Dawn of Ouroboros – The Art of Morphology (2020) – Review

Listen on Apple Music
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
RockmusicRaider - Dawn of Ouroboros - The Art of Morphology - Album Cover

The RMR deck crew fancies bands gallivanting across styles and genres. Those with little regard to the proverbial little boxes the purists like so much. Because they are the ones that bring that fresh wind into stale soundscapes that often border on the morose.

The appetites for charting new courses vary of course. You get the politically correct ones that carefully navigate about their metal.

And then you get the carefree bands. Those that happily throw the compass overboard and just head out into that wide-open metal sea. Never mind cliffs, storms, and maneuvers.

And Dawn of Ouroboros with their … [...] Click to raid more!

Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind (1983) – Review

Listen on Apple Music
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
RockmusicRaider - Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind - Album Cover

Let’s face it. The ’80s were Iron Maiden‘s heyday. Alongside others, like the mighty Dio, this band truly wrote metal history. A decade that delighted us with records like The Number of the Beast, Powerslave, or again the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. All of them friggin’ heavy hitters in their own right. Talk about the creativity of a band totally unchained and in full creative vigor.

Fast forward to modern times, it is now some five years since The Book of Souls hit our turntables. And nobody knows yet when the next one … [...] Click to raid more!

Myrkur – Folkesange (2020) – Review

Listen on Apple Music
RockmusicRaider - Spotify Logo
RockmusicRaider - Myrkur - Folkesange - Album Cover

Myrkur, the outfit that messed up the comfortable, tremolo-laden life of many a Black Metal addict over the last years. A band led by a female better known in the pop multiverse. And without any metallic credentials to her credit.

Amalie Bruun truly followed her very own instinct to the fiery metal pit. Her metal persona features a mix between ethereal folksy parts and disturbing metal screams on a bed of tremolo. Just go ahead and twirl M, you’ll understand what I mean. Then there’s the follow up with the somewhat unhinged Mareridt. A piece that defined … [...] Click to raid more!

Uriah Heep – The Magician’s Birthday (1972) – Review

RockmusicRaider - Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday - Album Cover

Ah, it’s time for another one, ain’t it? A long time has passed since our last Heep review. And what better times than these difficult ones to write a new piece on one of the most underrated rock bands of all time.

And – of course – what immediately comes to mind is the year 1972. That is when the breakthrough record Demons and Wizards hit the shelves with a vengeance. And – more importantly – when Uriah Heep boasted one of their strongest lineups ever. David Byron, Ken Hensley, Mick Box, Lee Kerslake, and Gary Thain[...] Click to raid more!