Album Reviews

Being the metal nerd that I am, I love using this platform to explore and analyze the various European metal scenes of the 1980s. The […]

Have you ever made it a few songs into an album and said to yourself, “I know how the rest of this album is gonna […]

While Destruction have long since abandoned the primal blackened thrash of early releases like Sentence of Death (1984) and Infernal Overkill (1985), there’s no shortage […]

You know what there’s a severe lacking of? Outlaw metal. Granted, this isn’t an established subgenre per se (yet), and I’m not referring to the […]

As much as I love Scorpions, to these discerning ears, they haven’t put out an album worth listening to front to back since Love at […]

I vividly remember my first encounter with one Mr. August Zadra. I was in high school and going to see estranged Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung […]

AOR is the type of amalgamation that could’ve only come to fruition in the late 70s and flourished in the 80s. It was a full […]

It was roughly a month ago that I received a promo for Recollections of the Insane, the debut full length from Belgian death/thrash horde Schizophrenia. […]

Is there a single death metal band as historically consistent as Immolation? I think not. When we look back at their early 90s peers, nearly […]

When Napalm Death dropped their last album, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism, the reaction was rather mixed. The legacy metal media praised […]