Silliest album cover of 2006? Maybe, but there’s a good reason for it. You see, the German metal machine kind of caught everyone by surprise with this release, by abandoning some of its much associated power metal sound in favour of a more hard rock-oriented feel. The ending result turned out to be an album [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2011
Ever had a nightmare? I’m sure we all have, some especially gut wrenching and terrible we wake in the night trembling with sweat. The next day, it still invades us. Well, that’s what Wintersun does as well. This may make them seem a Black Metal Band. In a way, they are, in a way no. [ Read More ]
Devilish Impressions is a Polish blackened death metal band that adds creativity to the subgenre by including melody and occasional keyboards to the music. Passionate melodic guitar solos are sparsely used throughout the album, but they also include clean vocals every once in a while, which actually hurt the music. Every single song on Act [ Read More ]
(This review was originally published in 2005.) Audiovision is a new Swedish band (or project?) centered around Narnia’s frontman Christian Rivel and Lions Share’s guitarist Lars Chriss. The rest of the band is made up of Mikael Höglund (Thunder, Great King Rat) on bass, Thomas Broman on drums and finally; Andreas Lindahl (Loch Vostok, ex-Platitude) [ Read More ]
(This interview was originally published in 2009.) The somewhat blackened death metal unit Ghamorean was formed as early as 1997, but it wasn’t until 2005 that the debut release of this Swedish metal band arrived via the much-critized Karmageddon Media. In december of 2008 the second offering entitled “Eon Eschatos” was unleashed upon the world, [ Read More ]
When approaching a self-produced album by a band associated with black metal, I rarely expect it to have a sound as clean and as solid as the sound featured on Against the Plague’s debut LP, The Architecture of Oppression. Had previous knowledge of said album not existed, I would have sworn that I had been [ Read More ]
As a further step in the reincarnation of Sound of Metal, we are now looking for talentful writers to extend our current line-up. If you think you got what it takes to become one of us, don’t hesitate to contact us at contact@soundofmetal.se with a sample of your writing.
Turisas, the Viking Folk Metal band from Finland, has released their second effort, and I was lucky enough to pick up the limited “Pagenfest” edition (which was actually cheaper than the regular version even though it comes with some bonus features). I had not heard these guys before buying their CD, so it was a [ Read More ]
We got the opportunity to interview vocalist Joakim Brodén of Swedish metal machinery Sabaton about their then new album “The Art Of War”, among other things. The interview in mp3 format can be found here. Conducted by Magnus Fredman. Please note that this interview is only available in Swedish.
Being the fan of melodic metal that I really am, I feel obliged to start this review off with a confession – I’ve never been an admirer of Savatage, and it kind of hurts me since albums like “Hall Of The Mountain King”, “Gutter Ballet” and “Streets – A Rock Opera” are often regarded as [ Read More ]
