Tobias Sammet (Avantasia): “I did not steal Alone I Remember from Skid Row if you’re referring to that. I know the song and I think my song is way more bluesy.” Monkey Business vs Alone I Remember
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Dear black metal fans, Just because your favourite artist creates a side project where he uses saxophone and other gay instruments and not all the songs have blastbeats and growling, it won’t make his new album a progressive avantgarde rock masterpiece. *sigh*
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A little more than half a year ago I conducted an interview with Daniel Gildenlöw on the wake of the release of their much delayed CD/DVD package. Due to unforeseeable circumstances the second half of 2009 proved to be more quiet for the band, which allowed them to catch up with their personal lives. That’s [...]
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The comeback album of Transatlantic, an international supergroup with Dream Theater’s main man behind the drumkit, has just been released. It is widely known that Mike Portnoy likes Swedish progressive rockers Beardfish. He even picked them for the American leg of this year’s Progressive Nation Tour, which fell through in the end due to the bankruptcy of SPV, distributor [...]
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Redemption: Walls Every day you build the wall and I’m trying to break through. Brick by brick I’ll tear it down until I reach the other side and you. You’ve made us prisoners and I’m trying to set us free. But the final stones between us could be the very ones placed there by me. [...]
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Step one: Take a Judas Priest song that isn’t their biggest hit but still decent enough. Running Wild vs The Wicker Man Step two: Take a Queensrÿche song that isn’t their biggest hit but still decent enough. Spreading The Disease vs The Wicker Man Step three: Take a post 80s Maiden era like dumb chorus [...]
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