melodic power metal

Insomnium, Shear and Kuolemanlaakso - The Circus, Helsinki, 10/05/14

Insomnium launched their new album Shadows of the Dying Sun to the Helsinki audience, filling the venue with the harmonious echoes of their Finnish melodic death metal to culminate in their "best show ever". Opening for them was melancholy death-doom act Kuolemanlaakso, and the melodic power metal of Shear.

Vanishing Point – Distant Is The Sun (AFM Records)

Vanishing Point are back after a long break with their fifth studio effort and it's well worth the wait.
Release Date: 
21 Feb 2014 - 9:00am

The year was 2008; I was finally getting to see my all-time favourite band, Iron Maiden, for the first time live in Melbourne on the “Somewhere Back In Ti

Wolfpakk - Wolfpakk (AFM)

A new all-star metal project from Michael Voss and Mark Sweeney.
Release Date: 
26 Aug 2011 (All day)

Now that Tobias Sammet appears to have closed the door – at least for the time being- on any more metal operas under the Avantasia imprint, there would appea

Empires of Eden studio footage

Empires of Eden have released studio footage featuring keyboardist Bobby Williamson (Eumeria) from the recording sessions for Reborn in Fire due for release on July 16 via 7Hard Records.

Created by virtuoso guitarist Stu Marshall (Paindivision - Dungeon), Empires of Eden is a uni