Ayreon has a new ginormous rock/metal opera ready to debut, and we have a useful primer to catch you up on all the yacht metal you already missed.
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Angry Metal Primer – Finntroll
One of the finest in folks is finally back, and they’ve brought their tools with them.
Almanac – A Discographic Review [Tsar (2016), Kingslayer (2017) and Rush of Death (2020)]
“For the last four years, I have been neglecting—and you have been denied my Very Important Opinion™ about—one of the most idiosyncratic voices in metal: Victor Smolski. And so, in a Swallow the Sun-sized act of hubris, I’m writing a discographic review of Victor Smolski’s Almanac.” You can’t spell “Almanac” without MAN!
Angry Metal Primer – Pain of Salvation
The pain, the primer and the manbun.
Angry Metal Primer – Ulver
The most necessary primer yet, and we didn’t even include half their records.
Season of Dreams – My Shelter Review
“If you build it, they will come. Oh wait. That’s Field of Dreams. Either way, that was really the intent that Season of Dreams founder Jean-Michel Volz had for his new project. The Frenchman wanted to take his compositional experience and use it to form a band that channeled the greatest aspects from both heavy and power metals.” Bombed shelter.
Angry Metal Primer – Manticora
Giving you extra time to get prepped for a release you didn’t know you needed. You’re welcome.
Angry Metal Primer – Defeated Sanity
“Defeated Sanity have found their own unique mixture of the cerebral and the feral, which has propelled them headlong into the hearts, minds, and collections of many a death metal fan. No matter how complex their music gets, Defeated Sanity never loses sight of the fact that they play brutal death metal.” Sanity must be defeated!
Angry Metal Primer – Ensiferum
Wimps and posers, buy a sauna. The real deal is here.
Operus – Score of Nightmares Review
“What do you get when you cross a cellist who has performed on stage alongside the Trans-Siberian Orchestra with the bassist of thrash metal band Annihilator? Theatrical power metal would not be my first guess.” Stage and scream.