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!
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.…
Destruction – Diabolical (Album Review)
A sinister conspiracy exposed via old school excellence. In many respects, the past two years have amounted to a prison sentence for most of the…
Black Swan – Generation Mind (Album Review)
When the Black Swan was hatched in 2020, the debut of this super-group for the new decade made some real waves. Schenker vocalist Robin McAuley…
Veonity – Elements Of Power (Album Review)
A storm of sheer power emerges. Ascending the heights of the European power metal scene with less than a decade under their proverbial belts, Swedish…
Deserted Fear – Doomsday (Album Review)
Chaos prevails at the end of days. Sometimes even the most straightforward of presentations can also come off as highly original, particularly if a certain…
Evil Invaders – Shattering Reflection (Album Review)
Evil sounds of the 80s re-emerge. Opinions may vary as to what sub-genre of metal can claim to be the most intense, but there is…
Guild Of Others – Guild Of Others (Album Review)
There is a unique emotion when you discover a band during the period that surrounds its debut album. With countless musical proposals being released every…
Trench – Encased In Chrome (EP Review)
Did you hear about that massive earthquake in Canada recently? It was caused by Trench dropping their latest EP “Encased In Chrome”. It’s a superbly…
Michael Romeo – War Of The Worlds, Pt. II (Album Review)
Way back in the summer of 2018, we were visited unexpectedly by an otherworldly invasion of symphonic prog-metal. When we asked to be taken to…
Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse (Album Review)
Let the end times rage! It might be said that a style that cleaves to an established orthodoxy will eventually go stale like unsealed bread,…
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Only Passing Through (Album Review)
Does “third time’s a charm” still hold true if the first and second times were damn good, too? Maybe “hat trick” would be the more…
Ghost – Impera (Album Review)
Tobias Forge is a seer. A prophet. A diviner. I know. That’s quite a statement from a protestant pastor (that would be me) when talking…
Sanhedrin – Lights On (Album Review)
The ugly truth has been illuminated. There is no shortage of inspiration of late for those seeking to paint a bleak musical picture of the…
Scorpions – Rock Believer (Album Review)
I was just a kid in 8th grade when I wrote my first music review for my school newspaper in the very metal town of…
Kublai Khan TX – Lowest Form Of Animal (EP Review)
It took me a while to figure out how to start this review. It was hard to decide how I could best describe the absolute…
Sabaton – The War To End All Wars (Album Review)
The War is too great for a single episode. Some stories, be they historical or fictional, are just too large to be contained in a…
Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark (Album Review)
Few bands have morphed as successfully as Marillion. No one in their right mind would have guessed that a band that began life as Genesis-wannabe…
Hammerfall – Hammer Of Dawn (Album Review)
A killer winged knight descends. Though seemingly tied to a bygone era, the revolution of high impact speed metal and melodic heroism that came roaring…
Girish and the Chronicles – Hail to the Heroes (Album Review)
In early 2020, when the whole world seemed to be going crazy (not the current flavor of crazy, mind you), we almost nearly had an…
Knight Area – D-Day II: The Final Chapter (Album Review)
Three years ago, the Dutch band Knight Area came out with a remarkable album called D-Day. It marked the 75th anniversary of that crucial action…
The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree (Album Review)
When Roine Stolt’s The Flower King released “Manifesto of An Alchemist” in 2017, it was uncertain what that meant for the potential of a full…
Death Dealer – Fuel Injected Suicide Machine (EP Review)
Fury road revisited. There’s a very plausible school of thought out there that once one hits a streak, the best course of action is to…
Peter Jones’ Tiger Moth Tales – A Song of Spring (Album Review)
Spring arrives early this year thanks to Peter Jones and his wonderful Tiger Moth Tales. Following in the vein of 2017’s “The Depths of Winter”,…
Theandric – Flight Among The Tombs (Album Review)
The eternal dove compels the cemetery ravens. Though now a fairly commonplace concept, back in the mid-2000s the notion of an American band resurrecting the…
Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor (Album Review)
Let’s start with me saying this: I thought that I was going into this album with the most open of minds, ready to experience anything.…
Voïvod – Synchro Anarchy (Album Review)
Very few bands that survive for four decades continue to put out material that matches the intensity of their youth. The French Canadians of Voïvod…
Arjen Lucassen’s Star One – Revel In Time (Album Review)
Chances are significantly better than not, if you are reading this, you are some form of Ayreonaut, or a fan of the works of Dutch…
Dead Tree Seeds – Back To The Seeds (Album Review)
Zombie trees rise from decrepit roots. Though having existed in some capacity since the height of the New Wave Of Thrash Metal in the late…
D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings – Troika (Album Review)
I dare you not to crack a smile during the opening verse. There had been mention that Neal Morse’s new acoustic project with Haken’s Ross…
Out of This World – Out of This World (Album Review)
Kee Marcello must be in a musical wayback machine. Or he has a sense of humor. His new band (and their self-titled album) is called…
Amorphis – Halo (Album Review)
It isn’t always necessary for a band to reinvent itself in order to remain relevant. Finland’s Amorphis, for example, found its identity early in its…
Abysmal Dawn – Nightmare Frontier (Album Review)
Terror from beyond the final frontier. With nearly two decades of skull-crushing brutality at their backs, Los Angeles-born trustees of old school brutality Abysmal Dawn…
Saxon – Carpe Diem (Album Review)
Four years shy of reaching their fiftieth anniversary, the South Yorkshire metal institution Saxon is about to release their new album – the first of…
Silent Skies – Nectar (Album Review)
Silent Skies made their debut in late 2020 with the boundless soundscape of “Satellites,” an absolutely stunning release which celebrated the nascent union between musicians…