Akioshi Eternal Duo!

After years of playing a dispiriting game of musical chairs with various lead singers during the early '80s, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi finally stumbled upon a dependable frontman when he admitted relative unknown Tony Martin into the fold, thereby initiating the original heavy metal band's long awaited return to respectability – if not chart-topping success. Martin joined the oft-interrupted sessions for what would become 1987's The Eternal Idol album already in progress, stepping in for an unreliable Ray Gillen when the latter moved on to Jake E. Lee's Badlands, and helping Iommi rescue an astonishingly solid long-player from the jaws of complete and utter chaos.

Swedish melodic metal band Eternal (of Sweden) is back in business with the new thundering album Heaven’s Gate. The tracks on the album will take you on a journey through the best of the best in todays metal. From the roaring power-metal tracks Ruins and The purity inside to the more progressive Burning with pride and the emotional track Angel, we promise that if, whether you like old classic Metal or the modern dark side of it, you won’t be able to resist it. It’s an album raging with power and energy and carries the heritage from bands such as Nocturnal Rites and Pretty Maids…

After the a bit weaker predecessor “Overload” the Japanese pulled themselves together to shove another well-peppered Metal chunk down the world’s throat. Mission accomplished I would say!…

NORTHWINDS is a Doom Rock/Metal band, formed in 1987 in France. Some line-up changes delayed some of their recordings over the years, especially between 2005 and 2012. They are back now with “Eternal Winter” as their fifth, full-length album, containing seven tracks…

Throughout a chequered career Arthur Brown has never been one to play by the rules and when the chart topping The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown split nobody knew what the band’s namesake would do next. When he resurfaced several years later it was with the proto-prog, avant-garde Kingdom Come, a band so way out that time is only just catching up. Eternal Messenger: An Anthology 1970-1973 collects the band’s three albums along with a rare jam session and a disc of radio sessions to make the perfect introduction to Arthur Brown’s crazy world…