Pete Alander
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Kreator – The Circus, Helsinki February 10, 2017
HAIL TO THE HORDES! by Pete Alander ************ One of Thrash Metal’s finest acts and longest survivor Kreator has just released extremely well reviewed album “Gods of Violence”. It is a package full of roaring metal anthems such as “Satan Is Real”, brutally fast “Totalitarian Terror” and an homage to legends that are not among…
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Avatar – Feathers & Flesh
Avatar is todays one of the most interesting metal acts. With roaring vocals and groovy metal pastiche “Feathers & Flesh” makes a great concept album telling a tale of an owl who goes to war against the world. Standout songs “For the Swarm” and “Eagle Has Landed”. http://avatarmetal.com/
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Christmas 2016
Hi everyone! I just wanted to wish every one of you the very best of seasons greetings and happy holidays to all. My sincerest thanks as always to the millworkers for all of their continued splendid work. I hope that they too had a great metal year and like all of you have been rocking…
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Batushka – Litourgiya
Amazing black metal album by three Polish musicians who wants to keep their identities secret. They are said to be well-known in the music scene so basically they are Ghost of Black Metal. Litourgiya is a killer album with no fillers included. Seeing them live at Steelfest only confirmed just how brutally good they are!…
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September 2016
Remembering Sin After Sin-album “Roger Glover from Deep Purple as producer, wow! Does this mean we are making some progress? The answer, of course, is yes too right, not to mention Simon Phillips on drums. And then we get to go to Ramport studios owned by The Who… you can imagine how exciting all this was…
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Skyforest – Unity
Excellent ambient oriented and atmospheric black metal album by Russian composer B.M. Released in 2016 this is just great start for upcoming dark winter.
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Hannu Kiviaho from Fatboy – Steel Mill interview
Having a Moment with Hannu Kiviaho Interview with Fatboy guitarist by Pete Alander Sweden brings out successful acts from pop and metal. Grammy winner Ghost, Amon Amarth, Sabaton, Europe, even Abba and Roxette. Also one very special band hailing from Eskilstuna, a city founded by an English monk Saint Eskil and later terribly stoned to…
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Cheap Trick – Bang Zoom Crazy… Hello (Big Machine Records, 2016)
[three_fourth]Cheap Trick has always been somewhat of musical chameleon, evoking fans from metal, pop, punk and rock. Oddly, yet entertainingly, named 17th album in order “Bang Zoom Crazy… Hello” shows the versatility of groups ability to bring good old fashioned rock to the masses. “Bang…” counts at rallying choruses and ZZ Top meets AC/DC like…
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Steelfest Open Air 20.-21.5.2016, Hyvinkää Finland
Check out the full gallery from Steel Mill Facebook-page! A rather small, yet awesome town in Southern Finland, Hyvinkää, holds an open air festival that can be described as the most brutal start for metalheads summer. Since 2012, Steelfest Open Air has presented many international acts and this year was no exception. Bands such as…
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Fatboy-Moments
A brand new and solid album from these rockin’ Swedes. They might have just lost the U18 hockey final to team Finland but they are winners whenever Fatboy releases an album.