7th October 2011
It has been almost three years since Pain Of Salvation have released their latest studio album – the brilliant Scarsick, and the band has decided to try to make the waiting time, until the new […]
7th October 2011
“Thirteen ways to see the devil in my eyes/Because I stood here thirteen times and I’m still alive.” This is Megadeth’s thirteenth record and it’s entitled, Th1rt3en. How robbed of creativity, one might think and […]
1st October 2011
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 […]
27th September 2011
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 […]
26th September 2011
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 […]
20th September 2011
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 […]
13th September 2011
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 […]
7th September 2011
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 […]
7th September 2011
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 […]
1st September 2011
“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 […]
1st September 2011
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 […]
1st August 2011
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, […]
20th July 2011
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 […]
1st June 2011
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. […]
21st May 2011
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 […]
9th October 2018
With their previous album, the 2014 opus The Satanist, Behemoth have not only created the highlight of their career, but at the same time showed the strength of broadening the horizons of the genre, whilst […]
9th October 2018
It often feels like power metal genre is the genre that has evolved least since its heyday in the 80’s. Sure, the likes of Ghost are taking the music and the whole concept in distinctive […]
3rd October 2018
Forgive me for generalizing and being somewhat blunt when describing this upcoming Split Album – It is not because it is a particularly bad album, nor by any means generic – In fact, I quite […]
2nd October 2018
Wrathrone is a death metal band swarming from the gutters of Laitila, Finland. They’ve been around for 10 years now, and this year they strike hard with their sophomore album fittingly entitled Reflections Of Torment. […]
28th September 2018
Much has been said about sudden passing of Riverside’s founding member and guitarist Piotr Grudziński and for a while it seemed that the band, too, has come to an end. Fortunately, the band decided to […]
27th September 2018
18 months since mighty Sittin’ Heavy came out, and Canadian ( from Hamilton, ON) rockers Monster Truck are already ready with a new album entitled True Rockers. The album consists of 11 tracks that are […]
26th September 2018
Vcid (alternative spelling for ’Void’, no doubt inspired by their interesting logo) is something as relatively rare and fresh as a Black N’ Roll act – That is to say, a band that specializes in […]
25th September 2018
Formed out of the ashes of several prominent local death metal bands (Suture, Catholicon, Despondency) Excommunicated is a Louisiana-based old school death metal quintet. The band is a potent cohesion of the various influences and […]
25th September 2018
Since forming in 1982 the Canadian band quickly become a band that never really could be compared with anyone else out there. Their unique fusion of trash, progressive rock and punk was unlike anything else […]
24th September 2018
Credic is a German Melodic Death Metal quintet which can trace their origins back to the (exact) mid-2000’s. Since their inception and up to the present day they have been fairly casual as far as […]
