Most of you will know Marco Hietala from his work in Nightwish, or even Tarot. His voice is one of the more recognizable voices in metal. With his extensive repertoire, he has quite a lot of experience to put into a record. Now I would not label Pyre of the Black Heart as a metal […]
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Report: Sabaton – Afas Live – february 9th 2020
“I’d like to keep my eyebrows, please” On a stormy day, Sabaton brought their “The Great Tour” to AFAS live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For this show, they brought along Amaranthe and Apocalyptica. Before the concert, AFAS Live announced that the show would still continue as scheduled. Some people complained, since the Dutch weather institute […]
Report: Sonata Arctica + support
On the thirteenth of December, Sonata Arctica was back in The Netherlands with their “The Raven Still Flies Over Europe Tour”. For this show they brought two support acts, namely Temple Balls and Edge of Paradise. Since this tour only covers one place in The Netherlands, the venue was filling up quite nicely right before […]
Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites
When the pillars of a Genre are forged on certain bands legacies it makes it that much more special when they continue to put out quality bar raising content for what is soon to be thirty years. Formed in South Carolina in 1993 Death Metal legend outfit Nile was born, and in 2019 they released […]
Alcest – Spiritual Instinct
French acts have always been good at making unique, wayward music. Alcest is no exception luckily. With combining (post) Black Metal and Shoegaze Alcest has, deservedly, become an unique and well acclaimed act. For me it started with the superb album Shelter (2014) where Shoegaze had an almost total grip on the band while the […]
Sonata Arctica – Talviyö
Ten albums, it’s something not a lot of bands can say that they have achieved. The main challenge for a band which is around for that long, would be to keep existing fans entertained, yet also attract new fans and keep things interesting. Interesting, that is a good keyword for Sonata Arctica’s tenth studio album […]
Carnifex – World War X
How do you follow up an album as good as Slow Death? You put together its younger sibling and unleash it on the masses. With their seventh studio full length San Diego County California’s Carnifex brings you “World War X” where all roads lead to hell, which is also a song featuring the hugely popular […]
Destruction – Born To Perish
It is good to hear that old school thrash metal is still alive. With releases of Sacred Reich, Anthrax, Kreator and now Destruction we are being overloaded with quality thrash madness. You might have thought that these bands remain in the autumn of their lives…but on contrary these bands are still releasing solid albums and […]
Sabaton – The Great War
I remember taking history classes at school. Through the years I had different teachers and my interest of the subject was determined by how my teachers told the stories. Most of the time, I thought it was quite boring. Maybe its partially my age, yet my interest for different battles through the ages has clearly […]
Report: Avantasia live in Osnabrück
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 […]