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!
Founded in 2016 with the goal of “unleash[ing] feelings and experiences by telling stories and drawing symbols,” progressive folk trio Cellar Darling quickly became one…
Upon the dissolution of his eponymous Project, Devin Townsend openly stated that he’d been considering using his considerable skills to make something more marketable. While…
If college taught me one thing (it didn’t,) it’s to not bury the lead (and not split infinitives). So, I’ll spare you from beating around…
The worst part about being late to a party, at least if you’re a non-social eremite like I am, is having to gauge the vibe,…
Staring into its deadlights… The story of Iron Fire is one of perseverance, as one of Denmark’s two premier millennial power metal exports (the other…
The underworld rarely sounds so triumphant. The exploits, or sagas of the Viking age have been a fairly frequent topic of lyrical emulation in the…
The fall of mankind’s soundtrack. For those uninitiated into the world of the more extreme fringes of 80s thrash metal, where the early signs of…
The end finds a new beginning. Though many have come forth to construct their version of the colossal structure of impending woe that is epic…
A common concept between seasoned mountaineers is that the Seven Second Summits – the second-highest mountains of each of the seven continents – are a…
There are few challenges like coming out with a debut solo album when your day job is widely known and much loved. There’s really no…
Not every bassist has ambitions to forge their own songwriting vehicle, much less form a band and release a trio of engaging and challenging albums.…
The hero’s eye still beholds the distant horizon. The test of time has generally proven to be an easy pass for the high-impact, fantasy obsessed…
For many music fans, or pop culture in general, 2016 has sort of gone down as the year [a lot of] the music died. David…
We all have that relative or close friend we want to see succeeding and finding their place in life. For the longest time, Queensrÿche seemed…
The black-clad beast gets a sexier upgrade. The musical journey of Finnish songwriter and arguably ironic innovator Anton Kabanen has been, if nothing else, impossible…
Friends and fans of the progressive rock community might have gotten to know Casey McPherson as the front-man for the art-pop/retro-prog band Flying Colors. This…
Go on a cruise, form a band. Yes, it can happen to you, it can happen to me. And it happened to UMÆ. The annual…
This old raven still cries the loudest. Heavy metal, like a fine wine, tends to get better with age, or at least that’s what the…
If there is one artist near to the Sonic Perspectives readership wheelhouse, requiring little if any introduction, it would be prog-metal reigning monarchs Dream Theater,…
It’s kind of unbelievable, but it dawned on me recently that The Dillinger Escape Plan’s monumental mission statement Calculating Infinity will turn 20 in the…
Macbeth’s downfall dons the black crown again. It is both a blessing and a curse to be relegated to the shadow of another, but that…
Since their inception in 2014, British classic hard rockers Inglorious have seen almost as many lineup changes as role-model Whitesnake in its first ten years.…
Beer is a crazy uncle’s best friend. To the uninitiated into the world of Germany’s grand thrash metal tradition, ergo anyone who has been living…
There are a handful of bands, such as AC/DC, who have successfully built a lengthy career making the same record over and over again. Sometimes…
While the world loves to compartmentalize and genrefy, there’s something gleeful about finding a musical experience that makes one scratch one’s head and wonder where…
As the modern metal world continues to evolve, and fracture into all of its component sub-genres, an argument can reasonably made that much of metal…
This February 2nd unveils another chapter in Soen’s victorious and vertiginous career: their new album Lotus hits the shelves (or will be made available in…
It was 1975, and a band came out of St. Louis with, well, a unique sound. They called themselves Pavlov’s Dog, but they were not…
Tony Harnell (ex-TNT) has a signature voice and stratospheric range that is both distinctive and dominating on the material he appears on. A case could…
Unlucky are they whom challenge this beast. Death metal is an art form that is undaunted by incidents of the former half of its name…
If ever there was an artist whose ship you can actually see coming in, it’s Fernando Perdomo. A man of innumerable musical lives, Perdomo came…
I have a love/hate relationship with concept albums. One one hand, a set of thematically unified songs appeals to my love of storytelling, particularly when…
Avantasia – the all-star rock opera spaceship piloted by Edguy singer, songwriter and producer Tobias Sammet – began as a side project by Tobias, who…
We’re living in an unprecedented era in music. There is more to be found than ever before, and more to be heard, and more new…
King Diamond, one of the most controversial and divisive metal singers to appear since the term “heavy metal” was coined in the 60’s, is back…
Penning your newest album as ‘self-titled’ over 30 years into your musical career is undoubtedly interpreted as a statement, one that is arguably unavoidable in…
