When I started to use ReverbNation it was the beginning of 2015, I was looking to get in contact with Inkubus Sukkubus, to see if they had any plans on playing gigs in the north east of England. So I went onto Inkubus Sukkubus's website and followed the message link and I came to ReverbNation, and I signed up to it. Anyway I got a message back from Inkubus Sukkubus that they were working on something of a tour. so I left it at that.
Over time, I explored ReverbNation to see what it was all about and that was when I stumbled across Lish Ventura and I started to listen to her music on her ReverbNation page and when I listened to the music on her page, I said to myself "OK, you've been a fan of rock/metal bands that are fronted by women for decades, and you've been a fan of Evanescence ever since they released their first album in 2003", so I was thinking whats this tribute band going to be like, so I put aside my preconceptions and listened to the music and I was pleasantly surprised that they were actually good and that was it, I became a fan of theirs there and then.
From what I heard, Lish Ventura is a really good singer and the backing band, Sweet Sacrifice are brilliant musicians. Since 2013 Lish Ventura has been recording and playing live Evanescence songs, and according to her ReverbNation page, she has been working on some original music, which will be released some time this year, in which I'll be waiting to hear for Lish has got in store for us.
I would definitely give Lish and Sweet Sacrifice a 4 out of 5
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Over the last 25 years or so I have been listening to Slayer and with each they have brought out I have enjoyed. The Repentless album that has come out recently has been no exception. From start to finish it is a roller coaster ride of aggression. But I thought that with Jeff Hannerman passing a few years back, I thought that Slayer would go their separate ways, but they made a decision to carry on. With Jeff looking down on them, they have made a brutal album that can be called a masterpiece, from Kerry's guitars to the drumming to Tom's singing, its good to see Slayer in fine form. The music video to Repentless has got a lot of Hollywood movie stars in it, such as Danny Trejo of such films as Machete and From Dusk 'til Dawn, If you like Slayer you should go out and buy it, you will not regret it.
I would give this 5 out of 5
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When I first heard of Babymetal back on the 12th of July 2015. I was listening to BBC Radio 6 as Ron and Russel Mael from Sparks who took over from Jarvis Cocker's show for the day, as he was on holiday. They started to do the show and I thought nothing of it as they were playing stuff that they found interesting, well about the 3rd track into the show they played BabyMetal's Headbangya song and I was thinking "What the hell is this" so I listened to the track and when it finished I checked them out and when I saw that they'd been out since 2010, I was thinking "How did I miss these". When I heard that they released their Debut album over here in the UK I went out and bought it. It has not been off my playlist ever since I got it with a few other album from different bands. I do not know what it is about BabyMetal, but every time I try to come up with a rational explaination for what Babymetal are and what they are about, there's always something new that batters my brain, I do not know if its the singing or the Kami Band or what ever it is, these kids are brilliant, and they have the guts to get up on stage in front of 20,000 pure metal heads and win them over when they were 12 and 14 years old, and have the Big 4 to back you up is a major feat in its self. This debut album of theirs is brilliant from start to finish so if you haven't got it already, go get it NOW. It has been announced that BABYMETAL is releasing a new album on the 1st of April 2016 and it is a worldwide release so I can't wait for that.
I would give this album 5 out of 5 Project Metal Music
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A few years back I was playing and online game and I was talking to one of the lads who was playing, it turns out that he was a huge Metal fan, we'd talked about different bands, he'd asked me what bands I liked, so I told and when I asked him what his favourite band was, he was thinking for a while and said "Oh it has to be Battle Beast, you should go and check them out" so I did, what he didn't tell me was that Battle Beast is a female fronted metal band from Finland.
So when got my hands on a couple of Battle Beast album from my local record shop. I got home and started to listen to Steel (Released in 2012) and Battle Beast (Released in 2013), the overall sound of these albums (at the time), reminded me of some bands from the late 70s and early 80s, but then I couldn't remember who. Now that I had time to think of who Battle Beast reminds me, and they sound very much like Judas Priest from the early days when they started out. Both albums are brilliant, as they give a very big nod to Judas Priest, who had a big presence on the band. and the other big factor on Battle Beast is the Metal Legend that is Ronnie James Dio.
If you like Judas Priest and Dio you will like Battle Beast and would highly recommend that you go out and get their albums.
