NYC hardcore/crossover pioneers Agnostic Front were at the forefront of a movement back just before your author was introduced to heavy metal. The band's second album "Cause for Alarm" was a mainstay, where songs like "The Eliminator" and "Bonber Zee" were played weekly on the college radio station that administered the foundations for a metallic education. There was a bit of a revolution going on in New York City when punk, metal and thrash collided for what would be known a

At long last, an ambitious project that began over 20 years ago finally will be released. Originating in the period of time just before the release of "Nightfall in Middle-Earth," the once fabled Blind Guardian orchestra project in its final form draws more than just inspiration from that seminal album. A few of the voice actors from "Nightfall" return for "Twilight Orchestra: Legacy of the Dark Lands," which tells the tale drawn from German fantasy author Markus Heitz's nove