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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...

Exumer – Hostile Defiance

5th April 2019 Reinier de Vries

Possesed By Fire (1986) and Rising From The Sea (1987) have in my opinion about the same status as the first Kreator albums. That things do not work out the same for bands is not a [Read »]

Invictus – Burst The Curse

29th March 2019 Reinier de Vries

The German young band Invictus started somewhere in 2010 and refined their music year after year to release their first EP Burst The Curse. There are just 3 songs on it, 2 heavier tracks and a softer [Read »]

Possessed – No More Room In Hell

16th March 2019 Reinier de Vries

Mother Of Sin – 3

16th March 2019 Reinier de Vries

Perhaps the name Mother Of Sin doesn’t ring a lot of bells, but some of our readers sure know who Eduard Hovinga is. Yes indeed, this is the vocalist on the first 3 albums of [Read »]

TýR – Hel

15th March 2019 Reinier de Vries

Catchy, a word that describes their music for a very big part. Traditional folk elements, sing a long refrains combined with power metal riffs and melodic twin guitar pieces are the main ingredients again. TýR did [Read »]

Overkill – The Wings Of War

20th February 2019 Reinier de Vries

One phrase spun around constantly in my head back in 1985. “Riding the Wind on a stormy night, Rides a mother’s son to take your life, They say he died ten years ago..” and so [Read »]

Autumn – Stacking Smoke

2nd February 2019 Reinier de Vries

This is what I call promotion for a new album. Not just a link to some ‘far from album quality sounding’ mp3’s, but a real hardcopy. Included with the hardcopy, Painted Bass Records/Jbmpromotion send a [Read »]

Reinier de Vries – Staff Poll 2018

8th January 2019 Reinier de Vries

Flotsam and Jetsam – The End Of Chaos

8th January 2019 Reinier de Vries

It was autumn 2010 when I drove to Denmark to visit some Power of Metal collegues. Several cd’s were spinning around in my car, one of them was the new Flotsam and Jetsam album The [Read »]

Metal Church – Damned If You Do

7th December 2018 Reinier de Vries

Metal Church carries the same difficult legacy as most of my favorite bands, the first 3 albums are almost not to match. Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, Exodus, Flotsam and Jetsam, Sepultura, Dream Theater, Helloween, Death, Agent [Read »]