Tremonti – Marching In Time (Album Review)
A mainline player brings the metal mainstream. It is said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and for many…
Rage – Resurrection Day (Album Review)
It’s Easter in the apocalyptic metal lands. Many in the field of high speed German steel have come and gone since its heyday in the…
Carcass – Torn Arteries (Album Review)
A more artful display of surgical precision emerges. Having sliced and diced their way into the annals of death metal’s rich and extensive history since…
Yes – The Quest (Album Review)
Here it is, friends: the long-awaited twenty-second studio album from Yes. As one of the few bands who pioneered the form we now call Prog…
Insomnium – Argent Moon (EP Review)
Four tales are told by a dreaming, wayward bard. Melodic death metal has a wide variety of potential expressions in spite of its supposedly rigid…
Inglorious – Heroine (Album Review)
The Inglorious machinery does not stop. It continues to show off the terrific results that its new components provide, as it was seen early this year when…
Portrait – At One With None (Album Review)
Theatricality begets innovation. Though now a phenomenon that has become ubiquitous throughout Europe and beyond, it could be argued that the ongoing revival of old…
Tuesday the Sky – The Blurred Horizon (Album Review)
If you know Jim Matheos, you know he likes to alternate between heavy and mellow. The honcho behind the most long-running of contemporary progressive metal…
Iron Maiden – Senjutsu (Album Review)
Perhaps the oldest dilemma in the arts is the struggle between the desires of the artist’s patronage, and the desires of the artist himself. Many…
Warkings- Revolution (Album Review)
After appearing at the mighty gates of Valhalla, four legendary war kings were commissioned by Odin to return to Earth and spread epic chants that…
Jinjer – Wallflowers (Album Review)
Progress cuts right to the core. The concept of progressive music, regardless of what specific genre it subsumes, is one that has become a bit…
Employed To Serve – Conquering (Album Review)
The UK metal masters Employed To Serve have returned, and trust me, you’re not ready for what they’ve brought with them. All I can say…
Danko Jones – Power Trio (Album Review)
Punk gives rock the blues. Few things will establish a band more thoroughly than a work horse approach to musical output and a correspondingly rigorous…
White Stones – Dancing Into Oblivion (Album Review)
The abyss stares back. If the more than 50 years of metal music’s history has taught anything, it is that it isn’t bound by the…
The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic II (Album Review)
Although it was barely a year and a half ago, it seems another lifetime when we reviewed Night Flight Orchestra’s “Aeromantic” album, a couple short…
Spirit Adrift – Forge Your Future (EP Review)
Fashions old and performances bold. Though relatively new to the American metal scene, Arizona/Texas born doom metal trustees Spirit Adrift have put out an impressive…
Wolves In The Throne Room – Primordial Arcana (Album Review)
Pondering metaphysics from the forest gloom. Often times the nature of a given craft will be determined by its surroundings, and this is doubly so…
Steve Hackett – Surrender of Silence (Album Review)
Making the most of his calendar’s dearth of live gigs, Steve Hackett has apparently stayed busy in the studio, releasing his second album of the…
Ex Deo – The Thirteen Years Of Nero (Album Review)
When in Rome, let the fires roar. The great exploits of history, both ancient and recent, have provided plenty of lyrical fodder for heavy metal…
Destruction – Live Attack (Album Review)
The Teutonic titans thrash the entire internet. With nearly 40 years under their belts, it can be safely stated that Destruction has solidified their status…
Leprous – Aphelion (Album Review)
The year 2020 could be proclaimed as the year of Aphelion. Representing the point of an object’s orbit when it is furthest away from the…
Alluvial – Sarcoma (Album Review)
Hardship is universal, but despite its destructive and damaging impact, it binds us together as humans. This is what death metal supergroup Alluvial are expressing…
Eradicator – Influence Denied (Album Review)
Eradication begets elucidation. For the better part of four decades, thrash metal has arguably remained the purest expression of its adoptive genre, showcasing the most…
Night Ranger – ATBPO (Album Review)
Classics never die. It is rare that a conversation about guitar-oriented rock occurs without the name Night Ranger being dropped early on. As one of…
Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger (Album Review)
As they entered the studio to record their fourth album, the Neal Morse Band agreed on two objectives: 1 – Not to make a concept…
Venues – Solace (Album Review)
After listening to “Solace”, Venues’ sophomore album, it is hard to believe that at a recent point in time, the fate of the band hung…
Yngwie Malmsteen – Parabellum (Album Review)
Prepare for another grandiose Neo-Baroque assault. In terms of showmanship with an eye for technical flair, few can match the ability and historical significance tied…
Dee Snider – Leave A Scar (Album Review)
Metal primed to scar the masses. Some old dogs can not only learn new tricks, but pull them off about as well as ones half…
Scar of the Sun – Inertia (Album Review)
Scar of the Sun, the 5-piece metal outfit from Athens, Greece, dropped their third full-length album, “Inertia” last May. Fans were teased to the new…
Mordred – The Dark Parade (Album Review)
They continue marching to the beat of a different drum. Popular culture has an unfortunate tendency of giving too much credit to the present when…
Urne – Serpent and Spirit (Album Review)
Watch out, prog-metal aficionados, there’s a new kid in town. The London-based trio Urne have made their intentions loud and clear with their debut album…
Chalice of Sin – Chalice of Sin (Album Review)
To drink from the cup of memories. Frontiers Records may bill itself as the foremost label in melodic rock, but a more descriptive title for…
Ghost Iris – Comatose (Album Review)
I am brutally ashamed to say that Ghost Iris didn’t come across my radar until I was given the opportunity to review their latest album.…
Times of Grace – Songs of Loss and Separation (Album Review)
Jesse Leach holds the odd distinction of replacing the guy who replaced him. Unlike Blaze Bayley and Ripper Owens, though, a huge swath of Killswitch…
Katastro – Sucker (Album Review)
Larger-than-life vibes, summery anthems, and enough reggae beats to keep your hip uncle dancing like the life-loving goofball that he is. This is how I…
Beartooth – Below (Album Review)
Some bands can struggle to sit comfortably in that area where one can be insanely heavy, but contagiously catchy at the same time. Beartooth is…
