Powerplay 236 December 2020
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Not only are they metal to the core but on their latest album Accept reckon that they are ‘Too Mean To Die’. We talk to the last remaining original band member Wolf Hoffman to find out just how mean they are. If there’s one release that might help us to remember 2020 for the right reasons, then it is the incredible ‘Atlantis’ from Cats In Space. We talk to the top cat himself, Greg Hart. Also this issue Therion return to making the kind of symphonic metal albums that we love, former Dragonforce bassist Frédéric Leclercq blows us away with his new band Amahiru, we go behind the scenes with Collateral to discover the crazy amount of work that goes into making a promo video, and our writers name their top 50 albums from a year that has seen few obvious high profile contenders. Other interviews this issue with: Steve Hackett, Unruly Child, Vanden Plas, Absolva, Flames Of Heaven, American Tears, Scardust, Tribulation, Enigma Experience, White Walls, Mario Rossi, and Tod Almond.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Editorial, The New Power Files, That Was My Year....
POWERED UP
Black Stone Cherry, Metallica, Armored Saint, Paradise Lost, Moonspell, Federal Charm, Everyday Heroes.
POWER PLAYS
Accept, Alien, The Mercy Kills, Dead Girls Academy, Hearts & Hand Grenades, Ad Infinitum, Kepler Ten, Riverside, Horror Dance Squad, Iron Mask, Nacarbide, Rambomesser, Amahiru, Sealand Airlines, Vanden Plas, Holding Absence, Flames Of Heaven, Rave The Reqvium, Groovenom.
POWER CUTS
Dream Theater, Attic Theory, Unruly Child, Enigma Experience, Perseide, Clutch, Hollywood Undead, James Kennedy, Absolva, Dragonrider, Rovar, Lonely The Brave, Kaskadeur, Hjelvik, Persuader, L.A. Guns, Star Insight, Ferris Mc, Elephant Tree, Diamond Rexx, Reaper, Mayday Parade, Chalice, Jen Majura & Alen Brentini, Genus Ordinis Dei, Magnum, Volbeat, Orion, Poppy Jasper, My Dying Bride, Agrabatti, Kartzarot, Iron Maiden, Revelino, Inhuman, =Fudge=, Lizzy Borden, Stan Bush, Mike Tramp, Ocean Hills, Hawxx, Revival Black, Small Town Titans, Woolgather, Sanctuary, Slade, Kenziner, Temple, Soulshaker, Ignitor, Dune Sea, Blind Guardian, Meridian, The Hunna, Blossom Cult, Death Orchestra, Stormkeep, Less Than Jake, Fortiđ, Cynik Scald, Overt Enemy, Space Electric, Therion, Refused, Phase Reverse, Slow Fall, Theatre Of Tragedy, Frozen Soul, Chris Manning, Mageia, Hunted By Elephants, Palace, Diamond Dogs, Stray, King Moon And The Purple, Tongues, Ambassadors Of The Sun, Gone Is Gone, The Wildhearts, Kickin Valentina, Diamond Head, Bakken, Pure Reason Revolution, Ascendor, The Outlaws, Sun King Rising, Calefactor, Alleyway, Pig, Dayglo Mourning, Foreign, Sculptor, Asphyx, Andrea Salini, Green Druid, Cathedrals Fall, Glass Alice, Devilfire, Ellefson, Neal Morse, Shardana, The Obgms, Glostik Willy, Anthenora, Paradise Lost, Taurian, Alter Bridge, Frost*, Edenbridge, Dirty Rats, George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers, Periphery, Escarion, Ventenner, Tdw, Marla Singer, Sinaya, Kaunis Kuolematon, Magic Dance, Warrior Soul, Centralia, Whitford, Autumn Tree, John Diva & The Rockets Of Love, Orbital Junction, Majestica, Slow Burning Car, Mike Masser, Deafcon5, Blue Oyster Cult, Millennium Trilogy Project, Albert Bouchard, Parker Mccollum, Haxon, Deluge, Travis Jon Evans, Stuck Out, Michael Des Barres & The Mistakes, Scorpions, Damn Freaks, Vhaldemar, Heart By Darkness, Sorceress Of Sin, Suidakra, Orbiter, Brad Brooks, Strydegor, Kerbdog, When Frames Collide, Monsterworks, American Tears, Snow White Blood, Beverly Killz, Wail, Perduratum, Soilwork, Thrashwall, Eyes Of Tomorrow, Kult Of The Wizard, Prefix, Draw Into Disorder, Angelshade, Stormhunter, Force Of Mortality, Aviations, Gwydion, Red County Jail, Iconic Eye, V/A Black Sabbath Tribute, Hands Like Houses, The Cadillac Three, Ogd, Exarsis, Squealer, Tape Tone, Obsolem, Scream At The Sky, Höst, Heavy Pettin’, Dendera, Dead Demons, Code Noir, Alien Feelings, March In Arms, Back Street Crawler, Leviathan, Perceived, Mindless Sinner, Bloodletter, Highfront, East Temple Avenue, Arrayan Path.
