Reviewed: December 2021 Released: 2021, Steamhammer/SPV Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Like any good bunch of experienced buccaneers, Running Wild have been on quite a journey, with ups and downs. After a short start playing Venom-esque gritty proto-black speed metal, they found their niche pretty quickly as premier pirate-themed traditional…
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Rage-Resurrection Day
Reviewed: September, 2021 Released: 2021, SPV/Steamhammer Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP Rage has had pretty extensive coverage here over the years and it is always an exciting time for us when a new Rage album comes out. Thankfully this happens quite often as one of the world’s most prolific Metal bands…
Sodom announces new album GENESIS XIX
Altenessen, a social melting-pot deep in the heart of the Ruhr Area. From the mid-19th century, the region supplied Europe’s industrialization with the required raw materials, mined under back-breaking conditions below ground in coal pits named Carl, Anna, Fritz-Heinrich, Helene, and the like. Altenessen is also the musical domicile of…
Freedom Call – M.E.T.A.L.
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Steamhammer Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP I’ve read any number of reviews of albums by Freedom Call and inevitably the reviewer references them as ‘happy’ Metal, or perhaps, ‘the happiest band in Metal’ or some combination of that concept. I’ve even said that myself! Well I do agree the band…
Virgin Steele – Seven Devils Moonshine (Box-set)
Virgin Steele – Seven Devils Moonshine Released: SPV, 2018 Reviewed: March Reviewed by: JP Rating: 4/5 Late in 2018 Virgin Steele fans were treated to a nice end-of-year present with a massive (and somewhat unexpected) box-set called SEVEN DEVILS MOONSHINE. This set is presented in standard box, not one of…
Manowar-Hell on Earth II (DVD Review)
Band: Manowar Title: Hell On Earth II (DVD) Label: SPV Date: 2002 Date Reviewed: August 2018 Reviewer: JP Rating: 5/5 The Return of Manowar video review series. By sheer coincidence, the very same day that I learned that Manowar had announced a new studio album for 2019 was the same…
Freedom Call – Interview with Chris Bay
Freedom Call Interview with founding member Chris Bay 11th October 2015 @ The Borderline, London Interview & photos by Oliver M.
Fullforce singer Mike Andersson
Mike Andersson singer – Fullforce Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Olly Hahn at SPV/Steamhammer for the help Thanks to SPV/Steamhammer for the promo pictures of the band Additional photos of the band provided by Greger Lindblad and Rainer Kalwitz Mike Andersson is maybe most known for being the…