Album Reviews

You know, I’d like to think I’m pretty good at deciphering secret codes, Easter eggs, or whatever other subliminal messages bands throw our way via […]

Like most of the great bands festering within the death metal underground today, Coffin Rot is a band I first became acquainted with thanks to […]

Crust punk: The feral offspring of punk and metal who refuses to bathe. At least that’s the description I’m sticking to. Originated in the early […]

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, […]