Reviews-Steel-Mill
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CORNERSTONE – ARRIVAL (MASSACRE 2000)
Another new ”supergroup” formed by great vocalist Doogie White (Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen etc.) and bassist/keyboardist Steen Mogensen from Royal Hunt who also handles the songwriting. RH leader Andre Andersen guests on the album and does all the keyboard solos.
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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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BRAZEN ABBOT – GUILTY AS SIN (SPV 2003)
Another BA album from Bulgarian guitarist Nikolo Kotzev, who is famous for recruiting high profile names for his projects, last one being Nostradamus opera couple of years back . He’s worked with plenty of talented vocalists before and on ”Guilty As Sin,” he’s again hooked up with Jorn Lande, Göran Edman and Joe Lynn Turner…
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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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CANS – BEYOND THE GATES (SANCTUARY 2004)
Time has come for Hammerfall vocalist Joacim Cans to release his first solo album. At first glance the guest-list looks impressive enough: Cans’ bandmate Stefan Elmgren on guitar, Metal Mike Chlasciak on guitar, Mat Sinner on bass and former Fates Warning drummer Mark Zonder. Gus G (Dream Evil, Firewind) also makes an appearance. Big names…
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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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UFO – THE MONKEY PUZZLE (SPV 2006)
It’s amazing to think the first UFO-album was released 35 years ago. Yet here they are again over 10 years since their last of many come backs. The beginning of it saw the band triumph with 1995’s “Walk On Water” which was a brilliant return to form and in this writer’s opinion, rivalled everything UFO…
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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.