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Not only are they metal to the core but on their latest album Accept reckon that they are ‘Too Mean To Die’. We talk to the last remaining original band member Wolf Hoffman to find out just how mean they are. If there’s one release that might help us to remember 2020 for the right reasons, then it is the incredible ‘Atlantis’ from Cats In Space. We talk to the top cat himself, Greg Hart. Also this issue Therion return to making the kind of symphonic metal albums that we love, former Dragonforce bassist Frédéric Leclercq blows us away with his new band Amahiru, we go behind the scenes with Collateral to discover the crazy amount of work that goes into making a promo video, and our writers name their top 50 albums from a year that has seen few obvious high profile contenders. Other interviews this issue with: Steve Hackett, Unruly Child, Vanden Plas, Absolva, Flames Of Heaven, American Tears, Scardust, Tribulation, Enigma Experience, White Walls, Mario Rossi, and Tod Almond.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Editorial, The New Power Files, That Was My Year....
POWERED UP
Black Stone Cherry, Metallica, Armored Saint, Paradise Lost, Moonspell, Federal Charm, Everyday Heroes.
POWER PLAYS
Accept, Alien, The Mercy Kills, Dead Girls Academy, Hearts & Hand Grenades, Ad Infinitum, Kepler Ten, Riverside, Horror Dance Squad, Iron Mask, Nacarbide, Rambomesser, Amahiru, Sealand Airlines, Vanden Plas, Holding Absence, Flames Of Heaven, Rave The Reqvium, Groovenom.
POWER CUTS
Dream Theater, Attic Theory, Unruly Child, Enigma Experience, Perseide, Clutch, Hollywood Undead, James Kennedy, Absolva, Dragonrider, Rovar, Lonely The Brave, Kaskadeur, Hjelvik, Persuader, L.A. Guns, Star Insight, Ferris Mc, Elephant Tree, Diamond Rexx, Reaper, Mayday Parade, Chalice, Jen Majura & Alen Brentini, Genus Ordinis Dei, Magnum, Volbeat, Orion, Poppy Jasper, My Dying Bride, Agrabatti, Kartzarot, Iron Maiden, Revelino, Inhuman, =Fudge=, Lizzy Borden, Stan Bush, Mike Tramp, Ocean Hills, Hawxx, Revival Black, Small Town Titans, Woolgather, Sanctuary, Slade, Kenziner, Temple, Soulshaker, Ignitor, Dune Sea, Blind Guardian, Meridian, The Hunna, Blossom Cult, Death Orchestra, Stormkeep, Less Than Jake, Fortiđ, Cynik Scald, Overt Enemy, Space Electric, Therion, Refused, Phase Reverse, Slow Fall, Theatre Of Tragedy, Frozen Soul, Chris Manning, Mageia, Hunted By Elephants, Palace, Diamond Dogs, Stray, King Moon And The Purple, Tongues, Ambassadors Of The Sun, Gone Is Gone, The Wildhearts, Kickin Valentina, Diamond Head, Bakken, Pure Reason Revolution, Ascendor, The Outlaws, Sun King Rising, Calefactor, Alleyway, Pig, Dayglo Mourning, Foreign, Sculptor, Asphyx, Andrea Salini, Green Druid, Cathedrals Fall, Glass Alice, Devilfire, Ellefson, Neal Morse, Shardana, The Obgms, Glostik Willy, Anthenora, Paradise Lost, Taurian, Alter Bridge, Frost*, Edenbridge, Dirty Rats, George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers, Periphery, Escarion, Ventenner, Tdw, Marla Singer, Sinaya, Kaunis Kuolematon, Magic Dance, Warrior Soul, Centralia, Whitford, Autumn Tree, John Diva & The Rockets Of Love, Orbital Junction, Majestica, Slow Burning Car, Mike Masser, Deafcon5, Blue Oyster Cult, Millennium Trilogy Project, Albert Bouchard, Parker Mccollum, Haxon, Deluge, Travis Jon Evans, Stuck Out, Michael Des Barres & The Mistakes, Scorpions, Damn Freaks, Vhaldemar, Heart By Darkness, Sorceress Of Sin, Suidakra, Orbiter, Brad Brooks, Strydegor, Kerbdog, When Frames Collide, Monsterworks, American Tears, Snow White Blood, Beverly Killz, Wail, Perduratum, Soilwork, Thrashwall, Eyes Of Tomorrow, Kult Of The Wizard, Prefix, Draw Into Disorder, Angelshade, Stormhunter, Force Of Mortality, Aviations, Gwydion, Red County Jail, Iconic Eye, V/A Black Sabbath Tribute, Hands Like Houses, The Cadillac Three, Ogd, Exarsis, Squealer, Tape Tone, Obsolem, Scream At The Sky, Höst, Heavy Pettin’, Dendera, Dead Demons, Code Noir, Alien Feelings, March In Arms, Back Street Crawler, Leviathan, Perceived, Mindless Sinner, Bloodletter, Highfront, East Temple Avenue, Arrayan Path.
