Category: Media

This week we’re going to listen to something from Bruce Dickinson’s solo career:

The greatest band in the world, Iron Maiden (hopefully defining that wasn’t required), is on the verge of releasing a new album titled The Book of Souls. Speed of Light is the first single released from that album and in true Iron Maiden fashion it’s a geeky song about video games:

There’s no school like old school so here’s some Grave Digger:

What do you get when a bunch of Sabaton’s musicians are unable to cope with the band’s extensive touring and decided to form their own band? Civil War. Civil War is another awesome power metal band that derives most of its lyrics from history. Their latest album is pretty bad ass and I think Bay of Pigs is probably the best song on it:

One of my favorite bands, Powerwolf, is coming out with a new album this month titled Blessed and Possessed. To promote it they’ve released a music video for one of the new songs. If the rest of the album is similar to this song I can say it’s going to kick great amounts of ass:

Do you know what I love? Metal. Do you know what else I love? History of the Mongolian Empire. Needless to say when I came across the band Mongol, which predominantly sings about Mongolian history, I was a fan. According to Encyclopedia Metallum the bad actually hails from Canada, which is kind of funny to me because Mongolian history is a theme seldom touched by western bands. Truth be told Mongol is a bit growlier than I usually enjoy but I really like how this song mixes in some clear vocals:

This week we’re going to be listening to a Turkish band that fits into several metal genres. The person who introduced this band to me described them as folk metal but they also fall into symphonic and power metal.