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!
Video premiere: Thoughts Factory – Our Kingdom
Germany’s progressive metal force Thoughts Factory releases the official lyric video for their new song “Our Kingdom”.
Shredding: Rammstein
Larry breaks down each album by the German industrial goliaths to decide which one sits on top.
Thrash Metal Year In Review – 2017
Larry rounds up all the decent (and some not-so-decent) thrash releases for the headbang-happy year of 2017.
TMO Song Premiere – “Vile Vermin” by Necrotted
Calling all slam-fiends and brutality addicts, German horde Necrotted are poised to release their pummeling new record Worldwide Warfare, and we at The Metal Observer want you to hear their savage new single, “Vile Vermin.”
Secret Steel – Power Metal 1: Genesis
Welcome to Secret Steel, the new project of The Metal Observer — Chapter I: “Power Metal 1: Genesis”
FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Inferno 2014, Day 3 (Oslo, Norway)
Inferno Day 3, April 18th 2014
FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Inferno 2014, Day 2 (Oslo, Norway)
Inferno Day 2, April 17th 2014
Wacken Open Air 2008 (Wacken, Germany)
Ever since last year, when I was finally able to pay a visit to the Mecca of metalheads, Wacken Open Air, I’d been looking forwards to revisiting the festival. The mixture of meeting people from all over the world and seeing great bands from the entire metal-spectrum for three whole days is something you can’t […]
