Manimal – Armageddon (Album Review)
A looming shadow graces the end times. Labels are a useful tool in connecting objects with those whom seek them, but they are naturally imperfect…
Victory – Gods Of Tomorrow (Album Review)
Hard rocking classics never die. Herman Frank has been one of the busiest men in the business of late, fielding three impressive albums in the…
The Troops Of Doom – The Absence Of Light (EP Review)
The darkness has prevailed! For a while there has been a renewed interest in where death metal was during its original heyday in the late…
Fortress – Don’t Spare the Wicked (Album Review)
Spare the rod, spoil the metal! Fortress is a name been employed by many a metal act in the past, yet it is an apt…
Lucifer – IV (Album Review)
Old fashioned is the new original. The past decade has seen a number of older styles of rock and metal make a substantial comeback, but…
Rhapsody Of Fire – Glory for Salvation (Album Review)
Glory is reprised once more. Heroes tend to be measured by their latest exploits, whereas veterans are judged by their consistency and staying power, and…
Cynic – Ascension Codes (Album Review)
2020 sucked for everyone for many reasons, particularly for those who live on the arts. And while the health of those in the Cynic circle…
Black Label Society – Doom Crew Inc. (Album Review)
Few modern acts have the zeal of the doom-trooping brotherhood of fans following Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society. It is in homage to this brotherhood…
Imminence – Heaven in Hiding (Album Review)
Just before 2021 comes to a close, Imminence have given us something of absolutely epic proportions. “Heaven in Hiding” is an expansive and transcending collection…
Death Angel – The Bastard Tracks (Album Review)
They dialed “B” for bastard! For the better part of 2 years the live music scene has continued to reel from the catastrophic economic impact…
Khemmis – Deceiver (Album Review)
Deception begets innovation. Breaking new ground is a joy shared by artists and undertakers alike, and though it would seem that every twist and turn…
Temperance – Diamanti (Album Review)
Tempered steel and modern bombast unite. Few bands can boast the level of prolific output and the ambitious work ethic exhibited by Temperance, a band…
Volumes – Happier? (Album Review)
Hey listener, let me quickly take you down memory lane. It’s 2010, Volumes drops their debut EP “The Concept of Dreaming”, and you discover the…
Aephanemer – A Dream Of Wilderness (Album Review)
After rumbling the symphonic death metal realms with their roaring and sweeping sophomore album, Aephanemer is back with a new record that proves that the impressive…
Omnium Gatherum – Origin (Album Review)
All things begin in simplicity. Open-ended subjects and highly generalized concepts have been the forte of a subset of melodic death metal that rose out…
Exodus – Persona Non Grata (Album Review)
The banner of discontent flies high. Long breaks in output can often signal a career that is winding down, but nothing could be further from…
Be’Lakor – Coherence (Album Review)
An epic journey to greater congruity unfolds. Far from being a one-trick pony, melodic death metal has proven a high diverse sub-genre and veritable movement…
NorthTale – Eternal Flame (Album Review)
A new flame sets the north ablaze. A veritable force of nature was born in the closing years of the 2010s in NorthTale, a formidable…
All Hail The Yeti – Within the Hollow Earth (EP Review)
Hey you, yeah you, drifter, vagabond, whatever you like to call yourself, you wandering soul. Come sit with us by the campfire as we explore…
Unleashed – No Sign Of Life (Album Review)
The abyss stares back. Every movement has a forerunner, an influential figure of sorts that isn’t necessarily part of what comes later, but provides the…
Gizmodrome – Gizmodrome Live (Album Review)
Gizmodrome is one of those super-groups that appears to be destined to leave the fans wanting more – not due to the quality of the…
Bornholm – Apotheosis (Album Review)
Heathen warriors with blackened hearts arise. Somewhere between the crackling, low fidelity, orthodox cult of black metal’s Northern European reign in the early to mid-1990s…
Bullet For My Valentine – Bullet For My Valentine (Album Review)
Whether or not you’re a fan of Bullet For My Valentine, it’s hard to deny that over the nearly 25 years that the band has…
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Swagger & Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole (Album Review)
We are usually encouraged to do most of the relevant actions that we carry out with creativity and innovation. However, achieving it requires an effort…
Ad Infinitum – Chapter II: Legacy (Album Review)
A darker symphony looms. There are many forces in the metal market that can spur innovation, and scene saturation is arguably the most potent of…
DED – School of Thought (Album Review)
It’s been over four years, but DED have finally released their sophomore album “School of Thought” on the 15th of October. Whilst the majority of…
Whitechapel – Kin (Album Review)
Dark introspections lead to nuanced creations. It is all but inevitable that with the passage of time a given style subset within music will become…
Beast In Black – Dark Connection (Album Review)
Vintage Sci-Fi meets the current decade. There is having an established formula, there is elevating gimmickry to the level of an art form, and then…
Black Veil Brides – The Phantom Tomorrow (Album Review)
The tomorrow that arrives in yesterday’s attire. Whoever said that a tiger never changes his stripes has never encountered the Cincinnati-born metalcore turned modern rock…
U.D.O. – Game Over (Album Review)
The game will never end. The chaotic state of the world might be likened to a raging storm cloud above the heads of all humanity,…
Ross Jennings – A Shadow Of My Future Self (Album Review)
A little extra time may come in handy to finish a project or even start a new one. For Ross Jennings, a pandemic-enforced break from…
Joe Bonamassa – Time Clocks (Album Review)
Joe Bonamassa has been on a terror since he burst onto the scene in 2000 with his debut record, “A New Day Yesterday.” Twenty years…
Cradle Of Filth – Existence Is Futile (Album Review)
Another twisted symphony has been conjured. Theatricality has long been tied to the metal scene, and while many have proven apt to refine and expand…
Dream Theater – A View From the Top of the World (Album Review)
The title of Dream Theater’s most recent studio album has proven premonitory. Although the album was released in 2019, we have certainly experienced some “Distance…
Armored Saint – Symbol Of Salvation Live (Album Review)
The symbol of perseverance endures. Getting back to business as usual seems an epic struggle even after nearly 20 months of craziness, with fond memories…
THECITYISOURS – Coma (Album Review)
What do you get when you cross 5 talented musicians with 12 huge tracks and a beautiful accompanying visual theme? You get “Coma”, a stunning…
