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Album Review: Powerwolf – The Sacrament Of Sin
This year I finally get to see Powerwolf live – and I’m having to travel to Sweden to do it. With their frustrating habit of playing a single UK date on each “tour” (and it’s always bloody London)...
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Sabaton Open Air 2018 – Day 3 Review
Exhausted after a crap night’s sleep (I hate camping!), The Boy and I had a quick round of crazy golf before heading for the arena for the final day. Stormburst (c) Iain Purdie Leading the charge are...
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Tour News: Powerwolf / Enslaved / Sir Reg / Ross The Boss / Steel Panther
Time for another roundup of a few of the bands heading your way over the coming weeks and months. Powerwolf After announcing a show at Koko, London on November 12th (which may have to be postponed due...
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2018 Crew Review: Iain “Mosh” Purdie – Editor in Chief
Well I guess it’s my turn to rattle off some thoughts on 2018. On a personal note, it’s been a tricky year and also a very busy one for many reasons. “Real work” has picked up, meaning I’ve had to...
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Bloodstock Festival 2019 adds more bands
Bloodstock welcomes in 2019 by announcing four new bands for August’s best metal weekender. If you’ve dropped all your money on Christmas and are counting the pennies, the popular ticket payment plan...
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Gig Review: Powerwolf / Amaranthe / Kissin’ Dynamite – SWG3, Glasgow (20th...
My first gig at Glasgow’s SWG3 was to be a belter, and I’d like to start by complimenting the venue. A converted… steelworks [galvanisers – Ross] or something, it has the perfect ambience for a metal...
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Festival Review: Tons of Rock 2019 – Day Three
Every year I have attended Tons of Rock festival since 2015 there has been at least one day when it rained. Not this year – clear skies and sun for the entire time, and this final day was the hottest....
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Festival Review: Wacken XXX Day 4
All good things must come to an end and as we hit the final day of Wacken XXX, Mark and I decided to go for broke and hit a few more bands than we’d managed so far. We finally had the lay of the land,...
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Festival Review: Bloodstock 2019 Day 1 – Ross’ View
After a couple of years away from Catton Hall, 2019 saw me return to Bloodstock, my first since 2016 and second overall. As is tradition, we headed down from Glasgow (ish) on the Thursday with a...
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Festival Review: Bloodstock 2019 Thu/Fri – Sean’s View
We’ve a lot of Bloodstock stuff to go up over the next few days. With a big group of us there as crew and punters, we managed to cover a fair whack. Here’s Sean’s take on the opening evening and the...
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Bloodstock 2019: Mosh’s View
I’m the Big Bad Editor in Chief and I’ve been remiss in not doing my Bloodstock review as yet… Time to address that! (c) Iain Purdie Everyone else has already done lengthy bits about bands so I’ll try...
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Powerwolf to release ‘Best Of The Blessed’ album
2019 marked the 15th anniversary of the currently most successful modern heavy metal band in Germany: 15 years of Powerwolf, 15 years of the one and only metal mass! Of course, the ultimate high...
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Album News: every release we were mailed about today!
This’ll be a big post… sorry! We get around 200 emails a day here. A lot of them are requests for album reviews (30-60 a day or thereabouts). Fridays are huge for video releases (about 40 today) and...
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Album Review: Powerwolf – Best of the Blessed
Ah, Powerwolf. A band I liked so much that I went all the way to Sweden to see them as they never toured the UK (one London date isn’t a tour). And then a couple of months later the buggers played...
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Months before the entire world had been shaken to the core by the still raging Covid-19 pandemic, heavy metal’s finest, Powerwolf, had gone back to the drawing board to work on ideas for the successor...
View ArticlePowerwolf announce new studio album
Following up on news released at the end of last year, Powerwolf have today announced more details of their upcoming new studio album, Call Of The Wild, to be released worldwide 9th July via Napalm...
View ArticlePowerwolf release new video from upcoming album
2021 is once again completely under the spell of the wolves: With the announcement of their new studio album, Call Of The Wild, Powerwolf, the high priests of heavy metal, have turned the heads of fans...
View ArticlePowerwolf release new single / video ft. Alissa White-Gluz
2021 is once again completely under the spell of the wolves: with the announcement of their new studio album, Call Of The Wild, Powerwolf, the high priests of heavy metal, have turned the heads of fans...
View ArticleTrivium’s Matthew Kiichi Heafy features on new Powerwolf release “Fist By...
This Friday, 16th July 2021, the high priests of heavy metal, Powerwolf, will continue their unique success story and release their long awaited new studio album Call Of The Wild! In anticipation of...
View ArticlePowerwolf share “Fire And Forgive” from stunning The Monumental Mass...
Last Friday, Powerwolf launched a stream with real event character that reaches dimensions that have never been seen before. While other bands compensate the circumstance of not being able to perform...
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