Gojira – Fortitude (Album Review)
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…
Plasmodium – Towers Of Silence (Album Review)
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…
Tetrarch – Unstable (Album Review)
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…
Poverty’s No Crime – A Secret to Hide (Album Review)
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…
Benthos – II (Album Review)
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,…
Endseeker – Mount Carcass (Album Review)
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…
Dirty Honey – Dirty Honey (Album Review)
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,…
The Lion’s Daughter – Skin Show (Album Review)
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…
Bodom After Midnight – Paint the Sky With Blood (Album Review)
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…
Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined (Album Review)
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…
Icon of Sin – Icon of Sin (Album Review)
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…
Sweet Oblivion – Relentless (Album Review)
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…
Greta Van Fleet – The Battle At Garden’s Gate (Album Review)
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 – Tokyo Jukebox 3 (Album Review)
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…
The Limit – Caveman Logic (Album Review)
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…
Infinite & Divine – Silver Lining (Album Review)
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…
The Stranger – Kaleidoscope (Album Review)
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…
Nad Sylvan – Spiritus Mundi (Album Review)
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…
Motorjesus – Hellbreaker (Album Review)
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…
Johan Kihlberg’s Impera – Spirit Of Alchemy (Album Review)
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…
Arion – Vultures Die Alone (Album Review)
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…
Monasteries – Silence (EP Review)
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…
Liquid Tension Experiment – LTE3 (Album Review)
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…
Aziola Cry – The Ironic Divide (Album Review)
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…
Toehider – I Like It! (Album Review)
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…
Enforcer – Live By Fire II (Album Review)
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…
Metalite – A Virtual World (Album Review)
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…
Agent Steel – No Other Godz Before Me (Album Review)
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…
Serj Tankian – Elasticity (EP Review)
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…
Wheel – Resident Human (Album Review)
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…
Jane Getter Premonition – Anomalia (Album Review)
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…
Smith/Kotzen – Smith/Kotzen (Album Review)
March 26th brings the release of the much touted and teased collaboration between Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen. Recorded on the Turks & Caicos Islands…
U.D.O. – Live In Bulgaria 2020 (Album Review)
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…
Utbyrd – Varskrik (Album Review)
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…
Cosmograf – Rattrapante (Album Review)
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…
Saga – Symmetry (Album Review)
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…
