Reinier de Vries – Page 19 – Power Of Metal.dk

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...

Diamond Head – Diamond Head

2nd May 2016 Reinier de Vries

It can be a curse that your debut album is so strong that it is hard to exceed it. ‘Lightning To the Nations’ (1980) was such a strong release. Back then a lot of people thought [Read »]

Midnight Eternal – Midnight Eternal

29th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

Ask someone to make a top 10 of Female fronted symphonic metal bands and you get a list with bands based in Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and other European countries. Strangely enough there are not a lot [Read »]

Savior From Anger – Temple Of Judgement

27th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

Twenty years ago there were albums with good written songs, but due to the horrible production it sounded like shit. Ratings of 30 points or less would have been a regular mark. Today, due to [Read »]

Hellhound – Nothing Left

27th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

There are a few more bands with the same name, but this one was the first and have the oldest rights. Formed in 1982, and active on the San Francisco Bay Area club circuit from [Read »]

Solinaris – Deranged

24th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

Band Members: Eric Labrie: Vocals and keys Bernard Giroux: Acoustic guitars and solos Jean-Daniel Villeneuve: Electric guitars and solos Jonathan Piché: Fretless bass Lucas Biron: Drums Guest Alexandra Lacasse: Saxophone The debut album of this [Read »]

Razend – White Goat II

16th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

There are just a few thrash bands with female singers, Belgium has Bliksem and in the Netherlands there is Razend. Razend is dutch for raging or furious, which is of course a very fitting name [Read »]

Hemotoxin – Biological Enslavement

9th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

The second album of California based band Hemotoxin is one that counts. They are described as a progressive death/thrash band and I can understand why, although the term progressive is not the one I should [Read »]

Game Over – Crimes Against Reality

9th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

Regular readers know that I am a real thrash metal fan. I breathe thrash, sleep thrash, eat thrash and listen to thrash with a lot of pleasure. Many many bands copy the early eighties thrash [Read »]

Cirrha Niva – Out Of the Freakshow

7th April 2016 Reinier de Vries

When I saw a mail from JBM events with the announcement of a new Cirrha Niva album I didn’t know how fast to react volunteering to review it. 7 years ago the sublime album ‘For [Read »]

Izegrim – The Ferrymans End

25th March 2016 Reinier de Vries

I almost start to believe the expression: ‘If it isn’t Dutch it ain’t much. No seriously, it is just that I did review quite a few new Dutch albums lately. For sure I realize that some [Read »]