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Not only are they metal to the core but on their latest album Accept reckon that they are ‘Too Mean To Die’. We talk to the last remaining original band member Wolf Hoffman to find out just how mean they are. If there’s one release that might help us to remember 2020 for the right reasons, then it is the incredible ‘Atlantis’ from Cats In Space. We talk to the top cat himself, Greg Hart. Also this issue Therion return to making the kind of symphonic metal albums that we love, former Dragonforce bassist Frédéric Leclercq blows us away with his new band Amahiru, we go behind the scenes with Collateral to discover the crazy amount of work that goes into making a promo video, and our writers name their top 50 albums from a year that has seen few obvious high profile contenders. Other interviews this issue with: Steve Hackett, Unruly Child, Vanden Plas, Absolva, Flames Of Heaven, American Tears, Scardust, Tribulation, Enigma Experience, White Walls, Mario Rossi, and Tod Almond.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Editorial, The New Power Files, That Was My Year....
POWERED UP
Black Stone Cherry, Metallica, Armored Saint, Paradise Lost, Moonspell, Federal Charm, Everyday Heroes.
POWER PLAYS
Accept, Alien, The Mercy Kills, Dead Girls Academy, Hearts & Hand Grenades, Ad Infinitum, Kepler Ten, Riverside, Horror Dance Squad, Iron Mask, Nacarbide, Rambomesser, Amahiru, Sealand Airlines, Vanden Plas, Holding Absence, Flames Of Heaven, Rave The Reqvium, Groovenom.
POWER CUTS
Dream Theater, Attic Theory, Unruly Child, Enigma Experience, Perseide, Clutch, Hollywood Undead, James Kennedy, Absolva, Dragonrider, Rovar, Lonely The Brave, Kaskadeur, Hjelvik, Persuader, L.A. Guns, Star Insight, Ferris Mc, Elephant Tree, Diamond Rexx, Reaper, Mayday Parade, Chalice, Jen Majura & Alen Brentini, Genus Ordinis Dei, Magnum, Volbeat, Orion, Poppy Jasper, My Dying Bride, Agrabatti, Kartzarot, Iron Maiden, Revelino, Inhuman, =Fudge=, Lizzy Borden, Stan Bush, Mike Tramp, Ocean Hills, Hawxx, Revival Black, Small Town Titans, Woolgather, Sanctuary, Slade, Kenziner, Temple, Soulshaker, Ignitor, Dune Sea, Blind Guardian, Meridian, The Hunna, Blossom Cult, Death Orchestra, Stormkeep, Less Than Jake, Fortiđ, Cynik Scald, Overt Enemy, Space Electric, Therion, Refused, Phase Reverse, Slow Fall, Theatre Of Tragedy, Frozen Soul, Chris Manning, Mageia, Hunted By Elephants, Palace, Diamond Dogs, Stray, King Moon And The Purple, Tongues, Ambassadors Of The Sun, Gone Is Gone, The Wildhearts, Kickin Valentina, Diamond Head, Bakken, Pure Reason Revolution, Ascendor, The Outlaws, Sun King Rising, Calefactor, Alleyway, Pig, Dayglo Mourning, Foreign, Sculptor, Asphyx, Andrea Salini, Green Druid, Cathedrals Fall, Glass Alice, Devilfire, Ellefson, Neal Morse, Shardana, The Obgms, Glostik Willy, Anthenora, Paradise Lost, Taurian, Alter Bridge, Frost*, Edenbridge, Dirty Rats, George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers, Periphery, Escarion, Ventenner, Tdw, Marla Singer, Sinaya, Kaunis Kuolematon, Magic Dance, Warrior Soul, Centralia, Whitford, Autumn Tree, John Diva & The Rockets Of Love, Orbital Junction, Majestica, Slow Burning Car, Mike Masser, Deafcon5, Blue Oyster Cult, Millennium Trilogy Project, Albert Bouchard, Parker Mccollum, Haxon, Deluge, Travis Jon Evans, Stuck Out, Michael Des Barres & The Mistakes, Scorpions, Damn Freaks, Vhaldemar, Heart By Darkness, Sorceress Of Sin, Suidakra, Orbiter, Brad Brooks, Strydegor, Kerbdog, When Frames Collide, Monsterworks, American Tears, Snow White Blood, Beverly Killz, Wail, Perduratum, Soilwork, Thrashwall, Eyes Of Tomorrow, Kult Of The Wizard, Prefix, Draw Into Disorder, Angelshade, Stormhunter, Force Of Mortality, Aviations, Gwydion, Red County Jail, Iconic Eye, V/A Black Sabbath Tribute, Hands Like Houses, The Cadillac Three, Ogd, Exarsis, Squealer, Tape Tone, Obsolem, Scream At The Sky, Höst, Heavy Pettin’, Dendera, Dead Demons, Code Noir, Alien Feelings, March In Arms, Back Street Crawler, Leviathan, Perceived, Mindless Sinner, Bloodletter, Highfront, East Temple Avenue, Arrayan Path.