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!
The Norway Invasion of prog just keeps on delivering its relentless onslaught of high-quality material. Among the ever-growing number of talented bands releasing new albums,…
The Teutonic roof has officially been raised. Letting go of the past can be a difficult thing in and of itself, but when it is…
Maybe it’s global warming at play but things seem to be heating up for Frost*. Over fifteen years, three albums and one EP into their…
Count Subterranean Masquerade as one of the many bands who’d been on my radar for years who, despite having very strong ties to Green Carnation…
After wiping out everything in its path with “Magma”, French progressive metallers Gojira return to tear apart and conquer once again the metal scene with the release of…
Towers stand wreathed in existential torment. Though the murky world of extreme metal has been churning out an endless supply of new material over the…
Stability can only accomplish so much. The mid-2000s were the undisputed apex point of what many have come to dub the New Wave Of American…
A competent nod to progressive orthodoxy emerges. Progression is a relative concept, and its application to music can be a tad nebulous, if for no…
A dragonfly freewheels through an abstract construct. The metal world has seen its fair share of oddities come and go throughout the past few decades,…
The bodies continue to pile up. Though better known for its massive contributions to the early speed metal and subsequent thrash metal scenes of the…
Rock is a dish best served dirty. There is something to be said for breaking new and original ground when putting together a new act,…
Drenched in synth and sin, The Lion’s Daughter come roaring out of the success of their third album “Future Cult” and straight into the spotlight…
It is so temping eulogize the Finnish super-shredder two months my junior through whom I vicariously lived my rock star dreams. Thankfully for both the…
Dissonant horrors shake the human subconscious. Though not necessarily the first band to fly the decrepit banner of death metal, it’s all but impossible to…
An icon for the new generation emerges. Though the manner in which an artist rises to prominence may have changed, the art itself tends to…
If there’s one thing the Italian label Frontiers Records can be credited for, it’s giving rock acts of yesteryear more runway for extending their career…
For several years, there has not been a rock band that achieved such critical recognition and commercial success as Greta Van Fleet did with its debut single…
Marty Friedman may stand alone in rock and heavy metal with the singular distinction as the foremost bridge between western metal and Japanese culture. While…
Old and new converge to recapture the original punk spirit. Super-groups have become a dime a dozen of late, which is quite impressive when considering…
Some four years in the making, Infinite & Divine’s “Silver Lining” is a promising debut offering listeners an infectious blend of synth-tinged metal and soaring…
For some years now, there has been something exciting going on in Australia in terms of prog music. Several Aussie bands have managed to cement…
Shortly after releasing his “Unifaun” album in 2008, Nad Sylvan found himself rising to the next level as Roine Stolt invited him to join forces…
It doesn’t get much more metal than this. Some of the best kept secrets in the metal world have had a peculiar habit of being…
Archaic tricks enter the modern age. Metal is arguably the least conducive medium for a songwriter to rely upon other musicians entirely for the performance…
Sorrow and bombast unite. After several decades of being put at the forefront of the European power metal movement by the success of Stratovarius, there…
Silence breaks by a primal scream. Though among the younger sub-genres of metal, deathcore has arguably seen the quickest expansion of specialized niches within its…
John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin must have heard the question over a million times: will Liquid Tension Experiment ever reunite for…
The irony of stagnant progression has been dispelled. Just as the old saying goes that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, there…
Multi-Instrumentalist Michael Mills and illustrator Andrew Saltmarsh have been releasing music and art under the name Toehider since 2009, testing the limits of musical creation…
By fire, the 80s has been reborn. Originally formulated as a one-man project by Swedish thrash scene veteran Olof Wikstrand, Enforcer quickly became an important…
Our virtual future emerges. Not messing with a winning formula is a practice that has become a bit more commonplace of late, and there is…
The conspiracy has been reborn. Call it nostalgia, but there was something truly unique and compelling about the original run of The X-Files. The time…
Long known for his exploration of all things eclectic and sonically adventurous, Serj Tankian is a familiar voice weaving through the history of modern heavy…
The last months have witnessed different events of the most varied kind; those that profoundly impacted humanity. From the not-so-common rise of a new pandemic…
Listening to an album that simply sounds amazing is such a pleasurable experience. Beyond the songwriting and performance there’s a quality available in the sonic…
March 26th brings the release of the much touted and teased collaboration between Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen. Recorded on the Turks & Caicos Islands…
