by John Kindred Staff Writer Eagle Rock Entertainment latest Blu-ray release revisits the rise and fall of the America’s definitive alternative-psychedelic-rock band, The Doors. When You’re Strange is a documentary directed by award-winning writer/director Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny [...]
by Ron and Don Higgins Staff Writer It’s been two decades since Ace last released a solo album, Trouble Walkin’, so expectations and curiosity were high. Fortunately, the wait was worth it. Space Ace is in stellar form on an album that will be sure to please the faithful who have been waiting [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer Anyone who has been successful in the music biz as long as Timo Tolkki is bound to have ups and downs in terms of producing quality material. Luckily for him, though, there have been far more ups, and Trinity, the third (and final?) offering from his post-Stratovarius [...]
by Ron and Don Higgins Staff Writer When one thinks of musical virtuosos in the world of hard rock and heavy metal, you usually think of guitar players or maybe even a bass player or two. You rarely think in terms of a virtuoso keyboardist, but that’s exactly what we have here with Mistheria. He [...]
by Alex Barbieri Staff Writer For those of you who are not a 20-something female living in London, Ontario, Canada, you probably have never heard of singer-songwriter Ben G. (surname not revealed). At just 21-years-old, G. won “Rock Artist of The Year” at the 2008 London Music Awards [...]
by Mark Allen Staff Writer Like a never-say-die zombie that hasn’t yet received the final coup de grace bullet to the brain, this German juggernaut just keeps rising up over and over again, hungry not for human flesh, but for human ears, so they can fill them with their fiery brand of riff-driven [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer The third in Heaven & Hell’s Lost Relics reissue series, Of the Fallen Years, is a collection of rare early material by the American black metal band now known as Demontuary. Before a series of lineup changes prompted the name change, Demontuary, which features [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Nemesis Divine is the debut full-length from Swedish traditional metal band Gallows End. The band, which was put together by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/producer Thord Klarstrom, plays a modern, melodic and very polished version of the classic heavy metal sound. They [...]
by Erik Tweedy Staff Writer Have you ever put on a newly released CD and the whole time you are listening to it, you are thinking, “Been there, done that?” That is the way it feels with the new, or should I say repackaged, release from Viking Skull. Heavy Metal Thunder comes to us in a newly [...]
by Alex Barbieri Staff Writer Voices of Extreme, or V.O.X. for short, have some impressive heavy metal pedigrees: Guitarist Rob Katrikh played with Doro Pesch and drummer John Macaluso toured with Yngwie Malmsteen, TNT and Riot. But it is bassist Bob Brennan’s association with Iron Maiden’s [...]
