Label: Head First Entertainment / Release date: August 22nd 2012 70% Texas Hippie Coalition – Peacemaker - 70% Here they go again, those country-soaked-rock dudes from Texas.  My first encounter with the band was couple […]

Label: Nuclear Blast / Release date: 27th July 2012 75% Testament – The Dark Roots of Earth - 75% Long gone are the times when Testament used to release albums less than once a year […]

Label: FRET 12 / Release date: 17th July 2012 70% Tremonti – All I Was - 70% There has been a big buzz for a while now about this first solo release from Alter Bridge […]

Label: Relapse Records / Release date: July 17th 2012 80% Baroness – Yellow & Green - 80% The Georgia band debuted with Red Album in 2007 and quickly raised eyebrows in the underground circles as […]

Label: Century Media/EMI / Release date: June 19th 2012 80% Spineshank – Anger Denial Acceptance - 80% Almost decade ago Spineshank released one of the finest examples of an alternative nu metal albums and year […]

Label: Century Media / Release date: April 23, 2012 85% Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol - 85% Paradise Lost have just been on trip down the memory lane with their special Draconian Times MMXI DVD/CD, […]

Label: Ear Music /Edel AG/Playground / Release date: March 30th 2012 65% Unisonic – Unisonic - 65% For the first time since 1988, ex-Helloween members Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen have recorded an entire album […]

Label:Metal Blade / Release date: March 27th 2012 75% OSI – Fire Make Thunder - 75% When formed in OSI seemed to be one of those one-album supergroups, but here ten years later Moore and […]

Label: Century Media / Release date: March 13th 2012 70% Adrenaline Mob – Omertà - 70% Mike Portnoy has never been shy on taking part in endless line of (side)projects. Some of them were more […]

Label: Fat Wreck / Release date: February 14th 2012 70% Useless ID – Symptoms - 70% Despite this being the seventh album from Useless ID, this is my very first encounter with this Israeli band. […]

Label: Self-released / Release date: 4th February 2012 80% Kevlar Bikini - Explodisiac - 80% “LICK THE WOUND! LIQUOR TUNED! LICK THE WOUND! WHILE THE DEVIL’S JUKEBOX IS PLAYING YOUR TUNE!” blasts through the speakers […]

Label: Indie Recordings / Release date: January 27th. 2012 85% El Caco - Hatred, Love & Diagrams - 85% In their over ten year long career El Caco have established themselves as a solid rock […]

Label: EMI/Century Media / 23rd January 2012 70% Lacuna Coil – Dark Adrenaline - 70% Nearly three years after their previous album Shallow Life, Italian biggest gothic export is back with a new album. Shallow […]

Label: Roadrunner / Release date: 24th January 2012 60% Label: Roadrunner / Release date: 24th January 2012 - 60% Three years since the release of Wrath, an album that earned them two Grammy Nominations, Lamb […]

Label: ProgRock Records / Release date: November 14th 2011 70% Everwood – Without Saving - 70% Five years since the release of their previous album, Hungarian band Everwood are ready with the new album, featuring […]