An artist that seems destined to be crossing over into the larger realms outside rock/metal in the very near future, Diamante has an intriguing blend of sounds on her debut album, Coming in Hot. There’s Read more […]
Across mainland Europe, it’s safe to say that two bands that have transformed the power metal market in one shape or another have been Sweden’s Sabaton, and the following German act Powerwolf. Between Read more […]
Forever pulling double-duty with Leaves’ Eyes, Atrocity frontman Alexander Krull is a busy man (as is the rest of the band). With the buzz that Leaves’ Eyes has generated over the years, sometimes Read more […]
While it’s been about 7 years since Trillium released a new album, Amanda Somerville has been far from resting on her laurels. She’s continued to build-up a name for herself, in both collaborations Read more […]
The problem with being from an exotic, much-queried upon country is that the fascination may never run out. Geographic location is often used as a sonic measuring stick in metal — it’s a time-honored Read more […]
We will be past the half-year point by the time you’re reading this and surely you’ve made up your mind as to what has been hot in 2018, as have we. Since there are so many releases that are “hot” (saying Read more […]
Yearning to bring stadium rock back, German act Kissin’ Dynamite are a rare breed in today’s melodic hard rock/metal landscape. Releasing five studio albums and a live double album/DVD set over the Read more […]
Halfway through the year at this point, and almost to the one year anniversary of this particular column. With that said, let’s just focus on the videos for this month. We check out Among Gods, Blitzkrieg, Read more […]
The duo of Hoth is one that has been in constant evolution. From their very blatant Star Wars inspirations that led their debut album, to a more adventurous and dark sophomore effort, the band has continued Read more […]
New England has had a wide array of heavy music appeal across all genres for decades. From classic/traditional offshoots to symphonic acts, and everything from doom to thrash, power, progressive, death, Read more […]
It’s still a nice feeling to find a band that’s firing on all cylinders through random discovery. The UK’s Mask of Judas are a band that’s hard to describe in a one-sentence blurb, but they are Read more […]
With the onset of summer comes the yearly tradition – time to get out our lists and see what has made the first half of 2018 enjoyable (from a musical perspective at least). Being that all of our staff Read more […]
One of the select few in heavy metal culture that truly needs no introduction, Devin Townsend has had a long, storied history with the genre. Most recently, his journey has involved a group of musicians Read more […]
With summer festival season ramping up in Europe, all of us in North America can take solace in knowing we have a few more months to pinch pennies before the fall touring season commences. With that in Read more […]
While stoner hard rock/metal and its subsets garner a larger piece of the underground heavy attention, let’s not forget musicians who strive to cut their teeth from the Trouble/Candlemass cloth – where Read more […]
It’s an exciting time for tech death metal if you are in seek of forward-thinking, progressive material. Not simply the ‘tech for tech’s sake,’ but those who are looking to advance the genre forward. Read more […]
An up and coming act from Northern New Jersey, Dead City Crown play with a distinctively European approach to their material. While most Stateside bands take the melodic death metal approach and either Read more […]
Worry sets in when bands resurrect old material and release product decades beyond its initial development. The old school, nostalgia factor can only take bands so far – sure the old-timers may perk Read more […]
Who would have thought that it would take a bunch of established metal musicians to provide just the jolt that classic rock fans have been missing? That’s exactly what The Night Flight Orchestra have Read more […]
Deep into their career, Tad Morose continues to put the focus where it should be- on their music. Chapter X as the latest album breaks conventional logic – including 14 songs and over an hour of new Read more […]
Six years removed from the last studio album The Eloquence of Silence, Danish melodic metal band Ripe return stronger than ever with their fourth full-length The Litany of Fantasy. It’s understandable Read more […]
There’s a ton of bands in the death metal world that pay their little homage to Death. Some would say there’s many that worship the band and what they did for the scene. But Gruesome exist in a space Read more […]
Existential questions abound with U.K. progressive metal outfit Monsterworks, but, perhaps none more pressing is this: How do they continually release an album every year of quality prog metal? Since 2011, Read more […]
Certainly one of the largest of the American metal bands of today, Devildriver has been doing their thing for over 15 years now. That doesn’t even count the time that band leader/vocalist Dez Fafara Read more […]
It’s fun as a writer to be able to explore new bands and hear what could be the next big thing. Even if it increasingly becomes more work to find said ‘diamonds in the rough,’ that genuine feeling Read more […]
Although heavy/power metal has traditionally been more of a Western European and Scandinvian movement as far as the musicians and groups that have made in roads in the scene – Helloween, Stratovarius, Read more […]
One of the great things about metal is that doesn’t have to be this superficial, ‘appeal to the broadest category of people’ type of music. Bands can use the format to craft deeper meanings and Read more […]
Two months separate the release of Wolvhammer’s The Monuments of Ash & Bone and Skeletonwitch’s Devouring Radiant Line. The one common denominator? Vocalist Adam Clemans. While Wolvhammer is the Read more […]
Proudly British and waving the banner for heavy metal high, Monument seem destined for glory based on their brief output to date. Their third album Hellhound reminds us of the days when Iron Maiden, Judas Read more […]
The May 2018 installment of Rapid Fires –our short review column– gets us closer to putting an end-cap on the first half of the year. The metal world moves pretty quickly, so we do our best to keep up, Read more […]
