“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Keep the IRON FIRE burning

It’s hard to believe that, for all of my exposure to (and taste for) great power metal, I’ve never come across a certain Danish power metal band by the name of IRON FIRE. Fortunately, I corrected that rather egregious oversight last week, and have been...

Your metalhead alter-ego

Classic: Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike METALLICA? These guys spend most of their time listening to DRAGONFORCE and… well, being borderline gay These guys are the best kind to hang with at an AMON AMARTH concert And last but not least: I ran into one...

There’s a vowel missing somewhere

And these guys are Polish, so they don’t even have the excuse of being American to misspell everything. Still and all, they DO know how to play. Boy, do they ever: Best track on that album (so far) has got to be “Dragonheart”. That’s five...

“Ten-minute lemonade”

Who the hell would want to drink- Oh. She’s actually saying “terminate, eliminate”. That’s what you get for being Brazilian, I guess. As for who she is… I have no idea. It looks sort of like Alyssa White-Gluz from ARCH ENEMY paired...

“First Kill”

The Vikings are BACK! Hel’s Teeth, that was positively BRUTAL. By Thor’s Hammer, this sounds like it is going to be a positively AWESOME album. I cannot wait to hear it. The last four albums have featured a sound that can only be adequately described...

KILL! MAIM! BURN!

Fellow Vile Faceless Minion #6306 has raised the battle flag for us as the Hugo Awards approach: Woe to you, trufen and CHORFs, pedophiles! For you wear a tuxedo one night a year, but inside are full of greed, cruelty and self-indulgence.You blind Toad! First clean...

Here comes SINBREED

Their third album should be released soon- and based on the early evidence, it’s going to be another absolute barnstormer: The raw, “gritty” vocals of Herbie Langhans might be a bit of an acquired taste, I’ll admit. But I quite like it. If you...

Hector’s Hymn

One of the rare latter-day HAMMERFALL songs that is actually fun to listen to: I really don’t know what happened to those guys. Their first two albums were really solid- not great, not quite up there with HELLOWEEN, BLIND GUARDIAN, GAMMA RAY, or GRAVE DIGGER,...

Didact’s Album List 2015

E NOMINE – Das Beste Aus… Gottes Beitrag und Teufels Werk (4.2/5) KAZUMA JUNNOUCHI – HALO 5: Guardians Original Soundtrack (4.5/5) IRON MAIDEN – The Book of Souls (10.0/5) SCHLAFES BRUDER – Heute...

The party post

And now, in accordance with a tradition stretching back to… well, a year ago, and in the company of… um, whoever’s bothered to show up, here is a list of 7 really hot women, and a few great heavy metal tracks, to help you get the NYE party started....