As the end of 2021 nears and we discuss the Best Metal Album of the Year, here is a list of my favorite ones, which I have listened to as soon as they hit the digital platforms: (remark: this is a random order, not a ranking).
Icelandic piano superstar Vikingur Olafsson who has been on my radar for many years now, has won the 2021 Limelight Recording of the Year Award with his album ‘Mozart & Contemporaries’. This little essay is the outcome of my excitement with the news. Read more
LEPROUS-APHELION 14/11/2021
Dear Metalheads,
In this first music article on my own website, I wanted to talk about the new progressive metal band Leprous album Aphelion, released on August 27, 2021. At the beginning of September, I had listened to a few tracks from this beautiful album, in the middle of all the Senjutsu and the Metallica Blacklist tumult. Read more
It has been exactly 30 years since the release of the cult album “Metallica” by the legendary band Metallica, which is known as “The Black Album” due to its cover design. The group’s best-selling, best-known album, whose tracks are among the classics, entered the Billboard 200 charts at number one in 1991. Like Master Bruce Dickinson once said, The Black Album introduced metal to the masses and paved the way for the successors of the genre. To celebrate the 30th year, more than 50 artists from various countries and continents of the world, who make music in very different genres, were asked to interpret their favorite Metallica song from the album; and this is how the Metallica Blacklist was born, including 53 cover tracks, all profits of which will be donated to charities.
FROM SENJUTSU TO SEPPUKU, FROM DUNKERQUE TO SHOGUN
Dear Metalheads,
Here I am with you, eagerly ready to review “SENJUTSU”, the 17th studio album of IRON MAIDEN, one of the biggest Heavy Metal bands of all time. The album streamed on all digital platforms at midnight on September the 3rd, 2021, that is 6 years after their last “Book of Souls”. Read more