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You might've heard about this Chinese Folk/ Folk Rock band recently, as they've been on a short European tour to coincide with the release of their third album, Baifang, playing select venues in the UK, Holland, Belgium (the AB Club in Brussels), Germany and Denmark.  And if indeed we're able only now to post the album's review, please keep in mind that we dó review an awful amount of albums, some of which take precedence over the others for a multitude of reasons (business-related, or because a hard copy was sent to us).

Three years have passed since the release of Iron Savior’s previous album ‘The Landing’, but now they’re back with their latest masterpiece ‘Rise Of The Hero’ .

If you need a good portion of True Heavy Metal Iron Knights will deliver you the goods. This is straight forwarded Metal that will be responsible for the pain in your neck after a few listens.

Brainstorm was founded in 1989 by Torsten Ihlenfeld, Milan Loncaric and drummer Dieter Bernert. The first few years of their life cycle saw the band build a solid groundwork with several demo releases and live appearances. In 1997, the band signed their first record deal and released the self-produced Hungry”album witch received good critics.

Leader of this new band is none other than Alexander Oriz, who’s the guitarist in Reinxeed, but has also founded  a band named after his own name Oriz.  Other musicians in this band are Chris David on bass, also known from Reinxeed, aswell as Simon Jonsonn, who toured with Reinxeed and finally Emil Eriksson, known from Oriz and JD Miller.

25 years ago, Axxis released their ‘Kingdom Of The Night’ album on EMI Records.  To celebrate this, they’ve released ‘Kingdom Of The Night II’, and even made two versions, a Black Edition, that contains heavier tracks, and a White Edition, that contains quieter songs and ballads.  Both albums are separately available. I cannot say anything about the black edition, since I didn’t get a copy of it, so let’s stick to the white edition instead.

Ancient Ascendant are an English four-piece that recorded two minis and one full length before. When it comes to the latter, that full length, which was called The Grim Awakening, I would kindly like to ask you to search for the review done by truly-yours-undersigned, posted on October 2^nd 2011 as part of the ‘Siege Of Amida Records Special 2011” I did.

Kyng a new band founded in Los Angeles in 2008. You can compare their sound with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and The Sword, yes Heavy metal, Stoner Metal and hard Rock. Only three members counting band: Eddie Veliz (vocals/guitar), Pepe Clarke (drums) and Tony Castaneda (bass/backup vocals).

Line-up: Danny Cecati: Vocals, Con Papazoglou: Guitar, Zain Kimmie: Drums, Seb Schneider: Keyboard, Evan Harris: Bass

Pfiew...pretty high-class project, this, being a collaboration between singer Arno Strobl and multi-instrumentalist Déhà. If you have no idea whom those people are, jut read on...