by Didact | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Feb 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Feb 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
This is dedicated to a friend and teacher who will be fighting for an amateur muay thai title tonight, somewhere in the back end of beyond (also known as “Vermont”): Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new...
by Didact | Feb 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Feb 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Didact | Jan 2, 2016 | HALO, Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Dec 31, 2015 | HALO, Uncategorized
As I did with books, so I will do with albums that I listened to and purchased this year. In descending order, here are my 5 favourite albums that I listened to this year. Note that one of the albums listed below was actually released in 2013, not 2015; the rest,...
Recent Comments