Excess is a first English speaking album form Polish band, Coma. Actually Excess is made of ten songs from their previous album Hipertrofia – rerecorded and translated to English. This feels like a bad idea […]
Usually I’m not the biggest fan of heavy metal super groups, but this time is exception. The Damned Things is all American heavy metal supergroup featuring Scott Ian & Rob Caggiano (Anthrax), Keith Buckley (Every […]
Where were you 30 years ago? It’s hard to believe that Bad Religion have been around for three decades, but what’s even harder to comprehend is that over the years the band has remained influential, […]
The Man-Eating Tree is a project consisting of Poisonblack, Sentenced, Reflexion, Embraze, and Fall Of The Leafe members, but that is far from the most interesting fact about this band. Fortunately it’s their music that […]
Fourth album from Manchester’s alternative prog rockers sees the band playing some of the heaviest music of their carrier. The album opener “Part Cardiac” is heavy, fat, almost Sabbath like monster, with some surprisingly rough […]
Sometimes, a job as a writer and journalist isn’t all about fun. To remain objective, no matter how big or well-established the band is, is one of the tasks that I find the most challenging. […]
It seems like there is long time between very good hard rock albums this year and I guess the same goes for the past few years as well. With Audioslave out of the picture, Velvet […]
Anti-Matter Poetry is third album from German t (Thomas Thielen), who has written, performed and produced this atmospheric album. Title is most likely inspired by Russell Edson’s poem “Amtimatter” and much like the poem this […]
Debut album from Dutch five-piece, Sky Architect is in many ways a ride through some four decades of symphonic prog rock and while the backbone of the album is based around 70’s prog scene with […]
Two years ago Demians released a splendid début Building An Empire, which introduced the great talent of Nicolas Chapel to the world, the man who wrote, produced, sang and played everything on it. The album […]
Take look at the band’s name. Take a look at the song titles. Take a look at the front cover. It’s more then enough to form a first opinion of this band, right? Right. And […]
To celebrate 30 years since the formation of this very important and highly influential punk band, Bad Religion have decided to release a live album which is available for free download for all those who […]
So what we have here is another album from an ex Helloween member. Over the years there have been a number of these bands, be it Gamma Ray, Michael Kiske or Beautiful Sin and with […]
Before there was a Bay Area-movement Y&T was packing sweaty clubs in the area became one of the bands to influence a whole movement of the bands who later became global stars and wrote their […]
I guess by now everyone knows the story behind Deftones’ sixth album, but here it goes anyway: Band’s bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car crash before the release of their sixth album entitled […]
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 […]
As many of you know, Michael Romeo is an internationally acclaimed axe slinging, guitar virtuoso of progressive kings, Symphony X. Now he has released his eagerly anticipated first official solo album entitled War Of The […]
It might not seem so, but The Pineapple Thief have been around for almost two decades and in course of that time the band has displayed constant evolving. If their previous release Your Wilderness signaled the band […]
Avast is a rather unique creation – Even more so the more I delve into it. From what I have been able to gather so far, we are dealing with a Norwegian quartet that has […]
It seems surreal that more than three decades have passed since Udo Dirkschneider left Accept and released the first album with his own band U.D.O. Still to this day it’s hard to find a review, […]
Greybeards is an alternative rock quartet from Gävle, Sweden. For The Wilder Minds is their second full length 10-tracker album where the band come across with a good personality and own musical identity. In a […]
In 2007 Norwegian band Manes released How The World Came To An End, which ended up being the finest release of that year. Since then the band has taken their sweet time when it comes […]