Album Reviews

Despite the biblical connotations, I feel like Stryper pulled a quick one on us by titling their last album The Final Battle. In an age […]

When doom metal icon Eric Wagner departed this earthly realm roughly three years ago, it didn’t just mark the end of an era, but left […]

As much as I love my ’80s thrash, the number of bands from that era still putting out quality material today is far and few […]

The ’20s have been quite the victory lap (pun fully intended) for Herman Frank. After roughly a decade of dormancy, the veteran guitarist revived the […]

To say Satan has had one of the best second winds in metal history would be an understatement. Despite never making their proper mark in […]

Despite bridging the gap between the advent of heavy metal and the NWOBHM, and influencing every traditional metal band whose ever walked the face of […]

Us Chicagoans are absolutely spoiled with one of the best metal scenes in the country, if not the world. Aside from Trouble, Master, Zoetrope, Macabre, […]

The official soundtrack to cruising around in a hotrod and scoring barely legal chicks, The Dictators have been around in some capacity or another for […]

Blitzkrieg are best known for two things. The first is having their eponymous 1980 song covered by Metallica on the Creeping Death EP. The second […]

When we last caught up with progressive rock icons Nektar, the band were reestablishing themselves in the wake of founder Roye Albrighton’s passing. The result […]