Album Reviews

Does anyone else remember Dripping Decay? We reviewed their debut album, Festering Grotesqueries (2023), upon its release, and were taken aback by the sheer grossness […]

When we last heard from Finnish death/doom disciples, Hooded Menace, they had just released their sixth full length, The Tritonus Bell (2021): An album that […]

As the old saying goes, “What goes around comes around.” Slowly but surely, it seems that the thrasher crop of the early ’10s, who abandoned […]

When I last interviewed German metal god, Udo Dirkschneider, I asked about the possibility of a full length from his Dirkschneider & the Old Gang […]

“What’s this? Joe tackling a black metal band he’s never listened to before?” What can I say folks? Sometimes I like to live dangerously. Granted, […]

As Michael Schenker continues to make his way around the US of A, celebrating the legacy of UFO, what better time to remind everyone that […]

Much like WTF, the last album from cult NWOBHM act Black Rose, their latest, Killing Machine, snuck up on me out of nowhere. There was […]

The ’20s have been quite a prolific decade for Teutonic power metal veterans Rage, and we’ve been there for most of it. Both Wings of […]

Rule of thumb: If a metal band’s name includes the word “Sadistic”, or a variation of such (i.e. Sadistik Exekution), they’re gonna rule. Look no […]

50 years of rockin’ and rollin’ is quite the milestone, especially when it’s uninterrupted. Unlike too many of their peers who gave up when the […]