ALBUM REVIEWS
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The curse of crafting monuments is having to outdo them. I suppose we can’t blame Devin Townsend for following the career-defining “Empath” (and let’s be…
It has been more than two decades since listeners first basked in the unrivaled glory of a battle on the Ivory Plains. In the ten…
A prophecy of impending heaviness is proclaimed. Since the early 90s the American metal scene has been on a perennial quest for the ultimate expression…
In the 90’s and early 2000’s, one of the most profoundly important heavy music scenes was pumping out masterpiece after masterpiece over at Peaceville Records,…
It is often said that in life, there are but two certainties, death and taxes. However, I would argue that there is a third constant,…
Relentless fury; that’s the best way to describe the latest assault on ears from Get The Shot. The 5-piece hardcore group from Quebec have just…
I guess the old adage is true: What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. Such appears to be the case with Queensrÿche, who have…
“If I hear everybody’s story, I’ll forget to write a story of my own”. This final line to the chorus of “Everybody’s Story” is well-heeded…
Few bands have left an imprint on the world in the way that Slipknot has. Since 1999, Slipknot’s music has been violently grabbing the throat…
I had a torrid but brief love affair with power metal in the late 90s. Like most flings one has in their late teens and…
7 albums in, and lack of energy is most certainly not a problem for Counterparts. The Canadian quintet have knuckled down and dropped a huge…
Although the name Peter Jones may fly under the radar of many – or be confused with the Haken keyboardist of the same name -…
The savior of iron seeks its past among the stars. Revisiting the past seems to be inevitable for the aging elite of the metal world,…
You just can’t keep a good Vic down. Few things are as satisfying as an underdog defying the odds and coming home with the gold,…
An older legacy rises anew. Nothing tests the mettle of a musical movement like adversity, and following a massive crash in popular interest in the…
They’re baaaaaaack! The band that everybody loves but nobody buys has (finally) put out a new slab of their unique blend of rock, funk, metal,…
A roaring voice descends from the stormy skies. The subject of Norse mythology and the historic pursuits of the Viking age have been a common…
The early 90s saw Jon Anderson pleading “Change We Must”, Robert Plant issuing his own missive with “Fate Of Nations” and countless others throughout the…
Superior ambition begets new horizons. The ongoing relationship between the melodic death metal style originally spearheaded by the Gothenburg scene and their younger metalcore cousins…
Japan is a land of astonishing contrast, from its peaceful and distinctive moss gardens to its elaborate Kabuki drama’s all the way through to the…
Collective Soul are on a roll, jumping from one success to another as their studio albums continue to impress. Many bands who made it big…
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,…
