Category: Album Reviews

The Band   Sleep Token is a British rock band formed in London, in 2016.  Their band members are masked to keep their anonymity intact.   Band Members Vessel – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion II – drums     The Album   After reviewing their first and third album, Sundowning and Take Me Back To Eden, respectively. Now, it is the turn of their second piece. This Place Will Become Your Tomb, Sleep Token’s second studio…

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The Band    Alpha Wolf is an Australian metalcore band formed in 2013. The name came from the movie The Grey.  Their style of music can be categorized as “nu metalcore” (a mix between nu metal and metalcore), which shows a lot of influence of bands like Korn, especially in the guitar tone and some rap sounds. Band members: Lochie Keogh – lead vocals  Sabian Lynch – rhythm guitar John Arnold – bass, backing vocals…

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The Band   Judas Priest is an English heavy metal band formed in 1969. One of the most successful bands in their genre, along with others like Iron Maiden.    Band Members:  Rob Halford – vocals Glenn Tipton – guitars Richie Faulkner – guitars Ian Hill – bass guitar Scott Travis – drums     The Album   After six years, the Metal Gods return with a new album. Invincible Shield is the nineteenth studio…

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The Singer   Bruce Dickinson is an English singer. Best known as the legendary vocalist of the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. He has an operatic type of vocals and a way of singing like he is telling you a story.    Band Members Bruce Dickinson – vocals Roz Z – guitars Tanya O Callaghan – bass  Dave Moreno – drums Mistheria – keyboards   The Album   This is Bruce’s first solo album after…

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I’ve been a fan of HIM and Ville since I was in my early 20s, and I got the privilege to see them playing live the first time they played in Chile in 2014. A show that I shared with two big fans of the band, my mom and my youngest sister.    The Singer   Ville Valo is a Finnish musician, best known as the singer and leader of the gothic rock band HIM. …

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The Band   Sleep Token is a British rock band formed in 2016. Their style is… progressive metal, R&B, Djent, pop, genre-less? Or a mix of them all? They are an anonymous group, commanded by their singer, Vessel.    Band Members Vessel – vocals, guitar, keyboards, piano II – drums   The Album    After their two EPs, on November 21, 2019, they released their debut studio album, Sundowning.  They released each song on the…

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The Band Motionless In White is an American metalcore band, formed in 2004. After numerous line-up changes, the only original member is their singer, Chris “Motionless” Cerulli. The band name comes from the song Motionless and White by another American metalcore band, Eighteen Visions. The band plays a mix of metalcore, gothic, and industrial metal and now they have also added synth-wave elements. I got to know them recently, by watching endless hours of YouTube…

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The Band Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in 1984. They were very influential in later heavy metal bands. Their lyrics are mostly based on books of fantasy authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin, and also by traditional legends and tales.     Band Members  Hansi Kürsch – vocals André Olbrich – lead guitar Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar Frederik Ehmke – drums     The Album The God Machine is…

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The Singer Dorothee Pesch, known in the music world as Doro Pesch or just Doro, is a German heavy metal singer and the former singer of the German heavy metal band Warlock.   She started her musical career in a time when metal wasn’t very women-friendly, the 80s. Women in rock had to have an overly sexualized image to appeal to a mainly man-dominated audience. But Doro never accepted that, and she kept true to…

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The Band Duran Duran is an English new wave band formed in 1978, super popular in the 80s with big production videos and catchy songs. Band Members: Simon Le Bon – vocals  Nick Rhodes – keyboards John Taylor – bass  Roger Taylor – drums The Album Danse Macabre is Duran Duran‘s sixteenth studio album. Released on October 27, 2023. This work was inspired by a Halloween show that they did in Las Vegas, in 2022.…

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