The one thing that should not surprise anyone even remotely acquainted with Iron Maiden, is that guitarist Adrian Smith has far more in his bag of tricks than the usual [...]
Saxon‘s covers collection is pretty self-explanatory – Saxon want to liven up these COVID-fucked times with an 11 song collection that goes back to these NWOBHM [...]
To call Thunder Horse‘s second album, Chosen One, simply a doom album would actually do it a disservice as this band of Texan trouble-makers incorporate far more than [...]
As the novelist William Gibson wrote “Time moves in one direction, memory in another”. As the tides of time wash our presence into the murky depths to be quietly [...]
Another week gone, another batch of fine releases from across metal’s vast spectrum to enjoy! Here’s the 5 metal albums you needed to hear this week (8th January – [...]
Since starting out in the LA club scene back in the early 80s(!), Armored Saint have systematically put out a string of incredibly strong albums over the years and now, five [...]
Diehard exponents of the noble art of heavy metal since 1995, Orange Goblin have spent the last two and a half decades steadily but surely establishing themselves as one of [...]
One of the finest proponents of trad metal on the circuit, Sweden’s Wolf have left the sanctity of the pack to regale us with another collection of snarling metal [...]
After leaving Iron Maiden in 1999, Blaze Bayley didn’t hang up his boots; although nobody would have blamed him for quitting the music business for good. Instead, [...]
German traditional heavy/power metallers PRIMAL FEAR recently finished the recording of their upcoming 13th studio album, set to be titled Metal Commando. The title of the [...]