by Joe Mis Staff Writer Truth Or Dare is a “Best of…” collection from the German rock trio OOMPH! Selected from their 20 year, 12-album career, OOMPH! has recorded some of these tracks with English lyrics for the first time, making Truth Or Dare their first full English album release. Having [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Omega is the latest offering from the recently reunited original lineup of Asia. After a series of impressive (but poor selling) albums with bassist/vocalist John Payne, the original lineup of Asia – John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes and Carl Palmer – cashed in [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Final Hour is the 2009 debut offering from Illusion Suite, a Norwegian progressive metal band poised to make a serious impact on the genre. How do we know this? Final Hour had barely hit shelves when the band was tapped to play at the 2010 ProgPower USA festival. [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer It’s always a bit scary (for those of us over 30) when bands we follow start celebrating major milestone birthdays. More so when the band—Helloween in this case—is theoretically a second-wave band in their respective genre. You expect Judas Priest and Iron [...]
by Franco Wissa Staff Writer There are a handful of bands whose body of work really demands that the next release will be just as good, if not better, as the ones previous to it. Because of their reputation for having such a great body of work, when their next CD fails to achieve the level expected [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer Controlled Insanity is the latest release from melodic metal’s own one-man-band, Phil Vincent. It seems that Phil is out once again to prove that one man can do it all – and he succeeds admirably. Not only does he play just about every instrument on the album, but also [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer “You drive me crazy, and you’re all I need. There’s no one better, when you’re on your knees …” That’s right — Ratt is back! While a serious number of ‘80s bands — like Great White, Dokken, Motley Crue, Scorpions, KEEL, etc. — have released new [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Before the Scorpions became an arena rock band of the ’80s, they forged their existence during the ’70s. During that decade, the band launched the careers of both virtuoso guitarists Michael Schenker and Uli Jon Roth before settling on guitarist Matthias [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer In celebrating one the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s most influential bands, Eaglerock again digs deep within the vaults to release a two-disk DVD set of the blues-rock band Free. Although their career only lasted from ’68 to ’73, Free became one of the [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer Medieval metal. Medieval metal! MEDIEVAL METAL! It is tough to come up with another term to describe This Is War, the latest release from Dallas-based rockers Phantom-X. Formed in 2004 by former members of Omen, Phantom-X puts out high volume and high intensity old school [...]
