Is it fair to complain about the cheesiness of a power metal album, or has that become a staple of the genre? Either way, Walpyrgus’s new album Walpyrgus Nights is ripe with it. So much so, in fact, that there [...]
I really should stop being so surprised that Dragonforce is capable of writing actual songs. 2012’s The Power Within proved that the band could show restraint and do more than just shred for the sake of shredding. [...]
Having been introduced to multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Andrew D’Cagna’s work through his bass playing for Brimstone Coven, I was not aware that he was such a busy guy. Apparently not content with just releasing the [...]
When Arjen Lucassen resurrected Ayreon with 2013’s The Theory of Everything, a new direction seemed feasible for the legendary prog project. It was as over the top as their other releases, but its suite-oriented song [...]
Anyone who loves a good trilogy knows that the second part always ups the ante. Beloved middle children like The Two Towers and The Empire Strikes Back work to expand the worlds that were conceived by their [...]
Temptation’s Wings most likely got their name from the Down song, though I like to pretend that it was actually from a lyric on Saint Vitus’s “Ice Monkey.” Either way, the North Carolina trio has been chugging away [...]
Rebel Wizard’s Triumph of Gloom is one of those albums that on paper shouldn’t even come close to working, but, to misappropriate a sports cliché, music isn’t played on paper-that’s why you have to actually play [...]
Power metal has been stuck in a rut for the last ten years or so. We’ve seen a good number of bands push the boundaries and try to establish new trends but nothing has caught on. The most hopeful gleam of [...]
