Album Reviews

Although their trailblazing days are far behind them, one can always rely on Agnostic Front to drop a no frills hardcore album whenever they damn […]

Although the current Chicago climate largely consists of freezing snow and frigid cold temperatures, if one focuses enough, they can feel the faint glow of […]

I sure wasn’t expecting to review two albums featuring cover art by Sadistik Exekution’s Rok in the same week, but here we are! 9 times […]

Punk: The scrappy, angsty, anarchistic little brother of metal. It’s hard to believe that at one point in time, these two genres were sworn enemies. […]

Considering how common it is to hear American bands attempting to replicate various German metal styles, whether it be their valorous power metal, ripping maniac […]

Perhaps it’s because October is spooky season, but holy smokes was the month packed with blackened thrash/speed releases, and some top shelf ones at that! […]

For as often as I preach the age old adage of “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, I tend to contradict myself by doing […]

In 2007, before the so-called NWOTHM really picked up steam, a Japanese band by the name of Blaze popped out of nowhere with their eponymous […]

1992 was not a good year to be a melodic hard rock act. As MTV and rock radio shifted gears towards the plaid-clad sounds of […]

Keeping in line with this week’s unofficial theme of melodic hard rock, a much needed palette cleanse after a cavalcade of blackened thrash/speed, would you […]