Every once in awhile, I discover a great new band, but recently, I’ve discovered several bands that have been around for a decade or more that leave me mystified as to how I missed them all this time.
Wishmaster Review by Rick Damigella True story - over the summer a friend of mine sends me a link from YouTube and says prepare to rock and to laugh. So I click on it and am treated to an absolutely killer symphonic metal riff and an operatic female vocal which is all at once beautiful, powerful and seductively mysterious.
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Concert Reviews
Nightwish - Live In Los Angeles, September 2008 Review by Rick Damigella Finland’s champions of symphonic progressive metal stormed through Los Angeles this month, putting on a spectacular show in a classic venue. The Wiltern Theater was packed on a warm September Saturday night with one of the most eclectic and friendly crowds I have ever had the pleasure of sharing a concert experience with.
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Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm Review by Rick Damigella Elsewhere in this issue of MSJ, I reviewed the latest album from Nightwish. Now we take a spin of their departed singer, the legendarily voiced Tarja Turunen.
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