Slow Cuts of 2022
For this year’s Slow Cuts (or last year’s, I suppose) the focus is on “true metal” albums that needed more time to ponder. The majority are heavy metal, a few have power genes, a couple lean into doom, and even a sprinkling of folk touches some parts as well, but these 7 releases all […]
The Metal Observer’s Top 30 Albums of 2022
This year we decided to pull our fingers out and make our Top 30 available before the end of the year. Cue frantic observing during much of December and the eventual result of a gleaming Best Of for your inspection and delectation. As usual, there’s a massive cross-section of different styles present on the […]
A Conversation with Tobias Sammet of Avantasia
Most people with an ounce of talent and skill can write a song. If they are lucky, the song they write is good and maybe it turns into a decent album of songs. The same can be said of the voice as an instrument. Anyone can sing. Plenty of people can even sing well. How […]
Shredding: Helloween
Shredding of Helloween’s 16 album discography by Larry Best and Edmund Morton. A Halloween special Helloween discography review!
Shredding: Wolf
Lonely outsiders, howling pained threnodies beneath the moonlight, yearning to be part of the pack but never quite fitting in… That’s Wolf and their peculiar brand of heavy metal that beat the NWOTM by almost a decade, leaving the Swedish band in a no-man’s land between classic and modern scenes and sounds. Prepare to witness […]
Shredding: Moonspell
Join us for another shredding feature, as we celebrate three decades of sublime gothic metal with Portuguese legends Moonspell!
