Marty Friedman – Tokyo Jukebox 3 (Album Review)
Marty Friedman may stand alone in rock and heavy metal with the singular distinction as the foremost bridge between western metal and Japanese culture. While…
The Limit – Caveman Logic (Album Review)
Old and new converge to recapture the original punk spirit. Super-groups have become a dime a dozen of late, which is quite impressive when considering…
Infinite & Divine – Silver Lining (Album Review)
Some four years in the making, Infinite & Divine’s “Silver Lining” is a promising debut offering listeners an infectious blend of synth-tinged metal and soaring…
The Stranger – Kaleidoscope (Album Review)
For some years now, there has been something exciting going on in Australia in terms of prog music. Several Aussie bands have managed to cement…
Nad Sylvan – Spiritus Mundi (Album Review)
Shortly after releasing his “Unifaun” album in 2008, Nad Sylvan found himself rising to the next level as Roine Stolt invited him to join forces…
Motorjesus – Hellbreaker (Album Review)
It doesn’t get much more metal than this. Some of the best kept secrets in the metal world have had a peculiar habit of being…
Johan Kihlberg’s Impera – Spirit Of Alchemy (Album Review)
Archaic tricks enter the modern age. Metal is arguably the least conducive medium for a songwriter to rely upon other musicians entirely for the performance…
Arion – Vultures Die Alone (Album Review)
Sorrow and bombast unite. After several decades of being put at the forefront of the European power metal movement by the success of Stratovarius, there…
Monasteries – Silence (EP Review)
Silence breaks by a primal scream. Though among the younger sub-genres of metal, deathcore has arguably seen the quickest expansion of specialized niches within its…
Liquid Tension Experiment – LTE3 (Album Review)
John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin must have heard the question over a million times: will Liquid Tension Experiment ever reunite for…
Aziola Cry – The Ironic Divide (Album Review)
The irony of stagnant progression has been dispelled. Just as the old saying goes that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, there…
Toehider – I Like It! (Album Review)
Multi-Instrumentalist Michael Mills and illustrator Andrew Saltmarsh have been releasing music and art under the name Toehider since 2009, testing the limits of musical creation…
Enforcer – Live By Fire II (Album Review)
By fire, the 80s has been reborn. Originally formulated as a one-man project by Swedish thrash scene veteran Olof Wikstrand, Enforcer quickly became an important…
Metalite – A Virtual World (Album Review)
Our virtual future emerges. Not messing with a winning formula is a practice that has become a bit more commonplace of late, and there is…
Agent Steel – No Other Godz Before Me (Album Review)
The conspiracy has been reborn. Call it nostalgia, but there was something truly unique and compelling about the original run of The X-Files. The time…
