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!
Vomit Forth – Seething Malevolence (Album Review)
Death metal can be a surprisingly malleable genre, able to be mixed with all sorts of influences and still come out sounding cohesive and inimitably…
Grey Daze – The Phoenix (Album Review)
When Chester Bennington passed away back in 2017, the rock and metal world was left in shock and mourning, a man who so often gave…
Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Album Review)
Pure kinetic thrash mayhem manifested. While the metal community often enjoys chiding less aggressive musical genres for lacking spine, occasionally a band comes along that…
Horizon Ignited – Towards the Dying Lands (Album Review)
When you hear the term “Death Metal” what comes to mind? Crushing riffs? Profane lyrics? Guttural vocals? How about “melodic?” Believe it or not, Melodic…
Chagall Guevara – Halcyon Days (Album Review)
Let’s take the way-back machine to 1992. A Nashville band is on the cusp of making it big. They’ve had videos on MTV. They’ve gotten…
CLASSLESS ACT – Welcome To The Show (Album Review)
Now here’s a band with class. With more than 50 years of history at hard rock’s back, the possibilities at the disposal of any new…
IATT – Magnum Opus (Album Review)
What do you get when you cross raw, menacing and vicious BM with the free thinking, chaotic and technical genre of Prog Metal? The answer…
Porcupine Tree – Closure / Continuation (Album Review)
You wanted it, you got it. Sure, it might have taken a decade longer than hoped for but – as Steven Wilson himself has mused…
Everclear – World Of Noise [30th Anniversary Edition] (Album Reissue Review)
90s west coast rawness rages back. When a band achieves legendary status, regardless of their respective scene or stylistic niche, there tends to be a…
Lobate Scarp – You Have It All (Album Review)
Cosmically-titled bands have an inherent progginess to them, even when it is as obscure a reference as a Lobate Scarp. Perhaps it’s no accident that…
Seven Kingdoms Zenith (Album Review)
A lot of things changed after the world shut down, the music industry not withstanding. Many people in the industry had to call it a…
The Tangent – Songs From The Hard Shoulder (Album Review)
The progressive rock collective known as The Tangent has returned with a new album that sees the band consolidating its lineup, transmitting for the first…
Wind Rose – Warfront (Album Review)
The brothers of the hammer strike again! The past few years have been nothing short of surreal, and few know it better than that merry…
Nekkromaniac – Plague Eater (Album Review)
In life, many things change. New trends appear that we all adopt, new ways to express ourselves, new values for us to embody, new notions…
Kreator – Hate Uber Alles (Album Review)
Hate reigns supreme. The USA may have been the birthplace of thrash metal, but when it comes to its most extreme adherents, said nation has…
Decapitated – Cancer Culture (Album Review)
Corruption rages from within. Widely heralded as one of the premier bands in revitalizing the death metal in the early 2000s, Poland tech death wizards…
Tim Bowness – Butterfly Mind (Album Review)
Tim Bowness, one half of art rock landmark band No-Man, has returned with his 7th solo album, celebrating 40 years in the music industry. Rather…
Zero Hour – Agenda 21 (Album Review)
Coming back from the dead after almost fifteen years between albums, American progressive metal band Zero Hour comes back into the fold with their newest…
Seventh Wonder – The Testament (Album Review)
The wait is finally over. For fans of Swedish prog-metal juggernaut Seventh Wonder, the first new material since 2018’s “Tiara” has arrived in the form…
Spheric Universe Experience – Back Home (Album Review)
Spheric Universe Experience are back after a 10-year hiatus with a spellbinding, distinctive and well-honed smorgasbord of Progressive Metal delights that blasts you across the…
The Pineapple Thief – Give It Back (Album Review)
After releasing 2020’s “Versions of the Truth,” England’s The Pineapple Thief surprised many fans with the announcement of a new album in advance of their…
Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella – Invoke the Ghosts (Album Review)
There are certain artists whose works make me into a fanboy. I eagerly await each release. I listen to the new music over and over…
Anvil – Impact Is Imminent (Album Review)
An impact heard round the world. Sometimes the best way to leave an impression is to take a sledgehammer to things, and for more than…
Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) (Album Review)
By all accounts, Swedish metallers Evergrey have been on a roll for the last decade, boasting an absolutely unparalleled winning streak four albums deep. “Hymns…
Graham Bonnet Band – Day Out In Nowhere (Album Review)
A destination set to somewhere. Some might cling to the notion that old dogs can’t learn new tricks, but if Graham Bonnet’s career over the…
Misery Index – Complete Control (Album Review)
Not all chains are physical. Subtlety and nuance may seem counterintuitive in an extreme metal context, but that’s the niche that has been routinely explored…
Windwaker – Love Language (Album Review)
Okay, let’s make one thing clear straight off the bat… there is a huge party happening over here, and I promise that you’ll be kicking…
Ibaraki – Rashomon (Album Review)
What do Ihsahn (Emperor), Adam “Nergal” Darski (Behemoth, Me and That Man), and Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) have in common? Aside from being musical…
Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain (Album Review)
Cold burns the pitch blackness. Perhaps the ultimate test of a band’s greatness can be measured in the extreme reaction that they can invoke in…
Udo Dirkschneider – My Way (Album Review)
A present-oriented reminiscence unfolds. Given it’s more than 50 year history, it could be rightly stipulated that heavy metal is entering its golden years, at…
Ronnie Romero – Raised on Radio (Album Review)
At this point, we are fairly old friends with Ronnie Romero at Sonic Perspectives. He is comforting and familiar, like your favorite jeans, or football…
Ann Wilson – Fierce Bliss (Album Review)
Next year will see the 50th Anniversary of Heart, conjuring fond memories of classics like “Barracuda”, “Dog and Butterfly” and “Crazy On You”. Many casual…
Wolf – Shadowland (Album Review)
A world wreathed in perpetual darkness. Though the halls of metal fame are replete with bands that brought their craft to the world when the…
Joe Satriani – The Elephants Of Mars (Album Review)
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 35 years since so many listeners first encountered the surfing alien that catapulted Joe Satriani to fame -…
Andy Timmons – Electric Truth (Album Review)
Melodic, diverse, emotional, masterful – these are qualities that lead to a satisfying guitar-oriented album. Although “Electric Truth” has a couple of guest vocals on…
Northlane – Obsidian (Album Review)
Whoever you are, whatever you’re doing, get ready to drop everything and have a damn good time because Northlane’s 6th studio album “Obsidian” is upon us.…