Tag: Power
Symphony X – Paradise Lost Review
Originally written by Chris Chellis. After a looooong wait that included postponing the album’s release due to a stint on Dave Mustaine’s Gigantour, we finally have Symphony X’s seventh full-length, Paradise Lost, and what an album this …
Sonata Arctica – Unia Review
Originally written by Harley Carlson. Working a darker slightly progressive angle, Unia reveals a very different side of Sonata Arctica that may leave longtime devotees shaking their heads from side to side instead of up and down. The fifth …
Edenbridge – The Grand Design Review
Originally written by Chris Chellis. Taking a complex but ultimately positive lyrical approach to life’s Grand Design, Austria’s uber-symphonic power metal foursome Edenbridge adhere to a strict concept throughout but the music itself serves as the album’s greatest …
Symphorce – Become Death Review
originally written by Jim Brandon 2005’s Godspeed was the first Symphorce effort I’d heard, and for being mainly power metal-based it was an album I grew to respect and admire due to the way Andy …
Hammerfall – Threshold Review
Originally written by Jon Eardley Out of all of the many sub-genres of metal, power metal has got to be the undisputed leader in when it comes to recycling riffs, and it doesn’t take a …
Fairyland – The Fall Of An Empire Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Always up for trying new things, The Fall Of An Empire from France’s Fairyland sat unclaimed for long enough, so I figured “why not?” and decided to give it a whirl. …
Crystal Eyes – Dead City Dreaming Review
This is some uplifting heavy metal right here, folks. Not obscenely happy, like two bear cubs wrasslin’ in a field of daisies, just seriously uuUUPLIFTING power metal/hard rock, delivered with some incredibly infectious guitar work, …
Rhapsody of Fire – Triumph Or Agony Review
So the hat trick is completed. After previous reviews of The Infinite Wonders of Creation and Lost Horizons by guitarist Luca Turilli’s eponymous and Dreamquest projects respectively, here is the latest full-length from his primary …