Don Airey – One Of A Kind (Album Review)
If you’re old enough to have used the Internet in 1994, you might remember the game called “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. Based on Kevin’s…
Arena – Double Vision (Album Review)
Arena’s history can now be pretty easily diced up into three distinct periods, as of 2018. The early days in the mid-’90s, where fans of…
We Came From Space – While You Were Away (Album Review)
Let’s face it—the name We Came from Space sounds like a grade B sci-fi flick from the ‘50s. Or a cheap comic book about strange…
Overkill – Live In Overhausen (Album Review)
I love live recordings. I’ve always been one with the opinion that all-time great bands have been those which excelled at their lives appearances, radiating…
Amorphis – Queen Of Time (Album Review)
Amorphis is arguably one of Finland’s biggest musical export alongside Nightwish. With twelve albums so far under their belts, Amorphis has toured the world several…
Bad Wolves – Disobey (Album Review)
Anyone who’s over 40 years old will admit that it’s hard to get into new acts as you get older. Most bands you love and…
The Bridge – Reunion (Album Review)
Straight from Santiago, Chile, the second album from The Bridge has been released and it is long on vision. Sung in English by band’s mastermind…
Follow The Cipher – Follow The Cipher (Album Review)
Follow The Cipher is the project of guitarist Ken Kängström with the intention to be different from everything else in the music scene. The idea…
Lords Of Black – Icons Of The New Days (Album Review)
When Ritchie Blackmore announces he’s “getting the band back together again,” and that band is Rainbow, it is impossible not to take notice. When the…
Dimmu Borgir – Eonian (Album Review)
My instincts direct to slag on this most recent offering from the Norwegian band with an Icelandic name. “It’s Rhapsody’s evil twin”, my mind tells…
Cell15 – River Utopia (Album Review)
Sophomore albums can be hell. If your debut was lousy, well, nobody will care what you do on the next one. But if that first…
Angelus Apatrida – Cabaret de la Guillotine (Album Review)
Aside for Barón Rojo and a few other names, Spain doesn’t exactly have a particular tradition of revealing metal bands. But if anyone is up…
Dokken – Return To The East Live 2016 (Album Review)
Although naturally no two bands are exactly the same, there are really few bands quite like 80s metal phenomenon Dokken. Even though they never had…
Susperia – The Lyricist (Album Review)
Susperia is a band with whom I had a fleeting relationship when their debut album Predominance was released in early 2001. The band’s blackened approach…
Light The Torch – Revival (Album Review)
Despite the movement’s promise, only one band truly remained after the dust around the New England scene of the early 2000s finally settled. That band…
Gazpacho – Soyuz (Album Review)
As the world of music and performance evolves and changes evermore, it’s an impressive feat these days to be a band that has endured for…
Spock’s Beard – Noise Floor (Album Review)
Have pity on Thomas Waber. As head of the InsideOut Music record label which is releasing Spock’s Beard’s new album, Thomas reportedly had the unenviable…
Riot V – Armor Of Light (Album Review)
The new Riot V record is coming. But is it really a Riot record? First and foremost, that’s the elephant in the room that must…
Dead City Ruins – Never Say Die (Album Review)
Coming from Australia, Dead City Ruins hopes to live up to the country’s reputation of producing gritty and bold hard rock. Their third and new…
Subsignal – La Muerta (Album Review)
Without much surprise everything I expected is here. Based on shorter songs and perhaps more pop-hooks than your usual prog album, La Muerta is a…
Oceans Of Slumber – The Banished Heart (Album Review)
Rarely does a band come down the pike that’s worthy of the adulation that surrounds it. With Oceans of Slumber, we may finally have been…
Auri – Auri (Album Review)
Fans of Nightwish have no shortage of reasons to celebrate in 2018: the band recently embarked on a lengthy tour to celebrate their 20th anniversary…
Ross The Boss – By Blood Sworn (Album Review)
Over the last decades Ross “The Boss” Friedman has built quite an impressive resume for himself in the world of hard-rock and heavy metal, playing…
Stryper – God Damn Evil (Album Review)
What in God’s name is going on with Stryper these days? Despite an ugly and rather public break up with former bassist Tim Gaines, Stryper…
The Saxon Reissues : Saxon (1979) / Wheel of Steel (1980) / Strong Arm of the Law (1980)
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) was the time so may great bands emerged in a perfect storm. Championed on the BBC Friday…
Frequency Drift – Letters to Maro (Album Review)
“This is interesting” is a phrase that can easily go two ways. Oftentimes we say it in order to acknowledge that something is unlike anything…
Yes – Fly From Here: Return Trip (Album Review)
I recently wrote an article about my Desert Island Yes albums. As I had expected, that prompted some debate, and many comments on my choices.…
Kamelot – The Shadow Theory (Album Review)
There’s good news and bad news about Kamelot’s new release, “The Shadow Theory.” The good news is, it’s another Kamelot release. The bad news is…
Ostura – The Room (Album Review)
In a world where instant gratification is the norm – fast food, speed dating, instant downloads – it’s refreshing to see a band betting on…
Saxon – Thunderbolt (Album Review)
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal stopped being a new affair more than 40 years ago; nonetheless, some of the bands birthed in that…
Kino – Radio Voltaire (Album Review)
There must be a band out there that holds the record of coming back together after the longest hiatus. Fans of the classic Genesis lineup…
TesseracT – Sonder (Album Review)
TesseracT’s new album, Sonder, intentionally gives no hints about its contents through its name. Though musically unrelated in any way, it merits a comparison to…
Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly – Rumbling Box (Box-Set Review)
Rumbling Box, a brand new 5-disc box set by Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly, is scheduled to release March 23, 2018, complete with early catalog works, bonus…
John Holden – Capture Light (Album review)
I’m not someone who has signed up for the vinyl resurgence. I’m happy enough with my CDs and downloads, but will often grab the super…
Borealis – The Offering (Album Review)
What would happen if you were to take the melodic keyboard and atmospheric sounds of NIGHTWISH, the forceful guitar riffs of KAMELOT, and the expressive…
Angra – Ømni (Album Review)
“I am Brazilian, and I never give up” was a slogan in a TV ad in Brazil a while ago. It seems that Angra took…
