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  • Metal Obsession – European Summer Festival Preview (With Full Force)

    With Full Force is an open-air summer festival held every year since 1994, usually in June or July – this year, it will be from June 22nd to the 24th. This summer it will be at the Ferropolis, or...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • Metal Obsession – European Summer Festival Preview (Leyendas del Rock)

    Leyendas del Rock, or Legends of Rock, is a heavy metal festival in the Valencia region of Eastern Spain. The 12th edition of Leyendas del Rock, which will be my first is a veritable who’s who of metal and...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • Metal Obsession – European Summer Festival Preview (Headbanger’s Open Air)

    Headbanger’s Open Air has been dubbed as one of the biggest garden party’s of the world. The festival has been running yearly since 1998 on a rural farm some 40km from Hamburg, Germany, where each year the organiser opens his...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • Metal Obsession – European Summer Festival Preview (Wacken Open Air)

    It’s that time of year again where metalheads from all across the globe converge to Europe to partake in the annual European summer of metal festivals. This year, Metal Obsession returns to the holy Wacken land, a place deemed...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • A Close Discussion With Peter Criss

    Many consider Peter Criss to be one of the most influential drummers in the history of rock’n’roll. In the 70’s and early 80’s, young hands all over the world were driven to pick up anything resembling a drum stick...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • A close discussion with Devin Townsend

    Devin Townsend Devin Townsend is one of the most fascinatingly musically diverse artists within the sphere of heavy metal today. It can only be described as a treat to be given an opportunity to discuss career highlights and gain some insight from the man...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • ‘Your Local’ – An Inside Look

    Playing original music, writing, recording and playing live and touring, is a tough gig. There is no money in it, unless you happen to be in the lucky one-percent who are actually making a living from it, and the...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • Samuel Maher’s top albums of 2016

    Metal is dead. Kids these days are too busy with their sweeping and their djenting and their half-speed-guitar-proing to actually write music that lives up to the genre’s beautiful history. In fact, now that Lemmy is dead, it’s not...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • Jonathon Besanko’s Top Albums of 2016

    Writing an end of year ‘best of’ list and reducing it to a bite-sized amount is always a fickle thing. There’s the immediate notion of crafting a list that best represents your feelings to the metal world in a...

    • Posted 7 years ago
  • Chris Maric’s Top Albums of 2016

    My 2016 was epic, it gathered momentum quickly for me with news I’d be heading to the UK mid year to take part in Heavy Metal Truants, the charity bike ride from London to the Download Festival. That was...

    • Posted 7 years ago