Kassu Kortelainen
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Enforcer – From Beyond
Play this to your heavy metal digging friends and claim you have discovered a long lost british heavy band from the early 80’s and see them look at you as though you have just showed up with the holy grail. Of course it’s all from Sweden and 2015 but you could never tell, old-school metal…
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BOB CATLEY – WHEN EMPIRES BURN (FRONTIERS 2003)
Every self respecting hard rock fan should be familiar with the band Magnum – a group that since 70’s has released many great albums filled with good, melodic hard rock. And if you’ve never heard the band, getting acquintaced with their material is strongly adviced. Magnum’s frontman has always been one Bob Catley, a talented…
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CAGE – DARKER THAN BLACK (2003)
Do you like fast heavy metal? Do you like Priest’s Painkiller? Do I ask stupid questions? The album under the eye of this reviewer is called “Darker Than Black” by an american metal band Cage. A completely unknown group to me, I purchased this album based on pretty praising reviews I had read on the…
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URIAH HEEP – CLASSIC HEEP LIVE FROM THE BYRON ERA (2004)
Heep keeps nowadays releasing a lot of DVD’s, while their next studio album’s release date having seemed to dissappear ever further to the horizon (new one should be out this year, though) . Though the new DVD’s are unexceptionally of very high quality and the varying setlist keeps them interesting, the fan starts to hope…
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SLADE – THE SLADE BOX (UNION SQUARE MUSIC 2006)
Considering the amount of success they’ve gotten in their heyday and being named as big influence for all time rock’n’roll greats such as Kiss, it’s been a damn shame that british crazee-rockers Slade seemed to had all but disappeared from the face of the rockin’ world during the 90’s and 2000’s. The band itself, of…
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HARTMANN – HOME (FRONTIERS 2007)
One of the most delightful musical surprises of 2005 for me was stumbling across the first Hartmann album “Out In The Cold”. Ex- At Vance vocalist Oliver Hartmann’s return to the music world after a couple of years’ silence was done with a rather surprising change in style. “Out In The Cold” was full of…
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MANOWAR – GODS OF WAR (MAGIC CIRCLE 2007)
The new Manowar album has been a long time coming. The band’s been mainly concentrating on releasing DVD’s since their last studio album, 2002’s “Warriors Of The World” so as the new Manowar release Gods Of War finally hit the stores recently, it can be considered as quite a major event in the metal scene.
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LEVERAGE – TIDES (ELEMENTS MUSIC 2006)
Heavy metal and hard rock are going through pretty hectic times in the mid-2000’s; new bands are popping up everywhere like mushrooms in the rain and at the same time the very description of heavy metal widens. Bands are stretching the boundaries of traditional heavy metal in very inventive ways, resulting into music that in…
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BOB CATLEY – THE TOWER (FRONTIERS 1998)
When a renowned artist heads on a solo career it is always a bit of a gamble. Leaving the cohorts of a band that made them known, their past achievements follow behind and thus they are always expected to come up with something superior to any new bands attempting to break through to the world…
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VOLBEAT – ROCK THE REBEL / METAL THE DEVIL (MASCOT 2007)
It takes maybe a split second until it hits you that these guys from Denmark aren’t exactly your typical thirteen-in-a-dozen metal group and their new release “Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil” isn’t your typical metal album. During the first thirty seconds of the opening track “The Human Instrument” you get greeted by some heavy riffing,…