Edenbridge - Set The Dark On Fire (Steamhammer), out now While winter has covered most of the northern hemisphere in snow and ice this month, Austrian symphonic power metal quintet Edenbridge have come to turn the heat up with their twelfth album, Set The Dark On Fire. Wasting no time in kicking off an epic musical journey, "The Ghostship Diaries" immerses listeners in a world of magic and mystery with vocalist extraordinaire, Sabine Edelsbacher, serving as both guide and na

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