Hollywood Vampires – Rise (Album Review)
As Alice Cooper’s career nears the end of the sixth consecutive decade over which it has cast a gloomy shadow, it’s easy to look back…
Timo Tolkki’s Avalon – Return To Eden (Album Review)
Where paradise draws its power. In the annals of power metal’s 30 years plus history, one of the most pivotal bands in shaping the European…
Jorn – Live On Death Road (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Review)
Whether you know his voice from ARK, Masterplan, Avantasia, Ayreon’s 01011001 album, or in collaboration with “Sir” Russell Allen, if your musical journey has ever…
Baroness – Gold & Grey (Album Review)
Originally based in Savannah, Georgia, Baroness increasingly gathered the attention of those wanting a heavy sound with touches of alt rock, sludge and stoner rock.…
Death Angel – Humanicide (Album Review)
Old wolves know the best tricks. Apocalyptic imagery and thrash metal have been common bedfellows for about as long as the latter has been in…
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Pattern-Seeking Animals (Album Review)
“Once swept away then pulled back to the fight, just a pattern seeking animal caught up in some grand parade.” These lyrics, sung by Ted…
Carthagods – The Monster In Me (Album Review)
Hannibal Barca’s triumphant rebirth. The ever-expanding world of metal expression has time and again proven that it knows no borders, all the while being among…
Neal Morse – Jesus Christ The Exorcist (Album Review)
“What do you think? Who do you say I am?” Ted Leonard may never have imagined that one day he would be portraying Jesus in…
D-A-D – A Prayer For The Loud (Album Review)
When the grunge hurricane hit the music business in the early 90’s, this meant the nemesis for many hard rock bands – some already established,…
Sweet Oblivion – Sweet Oblivion Featuring Geoff Tate (Album Review)
In the last year, we have done quite a bit of coverage of Tony Hernando, and his metal projects Lords of Black and Restless Spirits.…
Thank You Scientist – Terraformer (Album Review)
People will be approaching Terraformer, the third album from Thank You Scientist from a lot of different angles. Of course there will be those who…
Tronos – Celestial Mechanics (Album Review)
Trudging through the metaphysical ether. Shane Embury, best known as the bassist of iconic death/grind pioneers Napalm Death, has been a busy man of late.…
Diamond Head – The Coffin Train (Album Review)
About 40 years ago the NWOBHM was the premier avenue of expression for the British rocker who was either down on his economic luck or…
Possessed – Revelations Of Oblivion (Album Review)
A new classic wrapped in modernized traditionalism. Modern trustees of death metal based brutality may not be familiar the early exploits of its forerunner, San…
SOTO – Origami (Album Review)
The unstoppable Jeff Scott Soto is back with yet another offering of his extremely prolific career. The man has recorded close to 150 albums, and…
