Fifth release from Finnish, Insomnium is in all the aspects a perfect example of what it takes to create a truly great metal record. On the first three releases this band has proved to be […]
My name is Bato and I am a helpless Machine Head fan. That could be the best possible introduction to this review. Let there be said immediately; I can not be fully objective when writing […]
Last year Swedish progressive rockers released Road Salt One, their most diverse album to date. Now hardly year and a half later the band is about to release the second part of Road Salt and […]
Mastodon’s previous album, Crack The Skye, was their strongest release and perhaps the best release of the year 2009, so expectations for the follow-up are high, to say the least. Following the success and critical […]
Not only has it been more then eight years since Anthrax’ previous studio album We’ve Come For You All, but in those eighth years so much has happened with New York thrash metal band. Joey […]
Porg metal giants’ twelfth album is simply entitled Dream Theater. Nothing new there, but what is interesting is that established bands who release self-titled albums often do so to mark a new direction and, in […]
Rising from the ashes of grunge and NWOAHM, Stained achieved commercial success some ten years ago, mainly based around the bans ballads, most noticeably MTV darling “It’s Been a While”. Since then their success has […]
“You listen to my last two records and the Skid Row records without me. Mine sound more like Skid Row then they do” Sebastian Bach stated in a recent interview with Classic Rock magazine. In […]
Reviewing the band’s previous two albums, Systematic Chaos and Black Clouds & Silver Linings, one thing struck me – the prog metal giants are in need of change. I thought that the most obvious change […]
Jeff Jordan’s gorgeous cover serves as an appropriate packaging, Leprous’ second album, Bilateral. Much like the painting, the young Norwegian progressive band delivers a beautiful, complex and fresh opus. Over the past decade or so, […]
Nonpoint are back with an album, a new guitarist, a new label and even new management. However generally looking there is not much new on Miracle. But the band did change some things since their […]
The phenomenal band Iron Maiden has so many great songs which they can’t put onto one ‘Best of’ album. But, there’s always a solution; the band has chosen to break their songs into two eras. […]
It has been five years since The Cult released their last full length studio album Born Into This. Their new album Choice Of Weapon is their first on Cooking Vinyl. Unlike some times before the […]
Nikki Sixx’s sideproject Sixx:A.M. saw the light of day back in 2007. Band’s debut album The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack was based on Sixx’ autobiography, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered […]
Live At Donington 1990 documents Whitesnake at top of their career, riding the wave of huge commercial success of the 80’s and right before the band’s popularity started to decline. The 1990 Donington performance also […]
MurderWorker is a relatively new extreme metal act to emerge on Spanish scene. The band might be new, but in their short existence they have always been clear about the musical direction, an old-school death […]
When it comes to gloom and powerful melancholy, very few can measure up to the Russians. This is true in poetry, but also very much so in regards to the slower, more distorted genres on […]
Godless Enthropia is an Italian death metal quintet founded in 2012 in Turin. After several line-up changes and the release of a couple of EPs they are finally ready to unleash their long anticipated full-length […]
I might as well admit it, first instead of last: For numerous reasons, I am what could be called partial as far as this album is considered. Not because I know the musician personally or […]
Symphony of Symbols is a Hungarian six-piece, one that could celebrate its twentieth anniversary last year, having seemingly spent the majority of their early years honing their craft and perfecting their own sound – Which, […]
Pánico al Miedo is a Catalan death/thrash metal quartet that has existed for 5 years now. Formador is their first full-length record feturing an “Intro – Popol Vuh”, an “Outro – Popol Vuh”, a bonus […]
You are probably familiar with the name DD Verni, the legendary Overkill bassist and founding member. On October 12th he will release his debut solo album, Barricade, featuring a lot of special guests. We were […]
Thron is a German Black Metal quintet that was formed three years ago this year. In that relatively short time-span they have so far managed to release one self-titled Full-length release and announced the emergence […]
The other day we reviewed The Pineapple Thief’s new album Dissolution and one of the negative aspects of that review was band’s similarity with Porcupine Tree. Well, step away, The Pineapple Thief’s because if that […]
Therapy?’s previous album Disquiet came out in 2015, one year after the band embarked on tour celebrating 20-year anniversary of their landmark album Troublegum. The album was heavily influenced by Troublegum which did deprive it of some of its own […]