Album Reviews

I knew I wasn’t going to be able to finish the year without at least one more Frontiers release crossing my path. And like every […]

Historically, December has always been a music desert. The year is for all purposes finished. Our favorite bands have better things to do like spend […]

Being a lifelong resident of America’s third largest metropolis (Chicago, Illinois), it’s a cultural norm to make fun of our neighbors to the east in […]

In a time when death metal and black metal stood in polar opposition to each other, Unanimated brazenly fused the two with a healthy dose […]

Naming your band “Fortress” in 2021 is practically a death sentence. Why? Because there’s literally been dozens of bands named “Fortress” over the past 40 […]

As each year goes by, more and more NWOTHM bands seem to transition into hard rock/AOR acts. Striker have comfortably assumed status as the heavy […]

Of all the bands I’ve reviewed this year, if you told me one of them would be Victory, I’d probably laugh in your face. The […]

Before there was heavy metal, and before there was hard rock for that matter, there was Mark Stein. As the singer, organist, and arranger of […]

While scores of bands they’ve influenced have either said farewell or succumbed altogether (i.e. Van Halen, Motörhead, Slayer), Deep Purple remains heavy metal’s resident freaks […]

Am I really reviewing two black metal releases in two days? What on earth is becoming of me? Granted, today’s album in review isn’t just […]