Shredding Epica
Epica has overtaken Nightwish as the premier, household name symphonic power metal band with woman at the mic. Their combination of death metal riffs and soaring operatic vocals, as well as top notch orchestrations and creativity have allowed Epica to expand their sound and flourish without losing what makes them special. Mark Jansen has gotten […]
Shredding Evergrey
Evergrey set the standard in the early 2000s for what progressive power metal would look like for decades to come. Rather than focusing on shredding and neoclassical elements Evergrey went right for the feels with incredibly catchy music, crushing riffs (most of the time), and a certain emotion that only Thomas Englund can achieve with […]
Slow Cuts of 2020
Doom albums of 2020 that needed time to mull over. Includes King Witch, Marrowfields, Sorcerer, Pulchra Morte, and Cardinal Wyrm.
TMO Albums Of The Month – January 2021
Metal Archeology – Tower Hill
With the sheer amount of metal bands out there, it is easy to get swept away by the flood of releases every month and miss some of the true gemstones. The Metal Observer will help you dig up these gemstones with less than 100 likes on Facebook in “Metal Archeology”. And our latest installment is […]
2020 Death Metal Roundup
Like many, I won’t look back fondly on 2020. But one of the bright spots of the year was that the OSDM revival kept on trucking. There were plenty of above average death metal releases this year and I hope there is something for fans of all types of death metal on this list. […]
The Metal Observer’s Top 30 Albums of 2020
In good old TMO tradition we have given the year as much time as possible to reveal its hidden gems (or in the case of 2020 a chance to redeem itself) and going for January 1st as the only apt date to publish the best of the best (yes, we are aware that it is […]
TMO’s Debut Albums of the Year
Welcome to a special edition TMO year end list, a warm-up to our final top 30, and what you can consider our Christmas present to you, our fellow readers. In the giving spirit of the holiday season, we thought to give a well earned shout-out to the special elite of up and coming bands that […]
Interview with Persefone
Guitarist Carlos Lozano of Persefone joins me to discuss the re-issue of the band’s debut album “Truth Inside the Shades”. Read on to learn all the fun details!
Shredding Falconer
