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After attending a concert with the Christmas-themed Trans-Siberian Orchestra, former Twisted Sister vocalist Dee Snider was therefore impressed he decided the rock-orchestra format would have to be put on his favorite holiday, Halloween. Snider mixed a six-piece choir, a six-piece string section, and a five-piece rock-band and called it Truck …

Obviously candidates for the “most un-metallic rock band name ever conceived” competition, France’s Fairyland focus on epic, fantasy-laced, keyboard-driven, intensifying/symphonic-minded power metallic of the type made popular simply by Italy’s Rhapsody and Germany’s Avantasia, amongst others. First conceived of in 1998 by multi-instrumentalist Willdric Lievin, Fairyland steadily gathered collaborators Anthony …

Jorn may be the single enterprise of journeyman Norwegian vocalist Jørn Lande (Masterplan, Vagabond, the Snakes, Ark, etc.), whose amazing talent offers allowed him to master from power metallic to bluesy hard rock and roll to pop. After fronting several metallic and hard rock and roll bands within the 1990s, …

Italian rock guitarist Luca Turilli is fairly an anomaly. Blessed in Trieste, Italy on March 5, 1972, Turilli is certainly right within the Gen-X demographic but is very untouched by choice metal trends from the ‘90s and 2000s. Turilli’s area of expertise is ‘70s/’80s-design fantasy steel with a solid progressive …

Among numerous musical tasks spearheaded by indefatigable guitarist David T. Chastain, the rock music group that bears his name is a fixture in America’s underground steel picture for over 2 decades, but offers hardly ever reared its mind aboveground. First created in 1984, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chastain was instantly authorized …

Power steel — a forceful, hard-driving,and aggressive yet melodic design of large metal connected with headbangers like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensrÿche, Helloween, and Ruler Gemstone — got were only available in the ’70s and reached its business peak within the ’80s. But following the ’80s — after Nirvana and …