On my 25th birthday (November 15th, 2011) power metal band Sonata Arctica released their live CD/DVD set Live In Finland in North America… happy birthday to...
An odd trend that has been around for some time now involves death metal bands switching their sound to that of a power metal style. We've...
Something we don't see much of in Canada are power metal bands. In the past we had to venture out of the Great White North to...
July 21 - Jersey City, NJ. On Saturday, July 21, Sonic Pulse set out on our first tour out of our territory. We already had a...
Legends is a power metal album wholly dedicated to tales of swords, sorcery, dragons and all things fantasy. As one would expect from a symphonic, power...
Reverence is the USA power metal band featuring former Savatage, Tokyo Blade and Jack Starr's Burning Starr members, Steve "Doc Killdrums" Wacholz (drums), Bryan Holland (guitar)...
Gothenburg, Sweden-based noisemakers Hammerfall are one of the most prominent bands in the global power metal scene. Amassing a tremendous amount of material over the years...
On Thursday, October 20th, 2011 DragonForce came through Toronto, Ontario ripping up The Opera House.more.
Long story short, this is REAL metal and it begs to be played loud. Hardcore kiddies beware!
Unleash The Archers recently embarked on their two month trek entitled "Tour Through The AstroWaste" across Canada. During their stop over in Oshawa, Ontario I managed...
The Silent Rage is a heavy/power metal act hailing from Athens, Greece. The band released a rehearsal demo in October 2006 titled Perished In Flames. Thereafter,...
Pagan's Mind recently completed work on the video for the song "Intermission". The song comes from the band's highly anticipated new album 'Heavenly Ecstasy' which is...
In 2008, long time guitarist Timo Tolkki left Stratovarius and signed over the Stratovarius name, royalties and catalog to Timo Kotipelto, Jens Johansson, and Jörg Michael....
David DeFeis, frontman for the power metal band Virgin Steele, spoke with me recently about the band's latest offering, The Black Light Bacchanalia. Since their inception...
Metal heads everywhere once got a serious shock to the system. Twenty years later, I.N.C.’s ready to shock ‘em once again. Their new album, Bleed the...