Articles by Sarah Kitteringham

Royal Thunder Open Up About 'Crooked Doors'

PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2015

Royal Thunder's Crooked Doors has been framed as break-up record, given that vocalist/lyricist/bassist Mlny Parsonz and guitarist Josh Weav...

Royal Thunder

Crooked Doors

PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2015

When Royal Thunder's CVI was released in 2012, the hype machine framed the band as part of a wave of occult rock bands, bands that were see...

Blind Guardian Discuss 'Beyond the Red Mirror,' Reveal New Orchestral Project

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

Nearly 30 years after their inception, German power metallers Blind Guardian are looking to the past for their 10th full-length. Not the fi...

Blind Guardian

Beyond the Red Mirror

PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2015

Whether you listen to their albums sequentially or in random order, there is fluidity within the Blind Guardian catalogue that few bands ha...

Doom Metallers Anguish Invent Their Own Religion

PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2014

Metal's fantasy-inspired lyrical repertoire runs like a who's who of legendary authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Robert E. Howard,...

Onslaught / Artillery / VX36 / Shrapnal

The Palomino Smokehouse, Calgary AB, November 16

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2014

On a freezing Sunday night (November 16), Onslaught and Artillery, two underground thrash legends, played a small, sweaty venue in the icy...

Anguish

Mountain

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2014

Encapsulating an album in a tidy sentence can be an extremely frustrating task. In the case of Anguish, it's easy. This is heavy doom metal...

Amulet

The First

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2014

Amulet's 2011 Cut the Crap demo was intriguing, featuring "old school" classic metal with a black magic obsession. You know the kind: infus...