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Produced in 1997, American metallers Pharaoh released their debut album, Following the Fireplace, in 2003. The music group, which is experienced in well-produced albums and multi-layered instrumentation, help with a sophomore discharge in 2006; entitled The Longest Evening, Pharaoh’s second record built on the early guarantee. The bandmembers spent nearly …

UnSun was founded in 2006 by guitarist Mauser (true name Maurycy Stefanowicz), carrying out a ten-year residency with veteran Polish thrashers Vader, yet his new task entailed a radically different music path seen as a melodic gothic rock and roll and metal, and it is fronted with the siren-like vocals …

Led by Chris Caffery and Mike Terrana, Metalium debuted in 1999 using the album Millennium Metallic. Condition of Triumph adopted a year later on.

Pursuing in the footsteps from the Gathering and Lacuna Coil (goth-influenced “symphonic” metallic bands with woman vocalists), Nightwish had been created in Kitee, Finland, in 1997 by keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. In the beginning attempting to generate acoustic music, he recruited qualified opera vocalist Tarja Turunen, but quickly added full metallic …

The progressive power metal band Demons & Wizards was a side project for Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kursch and Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer; in addition, it highlighted onetime Iced Globe drummer Tag Prator. Demons & Wizards documented a self-titled debut in 1999, with Schaffer also managing bass for the …

Fashion trends will come and move, but Florida’s Iced Globe have remained steadfastly focused on championing the reason for rock through heavy and thin. After many years of laboring in obscurity and going through countless lineup adjustments, they gradually emerged among the best hopes for traditional metal in the us. …

Pyramaze is really a Danish progressive/symphonic power steel device that invokes brands want Helloween, Iced Globe, HammerFall, and Kamelot. Founded in 2001 by guitarist Michael Kammeyer, the music group eventually grew right into a quintet using the improvements of drummer Morten Gade Sørensen (Wuthering Heights, Anubis Gate), bassist Niels Kvist, …

Although Helsinki, Finland rock band Stratovarius were formed in 1982 by drummer Tuomo Lassila, the group didn’t record its debut album, Fright Evening, until 1989. Released in 1992, Twilight Period established a group of fans in Japan, getting the biggest-selling transfer of that season; Stratovarius consolidated their Japanese reputation with …

A melodically charged, hard-hitting retro-metal device from Gothenberg, Sweden, Memory was shaped in 1999 by guitarist Harry Granroth, who was simply looking to develop a music group that evoked the old-school sonic mythos of standard hard rock clothes like Iced Globe, Judas Priest, Mercyful Destiny, and Iron Maiden. Boasting a …

Nevermore straddles the range between power metallic, traditional rock, and the modern hard rock picture, eschewing the silly theatrics from the “power picture” and only a darker tone, while reaping the benefits of melody as well as the high-flying vocal selection of singer Warrel Dane. The origins from the Seattle-based …