RANGER + INFANT DEATH + ENTER OBSCURITY med trippelkonsert (5/12)

Kjappriffkameratene i finske RANGER, trønderske INFANT DEATH og ENTER OBSCURITY fra Oslo innbyr til speed metal/thrash metal fest på Pokalen Pub førstkommende lørdag (5/12). Er du fan av litt kjappere thrash og speed metal, kan du rett og slett ikke gå glipp av denne konserten. Detta blir pur moro! RANGER signerer forøvrig CD, vinyl, pupp og det som ellers er ønskelig på Katakomben tidligere på dagen.

AXEL RUDI PELL – Game of Sins

Resolute in a love for all things Dio-esque Rainbow or Ritchie Blackmore oriented hard rock (Blackmore’s Night excluded), German guitar hero Axel Rudi Pell churns out another studio album with "Game of Sins". His 16th full-length of original material, there’s a familiarity to his song craft- so know going in that you’ll have a mixture…

NEPTRECUS – Frères de Sang

The French black metal horde named Neptrecus has returned with a follow-up the 2013 debut album ("L’aube du déclin"), and this sophomore effort is entitled "Frères de Sang" and consists of 9 tracks. To be perfectly frank, the album is basically run-of-the-mill traditional black metal in the vein of some of the early Norwegian pioneers…

Norge rundt med DUMDUM BOYS

Det blir "Splitter Pine", Metallic Hvit" og muligens også "Stjernesludd" til folket når DUMDUM BOYS legger ut på en liten førjulsturne. Voss, Bergen, Skien, Ålesund. Trondheim, Hell og Oslo er de utvalgte byene som får besøk av trønderne.

GREG RENOFF – Van Halen Rising

Instead of trying to come up with some cool and mile-long introduction, let me just skip the bullshit and simply state that author Greg Renoff has written an awesome account of how the legendary big rockers Van Halen came into existence and how they took the world by storm when they released their first album,…

VOODOO CIRCLE – Whisky Fingers

The fourth studio album from bluesy hard rock band Voodoo Circle, "Whisky Fingers" is all about pumping out those electric grooves, organ and guitar hooks, plus the powerhouse vocal delivery that made acts like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Whitesnake household names. Seasoned musicians make this album even better – because when you’ve been…

DELUGE – Æther

Déluge is yet another interesting French outfit that, musically speaking, falls somewhere inbetween modern black metal and inhumanly furious post-hardcore. It is hard to believe that "Æther" is the band’s debut album, because it not only sounds very tight and well-executed, but also quite clever and well-thought-out in terms of the actual song arrangements and…

THE GLORIA STORY – Greetings from Electric Wastelands

Another old school album, but embodying more of the party/ good time vibe, is "Greetings from Electric Wastelands" from Swedish quintet The Gloria Story. High pitch vocals, simple background harmonies, vibrant and catchy guitar hooks, and a tough as nails rhythm section gives "Beast of a Northern Light", the trippy "Cardinal Sin", and hard rocking…

BLOOD RED SAINTS – Speedway

Forming last year, the quintet Blood Red Saints has ties through other known melodic hard rock/ AOR entities like Eden’s Curse (drummer Pete Newdeck), In Faith (vocalist Pete Godfrey), and Gary Hughes (guitarist Lee Revill) – rounding out the lineup with bassist Rob Naylor and keyboardist Irvin Parratt. Rich harmonies, uplifting melodic choruses, effective musical…

KAMPFAR – Profan

Kampfar er tilbake med sitt syende album, utgitt kun et år etter deres kritikerroste Djevelmakt. Med Profan tar Kampfar ytterligere et sted videre med sin smått episke tilnærming til black metal. Samtidig holdes det et fast grep om folk metal tonene, noe som gjør Kampfar til noe svært fengende og tilgjengelig blant mylderet av black…

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