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Elettra Storm – Evertale (2025) – Review

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After all that galivanting about old records and esoteric undercurrents, it’s time to speed our metal up once more. Power Metal is on the menu, and it’s the Italian kind that took our fancy this time. And methinks they make them en masse over there, furnished ready to go with some built-in stereotypes already blearing. Fast, furious, but also easily recognizable.

Elettra Storm is the band’s name, and their 2024 record, Powerlords, must have sailed right past our review pipe. The act seems to be in a rush, too. They came into being in 2023, and already Evertale, … [...] Click to raid more!

Iron Maiden – The X Factor (1995) – Review

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Let’s blame it on Iron Maiden‘s Dickinson, shall we? Some time back in 2025, the man himself commented on the happy birthday of The X Factor and asked the wide audience for their favorite tracks.1 And my point was, truthfully, that there weren’t any. And there still aren’t. Or are there?

Olde is our memory after all these decades. And – perhaps – now is a good moment to revisit an ancient and possibly misunderstood record. This time, with the weight of 10 years of reviews behind us. Viewpoints overturned and ancient observations brutally squashed? Dusty pergament … [...] Click to raid more!

Wings of Steel – Winds of Time (2025) – Review

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Clichés rule! And that is specifically true for well-established metal genres. Heavy Metal is one of them for sure. Long past its heyday, you’ll still find bands wanting to go down this well-trodden path. They’ll make you experience that delicious devil’s music the old masters started once upon a time. And it’s a surprising number of them newbies tilling the ancient fields that their oldish brethren already visited eons ago.

Meet Wings of Steel. A surprisingly young Californian Heavy Metal band that seems to step right out of the tired remains of the Sunset Boulevard movement and the early … [...] Click to raid more!

Celestial Wizard – Regenesis (2025) – Review

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Celestial Wizard‘s 2022 piece, Winds of the Cosmos, never quite convinced us. The RMR crew let ‘er roar out of our mighty music machine. But nada, nothing would stick, or at least not enough to unstick it from the sump of the review pipe.

But here, the band is back with Regenesis, their newest concoction. And already the pulp fiction style, kinda oldish album cover got the better of us. Who can resist some sort of Western-style Grim Reaper on a pale horse in a saguaro-infested1 fantastical Arizona desert setting? Well, yours truly couldn’t. Go find … [...] Click to raid more!