Welcomely formulaic while refreshingly vital, Rock Believer teaches you that what separates men from boys is that it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. But where's Mikkey Dee? [...]
The difficulty in reviewing this record is that as soon as one is on the self-satisfied cusp of blithely dismissing its worse elements, along slithers the Slash of old to offer you a bite of a different apple, something heavenly enough to disrobe you entirely. [...]
We love Blood Incantation. Fuckin’ love ‘em! We worship the elevated ground these otherworldly progressive death metallers walk on. They already had us with 2016’s [...]
In late 2021, Aeons released one of the progressive metal albums of the year in the shape of the stunning and multifaceted, Consequences (we fuckin’ [...]
The Rods are a New York classic metal power trio that never got anywhere near the respect they were due in the 80’s. They weren’t flashy and their hair wasn’t big but [...]
Reviewing a Steve Vai album is not the sinecure it may feel like to listen to. It’s not as if your correspondent can blush, clumsily tripping all over his own colossal [...]
If you’re not overly familiar with Party Cannon‘s past work, you’ll at least have seen their jaunty, colourful, Toys ‘R’ Us style logo jumping out at you among [...]
Opensight’s quirky brand of cinematic metal is designed for true cinephiles to enjoy. With nods to Bond, 50s and 60s horror/sci-fi and cult Italian Giallo and [...]
Memory Garden might not be as famous as fellow Swedes Candlemass….but they should be. Just one spin of their latest mighty doom metal opus 1349 should attest to that, [...]