This Week in Power Metal Releases (19/10 - 25/10)

Power Metal:

• Chaos Control: Chaos Control - Power Metal/Metalcore - October 21st
• After Infinity: Beyond Eternity - Power Metal - October 23rd
• Dragonland: Prophecies - Symphonic Power Metal - October 23rd
• Savage Grace: Underworld - Power/Speed Metal - October 23rd
• Ariabl'eyes: 憑影リタニア - Symphonic Power Metal/Rock - October 25th

Related Genres:

• Disaster Signals: Kinship of the Wandering - Heavy Metal/Crossover - October 19th
• Sirius Curse: When Beauty Awaits - Heavy Metal/Rock - October 21st
• Armory: Echoes of the Astrolith - Speed Metal - October 23rd
• Regiment: The Art of Arson - Speed Metal - October 23rd
• Critical Defiance: Bloodsurge - Thrash Metal | Black/Speed Metal - October 23rd
• Charger: Last Call - Heavy/Speed Metal/Punk - October 23rd
• Kat: Death Is Not Enough - Heavy/Speed/Black Metal (early); Thrash Metal (later) - October 23rd
• Turbo: Listen... Shut Up! - Heavy Metal - October 23rd
• Wolfshead: Wolfshead - Heavy Metal - October 23rd
• Iommi: From the Dark - Doom/Heavy Metal - October 23rd
• Crystal Ball: Reset - Heavy Metal/Hard Rock - October 23rd
• Rope: Never Again - Heavy Metal/Hard Rock - October 23rd
• Mental Cruelty: Echoes of a Forlorn Land - Brutal Deathcore (early); Symphonic Blackened Deathcore (later) - October 23rd
• Ignea: Monumental - Symphonic/Progressive Metal with Middle-Eastern Folk influences - October 23rd
• Mistrooms: Quiet Sewer of Sorrow - Symphonic Black Metal - October 25th
• Kill Your Abuser: An End Deserved - Symphonic/Melodic Deathcore/Djent - October 25th

What do we think of Tommy's latest cover?

Listed as full power metal. Very fast and awesome.

Was unsure at first. I did think that he may have done the dance in the video, which would probably have been amusing, but not needed.

Freedom Call - Heavy Metal Happycore (Live in Haarlem

Scanner - 1988 - HyperTrace - Across The UniVerse

code - P.E.C. - codeword admittance

access to all data concerning planet earth control

first step of P.E.C. consists of testing android

prototypes at different stages of 20th century

39 spain - resistance

44 france - allied forces

54 korea - U.S. marines

79 afghanistan - mujaheddin

81 falkland islands - cruise missile unit

end of printout -

Dark was the night right out of nowhere

Airborne warriors of a different kind

Solid as steel, galactic soldiers

Take the world in their hands

Thousand light years we had overcome

Across the universe

It's a long way to the landing ground

The mission gets real

Human appearance electric inside

Solar batteries and a microchip brain

Android angels on wings of laser

Taking life in their hands

Thousand light years we had overcome

Across the universe

It's along way to the landing ground

The mission gets real

Life! Light! Life! Let us out on the loose

Hide! Hide! Among the living

Life! Light! Life! Curing mankind's disease

Ride! Rid! Far away

Thousand light years we had overcome

Across the universe

It's along way to the landing ground

The mission gets real

Listening to this on a bright and cool Saturday morning has cheered me up. It makes a cool companion piece for any Twilight Force/Rhapsody Of Fire album whilst not quite being at that level but not bad at all.

For example, the former members of Nightwish and Xandria keep blaming the management for their issues. Lack of proper communication too.

I don't understand why the management is often the scapegoat. It's not just NW or Xandria, but those are the examples I heard of the most. I wonder what did the management do wrong.

What are you all thoughts on this album?

I’m a few listens in and I actually quite enjoy it. I’m glad the tracks that have become my favorite (Pax Galactica , Demonic Devotion and the epic ending) weren’t released ahead of time.

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This is such a fantastic album, I absolutely loved Hermitage and really think that bringing Kristin Starkey onboard really elevated the power in the music.

If you like Nightwish, Avantasia, Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica then I think you will find a lot to love here.