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Sweden Rock Festival @ Sölvesborg, Sweden (Part Two)
Click here to read Part One. Sweden Rock Festival (Part Two) June 8th – 11th Loudness are one of very few Japanese heavy rock bands to have made any kind of impact on a world scale. Their catchy hard...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Sweden Rock Festival @ Sölvesborg, Sweden (Part One)
Sweden Rock Festival (Part One) June 8th – 11th For metal fans the world over the act of partaking in the journey to a European metal festival has long been seen as an act of pilgrimage, a rite of...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Best albums of 2016 (so far)
Some of Metal Obsession’s writers have put together their top albums of 2016 (so far). Here they are in no particular order. Mitch Booth Ihsahn – Arktis This might be a preliminary list but nothing will top this in...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Wacken Open Air 2016 – Metal Obsession Preview
Wacken Open Air (Germany): August 3-6 Aussies travel. We have to. We need to. We want to. And once again the team from Metal Obsession will be converging on the Mecca that is the European Summer Heavy Metal Festival...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Summer Breeze 2016 – Metal Obsession Preview
Summer Breeze (Germany): August 17-20 Summer Breeze is in its 19th year but this will be my first visit. My metal colleague, Anwar Rizk, has been a number of times and always talks it up so I’m hanging to...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Sweden Rock Festival 2016 – Metal Obsession Preview
Summer time in Europe means just one thing to some people. If you have been lucky enough to have found yourself in the position of being able to get to one of the plethora of fantastic metal festivals that...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Hellfest 2016 – Metal Obsession Preview
So here I am, 11 months later (almost to the day), from when I made an impulsive decision to pack a bag and leave for France to embark on a journey that every metalhead must endure at least once...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Does heavy metal and comedy mix? Hamish and Andy meets Screaming Symphony
Does heavy metal and comedy mix? Probably not. But drive-time comedians and no-longer-eligible-bachelors Hamish Blake and Andy Lee from The Hamish and Andy Show on the Austereo Network gave it a crack when they invited Melbourne metal hosts Gary...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Martin Michea’s Top Albums of 2015
2015 has been a pretty weird year for me. I have listened to a lot of music, but I still struggled to finish this list, as I felt that it was pretty difficult to find ten albums that completely...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Top 11 Times in 2015 Sam Maher Thought An Album Was Pretty Good—You Won’t Believe #3!
All marketers know that this is the most important line of the article because it shows up on social media. So don’t waste it with something irrelevant!… So, now that I have clickbaited you into coming to this abortion...
- Posted 9 years ago
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Album Reviews
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El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors
Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has...
- Posted 4 years ago
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Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces
A little background on Markus Saastomoinen: he is a...
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Plini – Impulse Voices
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HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel
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