by Nick Giannandrea Staff Writer The fifth studio album by Vacaville, Calif.-bred rockers Papa Roach couldn’t be more appropriately titled. Metamorphosis, a 12-track, 46-minute, DGC/Interscope Records, Inc. CD released March 24, showcases the quartet’s continued evolution from rap [...]
by Heather McNamara Staff Writer If you’ve been a guitar aficionado for the last 25 years, the name Yngwie Malmsteen (or Yngwie J. Malmsteen, if you prefer) will have at least some meaning for you. As most metal guitarists know, Malmsteen has been riffing it up like a madman from his early days [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer Beautiful Mess is the latest release by one of the most powerful and durable voices in the music world – Jeff Scott Soto. With this go ‘round, he has reinvented himself as “JSS” and put together a solid disc that is unlike anything he’s done in the past. Soto has [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Coming nearly a decade after their debut (2000’s Thunderdome), 2009’s Bite the Bullet is the second album from Norwegian melodic rockers Street Legal. Never a huge name in the melodic rock world (outside of Norway, at least) Street Legal’s return might [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Man, it’s hard to listen to an album like Temple of Guilt – the debut full-length from Mexican doom metal band Majestic Downfall – and not want to kill yourself. That’s how you know you’re listening to some “grade A” doom metal. If you get to the end of [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Wow. Could anyone have predicted that the best power metal album (so far) of 2009 would be from a cover band? Granted, Clairvoyants is an Iron Maiden cover band, and you know that if they can pull of Maiden songs for the better part of a decade they have to be pretty [...]
by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer Call them eccentrics, eclectics, bafoons, geniuses, or simply a band without focus, but Science Faxtion’s debut release certainly doesn’t follow conventions – stylistic, instrumental or any other. Buckethead on the guitar and Bootsy Collins on the bass apart [...]
by Deb Rao Staff Writer From the Port of Spain in Trinidad, rock band Orange Sky is garnering a strong fan base across the country. Orange Sky has just released their sophomore release, Dat Iz Voodoo via StarCity Records. The popular Trinidad band has supported Skid Row, Hatebreed, Ludacris, and [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Rhino Bucket returns with their follow up album to ‘06s And Then It Got Ugly with The Hardest Town. Georg Dolivo (v, g) and Reeve Downes (b, v) are joined by former AC/DC drummer Simon Wright (Dio) and guitarist Brian Forsythe (Kix). The band continues to languish [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Once known as a shredder from Mike Varney’s camp, which is known as Shrapnel Records, Moore now finds himself guitar hero and bandmate of Britain’s UFO. With big shoes to fill, namely Michael Schenker’s, Moore is no slouch himself. As UFO is set to release their [...]
