All posts by Nathan Mesiti

“Acoustic Adventures” Volume One by Sonata Arctica is a sprawling and beautiful compilation of tunes from throughout the bands’ career performed in a series of stripped-back renditions. It takes the bands’ signature sound and [...]

Season’s greetings! Several months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing Paul Gilbert’s (of Mr Big fame) “Werewolves of Portland” and here we are, surprised with a second album for the year and 17th overall solo release [...]

It’s only a few short nights before Call of the Wild by Germany’s POWERWOLF gets dropped and fans of Power Metal have a heck of a lot to be excited about! There’s a lot in the way of technical prowess and production value though anyone [...]

  The Call of the Wild beckons! Okay well, actually it was the call from Napalm Records to let me know that Falk Maria Schlegel, Keyboardist of German power metal pack Powerwolf was on the line ready to chew my ear off. Thankfully they meant with [...]

“The Night They Came Home” is the DVD/BluRay/CD/VHS release of Mr. Bungle’s Halloween live stream of the same name performed in 2020. During the show, they smashed out a set of classics from their 35-year-old recently released album [...]

Every now and again, I’m presented with an album by someone I’ve heard of my whole life but never really gave any time to. Paul Gilbert is one such case and after listening to Werewolves of Portland I’m completely baffled as to why! This [...]

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of [...]

An image flickers on the screen, the burning insignia of the Order of the Dragon to the backdrop of “At the Gates of Midian”. This could not have been a more enthralling setup for the recent Cradle of Filth Livestream and as a long-time fan, I [...]