Lion's Share

Sundsvall, Sweden's Lion's Share have spent the better part of three decades in the service of traditional heavy metal. Though never quite as well-known as power metal-favoring compatriots such as Hammerfall, Dream Evil, Sabaton, and Evergrey, Lion's Share can at least claim to predate them all -- having first recorded a single called "Ghost Town Queen" as far back as 1988. But it wasn't until 1995 that vocalist Andy Engberg, guitarist Lars Criss, keyboardist Kay Backlund, bassist Andy Loos (soon to be replaced by Pontus Egberg), and drummer Johan Koleberg had their proper com...