Testament Of Rock: The Best Of Astral Doors available on August 25 2016 from Amazon for 9.59
Astral Doors - Testament Of Rock (Music CD) available on April 16 2015 from Base for 10.69
UPC bar code 807297163223 ξ1 registered August 25 2016
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Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Heavy Metal Audio
Manufacturered by Metalville
Product weight is 0.16 lbs.
Brand Name: ENTERTAINMENT ONE U.S.LP Mfg#: 00010600 Shipping Weight: 0.15 lbs Manufacturer: Genre: Popular Music All music products are properly licensed and guaranteed authentic. Sweden, the early 21st Century: The (rather unjustly) maligned Power Metal wave had passed its creative peak and the Melodic Metal scene consisted mainly of less than stellar clones of HammerFall, Nocturnal Rites et al. Renewal was sorely needed and two bands from the county of Dalarna provided it. Their names: Sabaton and Astral Doors. The latter, formed in Borlänge in 2002, accomplished the all but accomplishable: delighting Power Metal fans and traditionalists alike. The intense riffing and exqui-site melodies of Astral Doors equalled the very finest in contemporary Power Metal. "Testament Of Rock" culls tracks from all five full length releases and various E.P.s and elsewhere and serves as an extraordinary introduc-tion to a band that's already an integral part of melodic metal history - and they've only just begun.
First you should know I've been a musician and metal head since 1980- (Iron Maidens first album, Priest- Sin After Sin, Black Sabbath etc.) and followed all types of metal bands over the years and still love metal in 2015. With that said, this is the best Power Metal I have heard in a while. Since I got the Testament of Rock cd I have downloaded many songs from Astral Doors and I listened to them for weeks! I only wrote a handful of reviews but this band must be re..
It's perfectly appropriate that the cover art for Testament of Rock, the "best of" collection from Swedish metal band Astral Doors, features an enormous dragon that would make the late Ronnie James Dio (RIP) proud. Astral Doors nicked pretty much everything else from Dio, so they might as well claim the role of metal dragonslayers as well.Perhaps that's a bit harsh. Dio was a huge influence on the power metal genre, so it's understandable that a modern ..
