by Joe Mis Staff Writer Re-Forged is the newest release from the veteran metal band Emerald. Hailing from Switzerland, this sextet has put together a dozen pounding tracks of relentless metal that will blow out even the best speakers. Emerald’s roots extend back to 1995 when members of Dark [...]
by Derric Miller Staff Writer If for no other reason than to own a copy of the obscenely hilarious track “Big Dumb Sex,” you have to purchase a copy of Soundgarden’s era-spanning compilation Telephantasm. Approximately 99 percent of these kinds of compilations — especially when coming from [...]
by Erik Tweedy Staff Writer All-star recordings are much like all-star games in sports; the lineup always looks great on paper, but rarely does the game ever live up to the hype. Phenomena’s Blind Faith contains an all-star lineup of vocalists and musicians that spans the globe, an international [...]
by Erik Tweedy Staff Writer 7Days is the brainchild of guitarist and composer Markus Sigfridsson and comprises a bevy of some of Europe’s finest progressive metal musicians. Classify this as an all-star release by musicians that most in America have never heard of. The history behind this band is [...]
by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer Slick, knowing and somewhat predictable – this is the way in which Ancestral Legacy are continuing to mine the lower depths of their trademark genre which mixes pop, metal, and electronica to a vastly uneven result. Only too aware of how absorbed explorations of the [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Consequence of Power is the fifth album from American melodic metal band Circle II Circle, which is led by former Savatage vocalist Zak Stevens. Since their 2006 album Burden of Truth, Circle II Circle seems to have developed a formula for melodic, increasingly heavy [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer The Blu-ray release of Holy Diver Live captures the ’05s incarnation of DIO performing the album Holy Diver in its entirety as well songs from Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio’s solo albums. Filmed October 22, ’2005 at the London’s Astoria Theatre the live [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer There is definitely something in the water over in Gothenburg, Sweden that encourages the creation of superb music. Stratosphere is one of the latest in a long line of powerful Scandinavian bands, and will be releasing their debut CD entitled Fire Flight on Escape Music. [...]
by Alex Barbieri Staff Writer If the TV show True Blood had an official rock band, it would be Heaven Below. Born from the ashes of The Union Underground, Heaven Below is singer and songwriter Patrick Kennison’s comeback statement and artistic vision of what a rock ‘n f****in’ roll band [...]
by Franco Cerchiari Staff Writer One of the best female fronted goth/symphonic bands cut loose with their follow up to 2008’s My Earth Dream, that featured the amazing track, “Whale Rider,” (a larger than life ballad with keyboards to die for.) Solitaire is Edenbridge’s seventh studio [...]
