by Joe Mis Staff Writer Southern rock veterans Molly Hatchet are at it again. The old-school Florida-based sextet has just released its 13th studio album entitled Justice – a full 32 years after its debut hit the stores in 1978. After all those years and many personnel changes, Molly Hatchet [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer Whether celebrating their 15-year anniversary or cashing in on their current popularity, New Wave of American Heavy Metallers Lamb of God have just issued a multi-volume retrospective (available in formats ranging from vinyl to USB drives) entitled Hourglass. As the [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Memories of Things Unnecessary is the debut offering from Tears, a Los Angeles (by way of Athens and London) band that seems quite determined to challenge the status quo. Attaching a label to this band is almost pointless, as Tears defies easy categorization. There are [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Years before the White Wizzards and Cauldrons of the world came along and captured everyone’s fancy with their newly christened New Wave of Traditional Metal style, North Carolina band Widow was raising the banner for old-school metal with a thoroughly modern energy. [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Eagle Vision continues its Classic Albums series, and this time around, it revisits Black Sabbath’s landmark sophomore release Paranoid. Released on DVD and Blue-ray, the documentary contains more than 40 minutes of unaired material when it originally was broadcast. [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Momentum seems like an odd title for the second Line of Fire album. Momentum is exactly what the US-based melodic rock band lost in the five years since their well-received self-titled debut was released. Of course, the delay is understandable, given that [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer Young German hard rockers Kissin’ Dynamite have once again tried to prove that old school hard rock and heavy metal aren’t dead. They’ve just released their second album entitled Addicted To Metal, and it indeed rocks. A follow up to their 2008 debut release, Steel Of [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer The 2010 EP Big Cash is the debut offering from Memphis band BatRacers. This is something of an odd one, as it really doesn’t sound like anything that’s been released in the past 30-35 years. BatRacers have a strong ‘70s rock sound that’s hard to pin down, [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer 2009’s Psychomedia is the second offering from French progressive metal band Dreamlost. France isn’t exactly a hotbed of heavy metal, but in recent years there have been a few notable acts. Looking to put France back on the metal map, Dreamlost plays progressive [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer There’s something to be said for bands that try to out-weird everyone else. There’s also something to be said for bands that try to out-tech everyone else. Pushing limits can result in some amazingly interesting and new musical creations. If it weren’t [...]
