Album Reviews

Considering the metal community’s collective obsession with the Norwegian black metal scene for 30 years now, it’s easy to forget that Norway wasn’t alone in […]

It was exactly two years ago today that I was taken aback by Hitten’s evolution from NWOTHM trendsetters to glam metal juggernaut with the release […]

In the immortal words of Todd Rundgren, “Hello It’s Me”. I wasn’t planning on taking a mini Thanksgiving week sabbatical, but alas, here we are. […]

If there’s one thing Frontiers is great at, it’s keeping ’80s hard rockers busy. Perhaps no ’80s hard rocker has been busier these past few […]

The name Sadus is widely revered among underground headbangers. Their ’80s demos and debut full length, Illusions (1988), pushed thrash to its furthest limits, unleashing […]

For all the diabolical black metal, murderous death metal, and swords and sorcery flavored traditional metal that graces this site, I’d be lying if I […]

I’m not sure what’s in the water over in Scandinavia, but there has to be something responsible for spawning such an amazing crop of kickass […]

It was just last year that Italian black metal masters Mortuary Drape returned for the first time in what felt like an eternity with a […]

Upon the early ’90s death metal explosion, Suffocation was part of a wave of bands who took the genre one step further, subsequently *ahem* Breeding […]

Progressive rock does not get enough credit for its impact on heavy metal. Back in the ’70s, the two musical pariahs constantly overlapped. This resulted […]