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 […]
7th May 2011
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 […]
7th May 2011
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 […]
1st May 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 album not to feature band’s original singer Jani Lane. Rockaholic […]
25th April 2011
Odin’s Court financed their first releases themselves but since the band has been signed to ProgRock Records and released their label debut Deathanity in 2008. The follow up is in many ways simpler and more […]
25th April 2011
Still Looking For the Answers is a début album form 41Point9, but what we have here is a group of rather musically experienced gentlemen. Consisting of Bob Madsen (Enchant, Xen), Brian Cline (Enchant) and Kenny […]
23rd October 2018
Eleven years ago five Finnish musicians banded together to form a band, one hell-bent upon joining the already rising Second Wave Black Metal scene. They did so the following year by releasing their first EP, […]
23rd October 2018
Of course, it’s a marketing move, when you hype your new album as “Our ‘Black Album’”, but there is so much nonsense in such a statement even before actually hearing the album. Nevertheless, Disturbed chose […]
23rd October 2018
Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos is the new album of Peruvian (!) death ‘n’ roll project called Fervent Hate. Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos consists of 10 very strong tracks that show the […]
20th October 2018
Helsótt, despite the very Old Norse word (meaning ‘fatal illness’ in case any of you out there either are a fan of viking history or collect random trivia) is in actuality an American quintet, founded […]
19th October 2018
Satanath is quite a peculiar band, to say the least. First of all, both the name of the one-man band (Satanath) as well as the name of every single one of the twenty tracks present […]
16th October 2018
Riven is a Belgian-based one-man band known for two other projects: Namely Svarthart (a Doom/Death Metal mix) and Verderf (Death Metal). Riven, his by default solo project, explores a darker, more powerfully down-trodden path than […]
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. […]
