Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Ghost Sound Media Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Returning with their fourth full-length In Turbulence, Morrigu are a Swiss metal band founded in 1999 by Mirko and Severin Bunder (ex-Eluveitie). Starting out as a doom/death metal outfit, they have forged a more melodic and progressive…
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Interview with Jaded Star
Interview with Maxi Nil (Singer/songwriter) Interview by Demitri Levantis Follow the band: www.facebook.com/jadedstarofficial www.instagram.com/jadedstarofficial/ jadedstar.bandcamp.com/ With the release of their second album “Realign” on the horizon, I caught up with Greek melodic metal group, Jaded Star to discuss what the band has been up to this year.
Jaded Star – Realign
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Noble Demon Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Realign is the second album from Greek melodic metal act Jaded Star. Melody is certainly the way to describe these Greeks as they don’t seem to employ anything with a particularly extreme or hefty punch in their output.…
Succsexx-Sexx Machine
Reviewed: December,2020 Released: 2020, FNA Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP Man, is this ever a nostalgic gem for me! I was very excited when I learned that the good people at FNA Records were going to release SEXX MACHINE. I had the pleasure of seeing this band in Toronto back…
L.A. Guns-Renegades
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: November 2020, Golden Robot Records Rating: 3.75/5 Reviewer: Buddy H Well, well, well…. we finally have what is likely to be one of the most polarizing and controversial releases of 2020. It would be extremely easy for me, or any other connoisseur of all things hard…
Pyramaze – Epitaph
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: 2020, AFM Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich Pyramaze recently signed with AFM Records and will release their new album, EPITAPH on November 13. Most reading this probably know about the band, but briefly this Danish outfit released their debut album in 2004, sporting a power metal…
Shining Black – Shining Black
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Frontiers Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich Frontiers Records can always be counted on to help put together interesting projects from different artists on their label. The latest is a collaboration between singer Mark Boals (Yngwie Malmsteen, Royal Hunt) and guitarist Olaf Thorsen (Labyrinth, Vision Divine).…
Y&T-On With The Show (DVD Review)
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2019, Meanstreak Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP Y&T is still in decent rotation in my listening so I was very glad to the get Y&T documentary on DVD for my birthday. The package itself is a little disappointing, it is not housed in a DVD case, it…
PRETTY MAIDS – Maid In Japan
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Frontiers Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Although it is certainly not a contest, I’m probably the biggest Pretty Maids fan on staff here at Metal-Rules.com. So when the band released their fourth live album, for me it was a no-brainer to review. When I reviewed the…
HAREM SCAREM-Live At The Phoenix The Covideo Chronicles-Day 25 (April 25th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: Frontiers, 2015, Frontiers Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly…
Sinisthra – The Broad And Beaten Way
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Rockshots Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog 15 years in the making, Sinisthra’s follow-up to their 2005 debut, Last Of The Stories Of Long Past Glories, has taken a lengthy and arduous route from conception to realisation. Significantly, The Broad And Beaten Way is a reference to…
Stargazery – Constellation
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Pure Steel Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Constellation is the third album from Finnish metallers Stargazery. And it’s a damn good time. The Finns bring us a form of melodic heavy metal sitting comfortably within the power metal spectrum. To some, that might conjure…
Dark Fortress – Spectres From The Old World
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Spectres From The Old World is album number eight from the mighty melodic black metallers Dark Fortress. The band – formed in Landshut, Bavaria (Germany) – seem to lead a little more with their dark approach in terms…
GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES-A Very Brief And Incomplete History Of American Super Groups
GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES A Very Brief And Incomplete History Of American Super Groups (Version 1.7) by JP PREFACE As we hit the 50th anniversary of Heavy Metal this year (2020), as Managing Editor of Metal-Rules.com, one of my goals is to try to add more editorial content and technical…
Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter To many readers, and the many bitter artists whose work has been ripped apart by a cold-hearted, dead-inside cynic, a music critic is a bitter, twisted husk of something once-human that feeds on the maniacal pleasure of…