I would give both of these albums 4 out of 5
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Iron Maiden is one of the best British Metal bands on the planet, they have sold millions of records over last 35 years. When I was growing up in the early 80's i was aware of Maiden, but I didn't pay much attention to them. When I did get into them in 1988 they had just released the single Can I Play With Madness off the album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. After that I was instantly a fan.
Over the years, since 1988 I have tried to buy everything from Maiden, but I had to put a limit on how much. If I did buy everything I'd be broke. But I do have all of their albums, a few singles and DVD's. I have seen them in concert 3 times, once with Blaze Bayley and twice with Bruce Dickinson. While Bayley was a good singer when he was in Wolfsbane and as a solo artist, but when he followed Dickinson, he didn't have enough power to do the songs. To give him credit, he did do two decent albums, The X Factor and Virtual XI. Bruce Dickinson is one of the best entertainers on the planet, he's up there with the likes of Freddie Mercury. Bruce, is one of those guys where you think "Where the Fuck does he get the energy". Not only is he a metal singer, he is also a commercial airline pilot (which he flies Ed Force 1), he is a radio DJ, TV presenter, he fences, and also helped with the recipe for the bands beer The Trooper. As everyone knows Dickinson had cancer at the back of his tongue, luckily his doctors found it in the early stages and successfully removed it.
The Book Of Souls album is the first double studio album from Maiden and it is brilliant, Bruce hasn't lost anything from his voice, since his brush with cancer in early 2015, he still has the power, he is still like the Air Raid Siren that he is. The song Speed of Light is one of my favourites off the album.
There are tracks on this album that are on the epic scale like, The Red And The Black at 13 mins 33 secs, The Book Of Souls at 10 mins 29 secs and Empire Of The Clouds at 18 mins 02 secs. This piece of music from Maiden is epic in every sense of the word, this could be the best album ever from Maiden. Its hard to describe this album, the only way that you get my meaning is to got out and get it, you will NOT regret it. I would give this album 5 out of 5 for the best album of 2015 if not the decade Project Metal Music
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Lish Ventura and Sweet Sacrifice
When I started to use ReverbNation it was the beginning of 2015, I was looking to get in contact with Inkubus Sukkubus, to see if they had any plans on playing gigs in the north east of England. So I went onto Inkubus Sukkubus's website and followed the message link and I came to ReverbNation, and I signed up to it. Anyway I got a message back from Inkubus Sukkubus that they were working on something of a tour. so I left it at that.
Over time, I explored ReverbNation to see what it was all about and that was when I stumbled across Lish Ventura and I started to listen to her music on her ReverbNation page and when I listened to the music on her page, I said to myself "OK, you've been a fan of rock/metal bands that are fronted by women for decades, and you've been a fan of Evanescence ever since they released their first album in 2003", so I was thinking whats this tribute band going to be like, so I put aside my preconceptions and listened to the music and I was pleasantly surprised that they were actually good and that was it, I became a fan of theirs there and then.
From what I heard, Lish Ventura is a really good singer and the backing band, Sweet Sacrifice are brilliant musicians. Since 2013 Lish Ventura has been recording and playing live Evanescence songs, and according to her ReverbNation page, she has been working on some original music, which will be released some time this year, in which I'll be waiting to hear for Lish has got in store for us.
I would definitely give Lish and Sweet Sacrifice a 4 out of 5
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Slayer's Repentless Album Review
Over the last 25 years or so I have been listening to Slayer and with each they have brought out I have enjoyed. The Repentless album that has come out recently has been no exception. From start to finish it is a roller coaster ride of aggression. But I thought that with Jeff Hannerman passing a few years back, I thought that Slayer would go their separate ways, but they made a decision to carry on. With Jeff looking down on them, they have made a brutal album that can be called a masterpiece, from Kerry's guitars to the drumming to Tom's singing, its good to see Slayer in fine form. The music video to Repentless has got a lot of Hollywood movie stars in it, such as Danny Trejo of such films as Machete and From Dusk 'til Dawn, If you like Slayer you should go out and buy it, you will not regret it.
