My annual deja vu quote of “Another year, another Bloodstock Open Air Festival” returns and 2018 saw a wealth of talent spread along four stages in the beautiful location of Catton Hall. First band up at the eye rubbingly time of 10.30am on the New Blood Stage were Dumfries based …
Read More »Lucky for some, BLOODSTOCK announces 13 more bands!
BLOODSTOCK’s countdown is hotting up, with just 9 weeks left to go! There’s still plenty of exciting things to reveal about 2018’s event though, including this stellar collection of thirteen more bands you’ll be lucky enough to see, if you’ve snapped up a ticket! Your support for BLOODSTOCK’s regional …
Read More »BLOODSTOCK Announces First Winners For New Blood Stage & Jagermeister Stage Additions
As BLOODSTOCK’s regional finals for their grass-roots-artist-supporting METAL 2 THE MASSES scheme thunder through local venues around the country this month, the festival is very excited to announce the first winners who won themselves a slot on 2018’s New Blood stage this August. Joining the bill on Friday are hard-rocking …
Read More »Enbound – The Blackened Heart
As a reviewer it’s always interesting what pieces of material get sent your way. One question you start asking yourself will be “is this album going to be worth listening to?” So when I received an email with an album entitled “The Blackened Heart” by Swedish melodic metal band Enbound; …
Read More »Theocracy – Ghost Ship
Before I get started with this review, in 2008 an album entitled “Mirror Of Souls” graced the world of metal. This release is hands down one of my all time favourite albums but who is this band that released such an album? Well known other than Georgia’s very own Theocracy, …
Read More »Kamelot Announce European Tour Dates
Kamelot Announce European Tour Dates After a hugely successful run of North American shows earlier this year in support of their new blockbuster release Haven, KAMELOT have announced another leg in support of the Haven album that kicks off September 17th in Paris, France. The European trek will span …
Read More »Kamelot – Haven
After the comeback with the album Silverthorn in 2012, Haven is the 11th studio offering from Kamelot and the 2nd album to feature vocalist Tommy Karevik. In this album I feel Karevik has really established he is exactly where he belongs in Kamelot; by having more input in the writing …
Read More »Kamelot Debut Lyric Video For ‘Veil Of Elysium’
Symphonic Metal Masters KAMELOT have returned after two years of touring the globe and twelve months of intense writing and recording. The new album titled Haven will make KAMELOT history as it will be released worldwide (excl. Asia) on Napalm Records/Universal and Napalm Records/ADA/Warner as an exclusive licensing deal through …
Read More »Kamelot – The Button Factory, Dublin – 12/03/2015
It’s the week before St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin and while the last vestiges of winter cling to shackles of the city centre streets the crowd gathered around the corner of the Button Factory seems impervious to the biting cold. Tonight sees the return of the Americo-pean power metal act …
Read More »KAMELOT Signs to Napalm Records
Symphonic Metal Masters KAMELOT entered the studio in mid 2014 to begin recording their follow-up to the highly acclaimed chart topping album Silverthorn. The new album will make KAMELOT history as it will be released worldwide (excl. Asia ) on Napalm Records/Universal and Napalm Records/ADA-Warner as an exclusive licensing deal through …
Read More »DRAGONFORCE Announces North American Tour Dates With Kamelot
DRAGONFORCE released their latest album “Maximum Overload” to critical acclaim this past August on Metal Blade Records. Produced by Jens Bogren at Fascination Studios in Örebro and Varberg, Sweden, the new opus will be the band’s first ever album involving an outside producer, having historically opted to record themselves in …
Read More »Hammerfest 7 Announces First Batch Of Acts For Next Spring’s Weekender
Hammerfest is pleased to be able to bring a veritable smorgasbord of talent from across the globe headed by Thomas Youngblood’s Symphonic Power metal band Kamelot, who bring their unique blend of monstrously epic metal to set the tone for what promises to be another cracking edition as Hammerfest celebrates …
Read More »Vanden Plas – Chronicles Of the Immortals – Netherworld (Path 1)
@planetmosh reviews Chronicles of the Immortals – Netherworld by Vanden Plas out on .@FrontiersRec Billed as having been written in co-operation with bestselling German fantasy author Wolfgang Hohlbein, ‘Chronicles of the Immortals – Netherworld’ sees the German Prog-metal 5 piece again chosing to go down the concept album route for …
Read More »Human Fortress – Raided Land
....so if you’re in need of a classic sounding metal album that evokes images of ‘olde worlde’ battles and chivalrous knights, this delivers in bucketloads.
Read More »Kamelot, Xandria, Triosphere & Blackguard – HMV Forum, London 7-11-12
The first band of the night was Blackguard, a melodic death metal band who take to the stage in front of a very small audience due to their early stage time coming on shortly after the doors opened. They’re an odd choice of band for this bill and despite their …
Read More »Oliver Palotai – Kamelot interview
I spoke to Oliver Palotai, keyboard player with Kamelot, in the band’s dressing room shortly before they played the Forum in Kentish Town, London, and asked him about the bands latest album, their tour and his other work. You can listen to the interview with the player below.
Read More »Kamelot – HMV Forum, London – 7th November 2012 – Photos
Kamelot are currently on their European tour and played the Forum in Kentish Town on Wednesday 7th November. Here are some photos from the show…. %%wppa%% %%slide=492%%
Read More »Rizon – Masquerade (cd)
Originally forming when the band was still in school back in 1977, this Swiss based band have steadily progressed working on perfecting their own “sounds”. With this latest release, Rizon appear to be finally hitting the heights that have eluded them for so long and all the hard work and …
Read More »Wacken 2nd to 4th August 2012
The biggest Metal Festival of the world! Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 70,000 festival visitors, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal …
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