ALBUM REVIEWS
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The triumph of the metal spirit has commenced. With the ongoing lockdowns still looming over the metal world’s head like the Sword of Damocles, it…
A mighty symphonic storm descends from the north. Orthodoxy seems to be the inescapable result of success, as even the most rebellious of art forms…
One can’t help but root for an artist like Robin Armstrong. The man behind the project called “Cosmograf”, he has a released a string of…
In order to give an honest assessment of the unexpected new release from Saga, a few matters of full disclosure are in order. First, I’m…
The Order departs the old west for the final frontier. There seems to be no boundary, no border, nor any event horizon which cannot be…
This swan still has plenty of songs to sing. If history has taught anything, it is that adversity is what truly makes a hero, and…
The army soldiers on with a new helmsman. Merging old school AOR nostalgia with a modern sense of style has been the stock and trade…
Thrashing brutality will never go out of fashion. The thrash metal revival that has been ongoing for nearly 20 years has seen its share of…
The time-traveling rockers have arrived. With each passing years it seems that the clock is moving backward, at least when considering the growing flock of…
2018’s “A Prelude to Sorrow” not only thrust California’s Witherfall into the ranks of contemporary greatness, it also gave them the terrifying task of following…
The Winter War’s skull-clad addendum strikes. Tuomas Saukkonen has been a busy man since his tenure with early 2000s Gothic-tinged melodeath stalwarts Before The Dawn…
Let all reminisce upon a colossal legacy. Fully quantifying the legacy of any artist is a daunting task, let alone one that was a party…
If there’s one positive thing to draw from this pandemic, it’s the fact that bands were driven to be even more creative to keep fans…
The prodigious and productive powerhouse Magnus Karlsson remains as busy as ever. Perhaps best known as one of the two ferocious axe-slingers in power metal…
Lifesigns is one of those fortunate bands who seem to effortlessly make fans for life. The challenge before the group is not so much about…
The epic battle of Murray and Evil revisited. More than a decade since one of the founding fathers of heavy metal departed this world to…
Enter the revitalized Gothic Vikings! The lovelorn laments of Scandinavia’s Gothic metal scene were all the rage by the closing days of the 1990s when…
Nostalgic reveries can offer a life-line after a year such as we’ve endured. If you’re needing a little pick-me-up to inspire better times, be they…
As referenced in my recent review of Steve Lukather’s “I Found the Sun Again,” the long battered but not-sunk-yet ship of Toto has seen rough…
Open the chronicles of a bygone past. Heroism is a concept that has been associated with power metal for about as long as the sub-genre…
Evergrey have long shifted between the shadows and the spotlight of progressive metal, a near mythical sensation with a steadily growing discography. Their appeal is…
In the fall of 2019, Toto completed the run of its “40 Trips Around the Sun” tour, which was a victory lap celebrating the “All…
A tremendous feeling of joy and relief. That’s what I went through upon listening “Omega” for the first time. Epica were always a huge part…
Arc Of Life is the new band from current Yes members Billy Sherwood and Jon Davison, with Jay Schellen (Yes’ unofficial touring drummer), Jimmy Haun…
Inglorious continues with their impressive productive streak by releasing “We Will Ride” on February 12th, the fourth studio album in their discography after forming back in…
The Queen of Egypt embraces a new dawn. Following what could be best described as a less than amicable split between the majority membership of…
When you discover a new favorite band, you want to shout their name from the rooftops. One of the perks of being a music journalist…
Plunge into the chaotic and disparate depths of a waking nightmare with “Sleep Paralysis,” the debut album from Russian black metal project Tragedy In Hope.…
Wait a minute – you say Todd Rundgren has been cranking out great music for some 53 years?!?!?! How can that be? It seems like…
Legendary rock band Foo Fighters decided to no longer postpone the release of “Medicine At Midnight”, their upcoming tenth studio album, choosing February 5th to finally unveil…
The moon makes for a pale and lighter sound. While some have been wont to dismiss the revival of old school heavy metal that has…
A cause to rejoice, and then some. Though best known for being the current vocalist of Seattle heavy metal icons Queensryche, and to a lesser…
Backwards titles beget primordial blackness. If the Scandinavian interpretation of the black metal aesthetic can be understood as the pinnacle of coldness, then its Polish…
With four full-length albums now behind them, the fifth studio outing from Harakiri For The Sky makes obvious that the duo have honed their creative…
Too fast for the typical macabre dirge. Generally when one associates metal music with the funeral setting, slow-paced and sorrowful odes within the doom aesthetic…
As much as I value experimentation, I must also recognize that some outfits are simply better off focusing on what they do well. Italy’s Labÿrinth…
