Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Petrichor Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes One of the most striking things about Grief Collector and their debut full-length En Delirium is that the vocals will sound immediately familiar to fellow doom aficionados, as it’s none other than Robert Lowe, mournful maestro and former frontman…
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Best of 2019
Top 20 Metal Albums of 2019 As always, the top albums of the year are for full albums (no EP’s or demos) released in 2019. They are new studio albums for the year, not re-recordings, re-releases, cover songs, or live albums. Below the combined top 20 you will find links…
Best of 2019: Marko Syrjälä
BEST ALBUMS OF 2019 WHITESNAKE FLESH & BLOOD David Coverdale and his snakes return with FLESH AND BLOOD. The album is the band’s most fresh and vital album since SLIP OF THE TONGUE (1989). The renewed line-up sounds just fantastic together. Reb Beach and Joel Hoekstra make a great guitar…
SWEDEN ROCK 2019
SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL Solvesborg, Sweden 5-8 June 2019 REPORT AND PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ AND ARTO LEHTINEN Once again, it is time for the annual march to Sweden Rock. This is the 18th time in a row that the Finnish Metal Rules team made an invasion to the mighty Sweden…
Grief Collector – From Dissension to Avowal
Grief Collector – From Dissension to Avowal Reviewed: June, 2019 Released: 2019, Independent Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Since his unceremonious dismissal from Candlemass and the even less ceremonious disbanding of Solitude Aeturnus, Robert Lowe has maintained a low public profile for the last few years. And then out of…
Domkraft – Flood
November 2018 Released: October 19th, 2018 / Blues Funeral Recording Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine One thing I have been noticing over the past year in my search for new music to listen to is that there seems to be a bunch of newer psych/doom metal bands coming…
Candlemass – House Of Doom
Reviewed: June, 2018 Released: 2018, Napalm Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Leif Edling and band are back with another EP to follow-up 2016’s DEATH THY LOVER. HOUSE OF DOOM is a four-track EP that also serves as the soundtrack to the band’s online game, House of Doom. The entire lineup…
SWEDENROCK 2017
SWEDENROCK 2017 Once again, the Finnish Metal-Rules.com two-man-team made their annual road trip to Sweden Rock. The 2017 line up presented a wide range of metal and hard rock as usual. Over 70 bands offered one hell of an experience for the attendees during the four-day festival. Sweden Rock has…
Jalometalli 2015
The mighty Jalometalli Open Air Metal festival strikes once again with a killer killer line-up to maintain the loyal to the metal. The festival is known for relying on offering everything from traditional metal to extreme metal. Above all, it is also the classic names who have never ever…
SWEDEN ROCK 2013
SWEDENROCK FESTIVAL 2013 Article and pictures by Arto Lehtinen and Marko Syrjälä “Welcome to the show” – welcomed by KISS when headlining the second day of the Sweden Rock fest. Well, once again the Finnish Metal-Rules.com team made their annual roadtrip to Sweden Rock. Metal Rules has covered Swedenrock since…
Candlemass: 3 Decades of Doom & Farewell Album
Napalm Records is very proud to announce that the Swedish doom metal legend CANDLEMASS has joined their ranks. The band is currently working on material for their farewell album, which is tentatively scheduled for a spring 2012 release. Candlemass: “Now it is official, Swedish doom ‘meisters’ CANDLEMASS have signed with…
Roadburn – Tillburg Holland
ROADBURN FESTIVAL TILBURG HOLLAND 013 and Mid Theatre The 12th – 15th of April Article and pics by Arto Lehtinen Once again it is April and time to return to the Roadburn festival in Tillburg, Holland. The line-up for 2011 looked absolutely awesome in every aspect. A few of…
Candlemass,Trouble and Angel Witch on Dynasty Of Doom Tour Sweden at KB in Malmoe, Sweden 2009
Candlemass Dynasty Of Doom Tour Sweden Trouble – Special guest Angel Witch – Support act Kulturbolaget Malmoe Sweden 26/9 – 2009 Reviewed and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall
Solitude Aeturnus / Candlemass – Robert Lowe
Solitude Aeturnus / Candlemass – Robert Lowe THE VOICE OF DOOM METAL – ROBERT LOWE The singer of Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus Interview and pics by Arto Lehtinen Transcription by Antaura Zed Robert Lowe has fronted the mighty Texas doom metal legends Solitude Aeturnus since the early 90’s and gained…
Candlemass – Leif Edling
Interview and photography by Robert Williams Candlemass recently embarked upon their first tour of the U.S. in seventeen years playing 16 dates stateside in support of the “King of The Grey Islands” album. The last time the band had toured the United States in 1991 they were accompanied with…