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Diamonds & Rust: Slayer – Hell Awaits (The Friday The 13th Edition)

[Artwork by Albert Cueller / Mœbius & Philippe Druillet] Don those hardhats and prep that protective eyeroll gear: Here comes your bagillionth reminder about how triumphant it was to be a kid growing up in

Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle Review

[Artwork by Linda “Forestrolli” Piekäinen] As some of you may know, I spent the better part of the entire summer listening to little else than power metal in preparation for The Top Power Metal Albums

We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, The Closing Ceremony

Okay, now this really IS the swansong, amigos. The last act. The parting song. The final curtain call. The big send off. The blaze of glory. The final campaign. The last bender. The final twitch.

Diamonds & Rust: Killing Joke – Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell

[Cover artwork: Inhuman Rearing, by Victor Safonkin] Sentient Ruin label boss M. talks about his favorite album of all time, which was recently reissued: Killing Joke’s 2006 album Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell. A

We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 4

Well, here we are. The last hurrah. The final frontier. The last restaurant at the end of the universe. One more for the road. Goodbye, farewell, and amen. Hasta la vista, baby. Smell you later.

We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 3

HaaaaammerFallllll, weee willlll prevaaaaiiiil. HaaaaammerFallllll, let us haaaaail. Oh, hello! Welcome! You’re looking magnificent as always. Great to see you. Whatcha got there? A 7-layer dip. Cool cool. I’ll just go ahead and put that

We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 2

Adventurers! What-ho and forsooth, it is time once again to kick The Most Important List Ever Compiled By A Human Being back into life! [Falls headfirst into a roiling nest of deadly Alaskan marmots] Yes,

We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 1

Heroes! Adventurers! Bards, smiths, strumpets, tapsters, fools and ghouls! As the great Aragorn once famously declared in the back corner of a dimly lit halfling honky-tonk, “Let’s get into some mother-humpin’ trouble…” “YES!” Replied every