Scotland’s Gloryhammer, the new project of Alestorm keyboardist Christopher Bowes, have had their debut album’s release on Napalm Records heralded by a considerable degree of hype within the power metal community. Personally, I confess that my own interest in “Tales from the Kingdom of Fife” stems mainly from the novelty of a fantasy metal concept […]

Germany’s Sacred Steel are, by all outward appearances, stalwarts of the modern power metal scene, boasting a career that spans more than a decade and a half, during which time they’ve put out eight full-length albums including this one. For all that output however, they seem to have made little impression on the international power […]