Distorted Sound Magazine

• ALBUM REVIEW: Atmospherics – Hands Like Houses | Distorted Sound Magazine | Feb. 17, 2025, midnight
For the first time since 2018, Australian rockers HANDS LIKE HOUSES finally return with a brand new double album. Ushering in the start of a new era for the band, Atmospherics isn’t all that is new in the band.

• ALBUM REVIEW: Here Be Dragons – Avantasia - distortedsoundmag.com | Distorted Sound Magazine | Feb. 26, 2025, midnight
With a relatively on the nose album name and song titles referencing everything from witches to moorlands, you might be forgiven for expecting Here Be Dragons to be a return to AVANTASIA’s early power metal years.In the two decades since The Metal Opera duology, Tobias Sammet has shaped his ambitious project into something much more idiosyncratic – a unique meld of symphonic metal, prog ...

• Avantasia release new music video for ‘The Witch’ | Distorted Sound Magazine | Feb. 15, 2025, midnight
The new music video, for the track The Witch, is taken from the veteran power/symphonic metal band’s upcoming new album, Here Be Dragons, which is scheduled to be released later this month, via Napalm Records. The new song features a guest appearance from Tommy Karevik of KAMELOT.

• ALBUM REVIEW: Sleepless Empire – Lacuna Coil - distortedsoundmag.com | Distorted Sound Magazine | Feb. 13, 2025, midnight
For the first time in six years, Italian goth rockers/metallers, LACUNA COIL are back with a Valentine’s gift to us all in the guise of their tenth album, Sleepless Empire.