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Here's a Proper Metal Singer for You

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Heavy Metal Power Feel the power of SORCERER



n November 2015, Swedish doomsters Sorcerer released their EP Black independently on vinyl and CD. Now, the EP finally sees a digital release via Metal Blade Records.

The EP features all new and previously unreleased songs in the same vein as on their latest full...

Scorpion Child Kicking Tail

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Heavy Metal Power I live on the mountain!!! They have a new album out but this song from 2013 kills!



Dying tomorrow we stare at the sun
Summer of fame collapse in the fall
Rising and falling you're fighting with
Fear the ending is near
This enemy friend a truce in the night
I live on the mountain and drea...

DESTRUCTION - Under Attack

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Heavy Metal Power Germany's thrash gods Destruction will unleash a thrash assault upon your ears with their new song Under Attack. Pure, ruthless, pummeling, angry thrash metal. Just wonderful!

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Blood Ceremony is Back

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Heavy Metal Power Canadian retro metal masters Blood Ceremony are back with a new tune from their forthcoming album Lords of Misrule. Listen to that voice! So blood curdling, evil, and wicked. And the riff immediately snakes around your gut and grips you tight. Give me some more Blood Ceremony!! I must see them on tour! Here's their new song “Old Fires.”


Taking its title from this fascinating slice of religious history, Blood Ceremony’s fourth album evokes pagan rites and the bizarre mystical underbelly of rural Britain. Embracing the psychedelic and progressive in their indelible songcraft, guitarist Sean Kennedy, bassist Lucas Gadke, drummer Michael Carrillo and triple threat vocalist/flautist/organist Alia O’Brien have created what Kennedy calls “a very English album,” despite the band’s very Canadian heritage. Recorded to analogue tape with producer Liam Watson at Toe Rag Studios in London, Lord Of Misrule possesses a timeless quality within the rock epoch: It could stand alongside a Shocking Blue or Deep Purple record as easily as it will take its place among 2016’s finest albums.

King's X at M15 in Corona CA

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Heavy Metal Power When it comes to live performance, few if any bands can ascend to the heights of King’s X. I’ve long since lost count of the number of times I’ve seen them perform, but one thing I’m 100% sure of: every time I see them it’s as close to a religious experience as I’m ever gonna have. No wonder they’re known as the First Church of Rock and Roll.

King’s X is a band that truly connects with their audience. They are raw, pure, visceral rock and roll. No distractions, backing tracks, fluff, or fancy effects. The majestic music is 100% of the focus, and the shows are all the more powerful for it. The gig at the M15 in Corona was just three fantastic musicians and their audience connecting and sharing music.



Some of the standout tunes, although there was nothing less than stellar, were: Over my Head, A Box, Flies and Blue Skies, Over and Over, Pleiades, We Were Born to be Loved, Pillow, Vegetable, and King.

Time to get off your asses and go to church! You must see this glorious band perform!
Listen, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of King’s X for the remission of silence; and you shall receive the gift of music. For their mission is to you and to your children, and to all who are lost and without that singular sound, as many as shall heed the call and hear the sound of King’s X. Praise!

Volto at The Complex in Glendale Feb 13 2016

Heavy Metal Power - Volto at The Complex in Glendale Feb 13 2016 http://heavymetalpower.com/2016/02/volto-at-the-complex-in-glendale-feb-13-2016/

Heavy Metal Power Last night I was shocked with 1000 Voltos! Volto! is an electrifying, thunderous band from Los Angeles CA. Their heavy rock jazz fusion hits you like a sonic blast from an alien robot that swallowed up Miles Davis.

The core of this band this band is Lance Morrison on bass, Danny Carey (of Tool, yep!) on drums, and John Ziegler on guitars. The lineup at this gig had Matt Rohde on keyboards and Matt Garstka from "Animals As Leaders" sitting in for Danny Carey (big shoes to fill!)

Each one of these guys is a technical master of his instrument, but combined it’s even greater than the sum of its parts. The tunes, which included Zeppelin, Miles Davis and Billy Cobham covers, gave each member time to shine and shine they did, like a million laser beams!

The bottom end from Morrison thumped like the shoes of the Iron Giant, with tremors that scrambled your guts. Ziegler’s guitar assaulted you like some kind of super ray gun with a hundred different settings; screaming, echoing, soaring from the stationary Ziegler, seated as if to say, you don’t need to see me all that much, just hear me. Matt Rohde’s keys brought the sound even further into other realms with wild fluid melodic passages and bizarre squeals from Rocketship X-M. Just amazing! Fill in drummer Matt Garstka actually made you not think about Danny Carey. He ruthlessly pounded and pummeled his kit; I felt sorry for the damn drums. The sheer number of fills and trills coming out Garstka photon cannon was overpowering.

If you’ve heard Volto! on record or YouTube but not live, well you haven’t really heard Volto! This is a live band, you need to be there when spaceship Volto! lands, the ground shakes, and your brainwaves are twisted and bent into a Mobius strip, never to unwind.



A Volto! original Song Called 'Grip It'





Matt Rohde's otherworldly keys

Look Who's Back With Metal Church

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Heavy Metal Power It's Mike Howe! Mike Howe's unmistakeable voice! Back in church again. Worship!



The song ain't half bad. The album is coming soon and its called "XI". I guess that's Chinese? Or is it Roman Numerals?

TRACK LISTING
01. Reset
02. Killing Your Time
03. No Tomorrow
04. Signal Path
05. Sky Falls In
06. Needle and Suture
07. Shadow
08. Blow Your Mind
09. Soul Eating Machine
10. It Waits
11. Suffer Fools

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