Legendary heavy metal singer, front man and larger-than-life persona Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) passed away yesterday at the age of 76. News of his passing came mere weeks after his final concert, the massive Back To The Beginning event in Birmingham, … Continue reading In memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne
Year: 2025Label: Kymijoen levyt Everything about Finnish Kuningas and their new, second EP Naisia spells out loudly in big capital letters an earnest albeit clumsy love for heavy metal. From the shakily hand-written promo sheet to the rudimentary cover art … Continue reading KUNINGAS: Naisia
It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. Three years into their recording career, British heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath released their fourth album. Which at the same time is their fourth consecutive iconic album. In those early years, Black … Continue reading From the Vaults #15: Vol 4
Let’s talk perfection. Let’s talk Danzig’s second album Lucifuge. Of its 11 tracks, an amazing 10 are pure perfection, and the remaining one track – Pain In The World – is “just” pretty damn awesome. Regardless of what you think … Continue reading From the Vaults #9: Lucifuge
DIAMOND FALCON: Gates Of Hell Release year: 2024Label: Self-released What is the coolest heavy metal band of all time? If you ask Austrian Diamond Falcon, the answer might be Iron Maiden. At least their newest, third full-length album Gates Of … Continue reading Falcons at the gates of Hell
As with most people my age into metal, Iron Maiden was one of the very first bands I started listening to. However, this was in the mid-90’s, and their most recent album then was X Factor, so my introduction to … Continue reading From the Vaults #6: The Best Of Bruce Dickinson
Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is a document of a band losing its way, lost in a maze of fame, success and above all: drugs. Already their previous album, 1975’s Sabotage started showing some serious cracks in the mirror, but on … Continue reading From the Vaults #5: Technical Ecstasy
VISION MASTER: Sceptre Release year: 2023Label: Gates Of Hell Records Nietzsche wrote about the concept of eternal return; the idea that things and phenomena will repeat in perpetuity – and of how one should overcome the fear of this. Now, … Continue reading Vision Master peering into the past
Do you remember the first CD you ever bought? Do you remember when it was? I certainly remember mine. It was Babylon Zoo’s The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes, in the summer of 1996. Our family had just bought our … Continue reading From the Vaults #4: Dehumanizer
CARDINALS FOLLY: Live By The Sword Release year: 2023Label: Soulseller Records A good name is a good name, right? And Live By The Sword is a good name. When Count Karnstein, band leader, vocalist and bass player of Finnish true … Continue reading Of doom, folly and life by the sword
Only Death Is Real 