Articles by Lana Teramae

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Lana is a reviewer at Metal Express Radio from Honolulu, Hawaii. She's always had a passion for music, but she didn't get into Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music until she discovered Rick Allen's story in the summer of 2019. She was inspired by his determination to play drums for Def Leppard again after losing his left arm in a car accident. From there, her tastes expanded to other bands such as AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Judas Priest, Saxon, Cinderella, and Overkill. Aside from listening to music, she loves watching YouTube and writing on her personal blog.

Album Reviews

MEAN STREET – Never Too Late

October 27, 2025 Lana Teramae Leave a comment

Mean Street are Peruvian hard rock / AOR band that were formed in April 2016. Their influences are pure ‘80s hard rock with the likes of Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Slaughter, Survivor, Van Halen, and obviously …READ MORE

Album Reviews

ELETTRA STORM – Evertale

October 20, 2025 Lana Teramae Leave a comment

Following their excellent debut album, Powerlords (2024), Italian power metal band Elettra Storm are striking while the iron is hot with their sophomore release, Evertale (2025), which will be released on October 24, 2025 through …READ MORE

Album cover for Swedish hard rock band Jeet Kune Do's 'First Strike' (2025). The album is martial arts-themed with a young lady in a green kimono holding a samurai sword. It's a yellow background with the band name printed on the top middle in red and the album title on the bottom middle, also in red. The band members' names are printed on top of the band name in black, making the album cover look like a movie poster.

JEET KUNE DO – First Strike

October 13, 2025 Lana Teramae Leave a comment

Jeet Kune Do are a Swedish hard rock band that were founded in 2021; they started out as a cover band before taking the leap of writing their own material. Their influences include Kiss, Whitesnake, …READ MORE

Album Reviews

AETERNIA – Into the Golden Halls

October 6, 2025 Lana Teramae 2 Comments

Some albums are meant to be long, some albums are meant to be short, and some albums are meant not to exist at all. Before going further, there’s no reason to knock anybody for wanting …READ MORE

Album Reviews

DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG – Babylon

September 28, 2025 Lana Teramae Leave a comment

What started out as a one-off charity project has now become a fully-fleshed heavy metal supergroup; if they even fit that description? Well, considering that three of the members were in Accept (lead vocalist Udo …READ MORE

VICIOUS RUMORS – The Devil’s Asylum

September 8, 2025 Lana Teramae Leave a comment

It’s safe to say that American power metal band Vicious Rumors’ 14th studio album, The Devil’s Asylum (2025), is pretty “vicious.” Sorry, no pun intended! It’s been five years since the release of their 13th …READ MORE