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The core of the Marshall Tucker Band's sound had historically been Toy Caldwell's guitar and Doug Gray's voice. The band has been through many permutations and Caldwell has since passed on, but Gray and a core of members, including horn boss David Muse (formerly of Firefall) and guitarist Stuart Swanlund, have been carrying the torch for a while now…

A mere 18 months have passed since Mob Rules celebrated their 20th band anniversary with the elaborate best-of boxed set Timekeeper, which earned them unanimously positive reactions all over the world. Now the melodic metal act from Germany s north are set to present their latest studio recording Tales From Beyond. The album is as impressive as we ve come to expect from this band, consisting of Mob Rules s familiar deeply melodic mix of progressive and power metal, again in combination with a highly dynamic production.

Death metal, as a genre, hasn’t made too many leaps since its birth into the field. But like the old saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, and Massacre’s new piece takes that motto to heart with their new album Back From Beyond…

In many ways, Beyond Sanctorum, Therion’s second album, is particularly eccentric even by Death Metal standards. The production is cinematic, the sound is full, sometimes there are distorted vocals and even the popping of a female soprano voice (the last element makes one think about the band’s later efforts). Though it's been written in the wake of similar albums by the like of Dismember, Entombed et al, Beyond Sanctorum includes much more varied dynamics and tempos, dissonant leads, the occasional slow section and songwriting pushed to the point of verging on epic…

Returning once more to finish off the greatest threat that the universe has ever known, the mighty cosmic warriors Gloryhammer are back with what could easily be called the best fucking power metal album of all time. Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex has everything that you could desire in a power metal record, and then some. This, in all sincerity, is a work of cosmic proportions…