in June, Manson Closes It
Power Metal Speed Metal
Three headliners across 4, 5 and 6 June at an open-air amphitheatre holding twenty thousand a day, with four bands a night and nothing clashing.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 29, 2026
CROWNSHIFT Set The Shadows We Buried for 29 January and Name Its Nine Songs
Power Metal Groove Metal
The album behind this morning's single has a title, a date and a running order, and the song everyone heard first sits in the middle of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
INVINCIA Pick Up the Tempo on Tonight We Ride, a Month After the Debut
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The third song out of Echoes From The Past is the fast one, with battlefields and dark forests in the lyric and Judas Priest in the riff.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
CROWNSHIFT Send Out In The Dead Of Night Through Nuclear Blast
Power Metal Groove Metal
The Finnish band built around Daniel Freyberg return with a video, two years after a debut that refused to sound like anybody's old band.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026