Elm Street – The Great Tribulation (Massacre Records)
From Melbourne, Australia, Elm Street has been carefully crafting this third album The Great Tribulation. Always known for not putting out records before their time, the quartet came on this scribe’s radar early through...
Receiver – Whispers of Lore (Gates of Hell Records)
Forming in 2011, Cyprus heavy metal act Receiver finally arrive at unleashing their debut full-length album for Gates of Hell Records with Whispers of Lore. These musicians combine influences across the epic, NWOBHM, and...
Temple Balls – Avalanche (Frontiers Music)
News flash: classic melodic hard rock and heavy metal never goes out of fashion, despite whatever major media outlets may tell you. The veterans seemingly never retire, reunions happen, sold out arena/stadium tours take...
Serenity – Following The Passion
Photo: Matthias Schwaighofer
The latest album from Austrian symphonic power/progressive metal act Serenity is Nemesis AD – another conceptual record covering the history of German painter, printmaker, and theorist Albrecht Dürer. Adding the ubiquitous Marco...
Diviner – Avaton (Rock of Angels Records)
Returning for this third album Avaton, Greek metal band Diviner has once again modified their lineup with second guitarist Alex Flouros replacing George Maroulees in 2022. Nonetheless it doesn’t stop the potent power/heavy metal...
Hinayana – Shatter and Fall (Napalm)
Hinayana's last bit of output was a short EP to showcase themselves after being signed to Napalm Records in the form of Death of the Cosmic. Given that their only full-length was from back...
Warship – The Third Wave (Sleaszy Rider Records)
Hailing from Greece, Warship started in the early 2000’s following the demise of Kokkalo, who released two albums before their dissolution. Evolving at a slow and steady pace, they’ve released two demos and two...
Dying Wish – Building a Community
Coming hot off the much-deserved buzz that encompassed their debut, Fragments of a Bitter Memory, Dying Wish returns in 2023 with their follow-up Symptoms of Survival. An album that seems to build upon everything...
Risky Melody – Reflection (Magnifique Record/Nippon Columbia)
Risky Melody is a Japanese metal/rock band that has existed for close to a decade now. Though in 2018, all of it's members except vocalist Alice parted ways with the group. Since that time,...
Spiritbox – The Fear of Fear (Pale Chord Musc/Rise Records)
A band that has seen nothing short of a meteoric rise in the last few years, Spiritbox has also been consistently releasing new content each year even if it's just in the form of...
Gama Bomb – BATS (Prosthetic Records)
Resolute in the approach of injecting thrash with diverse punk, traditional, and outside the box influences time after time, Irish act Gama Bomb always guarantee an energetic appeal record to record. The same holds...
Sorcerer – Shining Like a Morning Star
When it comes to epic doom metal over the past decade, there hasn’t been a better run of studio records for this scribe’s money than Sorcerer. Since resurrecting themselves in 2010, we are now...
Wolves in the Throne Room / Blackbraid / Gaerea / Hoaxed – October 15, 2023 – The Orpheum, Tampa, FL
Photos by: Brittany Barkasi
Being the astute self-proclaimed black metal aficionado that yours truly aspires to be, the tour package of the seminal mystics Wolves in the Throne Room, Native American atmospheric black metal phenomen...
