Metalsucks — A source close to the guitarist told me that Axel Rudi Pell was devastated when Loutallica’s Lulu came along and dethroned ARP’s The Ballads IV as the worst album of 2011. Axel had worked so very, very hard to take great songs like “Holy Div... more info

Metalsucks — Axel Rudi Pell’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is terrific*, and now it has a video of the highest possible quality to equal the sheer emotional force of the recording. What I like about this video isn’t just that the singer, Axlist... more info

Metalsucks — Earlier this summer, I declared Axel Rudi Pell’s The Ballads IV an early contender for worst album of the year; the entire thing is atrocious, but the prime offender is a cover of Dio’s “Holy Diver” so truly and unforgivably terrible that if ... more info

Metalsucks — If you’ve ever wanted to hear Dio’s “Holy Diver” transformed from one of metal’s most powerful anthems into a hair metal-style sad sack power ballad complete with Casio keyboards and a synth violin so shitty it wouldn’t have been consider... more info

Metalsucks — Axel Rudi Pell is kind of like the balladeer of the German power metal / hard rock scene. It seems kind of ridiculous to say given that the entire genre is one big fat indulgence in cliches, but Pell takes that indulgence to the next level with… we... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — TheRightToRock.com has issued its latest podcast (episode #70), featuring German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell. more info