Striker

location: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany date: 13.07.2018 Day two of the big Bang Your Head!!! festival had arrived. This time the headliner role went to the legendary Accept, who had cooked up something exclusive for the festival's…

The headliner role on this day went to the legendary Accept, who cooked up something exclusive for the festival's 20th anniversary and promised a spectacular show. A bunch of other seriously tasty treats made the bill too, including…

With their self-titled album, Striker prove they're one of the most exciting new-wave heavy metal bands around!

The fourth studio album from Edmonton metal revivalists Striker brings yet another transformation in sound and style. On the new record, the band puts melody front and center.

A killer "power metal communion" from a triple bill of bands in Vienna, led by Canada's Striker and teamed up with German power metal veterans Brainstorm and Primal Fear!

By the fourth day of the festival the fatigue was really showing, but Metaldays still had a few beasts up its sleeve, from respected underground names to bigger, more commercial-sounding giants. Thursday was marked above all by the return…

This is exactly how a heavy metal album should sound: it pulls inspiration from the old-school textbooks of speed and thrash metal pioneering and ravenously translates it into a statement for a new era.