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Arkeyn Steel Records is reissuing the second "No Justice No Peace", album of one of the finest Heavy Metal bands from Dallas, Texas, US:...

A new spiritual dimension is opened through the music of AWAKE. Get ready for the ultimate Texas Progressive Metal experience! What I am referring...

I know that the Los Angeles 80s Heavy Metal scene rings a lot of bells and whistles to the most of you. There are...

Oh yes I know, I know this one rings lots of bells and whistles to the CD collectors out there. You see PHANTOM REIGN...

In the underground Metal realm we got some very specific examples of bands that let their sound to be evolved caring about the artistic...

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US, summer of 1991, a band is on the studio recording. In a normal situation such a situation would be a...

ALTERED MINDS from New York, US, have managed to generate quite an attention around their name thanks to their "Resurrected in Time" private CD...

WICKED LESTER is for sure one of the most obscure cases of a band from the Ohio Metal Scene. They were formed in Canton Ohio,...

The ETHER BREATHER band was founded by guitarist Joshua Ribakove and drummer Mark Mari, back in 1987. Pretty soon they managed to arrange and...

We are slowly approaching the late 80s. a decade that can only be described as an explosive one, is about to finish. The newborn...

Seriously? Are you expecting a "review" on OBLIVION KNIGHT stuff? Well who can "review" something that is considered as an absolute classic? Anyway. Arkeyn...

A huge amount of time on my musical activities during the last 25 years is spent on the process of tracking down recordings from...

NASTY started back in 1990 rising from the growing Michigan Metal scene of the early 90s. From their very first original compositions, the band...

HEDSTONE from Downers Grove, Chicago, Illinois, USA are a special case of a band. They became known to the underground scene, thanks to "Air...

Ray Babula guitarist and spiritual father of SANCTUM is one of the kindest musicians I have ever met. It was a really wonderful experience to be in extensive contact with him in order to write, form and complete the biography which featured on the SANCTUM - "Believers" CD reissue on Arkeyn Steel records. Those of you who got the CD would probably have given this bio a read. There are many elements and information from the biography used in order to form the questions of this particular interview. It is actually the very first on line interview with SANCTUM, so those who have not yet checked the bio can get a brief picture on the band's story, those who have checked the bio, can read some extra stuff. I also have to add that as these lines are being typed, a second pressing of the reissue is coming, so if you missed the first one, here is your new chance to grab the music, the info and the SANCTUM magic that is trapped in there.

There were a lot of interesting things happening in the Prog / Power underground scene in the USA, during the late 90s, just before...

"This reissue will never happen, all the band members are dead and there is absolutely no info available for this band anywhere". In a...

There are some bands that delivers music which is very difficult to be characterized and placed under the "folder" of specific musical genre. It...