by Joe Mis Staff Writer Sweden’s music scene has expanded considerably and the country is now well and truly much more than just the birthplace of melodic death metal. The latest example of this broader scene is Captain Black Beard, a melodic/pop rock quartet with a definite softer but [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Long running British melodic rock band Shy is back with a new album after a six-year absence that saw founding vocalist Tony Mills departing to join the ranks of TNT. Shy has gone without Mills’s services once before (with 1994’s ill-received Welcome to the [...]
by Mark Allen Staff Writer To claim that the modern thrash/metalcore world would not be the same without Trivium’s presence would be to give them way more credit than they deserve. But to dismiss them as a pox that should be purged from the heavy music community is an unfair trivialization of [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer For some people, 1986 seems like a long time ago, and, for others, it remains fresh in the mind. Can you believe that 25 years ago Megadeth released its groundbreaking PEACE SELLS… BUT WHO’S BUYING? studio album? Well, 2011 brings about the re-release and [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer At this point it probably shouldn’t come as such a surprise when a long inactive classic band gets back together. This year alone has seen reunion/comeback albums from Black n’ Blue, King Kobra and Unruly Child after all. Still, a new release from the way too [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer The Middle East is not what you would typically consider a hotbed for heavy metal, but in recent years a handful of very impressive bands from that area have broken through, putting a regional spin on the progressive metal sound. Innovative Israeli bands Orphaned Land [...]
by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer Swedish glam metal group Bai Bang has returned with their 6th studio album Livin’ My Dream. Having debuted in the late ‘80s, Bai Bang held the hair metal flag high through the unforgiving ‘90s eventually disbanding in the early ‘00s. 2009 saw the [...]
by Erik Tweedy Staff Writer Ever wondered what David Lee Roth would sound like if he sang for a metal band? The latest release from DC4, Electric Ministry, has vocalist Jeff Duncan channeling one of rocks greatest front men, albeit, it is not the Woman and Children classic VH vocal style we are all [...]
by Deb Rao Staff Writer Puddle Of Mudd return to the radio with a follow up to Volume lV: Songs In The Key Of Love And Hate with a ’70s classic covers album re:(disc)overed slated to be released on August 30. You may wonder can a band influenced by the Nirvana grunge scene pull off an album [...]
by Mark Allen Staff Writer While Nick Walsh never achieved the same level of fame as Jani Lane or Axl Rose or any of his other better-known contemporaries, he did gain a certain amount of notoriety during hair metal’s halcyon days as the attitude-drenched frontman for Slik Toxic. In 2004 Walsh [...]
