Album Reviews

Hammerking – King Is Rising

11th November 2016 Reinier de Vries

This is the follow up of their 2014 debut album with the original title ‘Kingdom of the Hammer King’. These Germans play true power metal with no single original note or riff. That doesn’t make their music bad, [Read »]

Album of the Month

Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage

10th November 2016 Liam Savage

Avenged Sevenfold has had a bit of a hard go since the release of their last album “Hail To The King”.  Although that particular album sold and charted well, it’s the first album of theirs [Read »]

Album Reviews

Theocracy – Ghost Ship

5th November 2016 Kenn Jensen

Matt Smith and I go way back, he started his one-man band Theocracy around the same time I began putting Powerofmetal.dk together and when he released his first album on MetalAges Records it was one [Read »]

Album Reviews

In Flames – Battles

5th November 2016 Kenn Jensen

In Flames has been my favourite melodic death metal band for ages and they are of course one of the pioneers of the Gothenburg sound along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates. Their early [Read »]

Album Reviews

Dark Tranquility – Atoma

3rd November 2016 Reinier de Vries

Just before this new album, main song writer and guitarist Martin Hendersson left the band. Niklas Sundin replaced him and also a new bass player Anders Iwers (Tiamat, Ceremonial Oath) joined the band. When the [Read »]