Sunstorm – Afterlife (Album Review)
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…
Enforced – Kill Grid (Album Review)
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…
Butterfly – Doorways Of Time (Album Review)
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…
Witherfall – Curse of Autumn (Album Review)
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…
Wolfheart – Skull Soldiers (EP Review)
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…
Dio – Holy Diver Live (Album Review)
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…
Saxon – Inspirations (Album Review)
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…
Heart Healer – The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson (Album Review)
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 – Altitude (Album Review)
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…
Dio – Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City (Album Review)
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…
Sirenia – Riddles, Ruins & Revelations (Album Review)
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…
Downes Braide Association – Halcyon Hymns (Album Review)
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…
Joseph Williams – Denizen Tenant (Album Review)
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…
Human Fortress – Epic Tales & Untold Stories (Album Review)
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 – Escape Of The Phoenix (Album Review)
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…
