Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum (Album Review)
Break free of the dystopian prison. The industrial metal icons Fear Factory have been no strangers to chaos over the years, not solely as a…
Abiotic – Ikigai (Album Review)
Abiotic, the 5-piece destructive force from Florida, has delivered another devastating blow to the realm of heavy music. Their new full length record, “Ikigai” is…
Sojourner – Perennial (EP Review)
It hasn’t been long since we last heard from Sojourner. It feels like only yesterday that we were blessed with “Premonitions”. That exquisite blend of…
The Devil Wears Prada – ZII (EP Review)
If I told you that The Devil Wears Prada, after their latest album “The Act”, would go back to their metalcore roots and create a…
Helloween – Helloween (Album Review)
What pumpkins have united, let none tear asunder. For those with any degree of familiarity with power metal, whether it is the European variant alone…
One Desire – One Night Only: Live in Helsinki (Album Review)
Andre’ Linman is sorry. Sorry for the lack of rehearsal. Sorry that the crowd size is limited by the pandemic quarantine. Sorry they played two…
Mr. Bungle – The Night They Came Home (Album Review)
No bungling to be found here. If Conan the Cimmerian’s life quest was to solve the riddle of steel, then the equivalent endeavor of the…
Mammoth WVH – Mammoth WVH (Album Review)
June 11 sees the release of the much anticipated debut of Mammoth WVH. The band is obviously comprised of one single element, Wolfgang Van Halen…
Evership – The Uncrowned King – Act 1 (Album Review)
Over fifty years after the British Invasion, American progressive rock bands are still relatively few and far between compared to those hailing from other shores.…
Evile – Hell Unleashed (Album Review)
Hell has officially boiled over. If there was one criticism of the thrash metal revival of the 2000s that continues to recur in both polite…
Styx – Crash Of The Crown (Album Review)
Any review of new music from Styx must first deal with the inevitable reality that Dennis DeYoung is gone. He’s left the building. And he’s…
Desaster – Churches Without Saints (Album Review)
Thrash permeates the unrelenting blackness. There is something to be said for subtlety when it comes to extreme metal and the sense of horror it…
Rise Against – Nowhere Generation (Album Review)
Rise Against been at the forefront of the mainstream punk rock scene for the better part of two decades, rocketing to fame following breakout album…
Rhapsody of Fire – I’ll Be Your Hero (EP Review)
A thunder clap before the mighty storm arrives. It is difficult to carry on even the shortest of conversations regarding power metal’s symphonic sub-style without…
Hellryder – The Devil Is A Gambler (Album Review)
The infernal casino is a heavy place. Sometimes old dogs like to revert back to old tricks, though in the case of Grave Digger front…
Atreyu – Baptize (Album Review)
In the great mixing pot of early-2000s heavy music emerged Atreyu, borrowing from metal, punk, and even pop for a sound that was both unyieldingly…
Bloodbound – Creatures Of The Dark Realm (Album Review)
Orcs arise from the decrepit depths. Popular fascination tends to follow bands that match a consistent yet novel style with a common lyrical trope. However,…
Red Fang – Arrows (Album Review)
The American stoner rock and metal scene has grown from an amorphous mist to something of a prolific beast, roping in influences from doom and…
Burning Witches – The Witch Of The North (Album Review)
The coven summons a formidable frost. One could view the past year as lost time, as a bleak era where live music was few and…
Stormruler – Under The Burning Eclipse (Album Review)
Blackened flames scorch the sky. The U.S. black metal scene has long been the Rodney Dangerfield of its adopted sub-genre; it gets virtually no respect…
Karmamoi – Room 101 (Album Review)
After delivering the critically acclaimed “The Day is Done” in 2018, the Italian prog rock trio Karmamoi is set to release its fifth album entitled “Room 101” on May 28th, 2021.…
Cirith Ungol – Half Past Human (EP Review)
Lost treasures come to light. Over the past decade the metal scene has been fairly preoccupied with getting back to the good old days, which…
Flotsam and Jetsam – Blood In The Water (Album Review)
The sea runs red amidst the debris. Few shadows cast as wide as that of a former member of the fold exiting and going on…
Perturbator – Lustful Sacraments (Album Review)
Synthwave artist James “Perturbator” Kent has been making waves in the electronic music scene for the better part of a decade, the momentum from his…
