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A melodically charged, dark progressive/power steel unit based from the decibel-rich town of Gothenburg, Sweden, Evergrey was founded in 1995 by guitarist/vocalist Tom S. Englund. The music group issued a set of well-received LPs, The Dark Breakthrough and Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy, in 1998 and 1999, respectively, prior to making their …

A Colorado music group formed in 1981, Jag Panzer’s design was basic Uk metallic influenced by rings like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Originally founded by guitarist Tag Briody, bassist John Tetley, drummer Butch Carlson, and vocalist Harry “The Tyrant” Conklin, they released their debut mini-album in 1983. The music …

The progressive metal band Crimson Glory formed in Florida in 1982. Vocalist Midnight, guitarists Jeff Drenning and Ben Jackson, bassist Jeff Lords and drummer Dana Burnell got played collectively for over 3 years before Roadrunner authorized the music group and released the Crimson Glory recording in 1986. The recording received …

A Finland-based metal music group that found achievement after spending years toiling and being successful over fans among the leading unsigned groupings in that nation, Stam1na released their initial album — a self-titled affair — in 2005. As the music group was gaining kudos and plaudits because of its demos …

Kotipelto may be the brainchild of the vocalist/songwriter Timo Kotipelto, most widely known because the frontman for the favorite Finnish metal clothing Stratovarius. Kotipelto focuses on majestic/melodic Euro-power metallic within the Iron Maiden custom, with lyrics frequently centering on historic Egyptian styles. Kotipelto’s first launch, Looking forward to the Dawn, …

During his prolific job of nearly 70 years, British actor and singer Sir Christopher Lee founded himself in a number of roles, sometimes iconic, frequently villainous, and usually interesting. After an extraordinary military profession during World Battle II, Lee plied his trade in little background assignments for ten years before …

Combining components of melodic death metallic, power metallic, neo-classical, and thrash, Children of Bodom have already been among the world’s most expansive and hard to define rings since their formation in 1993. Founded by lifelong close friends Alexi Laiho (electric guitar/vocals) and Jaska Raatikainen (drums), the music group originally formed …

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 …

An innovative, classy, and highly enhanced “symphonic metallic” outfit from Holland, the Gathering debuted with 1993’s Constantly, a fairly simple death metallic album with vocals by Marike Groot, although heavy usage of keyboards managed to get stand out a little from additional such albums at that time. The follow-up, 1994’s …

Forming in the tiny German city of Krefeld, Blind Guardian perfected a fusion of gothic- and fantasy-tinged European power steel with the speed and techie precision of rate metal. People Hansi Kürsch (vocals, bass), Marcus Siepen (electric guitar), André Olbrich (electric guitar), and Thomen Stauch (drums) primarily known as themselves …