Pure Steel Records

Once assed  the intro “Souls of a frozen earth” dies out, it becomes immediately  clear what we’ve got on our plate, no nonsense heavy metal as if crafted in the  eighties… ZENO MORF from Norway provide us singalong heavy  metal with no doubt can be appreciated by a many headbangers who are still convinced that it’s 1984  and not 2014 and there is nothing wrong with that.  Granted the vocals of ERIK Westerlund are not exactly at the same level as let’s say mr Dirkscneider or a certain guy named Halford.  You also w

US power metal firmly  rooted in the  2^nd  half  of the  eighties one would think,   but a closer look tells me that  both the  “ Evermoving” and  “ Reawaken”  where actually released  in 2001 and 2002 through Century Media,  now in 2014 , Pure Steel Records, has decided to  release  a very limited vinyl version of these records, limited to just 250 each.  Both releases   let us hear a band  which knew how to write a decent song and no doubt where fans of  such bands  as  Sanctuary, Nevermore, H

US power metal firmly  rooted in the  2^nd  half  of the  eighties one would think,   but a closer look tells me that  both the  “ Evermoving” and  “ Reawaken”  where actually released  in 2001 and 2002 through Century Media,  now in 2014 , Pure Steel Records, has decided to  release  a very limited vinyl version of these records, limited to just 250 each.  Both releases   let us hear a band  which knew how to write a decent song and no doubt where fans of  such bands  as  Sanctuary, Nevermore, H

Primeval Realm sit firmly in the classic school of doom metal, but what more can I say? Primordial Light ain't a bad seven tracks of music, it's nicely played, quite well produced but ultimately lacks being special. While this 40-minute CD displays the members' talents, it also leaves me to wonder what more they can do to expand on the sound they're slowly developing.

To celebrate the anniversary of the ‘The Goddess Principle’ album that came out in 1995, Pure Steel Records will do a rerelease of the album.

Steel Prophet is an American power metal band that started in 1983 and still goes strong. A few months ago the band released a statement the they’re very busy on writing new songs but in the meantime their recordlabel comes with this release.

Aska was born during the alternative and grunge music movement of the early 90's, and is from Texas. The band can best be described as traditional power/heavy metal in the same line as “Judas Priest”. The band consists of George Call (vocals, guitar), Keith Knight (vocals, bass), Chris Menta (guitar), Danny White (drums) and Dave Harvey (bass).

Wow, and I taught I heard everything? Now wait till you hear Skinflint of Africa. This 3 piece heavy metal comes band out Botswana. Not a big country know as metalminded. After releasing two full albums ‘Massive Destruction’, ‘IKLWA’. After two years of silence the band is back with their third album. ‘Dipoko’ contains nine songs that are pretty good.

Artizan is an American five piece melodic power metal band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band was founded by drummer Ty Tammeus in 2008. Singer Tom Braden, guitarist Shamus McConney and Jon Jennings on bass joined him to start this project.

After the vinyl rereleases of “Victims Of the Night” and “No One Gets Out”, Pure Steel Records just rereleased the Halloween album “Horror Fire” on vinyl. This album was originally released on the band’s private label Motor City Metal Records and will now be released on double vinyl, limited to 500 copies.

You all probably know ‘The Phantom Of the Opera’, well, here is ‘The Opera Of The Phantom’, the fourth studio album by US-metallers Phantom X.  Not that original as title, but we’ve had worse.  This is a concept album, although I’m not quite sure what the concept really is.

Most of the tracks on this album have featured on other Phantom X albums, in fact the first ten out of the sixteen tracks in total, but they were re-recorded completely.