Among These Ashes – Embers of Elysium
2024 is winding to a close, but not without some last second album reviews! Towards the start of the year, we were treated to the […]
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The Watcher – Out of the Dark
Have we really been blessed with two Cruz del Sur releases this week? Admittedly, Demon Bitch’s latest opus, Master of the Games, was released via […]
Top 10: Black Sabbath Ballads
With their legendary riffs, doom and gloom lyricism, and “godfathers of metal” title in tow, balladry is the last thing headbangers have in mind when […]
The Gates of Slumber – The Gates of Slumber
Although hailed in doom circles (and rightfully so), The Gates of Slumber are a rather curious case of a band. They formed in the late […]
Demon Bitch – Master of the Games
The older I get, the more I’m enamored by the early ’80s US metal scene. Post-NWOBHM craze, but pre-thrash explosion, bands like Manilla Road, Cirith […]
Hirsh Gardner (New England) Interview
In 1979, few bands showed greater potential than New England. Locked and loaded from the get go, the young band quickly found themselves on the […]
Hirsh Gardner – Third Time’s a Charm
Once upon a time, before ever imagining running his own heavy metal webzine, a teenage “Metal” Joe was sifting through the bargain bins of some […]
Storace – Crossfire
It was just a couple years ago that, in the midst of what seemed to be the untimely end of Krokus, singer Marc Storace treated […]
Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
The 2010s were a curious decade to be an Opeth fan. For a band who made their name off constant musical reinvention, even their most […]
From My Collection #98: Wishbone Ash – Number the Brave
Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. Few bands in the history of hard and heavy music boast a catalog as vast as Wishbone […]