ALBUM REVIEWS
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A formative past remembered. Originally entering the metal scene in the mid-2010s as a traditionally-tinged doom metal project after the mold of modern purveyors with…
Former In Flames members and stars from across the melodeath scene come together once again under The Halo Effect’s banner to produce a compelling album…
The masked king ushers in the apocalypse. It is stipulated that when a band puts forth a recurring hammer-wielding mascot that bears an uncanny resemblance…
Where progressive rock and Sci-Fi meet, you’ll find Dave Kerzner. First launching into the prog-rock stratosphere with Simon Collins in Sound of Contact, Kerzner has…
To AOR heaven, we shall ascend. Sunstorm is a name that has come to embody consistency, which may seem counterintuitive when considering that the persons…
Deception has never been so honest. A discussion of the melodic death metal craze that swept northern Europe during the 90s and flourished into the…
Austrian tech-death merchants Psycroptic have been pumping out high-octane, no holes barred collisions of extreme technicality and unrelenting death metal for two decades in what…
Dreams of existential sorrow emerge. Cultures have a tendency of being appropriated with the passage of time, be it the adoption of a modified Greek…
German post-rock (or should that be post-metal?) band Long Distance Calling (hereafter referred to as LDC) return with their 8th studio album, “Eraser”. As with…
Battalions of the Norse assemble! For the better part of 30 years, the metal institution that is Amon Amarth has been a stalwart standard bearer…
Prog rock goes to Broadway. Breaking new ground is not necessarily reserved to the newcomer, and though some might argue that progressive rock has seemingly…
Legends rise and they fall. Sometimes those legends are monsters like the great Mostrophus who seem to disappear – even for one hundred thousand years…
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of 80s AOR, 80s hard rock, or the 80s retro pastiche that briefly birthed the unwelcome return of…
It’s easy to think nu-metal is dead, the days of baseball cap wearing young men rapping away with turntables and thick guitars chugging away in…
Stick To Your Guns are back. You heard that right. It’s been 5 long years since the Orange County 5-piece have put out an LP,…
Enter the cosmic Mobius strip. The exact point where a band goes from being a newcomer outfit to a fold of seasoned veterans has a…
The mirror reflects a broader horizon. It could be said that every artist lives within his or her own world, and in the particular case…
Houston’s Oceans of Slumber have carefully broadened their sound with each record and have reliably crafted some of the most exciting and forward thinking extreme…
Ahoy and avast, matey; there be symphonic power metal ahead of ye in this here review. Scotland’s favorite controversial pirate power metallers Alestorm are back…
Fuzzy guitars, trudging riffs and more history than you could shake a proverbial stick at, doom metal is the home of metal music, yet so…
Death metal can be a surprisingly malleable genre, able to be mixed with all sorts of influences and still come out sounding cohesive and inimitably…
When Chester Bennington passed away back in 2017, the rock and metal world was left in shock and mourning, a man who so often gave…
Pure kinetic thrash mayhem manifested. While the metal community often enjoys chiding less aggressive musical genres for lacking spine, occasionally a band comes along that…
When you hear the term “Death Metal” what comes to mind? Crushing riffs? Profane lyrics? Guttural vocals? How about “melodic?” Believe it or not, Melodic…
Let’s take the way-back machine to 1992. A Nashville band is on the cusp of making it big. They’ve had videos on MTV. They’ve gotten…
Now here’s a band with class. With more than 50 years of history at hard rock’s back, the possibilities at the disposal of any new…
What do you get when you cross raw, menacing and vicious BM with the free thinking, chaotic and technical genre of Prog Metal? The answer…
You wanted it, you got it. Sure, it might have taken a decade longer than hoped for but – as Steven Wilson himself has mused…
90s west coast rawness rages back. When a band achieves legendary status, regardless of their respective scene or stylistic niche, there tends to be a…
Cosmically-titled bands have an inherent progginess to them, even when it is as obscure a reference as a Lobate Scarp. Perhaps it’s no accident that…
A lot of things changed after the world shut down, the music industry not withstanding. Many people in the industry had to call it a…
The progressive rock collective known as The Tangent has returned with a new album that sees the band consolidating its lineup, transmitting for the first…
The brothers of the hammer strike again! The past few years have been nothing short of surreal, and few know it better than that merry…
In life, many things change. New trends appear that we all adopt, new ways to express ourselves, new values for us to embody, new notions…
Hate reigns supreme. The USA may have been the birthplace of thrash metal, but when it comes to its most extreme adherents, said nation has…
Corruption rages from within. Widely heralded as one of the premier bands in revitalizing the death metal in the early 2000s, Poland tech death wizards…
