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!
Say this about Doug Rausch: he won’t put out an album until he thinks it is just right. His first effort – entitled Rausch – came…
Formed and still led by vocalist/guitarist Marc Atkinson and keyboardist Brendan Eyre, UK duo Riversea made quite a splash in the progressive rock community with…
Let me start with a full disclosure: I love to review albums by Brazilian bands. Those of us who came from the land of Pelé,…
Joe Lynn Turner has returned with yet another installment of the Sunstorm project. What began back in 2006 as a bit of a vault opening…
You know a band is evolving if you write them off only to discover nearly two decades later that they got really f**king good somewhere…
Genius. It’s a word that is misused and overused these days. But let’s be clear, Neal Morse is a musical genius. For the purposes of…
Stemming from improvised recording sessions initially intended for guitarist Matt Stevens’ second solo album, The Fierce and the Dead was birthed as a separate entity.…
They say variety is the spice of life. If this is true then Graveyard have truly delivered on their fifth studio release Peace. After announcing…
You can still hear the echoes of jaws dropping late last year when the lineup for The Sea Within was announced. Roine Stolt had been…
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’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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 is the project of guitarist Ken Kängström with the intention to be different from everything else in the music scene. The idea…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) was the time so may great bands emerged in a perfect storm. Championed on the BBC Friday…
“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…
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.…
