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SABATONThe War to End All Wars
The War to End All Wars delivers sturdy hooks and battlefield momentum, but Sabaton’s familiar machinery shows through the smoke.
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BLIND GUARDIANImaginations From The Other Side
Blind Guardian sharpen their grand design into a dense, dramatic album where layered voices and restless guitars serve the songs.
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JINJERWallflowers
Wallflowers is focused, confrontational and fiercely dynamic: a record where technical power serves a clear emotional and social voice.
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EDGE OF SANITYInfernal
A fractured but compelling Edge of Sanity record, balancing sharp death-metal impact with Dan Swanö’s expanding progressive instincts.
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POWERWOLFCall of the Wild
Call of the Wild has atmosphere and hooks, but Powerwolf’s rigid formula leaves too many songs sounding like alternate costumes on one idea.
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WIZARDTHRONEHypercube Necrodimensions
A dazzling, absurdly ambitious collision of symphonic grandeur, melodic death metal and cosmic excess.
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EXHUMEDSlaughtercult
Compact, tightly engineered goregrind that balances speed, riff density and structural control better than its chaos suggests.
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HELLOWEENHelloween
Helloween’s reunion album is energetic and professional, but its strongest moments come when nostalgia yields to tension.
VISION DIVINEVision Divine’s Olaf Thörsen: “Melody Has To Carry The Weight"
We sit down and explore melody, precision and progressive songwriting in Vision Divine.
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AT THE GATESSlaughter Of The Soul
At the Gates deliver a brutally concise melodic death metal blueprint whose precision, urgency and riff economy remain formidable.
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RHAPSODYPower of the Dragonflame
Rhapsody’s symphonic power metal spectacle is energetic and technically polished, but relentless excess turns grandeur into fatigue.
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TETRARCHUnstable
Unstable turns anxiety into blunt, heavy hooks, though its narrow emotional vocabulary and repeated structures limit the payoff.
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ANTHRAXWorship Music
Anthrax return with sharpened riffs, huge choruses and the kind of rhythmic discipline most comeback albums never find.
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MOONSPELLHermitage
Hermitage trades Moonspell’s usual theatrical force for reflective weight, and the restraint often reveals more than spectacle would.
Visit Croatia
Croatia is the other side of the Adriatic Sea: a country that still has clear traces of a Roman and Venetian past, but has developed a strong identity culture, with its own traditions and artistic movements.
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TURISASTurisas2013
A triumphant return! Turisas2013 is a glorious, galloping folk metal feast that reasserts the band's unique and brutal vision.
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EMPERORAnthems To The Welkin At Dusk
More intricate and disciplined than its predecessor, though Emperor’s increased complexity sometimes suppresses the raw emotional force.
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DARK TRANQUILLITYMoment
Moment balances melodic clarity with controlled aggression, delivering a dependable Dark Tranquillity record that rarely risks instability.
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UNLEASH THE ARCHERSAbyss
Abyss has a vivid cosmic atmosphere and several soaring peaks, but its long arc loses tension between major set pieces.
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FINNTROLLVredesvävd
A compact, expertly made Finntroll record whose darker atmosphere is persuasive, though few songs become truly indispensable.
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AD INFINITUMChapter I - Monarchy
A poised symphonic-metal debut with strong melodic architecture, dark color and a bonus-heavy runtime that dilutes its focus.