Osnabruckhalle 12-04-19 Report by: Michael Sometimes we as Metal-Exposure reporters have to travel a bit for shows. This time, our journey led us to Germany, where Avantasia gathered up quite some musicians to entertain the crowd in a show which lasted a little bit over three hours. Planning a tour is never easy, but when […]
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Children of Bodom – Hexed
My childhood heroes Children of Bodom have released their tenth studio album, and even though I don’t listen to the band that often anymore, for the sake of nostalgia I of course just hád to review it. I gave their previous album ‘I Worship Chaos’, which got released in 2015, a pretty high rating, because […]
Behemoth – I loved you at your darkest
If there’s one band who doesn’t need much of an introduction it’s Behemoth. That they are not particularly good god loving Christians has been proven with their ten previous albums, but with I Loved You At Your Darkest they’re bringing it to yet another level when it comes to anti Christianity. Blasphemy is the band’s […]
Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
Immortal is back! Since Abbath left to start its own endeavour (with lack of better words) it has been a long time since we heard from the mighty Immortal. Demonaz now fills the gap of Abbath which makes sense since he has always been a creative influence behind the curtains despite the fact that an […]
Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
After Dimmu Borgir released their first single, Interdimensional Summit, of their long awaited new album, I wasn’t very hopeful concerning the rest of Eonian. Dimmu Borgir has always been a symphonic and atmospheric band, but where they used to be a symphonic black metal band, I couldn’t find much of the black metal in this […]
Auri – Auri
Auri started in 2010 as a project formed by Nightwish’ mastermind Tuomas Holopainen, his wife Johanna Kurkela and Nightwish member Troy Donockley. Now in 2018 they released their long awaited first album. It’s very clear that the album is nothing like any Nightwish album and has more similarities with Music Inspired By The Life And […]
Bleeding Gods – Dodekathlon
The Dutch extreme metal band Bleeding Gods has been making a name for itself with the deadly force of an avalanche. Even though the group is not a newcomer to the national stages and some of its members are veterans in the Dutch metal scene (guitarist Ramon Ploeg, ex-Houwitser), the intensity with which label Nuclear […]
Enslaved – E Review
Enslaved, a band that is perhaps the most condensed version of Norwegian metal, have made it all: black, Viking and progressive metal. Putting a style to their latest releases (Axioma Ethica Odini, RIITTIIR and In Times) is bit beyond me, the genre Enslaved (to) Metal should be introduced here. With E, the (co) flag bearers […]
Wintersun – The Forest Seasons
This review has been a long time coming, but not as long as Wintersun‘s Time I or the yet to be released Time II. Bad jokes aside, Finnish melodic metallers Wintersun have released The Forest Seasons on July 21st, instead of the anticipated record Time II. The band has managed to create a whole circus […]
Wintersun: On The Forest Seasons and compromising
The Finnish metallers from Wintersun recently launched a Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to fund their new record The Forest Seasons and future projects (which includes Time II). Metal-Exposure talked to bass player Jukka Koskinen about this much debated step, the new record and yes, the sauna.. Read the interview here!