Californian KAOS’ latest release is an ode 80’s and early 90’s thrash metal scene with influences ranging as far back as the pioneers of the genre, as well as the bands form so called second […]
The beauty of exploring a ProgRock Records’ releases is not so much the fact that you are basically guarantied quality music, but rather the fact that you don’t know in what shape or form it […]
Imagine a kaleidoscope, a huge kaleidoscope with a bright specter of colors. Now imagine this kaleidoscope transforming into a sonic experience rather than visual one. This is perhaps a decent way to try to explain […]
Just like the Metal Mind Productions’ re-release of Therapy?’s Never Apologize, Never Explain, this re-release doesn’t offer any bonus material, extended artwork or any highly noticeable improvements in remastered sound. Booklet is printed on a […]
Therapy?’s twelve album career is filled with interesting and unexpected twists and turns, both when it comes to music, success, creativity and balls. These Irishman’s career is have also been filled with ups and downs […]
W.A.S.P. is the band that needs no longer introduction – as I believe it is enough to mention that the band has been playing what is now known as glam/horror/shock metal since 1982. ‘Crimson Idol’ […]
There are many similarities between Baroness and Mastodon. Not so much because of the music they are playing, but mainly because these bands are some rare examples of the bands who from the start found […]
Empyrean’s self-released EP consists of six songs that for some reason had a very nostalgic effect on me even though I cannot put a finger on it as to why. The Orlando based quartet presents […]
One of the most important rock bands of the nineties is back with their first release in 14 years. Not many saw this happening after the band’s singer Layne Staley died of an overdose back […]
Twenty years after the band was formed, they have just released one of the best albums of their carrier. Now that’s a sentence you don’t hear often. For two decades Therapy? have tried it all; […]
After celebrating twenty years in business last year with release of live CD/DVD The Anatomy Of Melancholy, Goth metal pioneers from England are ready with their twelfth studio album. Following an interesting trip into the […]
Europe is not just the oldest continent on earth but also a name of a legendary Swedish band which has just released their eight studio album Last Look at Eden, the first album since 2006’s […]
Thirty years after the release of the first Accept record, the man is still going strong. I guess everybody knows story about this highly influential metal band from Germany – the bake-ups, reunions and the […]
Indukti is a Polish band, an instrumental band with singing, an band that is heavily inspired by others, yet sounds mostly like … well Indukti. The band is instrumental, but they have guest vocal performances […]
Undisputed kings of progressive metal keep to their new-album-every-two-years routine, which is once again produced by band’s own John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy. And this is where one of the problems of Dream Theater’s tenth […]
H.P. Lovecraft is, in my humble opinion at least, one of the more predominant writers of the early 18th century. Not only did he manage to create an entirely new sub-genre of horror – One […]
Hyrgal is a French Black Metal trio originally founded back in 2008 where they released their first Split album with the band Kairn. After a brief hiatus the band returned in full force two years […]
Norwegian underground occult hard rockers Acârash have just released their debut full-length album entitled In Chaos Becrowned, but before we dwell a bit more into this 8-tracker album, let me introduce the band for you. […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Trying to figure out what Helloween has been though in course of their almost 35-year long career is somewhat of a overwhelming task if you haven’t been living and breathing […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com It has been almost three years since the release of W.A.S.P.’s latest album Golgotha, but the band has, much like since the release of critically acclaimed 2007’s Dominator, been touring […]
Archive photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com (Photographers were banned from Ozzy Osbourne’s Copenhell show) Couple of years ago Ozzy visited Copenhell on final tour with Black Sabbath. This year he headlined the Friday with his solo band […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Over the course of a past decade German trash legends have experienced something of a revival. This is largely due to general rise of trash metal with giants like Metallica, […]
Archive photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmesclero.com (Photographers were banned from Alice In Chain’s Copenhell show) I had pleasure of experiencing Alice In Chains on their Dirt tour in 1993, with the original singer Layne Staley […]
Archive photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmesclero.com Each major rock movement has some noteworthy bands that don’t fit the genre descriptions, but still get associated with it. In the 80’s Tesla was associated with hair-metal, in […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com It’s not easy replacing such a charismatic and iconic frontwoman in an established band, but since replacing Angela Gossow in 2014, Alissa White-Gluz has not only done a good job, […]