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Elm Street | Barbed Wire Metal

by Mark Allen Staff Writer Despite hailing from Australia, Elm Street’s sound is deeply rooted in ‘80s NWOBHM and American heavy metal. Not the mousse-and-spandex model, but the denim and leather definition. We’re not talking the pretty boy gloss of Poison or Stryper, we’re talking the [...]

Love.Might.Kill | Brace for Impact

by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer A new member in the “Firewind” family of bands has debuted! Love.Might.Kill is the hard rock/metal band of prodigal drummer Michael Ehre who joined “Firewind” in 2010. Issued by Massacre Records, Brace for Impact is the group’s debut album where Ehre is [...]

Exciter Death Machine

by Justin Gaines Staff Writer 2010’s Death Machine is album number ten from long-running Canadian speed metal pioneers Exciter. It’s the second album from the current Exciter lineup, which features relative newcomers Kenny “Metal Mouth” Winter on vocals and bassist Rob Cohen alongside [...]

Crematory Black Pearls – Greatest Hits

by Justin Gaines Staff Writer The 3-disc (two CDs and one DVD) collection Black Pearls is the first proper “greatest hits” package from long-running German gothic metal band Crematory. The band started out in 1992 with a sound that was mostly death metal with some gothic influences, and has [...]

Winter’s Verge Tales of Tragedy

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 … [...]

Elysion SILENT SCR3AM

by Derric Miller Staff Writer After building a strong amount of momentum on their debut, Greek band Elysion nevertheless parted ways with original singer Maxi Nil and instead went with the perhaps more vocally seductive Christianna on their sophomore release, SILENT SCR3AM. Going the alpha numeric [...]