ALBUM REVIEWS
If you’re looking for aggregated album reviews from our seasoned music specialists, including our own score offering at a glance how the album fared, this is the right destination for you. Album reviews certainly still matter to artists, writers, and publicists, as they are the ones dealing with them every day, but does the average listener still pay attention? Well, we sincerely hope you do... Dive in!
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…
Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls, Part II (Album Review)
As 2021 prepares to curl up into itself like the equally unwanted demonic Bald Mountain of Fantasia, the Iberian Machine known as the Lords of…
Alcatrazz – V (Album Review)
The revolving door still turns out a classic. It seems as if only yesterday that the mighty, guitar-oriented 80s heavy metal train that was Alcatrazz…
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Sticky (Album Review)
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes burst onto the English punk rock scene in 2015 with debut album “Blossoms,” headed by the energetic and confrontational front-man…
Massacre – Resurgence (Album Review)
The Lovecraftian aesthetic enjoys a ravaging resurgence. The death metal subgenre has always carried a rather blatant kinship with the works of H.P. Lovecraft; all…
Starset – Horizons (Album Review)
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Ghost – Hunter’s Moon (Single / Video Review)
Papa Emeritus, it’s confession time. I confess that, until a couple of months ago, I had never heard GHOST. Seriously. I do not lie. Hold…
Gus G – Quantum Leap (Album Review)
A multiplicity of expressions emerges. Necessity can often be the catalyst of creativity, and for many artists that have been condemned to a state of…
Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon (Album Review)
Heavyweight metallers Trivium knocked fans off their feet with the formidable 2020 release “What The Dead Men Say.” With a glowing review and the number…
Three Colours Dark – Love’s Lost Property (Album Review)
Some bands are worth searching out. If Three Colours Dark’s latest release wasn’t on your radar – nor their debut album in 2020 – it…
Eclipse – Wired (Album Review)
What hath ABBA wrought? The legendary Swedish group – gone for nearly 40 years before reuniting in 2021 – was rejected by most rockers back…
Teramaze – And The Beauty They Perceive (Album Review)
The shut-ins gaze outward. Few nations have been impacted more severely by the events of the past year and a half than the land down…
Twelve Foot Ninja – Vengeance (Album Review)
The biggest perk of reviewing music is fairly obvious; one gets to hear all kinds of cool new material. The downside, sadly, is that one…
We Butter the Bread With Butter – Das Album (Album Review)
Well, you gotta give it to ’em. “Das Album” by We Butter the Bread With Butter left me speechless, and I had a real hard time…