I would give this 5 out of 5
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Babymetal Debut Album Review
When I first heard of Babymetal back on the 12th of July 2015. I was listening to BBC Radio 6 as Ron and Russel Mael from Sparks who took over from Jarvis Cocker's show for the day, as he was on holiday. They started to do the show and I thought nothing of it as they were playing stuff that they found interesting, well about the 3rd track into the show they played BabyMetal's Headbangya song and I was thinking "What the hell is this" so I listened to the track and when it finished I checked them out and when I saw that they'd been out since 2010, I was thinking "How did I miss these". When I heard that they released their Debut album over here in the UK I went out and bought it. It has not been off my playlist ever since I got it with a few other album from different bands. I do not know what it is about BabyMetal, but every time I try to come up with a rational explaination for what Babymetal are and what they are about, there's always something new that batters my brain, I do not know if its the singing or the Kami Band or what ever it is, these kids are brilliant, and they have the guts to get up on stage in front of 20,000 pure metal heads and win them over when they were 12 and 14 years old, and have the Big 4 to back you up is a major feat in its self. This debut album of theirs is brilliant from start to finish so if you haven't got it already, go get it NOW. It has been announced that BABYMETAL is releasing a new album on the 1st of April 2016 and it is a worldwide release so I can't wait for that.
I would give this album 5 out of 5 Project Metal Music
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Battle Beast: Steel and Battle Beast Albums Review
A few years back I was playing and online game and I was talking to one of the lads who was playing, it turns out that he was a huge Metal fan, we'd talked about different bands, he'd asked me what bands I liked, so I told and when I asked him what his favourite band was, he was thinking for a while and said "Oh it has to be Battle Beast, you should go and check them out" so I did, what he didn't tell me was that Battle Beast is a female fronted metal band from Finland.
So when got my hands on a couple of Battle Beast album from my local record shop. I got home and started to listen to Steel (Released in 2012) and Battle Beast (Released in 2013), the overall sound of these albums (at the time), reminded me of some bands from the late 70s and early 80s, but then I couldn't remember who. Now that I had time to think of who Battle Beast reminds me, and they sound very much like Judas Priest from the early days when they started out. Both albums are brilliant, as they give a very big nod to Judas Priest, who had a big presence on the band. and the other big factor on Battle Beast is the Metal Legend that is Ronnie James Dio.
If you like Judas Priest and Dio you will like Battle Beast and would highly recommend that you go out and get their albums.
I would give both of these albums 4 out of 5
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Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls Album Reivew
Iron Maiden is one of the best British Metal bands on the planet, they have sold millions of records over last 35 years. When I was growing up in the early 80's i was aware of Maiden, but I didn't pay much attention to them. When I did get into them in 1988 they had just released the single Can I Play With Madness off the album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. After that I was instantly a fan.
Over the years, since 1988 I have tried to buy everything from Maiden, but I had to put a limit on how much. If I did buy everything I'd be broke. But I do have all of their albums, a few singles and DVD's. I have seen them in concert 3 times, once with Blaze Bayley and twice with Bruce Dickinson. While Bayley was a good singer when he was in Wolfsbane and as a solo artist, but when he followed Dickinson, he didn't have enough power to do the songs. To give him credit, he did do two decent albums, The X Factor and Virtual XI. Bruce Dickinson is one of the best entertainers on the planet, he's up there with the likes of Freddie Mercury. Bruce, is one of those guys where you think "Where the Fuck does he get the energy". Not only is he a metal singer, he is also a commercial airline pilot (which he flies Ed Force 1), he is a radio DJ, TV presenter, he fences, and also helped with the recipe for the bands beer The Trooper. As everyone knows Dickinson had cancer at the back of his tongue, luckily his doctors found it in the early stages and successfully removed it.
The Book Of Souls album is the first double studio album from Maiden and it is brilliant, Bruce hasn't lost anything from his voice, since his brush with cancer in early 2015, he still has the power, he is still like the Air Raid Siren that he is. The song Speed of Light is one of my favourites off the album.
There are tracks on this album that are on the epic scale like, The Red And The Black at 13 mins 33 secs, The Book Of Souls at 10 mins 29 secs and Empire Of The Clouds at 18 mins 02 secs. This piece of music from Maiden is epic in every sense of the word, this could be the best album ever from Maiden. Its hard to describe this album, the only way that you get my meaning is to got out and get it, you will NOT regret it. I would give this album 5 out of 5 for the best album of 2015 if not the decade Project Metal Music
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