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!
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…
Tim Bowness, one half of art rock landmark band No-Man, has returned with his 7th solo album, celebrating 40 years in the music industry. Rather…
Coming back from the dead after almost fifteen years between albums, American progressive metal band Zero Hour comes back into the fold with their newest…
The wait is finally over. For fans of Swedish prog-metal juggernaut Seventh Wonder, the first new material since 2018’s “Tiara” has arrived in the form…
Spheric Universe Experience are back after a 10-year hiatus with a spellbinding, distinctive and well-honed smorgasbord of Progressive Metal delights that blasts you across the…
After releasing 2020’s “Versions of the Truth,” England’s The Pineapple Thief surprised many fans with the announcement of a new album in advance of their…
There are certain artists whose works make me into a fanboy. I eagerly await each release. I listen to the new music over and over…
An impact heard round the world. Sometimes the best way to leave an impression is to take a sledgehammer to things, and for more than…
By all accounts, Swedish metallers Evergrey have been on a roll for the last decade, boasting an absolutely unparalleled winning streak four albums deep. “Hymns…
A destination set to somewhere. Some might cling to the notion that old dogs can’t learn new tricks, but if Graham Bonnet’s career over the…
Not all chains are physical. Subtlety and nuance may seem counterintuitive in an extreme metal context, but that’s the niche that has been routinely explored…
Okay, let’s make one thing clear straight off the bat… there is a huge party happening over here, and I promise that you’ll be kicking…
What do Ihsahn (Emperor), Adam “Nergal” Darski (Behemoth, Me and That Man), and Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) have in common? Aside from being musical…
Cold burns the pitch blackness. Perhaps the ultimate test of a band’s greatness can be measured in the extreme reaction that they can invoke in…
A present-oriented reminiscence unfolds. Given it’s more than 50 year history, it could be rightly stipulated that heavy metal is entering its golden years, at…
At this point, we are fairly old friends with Ronnie Romero at Sonic Perspectives. He is comforting and familiar, like your favorite jeans, or football…
