by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Back to the Wall is the debut album from French alternative rock band Black Candy Store. 2010 seems a bit late to be hearing from a new grunge band, let alone one from France, but Black Candy Store has warmly embraced the American alternative rock sound. Black Candy [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer There seems to be a new market Hard Rock/Heavy Metal musicians are catering to, one that is atypically outside the regular music buying audience. Instead of creating music that will do well on global radio and perhaps MTV, they are writing music that will appeal to one [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer The Hard Rock and Metal genres are heavily influenced by the rock ‘n’ roll artists of the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Even if modern acts find their influences from the ‘80s and ‘90s, their heroes, most undoubtedly, were inspired from the quagmire of music, sex and [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer So it’s been six years since Glenn Danzig’s most mainstream band, Danzig, has released their last studio album. Like Rob Zombie, Glenn Danzig is a dark Renaissance Man who dabbles in arts outside of the musical realm, and like Rob Zombie, when he brings his [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer If the Glam Metal genre ever stages a full-scale revival, expect Debbie Ray to be at the fore. Their debut release Artificial Misery is crude, loud, obnoxious and a little bit sleazy, but under control enough that none of it is truly offensive or in poor taste – in other [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer Eonian has done it again. They’ve managed to unearth another interesting but relatively unknown band from the hair metal days of the late 1980s. This time it is Legacy, a Columbus, Ohio based Christian metal quintet with a lot of talent and enthusiasm. Legacy’s sound on [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer After the excellent, but all too brief Prelude to Madness EP, Seventh Calling is back with their second full-length album Epidemic. The Vegas (by way of Minneapolis) band has a sound that’s tough to pin down, drawing from traditional, power and thrash metal. [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Icarus Witch’s latest studio release Draw Down The Moon arrives as the band finds itself in transition. With the departure of Matthew Bizilia, comes new vocalist Christopher Shaner. Icuras Witch also added guitarist Ed Skero to the band. Infusing new blood and a new [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Masterplan is back in 2010 with their forth studio release to date, Time to Be King. Following up ’07’s MK II led to a period of time that saw original vocalist Jorn Lande step down and Mike DiMeo (Riot) join the band as his replacement. Whatever fallout between [...]
by Jorden Rex Staff Writer This is an odd album. At first blush it feels very much like a Death Metal album, but quickly morphs into something tinged with a Cradle of Filth-esque feel, and then back to straight Death Metal. But then you notice that the keyboards are still playing, so it’s not [...]
