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With their third album, "Eternity," German melodic metal band Freedom Call has gained several new fans in my neck of the woods - like everybody that's heard the album! It was immediately obvious it originated in Germany by how it sounds. The anthemic feel of the vocal backed by major ...

Nearly hard to imagine this band’s seen fifteen plus years already, and yet here they still are, celebrating their boundless career with a mighty pumpkin smashing two-disc, two hour set spanning the many highlights and few lows of their impressive existence.  They roared on the scene in the middle ‘80s ...

You know in the back of my mind when I was finishing up reviewing their “Bastardizer” release a year or two ago I was relieved… it’s over, no more of this. Somehow though I knew we wouldn’t be spared.  Let’s get the pronunciation out of the way first, it’s “Ka-nut” ...

Despite the bold step of producing this album by themselves in their own studio, I have to say the new VGS album has left me completely UNDERwhelmed. They still adhere to their traditional combination of speed punk instrumentals, guttural vocals and a horn section to back them up, but "Steady ...