power metal

Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints (Metal Blade/Riot)

Wolves, priests, phantoms, blood... this ain't no hip hop album!
Release Date: 
2 Aug 2011 (All day)

When the Gods made heavy metal, I’ve a fair idea that Blood of the Saints was the sort of thing they were thinking about.

What's wrong with living in a bigger bubble? - Edguy's Tobias Sammet on success, songwriting and a new album

The chirpy German power metallists are gearing up to release a new album next month, and Tobi's in good spirits about its prospects...

Tobias Sammett is the sort of bloke lazy journalists love.

Crawler - Knight of the Word (SG Records)

Well meaning yet ultimately flawed power metal from Italy.
Release Date: 
15 Jul 2011 (All day)

The first thing you notice about Italian power/trad metal outfit Crawler is the production on Knight of the Word – it’s simply not good enough.

Concussion Convention at the Central Club, Richmond, AU

The first Concussion Convention had its delegates in rapt attention and passed a resolution to rock out and rock hard.

Richmond is the heartland of sport in Melbourne.

From Chaos to... The Future! Rhapsody of Fire stand on the brink of the unknown...

Even though the release of new album From Chaos to Eternity brings down the curtain on the first act of his band Rhapsody of Fire's career, keyboardist and 80s metal fan Alex Staropoli is refusing to look too far ahead...

You’ll doubtless already know Metal as Fuck’s standpoint with regard to Italy’s premier export (apart from Inter Milan possibly) Rhapsody

Rhapsody of Fire - From Chaos to Eternity (Nuclear Blast/Riot)

The end of an era for the Italian symphonic metallers...
Release Date: 
17 Jun 2011 (All day)

If, like me, you consider yourself an inveterate fan of power metal in all its many and much-lambasted forms, then you wouldn’t fail to be excited at the prospect of a new album from Italian

Falconer - Armrod (Metal Blade/Riot)

Long-running Swedes finally hit the target by returning to their native tongue
Release Date: 
7 Jun 2011 (All day)

For me, Swedish act Falconer have always seemed like well-meaning no-hopers, also rans in a race they couldn’t hope to win when lined up against the real heavyweights of the

Twisted Tower Dire - Make It Dark (Cruz Del Sur Music)

Make it Dark finds the veteran US metalheads in career-best form
Release Date: 
2 May 2011 - 11:30pm

Do you ever watch shows like Time Team?

Helstar to Embark on 'Summer of Hate' Tour in June

James Rivera and company head out to the highway for a short run of dates next month...

Houston's heavy metal kings Helstar are set to blaze a trail east next month on their six-date Summer Of Hate U.S.

HammerFall - Infected (Nuclear Blast/Riot)

Hector's gone, but the commitment to classy heavy metal remains on HammerFall's latest full-lengther
Release Date: 
19 May 2011 - 11:30pm

2011 Is set to be a year of change for Sweden’s leading exponents of the power metal movement.