Live reviews

Resurrection, ascension, redemption

Bigger, colder, but somehow just as warm

90 tons of thunder lighting up the sky

Original soldier of fortune brings the storm

The stuff of dreams in the reality of them dying

"Days when everything glows..."

Howling at the sun with a new pack of cubs

It's pirate metal. Your objection is invalid.

Because sometimes, less does it

LESS IS MORE.
LESS IS MORE.
LESS IS MORE.

Showing everyone else just how it's done for near 6 decades

Goddamn straight I can feel this

Confidence and power. And crowd surfers.

Still practicing what they preach – as if you had any doubt

"A wild ride over stony ground"

Oh, how the mighty have fallen

Kinda had to happen sooner or later

A series of triumphs and a bit of agony

The start of something beautiful

"They came, they saw, they conquered"

When the support band is superior

Impressive counterstrike from the best thing that ever happened to the Danish metal scene

The reincarnation of metal's finest

"... And we'll drown in a wave of joy across the nation"

By the people, for the people!

"Mime" was made for loving you...

"Play some of the less old ones!"

As my excitement for the classic merits of my all-time faves, Iron Maiden, has long since peaked, there seems to be more endurance in the material from Judas Priest's golden age. But maybe that has to do with the fact that while Maiden tend to rely on the same decades-long tried-and-tested classics, Priest aren't afraid to take risks...

It's a well-known fact that Opeth aren't exactly the world's most extraverted live act. I've seen them 9 or 10 times since the 2003 "Damnation" tour, and while it's always nice to get your prog on, they still rely on vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt's dry, quirky humor as the sole element of release amidst all the demanding music – which,...

The long, hard road into Hell...