Album Reviews

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Those with an affinity for first death generation death metal are no strangers to the name Sadistic Intent. Although they never released a full length, […]

Last week, yours truly made the annual pilgrimage out to Joliet, home of Molder and the state penitentiary where Jake Blues did hard time, to […]

This week, the algorithm decided to spit forth an eponymous album from a band by the name of Magick Potion, to which I thought, “Cool! […]

As the old Styx song goes, “Nothing Ever Goes as Planned”. When we spoke with virtuoso shredder Chris Impellitteri in October of 2022, he said […]

Throughout a lifetime of following Mark Farner, the voice, guitar, and pen behind Grand Funk Railroad’s most prolific work, I’ve been teased with bits and […]

It’s wild to see the how the bands who made up the OSDM boom of the late ’10s have since gone onto break into the […]