On “Abyss”, its new studio album, Canada’s Unleash The Archers shows us some new sides to its creativity. There are more keyboards and some pop, but the fierce metal riffs are still there and so is the fabulous voice of Brittney Slayes.
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Primal Fear’s new studio album “Metal Commando” shows us that this band is a German stallion and not a one-trick power metal pony.
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Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum returns with its eighth full-length studio album, “Thalassic”.
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German metal vocalist Udo Dirkschneider takes the collaboration between his band U.D.O. and the German armed forces concert band to a new and unexpected level.
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German thrash metal band Destruction shows us that they are still a terrific live act on its new live album.
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Twisted Sister may have called it quits in 2016, but its frontman Dee Snider keeps delivering both in the studio and live.
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Metal band The Lightbringer of Sweden teams up with German vocalist Herbie Langhans, of Avantasia and Firewind fame, to create a fab 1980s metal-influenced album.
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The seasoned gentlemen in Deep Purple are still at it. Their new Bob Ezrin-produced album “Whoosh!” is a solid album of grown-up bluesy rock but with some nuanced twists and turns.
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Graham Bonnet, Jimmy Waldo and Gary Shea have reunited in a fab new line-up of Alcatrazz. “Born Innocent”, the band’s first studio album since 1986, is a rather exquisite album of melodic hard rock.
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Sweden’s Band of Brothers offers us catchy and radio-friendly melodic rock on its new single.
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Dusty Swedish rockers Electric Feel Good are back and they have a new full-length studio album in their backpack. Let’s have a barbeque because this is smoky meat-and-beers music.
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Greek guitar wizard Gus G makes a fresh start with a splendid new Firewind album.
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Sweden’s Camp Marshy is back with a punky party-rock EP. I love the simplicity and catchiness of this band.
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