Album Reviews

These days, it’s easy to dismiss the EP as a purposeless format, or worse yet, a cheap money grab. Largely gone are the days when […]

There are a million and one thought pieces out there regarding the never-ending U.S. vs. euro power metal debate, so I’ll spare you my two […]

While I’ve always fancied myself a fan of ’90s extreme metal maniacs Angelcorpse, it hasn’t been until the past 5 years that I feel I’ve […]

Since their 2013 inception, Aktor has prided themselves on making weird music for weird people. Being that I wasn’t exactly captain of the football team […]

It’s been quite an eventful year for the Municipal Waste-verse. After nearly 20 years of bong-huffing buffoonery, Cannabis Corpse called it a day. Iron Reagan […]

How many bands can you think of with a flawless discography? Take a minute and think, if you must. Even the mightiest giants have stumbled […]

Space, Rituals and Magick: Three recurring lyrical themes in metal since the genre’s inception, but also the title of the third and latest album from […]

Does anyone adhere to the glam commandments anymore? Following the Carmine Appice fashion disaster of 1985, it was written in stone: Thou shalt not play […]

From the banks of the Mississippi, somewhere between the Illinois-Iowa state line, rises four longhaired, dirty-denimed, rock n’ roll creatures, armed with only their guitars […]

There is something about uttering the words, “Hey man, have you checked out the new Cheap Trick album?” in the year 2025 that doesn’t just […]