by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Finally! It’s been seven years since Hardline’s appropriately-titled second album II (and that came a full decade after the band’s 1992 debut Double Eclipse), but the melodic rockers are back with another album, titled Leaving the End Open. Of course, given [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Rex Mundi X-Ile is album number five from Italian noise merchants Ensoph. The masked, alias-using metallers are back with their own unique and disturbing brand of techno-industrial gothic kind of, sort of black metal. You have to give Ensoph credit for being [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer Joe Lynn Turner’s project Sunstorm is one scary animal. Bands strive for years, even decades, to sound this polished; they struggle to write AOR hits that will become timeless classics; and, 99 percent of them inexorably fail to achieve either. Then Sunstorm — a [...]
by Curt Hauff Staff Writer Jesse Terry’s debut album, The Runner, has been years in the making. Jesse moved to Nashville in 2004 and has been networking and writing ever since. It’s probably a telling sign to see so many musicians listed in the credits. With 16 musicians and vocalists lending [...]
by Curt Hauff Staff Writer In reading Andrew Solomon’s list of accomplishments and collaborators, you get the impression this is going to be an album worth listening to. Having been a graduate student at Harvard Business School with an additional degree from ASCAP’s Advanced Songwriting [...]
by Matthew Hoffman Staff Writer Formed in Bristol, United Kingdom in 2006, Trigger the Bloodshed are a heavy death metal concoction that leads the NWOBDM (New Wave of British Death Metal) into the 21st Century. Their second full length album after their 2008 release Purgation is entitled The Great [...]
by Matthew Hoffman Staff Writer Re-released in March as a two disc set Amon Amarth’s inaugural release from 1998 Once Sent from the Golden Hall (Bonus Edition) is out now from Metal Blade Records. Disc 1 is the re-mastered album which includes “Siegreicher Marsch” the German version of [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Royal Bliss birthed into existence in ’97 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have released six albums prior to ’09’s Life In-Between , and the band’s success has been on a regional level, touring the West Coast and on occasion traveling to Illinois and Texas. [...]
by Matthew Hoffman Staff Writer Arise & Ruin has released their 2nd full length record Night Storms Hailfire available now on Victory Records. Formed in 2004 Arise & Ruin hail from Guelph Ontario, Canada and play some sort of “metal” music. The actual style is far from distinguishable [...]
by Matthew Hoffman Staff Writer Minnesota’s Battlefields have taken a moment from pond hockey, snowmobiling and curling to create Thresholds of Imbalance out now on Translation Loss Records. It is labeled sludge metal but with its very melodic and entertaining instrumentation not to mention the [...]
