Tag: Symphonic
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. …
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, …
Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale Review
[Album artwork by Kerem Beyit] It’s been four years since we last heard a peep from Twilight Force, Sweden’s answer to Alan Menken stuffed into a mail hauberk. Were they the first power metal band …
We Have The Power – The Top 30 Power Metal And Power-Related Albums Of 2022
Heartfelt hails, salutes, subtle nods and solemn bows, all you heroes and villains. As implausible as it may seem, it’s time once again to dust off our helms, spot clean those cravats, fluff those poet …
Album Premiere: Ancient Mastery – Chapter Two: The Resistance
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our …
Qrixkuor – Zoetrope Review
If we wanted to keep it short and sweet, we could probably just say that London’s (likely Scrabble cheaters) Qrixkuor make nightmare music. Here at Last Rites, however, we are generally impressed with being neither …