Pellek is a Norwegian vocalist who has been busy both as a solo artist with this “eponymous” band as well as a member of Damnation Angels.
 
While I am not going to challenge the fact that the guy has an amazing range, what seems to irk me a bit is his strong lingering and way he accents certain words, sometimes when he forms the sound and sometimes towards the end… If I was going to bring up as another example of a singer that does something similar that would be Timo Cotipelto, but it’s not going to be exactly the same thing, I’d be talking about.
 

There’s a weird story behind this band. They have been around for almost 20 years, they were an instrumental band, named after the original names of its members but since 2006 there’s been no one of those founding members in the band!
 

Frontiers Records is excited to announce the anticipated return of THE POODLES with the release of the band's fifth album “Tour de Force” on May 17th in Europe and May 22nd in North America.

 

We should not leave Australia out of the metal game for it keeps shouting, especially lately, that is here stronger than ever! During the last years, the Australian bands are growing bigger not only by the numbers. It’s not that Australia hasn’t always been a considerable metal force or anything like that.
 

On March 30th the new AVANTASIA-album “The Mystery Of Time“ will be released. 

 

The band has now revealed their the frontcover artwork. It has been hand-painted by world acclaimed British fantasy artist Rodney Matthews. Amongst Rodney's most famous artworks are not only album covers for Rock legends such as Magnum, Thin Lizzy, Asia or Nazareth. He has also designed the characters for the TV-series “Lavender Castle” and created the covers for novels by British fantasy author Michael Moorcock and many more.

 

Vandroya is hailing from Brazil and although they exit for more than 12 years, they now are presenting their debut release. Fronted by the beautiful lady Daisa Munhoz (Soulspell), the band’s music is moving on heavy/power European metal paths with some bits of prog metal music. Daisa’s voice is very powerful and she does give some wonderful performances on the album. It would be unfair though, not to say that all the guys are executing in high level here.
 

Hi Jason… It’s was a great surprise to see Icarus Witch back with a brand new line-up and a tremendous new album…
 
J: Thank you. We’re glad to be back and thrilled that the response to the new music has been overwhelmingly positive.
 
 
So, tell us, since you’re the only one original member left, what happened in the band’s ranks in the last years? How did you come up with these line-up changes?
 

After their successful and highly acclaimed 2010 album “Pandemonium”, Danish melodic Hard Rockers, Pretty Maids celebrated their 30th anniversary with their debut visual release “It Comes Alive (Maid in Switzerland)”.

 

Founded in early 1982 by guitarist Ken Hammer and singer Ronnie Atkins, Pretty Maids soon established themselves as a band to be taken seriously in the early eighties, having their breakthrough with the release - in April 1987 - of the album “Future World”. This record soon gathered a universal recognition as a “Classic”, which endures to date. 

Frontiers Records is proud to announce the signing of iconic Christian rockers Stryper to a multi-album deal. The first release due out will be a new re-recorded collection; "Second Coming" will hit streets on March 22nd in Europe and March 26th in North America.  

 

The album features sixteen tracks, including new recordings of fourteen songs from the band’s early years as well as two brand new songs recorded especially for SECOND COMING, and is produced by Stryper frontman Michael Sweet.