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!
Giant – Shifting Time (Album Review)
In 1989, Dann Huff stepped out of the shadows from being a top-notch session guitarist who played on a astounding number of top selling records,…
Battle Beast – Circus Of Doom (Album Review)
The ringmasters of Armageddon have arrived. Like cells dividing within a living system, the metal world has seen its fair share of band splits that…
Edge of Forever – Seminole (Album Review)
At the end of 2019 B.C. (Before Covid) we had the pleasure of sampling the landmark 1000th album release from Frontiers Music, namely “Native Soul”…
Ashes Of Ares – Emperors And Fools (Album Review)
The jesters hold their tongues. With nearly two decades having passed since Iced Earth front man Matt Barlow originally cut ties with said band to…
John Lodge – The Royal Affair and After (Live) (Album Review)
Carrying on the legacy of The Moody Blues is clearly at the forefront of John Lodge’s thinking in releasing this compact live collection from the…
Venom Prison – Erebos (Album Review)
I just need to say, this band takes the prize for the absolute coolest, most badass name in metal. Venom Prison. The confronting one-two verbal…
Swallow the Sun – Moonflowers (Album Review)
Sadness blooms by moonlight. Though no sensible person seeks after tragedy, it can often provide the inspiration for some of the greatest works of art…
Big Big Train – Welcome To The Planet (Album Review)
“This is what I came for, what I longed for. And it changes everything and nothing at all.” These lines from “Oak and Stone” are…
Tony Martin – Thorns (Album Review)
Dank crosses meet soulful purposes. It could be said that behind every iconic metal front man is a correspondingly elite flock of musicians, and the…
Chaosbay – Boxes (EP Review)
The up-and-coming metal band Chaosbay shook the metal world back in 2020 with the release of their critically acclaimed album “Asylum”, which confirmed them as a thunderous force…
Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene (Album Review)
Let’s remind ourselves of one thing at the start: a band is releasing new material after 50 years of existence. Allow that sobering timespan to…
Wilderun – Epigone (Album Review)
Free flowing thoughts beget elaborate structures. The world can change a great deal over the course of a decade, and the same often holds true…
Pridelands – Light Bends (Album Review)
There seems to be a consensus on the internet that Australian metalcore is some of the best metalcore out there. Pridelands, the 5 piece from…
The Lurking Fear – Death, Madness, Horror, Decay (Album Review)
Embrace the Lovecraftian horror. The cemetery grass may be greener on the other side of the death metal hill, but rarely is it the case…
Christmasforce – Rudolph’s Symphonic Metal Christmas (EP Review)
Though there is no small amount of music being checked for naughty or nice status here at Sonic Perspectives, it is a treat when Santa…
Funeral – Praesentialis In Aeternum (Album Review)
Beautiful dirges break the sorrowful earth. Since the bleak world of doom metal first came to the world via the trailblazing efforts of Black Sabbath,…
Unanimated – Victory In Blood (Album Review)
A black-blooded legacy reemerges. Relegated to obscurity almost to the day of their initial inception in the late 1980s, Swedish death metal warrior outfit Unanimated…
Perpetual Etude – Now Is The Time (Album Review)
There is no time like the past. Sweden has basically been ground zero for the explosion of 80s heavy and speed metal revivalism, culminating in…
Kryptos – Force Of Danger (Album Review)
An archaic danger looms. Though heavy metal may not be at the point of supplanting English in its de facto status as the common tongue…
Herman Frank – Two For A Lie (Album Review)
The Teutonic storm has commenced. With nearly 40 years of heavy metal history at his back, veteran trustee of old school Teutonic fury Herman Frank…
Aquilus – Bellum I (Album Review)
Darkness envelops the natural world. Thinking outside the box and conjuring up something that is truly original is often a task best suited to a…
Wolftooth – Blood & Iron (Album Review)
A primordial heroism returns. Nostalgia is a powerful ally in today’s metal scene, sharing an almost equal footing with originality, and the best bands to…
Volbeat – Servant Of The Mind (Album Review)
Familiarity begets unpredictability. While an obvious far cry from the 90s death metal mayhem that originally typified his career with Dominus, guitarist and vocalist Michael…
Manimal – Armageddon (Album Review)
A looming shadow graces the end times. Labels are a useful tool in connecting objects with those whom seek them, but they are naturally imperfect…
Victory – Gods Of Tomorrow (Album Review)
Hard rocking classics never die. Herman Frank has been one of the busiest men in the business of late, fielding three impressive albums in the…
The Troops Of Doom – The Absence Of Light (EP Review)
The darkness has prevailed! For a while there has been a renewed interest in where death metal was during its original heyday in the late…
Fortress – Don’t Spare the Wicked (Album Review)
Spare the rod, spoil the metal! Fortress is a name been employed by many a metal act in the past, yet it is an apt…
Lucifer – IV (Album Review)
Old fashioned is the new original. The past decade has seen a number of older styles of rock and metal make a substantial comeback, but…
Rhapsody Of Fire – Glory for Salvation (Album Review)
Glory is reprised once more. Heroes tend to be measured by their latest exploits, whereas veterans are judged by their consistency and staying power, and…
Cynic – Ascension Codes (Album Review)
2020 sucked for everyone for many reasons, particularly for those who live on the arts. And while the health of those in the Cynic circle…
Black Label Society – Doom Crew Inc. (Album Review)
Few modern acts have the zeal of the doom-trooping brotherhood of fans following Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society. It is in homage to this brotherhood…
Imminence – Heaven in Hiding (Album Review)
Just before 2021 comes to a close, Imminence have given us something of absolutely epic proportions. “Heaven in Hiding” is an expansive and transcending collection…
Death Angel – The Bastard Tracks (Album Review)
They dialed “B” for bastard! For the better part of 2 years the live music scene has continued to reel from the catastrophic economic impact…
Khemmis – Deceiver (Album Review)
Deception begets innovation. Breaking new ground is a joy shared by artists and undertakers alike, and though it would seem that every twist and turn…
Temperance – Diamanti (Album Review)
Tempered steel and modern bombast unite. Few bands can boast the level of prolific output and the ambitious work ethic exhibited by Temperance, a band…
Volumes – Happier? (Album Review)
Hey listener, let me quickly take you down memory lane. It’s 2010, Volumes drops their debut EP “The Concept of Dreaming”, and you discover the…