Defenders of the Faith

Hey there! How’s your week been? Yeah, mine too. Trust me: Nothing pains me more than having to take week long hiatuses from posting on […]

Having just reviewed the latest Cloven Hoof album, the only way to atone for my sins is by checking out the new Stryper album, Throne […]

The addition of Harry “The Tyrant” Conklin to the Cloven Hoof fold has been one of the most welcome personnel changes of the decade thus […]

I take a week off from this webzine (and by “off”, I mean swamped with work, band rehearsals, and catching Iron Maiden), only to return […]

Looking back on my early metal journey, there couldn’t have been a better time than the early ’10s for me to discover Anthrax. Thanks to […]

When I first stumbled upon Cartilage last year, it was love at first listen. Their EP, Tales from the Entrails: A Necrology, proved that it’s […]

Here’s a fun story from Joe’s headbanging youth. I was a senior in high school when Chicago’s Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse Festival morphed into Legions of […]

Whenever a new Tygers of Pan Tang album crosses my path, it always manages to warm my denim and leather-clad heart. Still spearheaded by founding […]

Despite being one of the greatest bands in the history of black metal, Sigh are an act who’ve carried very little about adhering to the […]

Airbourne are a band whom it took a while to come around to. I vividly remember them being pedaled in the pages of Metal Hammer […]