Articles by Michael Lueders

Portuguese duo RP Possessed (Vocals) and Jorman Khaos ( Instruments)  have unleashed their latest offering, Vultures of Despair, which is true to their uncompromising and chaotic nature, full of rage and disorder. From its opening […]

Harsh Canadians CULTIST finally presented the listeners with the full album “Manic Despair”. It took the group seven years to create a stronghold of their many years of work and experience. buy levaquin online https://mendakotapeds.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/php/levaquin.html […]

Beyond The Black are a symphonic metal band from Germany formed in 2014, releasing five albums to date – ‘Songs Of Love And Death’ (2015), ‘Lost In Forever’ (2016), ‘Heart Of The Hurricane’ (2018), ‘Horizons’ […]

A festival like no other, The Other Festival returned this weekend, bringing all of the rock, riffs and rollicking good times to The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday. Following its inaugural event in 2021, The Other Festival has […]

Brash, unashamed, loud and in your face, GLAM FEST is here Australia. Catering to fans of throwback glam metal (think ‘80s era Sunset strip), sleaze, shock rock, hard rock and everything in between, GLAM FEST offers fans of the […]

DragonhammeR is a power metal band from Italy formed in 1999 and releasing five albums to date – ‘The Blood Of The Dragon’ (2001), ‘Time For Expiation’ (2004), ‘The X Experiment’ (2013), ‘Obscurity’ (2017), and […]

Dead City Ruins are a hard rock band from Australia formed in 2012 releasing four albums to date – ‘Midnight Killer’ (2012), ‘Dead City Ruins’ (2013), ‘Never Say Die’ (2018), and ‘Shockwave’ released in 2022. […]

Rage is a heavy, power metal band from Germany formed in 1984, releasing an incredible twenty-six studio albums throughout a staggering forty-year career. Founded by vocalist/bass player Peter ‘Peavy’ Wagner, he has led the band […]

Scream Maker is a heavy metal band from Poland formed in 2010, releasing three albums to date – ‘Livin’ In The Past’ (2014), ‘Back Against The World’ (2016), and ‘BloodKing’, originally released in January 2022… […]

Landfall is a hard rock band from Brazil, releasing their debut album ‘The Turning Point’ in 2020 and sophomore album ‘Elevate’ in 2022. The hard rocking hard rockers from Curitiba are back – and with […]

Lyzzärd is a heavy metal band from Portugal formed in 2013, released two albums to date – ‘Savage’ (2017), and ‘The Abyss’ released in 2022… …featuring ten all-out heavy metallers in just thirty-six minutes! This […]

The debut album by Australia’s Unfelled reflects the paganistic duality of Multi-Instrumentalist D. Where the subtlety and sophistication of his other project, Woods of Desolation, is discarded for the atmospheric savagery that foretells the triumvirate […]

Poland’s Dargor unveiled their debut album Ascend to Infinity that whilst it is uncompromising black metal that you would expect from the region, it is also very melodic and touches on the symphonic combined with […]

Forming in 2010 German quartet Fagus is a band that is driven by a particular vision that is unbound by the constraints and trends around them. Their debut album, after ten years of intense preparation […]

Krilloan is a melodic power metal band from Sweden formed in 2020 by Klas Holmgren, the self-proclaimed “disciple of metal”. Inspired by bands such as Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, and Iron Savior, Klas and […]

Asterise is a multinational symphonic power metal project formed in 2018 by guitarist Bartlomiej Mezynski and keyboardist Dionysis Maniatakos – the band completed by drummer Slawomir Siwak, vocalists Tristan Harders (Terra Atlantica), Arnaud Menard, and […]

Hild is the creation of Lars Broddesson, most notably associated with Marduk and Funeral Mist, and it is an ode to true warlike warrior nature. The result is a violent debut opus that is short […]

Aggression is a thrash metal band from Canada, formed during the mid-eighties thrash explosion. During a four-decade line-up changing and hiatus-riddled career, the band have released five studio albums – ‘The Full Treatment’ (1987), ‘Forgotten […]

Xentrix are a thrash metal band from the UK formed in 1988 and is recognised as one of Britain’s finest thrash metal bands – with their first two albums – ‘Shattered Existence’ (1989) and ‘For […]

Leather is a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 1989 by Leather Leone – probably better known as the lead vocalist for fellow American metallers Chastain. Leather has released three albums – ‘Shock […]

Induction is a symphonic power metal band from the Czech Republic formed in 2014. Releasing their self-titled debut album in 2019, with their sophomore album ‘Born From Fire’, a 2022 release. Featuring a bombastic and […]

Tankard is a thrash metal band from Germany formed in 1982 and is recognised as one of the four pioneers of German thrash, along with Destruction, Kreator and Sodom – better known as the Teutonic […]

Rising Steel is a heavy metal band from France formed in 2012, releasing three albums to date – ‘Return Of The Warlord’ (2016), ‘Fight Them All’ (2020), and ‘Beyond The Gates Of Hell’ released in […]

Sword is a heavy metal band from Canada formed in 1980, releasing two albums – ‘Metalized’ (1986) and ‘Sweet Dreams’ (1988) – before the band parted ways while working on their third album! Reforming in […]