Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Album Review)
An older legacy rises anew. Nothing tests the mettle of a musical movement like adversity, and following a massive crash in popular interest in the…
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Brymir – Voices In The Sky (Album Review)
A roaring voice descends from the stormy skies. The subject of Norse mythology and the historic pursuits of the Viking age have been a common…
Soilwork – Overgivenheten (Album Review)
Superior ambition begets new horizons. The ongoing relationship between the melodic death metal style originally spearheaded by the Gothenburg scene and their younger metalcore cousins…
Spirit Adrift – 20 Centuries Gone (EP Review)
A formative past remembered. Originally entering the metal scene in the mid-2010s as a traditionally-tinged doom metal project after the mold of modern purveyors with…
Hammer King – Kingdemonium (Album Review)
The masked king ushers in the apocalypse. It is stipulated that when a band puts forth a recurring hammer-wielding mascot that bears an uncanny resemblance…
Sunstorm – Brothers In Arms (Album Review)
To AOR heaven, we shall ascend. Sunstorm is a name that has come to embody consistency, which may seem counterintuitive when considering that the persons…
Arch Enemy – Deceivers (Album Review)
Deception has never been so honest. A discussion of the melodic death metal craze that swept northern Europe during the 90s and flourished into the…
My Sleeping Karma – Atma (Album Review)
Dreams of existential sorrow emerge. Cultures have a tendency of being appropriated with the passage of time, be it the adoption of a modified Greek…
Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army (Album Review)
Battalions of the Norse assemble! For the better part of 30 years, the metal institution that is Amon Amarth has been a stalwart standard bearer…
Sweet Freedom – According To Jörgen Schelander (Album Review)
Prog rock goes to Broadway. Breaking new ground is not necessarily reserved to the newcomer, and though some might argue that progressive rock has seemingly…
