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"Exciting times in modern music – where engaging in multiple bands can prove fruitful for making a career without having to hold down a side gig/day job.
"The history of HARTMANN began in summer 2004 when Oliver Hartmann recorded his first solo album.
"Destinia is the project of Japanese guitar wunderkind Nozomu Wakai. He dropped his first full length album, Requiem for a Scream in 2014. In turn, over the next two years, he followed with an EP, Anecdote of the Queens and a live concert DVD, A Live For A Scream.
"A multinational act consisting of musicians from Romania and Sweden, Crossing Eternity may have only started last year – but through background research you’ll find these musicians have 25-30 years of experience in a wide variety of rock/metal to blues/jazz/funk outfits prior to this formation.
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his first in an occasional series for albums that you may have missed but are well worth tracking down.
"Spanish metal band Lords Of Black has been on a consistent path since their inception in 2014. Even with vocalist Ronnie Romero touring with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, the band has dropped a new studio album every two years.
Its been years since I've heard from this French band but it looks like they are still alive and kicking. Manigance blend melodic, power, and progressive metal and do it expertly. But be warned...they sing in French.
"This is my first listen to German heavy metal band Ela, the namesake of the vocalist and songwriter Ela, who was apparently born without a last name. She's been engaged in the German music scene since 2004 as a solo artist, but also as a vocalist in several other band incarnations.
"Once more we investigate the "Whatever happened to that band?" folder in our musical filing cabinet to find Pink Cream 69. Returning just in time for their 30th anniversary, the legendary German band drops their twelfth studio album Headstrong, and with the same personnel as 2013's Ceremonial.
"What would it sound like if Amaranthe decided to ditch all their male vocals and let Elize Ryd perform all vocal lines on her own? Well, you’d probably get something that sounds a bit like Heroes in Time, the debut from Swedish melodic metal band Metalite.