When Allegaeon were in Calgary with Ne Obliviscaris in 2017, vocalist Riley McShane told me they were working on a new album which will feature a song about Tardigrades; the microscopic galactic travelers that can survive anywhere, from the impossible [...]
German band Nailed To Obscurity are getting set to release their latest album, Black Frost, on January 11, 2019. Metal Wani’s Laura Vezer had a chat with guitarist Jan-Ole Lamberti and vocalist Raimund Ennenga about their 2018 in review, [...]
U.D.O. is back with their sixteenth studio album, ‘Steelfactory’, which will be set for release on August 31, 2018. Udo Dirkschneider has been touring the world for the past two years under the name Dirkschneider, where he has been touring his [...]
Nightwish are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year in style, with the upcoming release of ‘Decades,’ scheduled for release on March 9th, and are about to embark on a seven week tour, bringing the “greatest show on [...]
Sabaton are back on Canadian ice roads this month and returned to Calgary, a mere 9 months since their last show. How lucky are we to see Sabaton twice in less than a year! The answer of course, is VERY! For this tour, the Swedish storytellers of war have [...]
British powerhouse Saxon are back with their TWENTY-SECOND album, ‘Thunderbolt.’ (Twenty-two albums! When have you done twenty-two times lately? I can hardly do twenty-two push ups!) Due for release on February 2nd via Silver Lining Records, [...]
Beast in Black are about to release their debut album ‘Berserker,’ due out this November on Nuclear Blast records. The band is the brainchild of former Battle Beast guitarist Anton Kabanen who left the band in 2015 under some hazy [...]
Gothenburg’s godfathers Dark Tranquility landed in Calgary earlier this week on the tail end of their North American headlining tour supporting their latest album ‘Atoma,’ released in 2016. Supporting Dark Tranquility on this [...]