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About Reinier de Vries

Once a metal head, always a metalhead. My parents thought it would only be a period, but they were wrong. I quit to explain the beauty of metal music to others that are not into metal, because it is something you can't tell in words... It is like explaining to a teetotaller why a cold beer is so nice on a hot day... I started with bands like Accept, Metal Church, Iron Maiden and Metallica in the eighties and I think I will still listen to them when I'm stone deaf and old...

Kreator – Gods Of Violence

20th January 2017 Reinier de Vries

When I think of Kreator, immediately the phrase ‘Time to raise the flag of hate’ comes to mind. Together with Destruction this band stood at the cradle of German thrash. Sure, they stood in the shade [Read »]

Frozen Sand – Fractals: A Shadow Out Of lights

11th January 2017 Reinier de Vries

A progressive piece from Italy with a concept story. Well, I personally have nothing with concept stories. What counts for me is the music, although I can imagine that writing a good story makes it [Read »]

Ancestral – Master Of Fate

8th January 2017 Reinier de Vries

Italy is known in the metal community for their power metal bands. Rhapsody (of Fire) is their biggest export. Lots of other combos play in that same genre, but all don’t get the same popularity. [Read »]

Lancer – Mastery

6th January 2017 Reinier de Vries

Swedish power metal combo Lancer signed a deal with Nuclear Blast records for the release of their third album. I can hear why NB is very interested in this band. The quality of the music [Read »]

Sepultura – Machine Messiah

6th January 2017 Reinier de Vries

Long gone is the time that Sepultura played old school thrash and the times of ‘Beneath the Remains’ and ‘Arise’ will never return. The band developed their style with adding more tribal influences and after [Read »]

Sons Of Sounds – In the Circle Of the Universe

2nd January 2017 Reinier de Vries

My first 2017 review is from a 2016 release of a German band formed by 3 brothers. I received quite a few hardcopies from one of my colleague PoM writers. The lot of the disks [Read »]

Overkill (new song)

21st December 2016

Video: Kreator

16th December 2016

Echelon – The Brimstone Aggrandizement

14th December 2016 Reinier de Vries

The most busy and productive man in the death metal scene is without a doubt by far mr. Rogga Johansson. There isn’t a month without an album he is playing on. Almost every time the music [Read »]

Burning Point – The Blaze

25th November 2016 Reinier de Vries

Less than one and a half year ago the first album with singer Nitte Valo was released. Back then it was a question if Nitte would be a permanent member. Now we know better, again [Read »]