Elvenking

Bergfried – Romantik III Review

Bergfried – Romantik III Review

By Grin Reaper on November 5, 2025 in Reviews, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, 16 comments

“After dropping debut EP Romantik I in 2022 and follow-up Romantic II in 2023, Austrian-Hungarian duo Bergfried rides in on a wave of 80s nostalgia to deliver debut full-length Romantik III. At the conclusion of a trilogy, main character Anna tirelessly roams hell in pursuit of her lost lover. During the search, Anna clashes with God and Devil in her quest for love reunited. Bergfried and the Romantik series are the creations of Erech von Lothringen, guitarist on Romantik III and mastermind of Narzissus and Ancient Mastery, among others. While his other projects lean toward black metal, Bergfried forges something entirely different—a rock opera.” Berger time.

AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Veriteras – The Dark Horizon

AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Veriteras – The Dark Horizon

By Dolphin Whisperer on April 15, 2024 in Angry Metal Guy's Unsigned Band Rodeo, Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 20 comments

““AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite our writers in boot or bolster of the bands who remind us that, for better or worse, the metal underground exists as an important part of the global metal scene.” Ride to the Dark Horizon!

Vexillum – When Good Men Go to War Review

Vexillum – When Good Men Go to War Review

By Emya on April 26, 2021 in Reviews, Folk Metal, Power Metal, 22 comments

“”Bagpipes are a lovely addition to any song,” I staunchly declared a mere fortnight ago in another review. While my bagpipe rule of thumb held true on Wynter Arvn’s Abysses, I’m struggling to stand by my words after spending the last couple weeks with Vexillum’s When Good Men Go to War. Strong onion, weakly held? I’d say so. How could I have known that this opinion would make me grimace so soon? Rather than adding a haunting and epic mysticism to Vexillum’s music, the bag-pipe is instead an ever-present, garish nuisance.” Bag men.

Moonlight Haze – Lunaris Review

Moonlight Haze – Lunaris Review

By Dear Hollow on June 10, 2020 in Reviews, Folk Metal, Power Metal, Thrash Metal, 45 comments

“Angry Metal Guy’s latest n00b interrupts your regularly scheduled black metal to bring the ultimate question: is power metal metal? “It has the word metal in it, so of course it is, you babbling bumbling baboon,” you say. I get it, and it’s been proven again and again, but while various facets of the metalverse have to justify why they’re not rock, power metal is one of the only styles that must justify why it’s not pop.” Justify our love.

Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Divination Review

Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Divination Review

By Eldritch Elitist on August 29, 2019 in 2019, AFM Records, Folk Metal, Italian Metal, Power Metal, Reviews, Folk Metal, Power Metal, 18 comments

“While checking out a music video for one of the lead singles to Elvenking’s latest record, Reader of the Runes – Divination, I stumbled across a comment that deeply resonated with me. To paraphrase: “This is pretty good, but I still feel like a Pagan Manifesto widow.” It’s rare for a band to drop their best album seventeen years and eight LPs in their career, but 2014’s The Pagan Manifesto was precisely that.” Everything’s runed.

Moonlight Haze – De Rerum Natura Review

Moonlight Haze – De Rerum Natura Review

By Dear Hollow on June 17, 2019 in 2019, Italian Metal, Power Metal, Reviews, Scarlet Records, Symphonic Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, 40 comments

“I guess I brought this on myself. All that trash I’ve been talking at the office about power metal has finally come full circle, and here I am laying out the carpet for a power metal band. The debate rages on: does power metal belong among the ranks of true metal or is it too melodic? I suppose, since the beginning, one of metal music’s core tenets has always been a focus on excess. Whether it be slamming death metal’s absurdly violent lyrics or black metal’s corpsepaint, power metal’s dramatic focus on the operatic and epic certainly fits.” Abuse of power.

Airborn – Lizard Secrets: Part One – Land of the Living Review

Airborn – Lizard Secrets: Part One – Land of the Living Review

By Eldritch Elitist on June 2, 2018 in 2018, Fighter Records, Italian Metal, Power Metal, Reviews, Power Metal, 53 comments

“Lizard Secrets! LIZARD SECRETS! When sifting through the endless pile of gore-drenched and occult-themed album titles in the AMG promo bin, something as adorable as Lizard Secrets immediately stands out. As for Airborn themselves, well, they’ve had a tough time doing the same in the power metal scene over the past twenty two years of their existence, plugging along on a semi-regular release schedule that I had been completely unaware of until I plucked this album from the a(mg)ether.” I toad you that was a secret!

Elvenking – Secrets of the Magick Grimoire [Things You Might Have Missed 2017]

Elvenking – Secrets of the Magick Grimoire [Things You Might Have Missed 2017]

By Swordborn on December 15, 2017 in AFM Records, Folk Metal, Power Metal, Reviews, Things You MIght Have Missed 2017, Folk Metal, Power Metal, 43 comments

“Welcome to Bizarro Metal World, where the reviews are made up and the scores are reversed! Just kidding, but seriously, Angry Metal Guy himself was set to review this album. However, time being what it is during the holiday season (and AMG being as angry as he is), he didn’t get around to it. As luck would have it -at least for Elvenking – while I’ve heard tell that AMG was quite disappointed with this album, I am not!” Dodging the AMG bullet.