Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Divination (Album Review)
Where the runes of power metal speak While most of the early adherents of the folk metal craze were either obsessed with the exploits of…
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Freedom Call – M.E.T.A.L. (Album Review)
Metal never dies: the musical. It’s impossible to have a conversation about the power metal revival of the early millennial era without Freedom Call receiving…
Killswitch Engage – Atonement (Album Review)
Forgiveness favors the ambitious. The U.S. metalcore scene has seen some rough times since the end of the previous decade. Whether it was due to…
Inferi – The End Of A Era: Rebirth (Album Review)
Revamped and often revitalized. Though generally regarded as an afterthought when compared to the pioneering figures of the Gothenburg scene, the American melodic death metal…
Sacred Reich – Awakening (Album Review)
Thrash Van Winkle. Though now considered a bygone era to a generation that has seen the resurgence of denim vested madmen riffing out at breakneck…
Twilight Force – Dawn Of The Dragonstar (Album Review)
A dragon’s light burns the brightest. If there was a single band that could pointed out as taking the fantasy-based side of power metal to…
Savage Messiah – Demons (Album Review)
Melodic savagery reigns supreme. Despite the rumors in the online “critical world” of the 2000s retro-thrash revival being D.O.A. for the better part of a…
Hatriot – From Days Unto Darkness (Album Review)
Like father, like sons. Though not counted among the so-called Big 4, Exodus is a name that is synonymous with thrash metal, going all the…
Hammerfall – Dominion (Album Review)
Another storm rages from the blacksmith’s forge. For those who remember the resurrection that heavy metal experienced in the late 1990s in Europe, the name…
Dying Gorgeous Lies – The Hunter And The Prey (Album Review)
The slow talon grasps the deepest. Despite the still ongoing trend in thrash metal circles to attempt and recapture that vintage 80s Bay Area, New…
