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!
What hath ABBA wrought? The legendary Swedish group – gone for nearly 40 years before reuniting in 2021 – was rejected by most rockers back…
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…
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…
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…
Sometimes two priests isn’t a crowd. Metal icons never really retire, they just go on holiday for just under a decade before coming back as…
How concerned are you? Not many bands know how to make a statement quite like Ministry, who have long brandished tenets of antifascism, staunch distaste…
Otherworldly is definitely the word. Among their blackened Norse contemporaries, Enslaved were always sort of the odd group out, taking the road less traveled and…
I’m fairly ashamed to say that whilst Wage War has been constantly on my radar, I never put a couple of hours aside to sit…
A warlock’s legacy is cast in stone. For the better part of 15 years, old school heavy metal has enjoyed a vibrant, albeit still largely…
Alt-metal titans Gemini Syndrome have been busy by the sounds of it… very busy. 5 years have come and gone since their second album “Memento…
Thrash legends never die. Though they may not share the same level of visibility as the likes of Kreator, Destruction and Tankard, the Bavarian thrash…
A mainline player brings the metal mainstream. It is said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and for many…
It’s Easter in the apocalyptic metal lands. Many in the field of high speed German steel have come and gone since its heyday in the…
A more artful display of surgical precision emerges. Having sliced and diced their way into the annals of death metal’s rich and extensive history since…
Here it is, friends: the long-awaited twenty-second studio album from Yes. As one of the few bands who pioneered the form we now call Prog…
Four tales are told by a dreaming, wayward bard. Melodic death metal has a wide variety of potential expressions in spite of its supposedly rigid…
The Inglorious machinery does not stop. It continues to show off the terrific results that its new components provide, as it was seen early this year when…
Theatricality begets innovation. Though now a phenomenon that has become ubiquitous throughout Europe and beyond, it could be argued that the ongoing revival of old…
If you know Jim Matheos, you know he likes to alternate between heavy and mellow. The honcho behind the most long-running of contemporary progressive metal…
Perhaps the oldest dilemma in the arts is the struggle between the desires of the artist’s patronage, and the desires of the artist himself. Many…
After appearing at the mighty gates of Valhalla, four legendary war kings were commissioned by Odin to return to Earth and spread epic chants that…
Progress cuts right to the core. The concept of progressive music, regardless of what specific genre it subsumes, is one that has become a bit…
The UK metal masters Employed To Serve have returned, and trust me, you’re not ready for what they’ve brought with them. All I can say…
Punk gives rock the blues. Few things will establish a band more thoroughly than a work horse approach to musical output and a correspondingly rigorous…
The abyss stares back. If the more than 50 years of metal music’s history has taught anything, it is that it isn’t bound by the…
Although it was barely a year and a half ago, it seems another lifetime when we reviewed Night Flight Orchestra’s “Aeromantic” album, a couple short…
Fashions old and performances bold. Though relatively new to the American metal scene, Arizona/Texas born doom metal trustees Spirit Adrift have put out an impressive…
Pondering metaphysics from the forest gloom. Often times the nature of a given craft will be determined by its surroundings, and this is doubly so…
Making the most of his calendar’s dearth of live gigs, Steve Hackett has apparently stayed busy in the studio, releasing his second album of the…
When in Rome, let the fires roar. The great exploits of history, both ancient and recent, have provided plenty of lyrical fodder for heavy metal…
The Teutonic titans thrash the entire internet. With nearly 40 years under their belts, it can be safely stated that Destruction has solidified their status…
The year 2020 could be proclaimed as the year of Aphelion. Representing the point of an object’s orbit when it is furthest away from the…
Hardship is universal, but despite its destructive and damaging impact, it binds us together as humans. This is what death metal supergroup Alluvial are expressing…
Eradication begets elucidation. For the better part of four decades, thrash metal has arguably remained the purest expression of its adoptive genre, showcasing the most…
Classics never die. It is rare that a conversation about guitar-oriented rock occurs without the name Night Ranger being dropped early on. As one of…
As they entered the studio to record their fourth album, the Neal Morse Band agreed on two objectives: 1 – Not to make a concept…
