It’s pretty incredible to realize that this is Helloween’s 30th anniversary. It was back in 1985 that Kai Hansen, Markus Grosskopf, Michael Weikath and...

It's not secret that I'm a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, so being a fan of Blind Guardian was simply a natural thing for me. Then again,...

There is a “before” and an “after” Nightwish. Although they were not the first metal band fronted by a woman, nor were they the...

Over the years, Norway’s Enslaved have been a rather divisive band in the extreme metal world. Beginning with Below The Lights, bassist/vocalist Grutle Kjellson...

Black Star Riders released one of my favourite albums of 2013 when they dropped their debut record, All Hell Breaks Loose. While it wasn't...

I’m kind of a nerd, so much so that not liking Blind Guardian was never really an option for me. It wasn’t just that...

Conveying power through metal is not as simple as some people might think. Although you can pass a message of aggression by just getting...

There are few musicians as integral to a genre of music as Leif Edling is to doom metal; not only does he play bass in...

As I've mentioned before, Sonata Arctica played an important part in my discovery of power metal, even if nowadays (at least during the period surrounding...

Exodus were there at the beginning of thrash metal. Giving up a founding member to some band called Metallica in 1983 and another one...