by Trevor Portz Staff Writer Current recording technologies—from auto-tune to elastic audio—have had an interesting effect on the record industry. With a little patience, and [very] little talent, pretty much anyone with a guitar can make a fantastically perfect-sounding album. What can’t [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer If it wasn’t for Europe, the entire Metal genre would be one boring arena. While America recycles Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and Avenged Sevenfold clones, Europe instead gives us bands like Norway’s Aspera. This Progressive/Power Metal unit is rapidly gaining [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer “Give me wounds that will make me stronger” is just one of the introspective and visceral lyrics you’ll hear on Dread the Forsaken’s debut release, Unbound. This multi-cultural band consists of American vocalist Gordon Tittsworth (Images of [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer And now for something completely different… Well, not COMPLETELY different, but certainly unique in many ways… Domain.Nation is the genre-bending latest from Instant Suppression, a quintet of talented performers from Rostov-on-Don in the Russian Federation. They seem [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer The more bands like Pagan’s Mind, Steel Attack and others stray from the happy Helloween Power Metal sound, the better off the genre is. You can only have so many Hammerfalls before you crave something in that genre that is darker, more violent and therefore … [...]
by trevor Portz Staff Writer The last few years have seen a boom in the reissue market. New labels seem to constantly pop-up, re-releasing what they consider to be “classic” metal albums that have often been out of print and hard to find for years. Sometimes this is a justifiable and [...]
by Keith Schwier Staff Writer Another Paradise , the new album from Italian rockers Edge Of Forever, is a colorful display of wildly chaotic instrumental fireworks, balanced against an abundance of nicely written choruses and truly impassioned vocals. Hard rock can certainly come across as sounding [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Italy’s sextet of musicians returns with the third installment to their continuing opus The New Era Part 3: The Apocalypse. The band was founded in ’98 by guitarist Enrico Pistolese and former drummer Marco Covelli. Shifting from a Thrash Metal cover band to writing [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer There have recently been a few ’80s bands who reunited and actually accomplished what the Killer Dwarfs once wrote an anthem about — to “keep the spirit alive.” Danger Danger and KEEL are two of those bands who released new music that either [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer It’s always a bit difficult to review a new album by a band that has not only been around for a long time, but also has been extremely influential and highly regarded. Why is this so difficult? Well, because inevitably, unless the reviewer has avoided the band [...]
