1st November 2011
Five years since the release of their previous album, Hungarian band Everwood are ready with the new album, featuring the new singer and new bassist. The new album also presents the band with an updated […]
18th October 2011
With more than quarter of a decade since their formation it’s somewhat odd that the band released only 3 studio albums, but in couple of days their fourth album is ready to be released, eighth […]
7th October 2011
Mike Portnoy has always been a busy man. During his time in Dream Theater he has been involved in endless line of side projects such as Transatlantic, OSI and Liquid Tension Experiment, to name a […]
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, […]
15th November 2018
Art Against Agony is a self-styled ‘musical collective’ that first saw the light of day eight years ago and consists of twelve members apparently scattered around the globe (the band seems very secretive about many […]
15th November 2018
Hailing from Bergen, Norway, Aeternus are veteran dark metal act founded in 1993. They’ve continually been delivering ever since and Heathen is their long-awaited eight full-length. Heathen, which marks the band’s 25th anniversary, comes after […]
15th November 2018
The international hard-rock sensation, Outloud is back with their new album Virtual Hero Society. The band is fronted by the amazing singer Chandler Mogel and the mighty Bob Katsionis (Firewind), who is doing an excellent […]
14th November 2018
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Four years have passed since Black Stone Cherry’s previous show in Copenhagen and judging from the quickly sold-out show the band has been missed. American rockers are on tour supporting their sixth […]
12th November 2018
Five years ago, Ashes Of Ares, a project consisting of two former Iced Earth members, released self-titled debut, which proved to be an extremely solid piece of metal. Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales are now […]
12th November 2018
One look at the album’s title, shiny packaging, song titles and song descriptions(!), one can’t help but pretty much decide what kind of album Metalized is. You press “play” and within the first minute your […]
7th November 2018
Last year the band consisting of people associated with Iced Earth, Circe II Circle and White Wizzard released their debut Nocturnes and Requiems, which proved to be a very solid and nonetheless interesting album. Since […]
7th November 2018
Akhenaten, known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled for 17 years, but it is also the name of a two-man […]
6th November 2018
Antimatter’s previous album The Judas Table saw the band focus on simpler and more stripped-down arrangements, which was fitting for the album’s theme of betrayal in a romantic relationship. Black Market Enlightenment’s main theme is […]
5th November 2018
Founded in Cracow in 2006, Drown My Day has since been a part of ever growing Polish metal scene. But who are DMD really? It’s mainly a deathcore quintet that already has two EPs and […]
