Label: Atlantic / Release date: September 13th 2011 80% Staind – Staind - 80% Rising from the ashes of grunge and NWOAHM, Stained achieved commercial success some ten years ago, mainly based around the bans […]

Label: Frontline Records / 23rd September 2011 60% Sebastian Bach – Kicking & Screaming - 60% “You listen to my last two records and the Skid Row records without me. Mine sound more like Skid […]

Label: Roadrunner Records Release date:  September 13th, 2011 80% Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn Of Events - 80% Reviewing the band’s previous two albums, Systematic Chaos and Black Clouds & Silver Linings, one thing […]

Label: InsideOut, Release date: 22nd August 2011 90% Leprous - Bilateral - 90% Jeff Jordan’s gorgeous cover serves as an appropriate packaging, Leprous’ second album, Bilateral. Much like the painting, the young Norwegian progressive band […]

Label: Powerage/Code7/Plastic Head / Release date: 2nd August 2010 50% Nonpoint - Miracle - 50% Nonpoint are back with an album, a new guitarist, a new label and even new management. However generally looking there […]

Label: EMI / Release date: 6th June 2011 90% Iron Maiden - From Fear To Eternity - 90% The phenomenal band Iron Maiden has so many great songs which they can’t put onto one ‘Best […]

Label: Cooking Vinyl / Release date: 22nd May 2011 90% The Cult – Choice Of Weapon - 90% It has been five years since The Cult released their last full length studio album Born Into […]

Label: Eleven Seven Music/EMI / Release date: 23rd May 2011 70% Sixx:A.M. - This Is Gonna Hurt - 70% Nikki Sixx’s sideproject Sixx:A.M. saw the light of day back in 2007. Band’s debut album The […]

Label: Frontiers Records / Release date: 20th May 2011 72% Whitesnake - Live At Donington 1990 - 72% Live At Donington 1990 documents Whitesnake at top of their career, riding the wave of huge commercial […]

Label: Frontline Records / Release date: May 13th 2011 One of the biggest “hair rock” names from the late 80’s are back with their first studio album since 2006’s Born Again, which was band’s first […]

Label: ProgRock Records / Release date: May 3rd 2011 80% 41Point9 – Still Looking For the Answers - 80% Still Looking For the Answers is a début album form 41Point9, but what we have here […]

Label: ProgRock Records / Release date: May 3rd 2011 80% Odin’s Court – Human Life in Motion - 80% Odin’s Court financed their first releases themselves but since the band has been signed to ProgRock […]

Label: Century Media / Release date: 22nd March 2011 82% TesseracT – One - 82% Debut album from UK’s TesseracT, appropriately entitled One, is one of those albums that crave your time, attention and patience. […]

Label: ProgRock Records / Release date: May 3rd 2011 70% Nine Stones Close – Traces - 70% Nine Stones Close’s debut on ProgRock Records is by far the band’s finest release. All of a sudden […]

Label: Superball Music / Release date: February 21st 2011 80% Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling - 80% Third album from German (almost) instrumental band sees the band continuing in the style set by […]