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 Deb Rao Staff Writer Recap of the summer at the Crown Theater in Las Vegas, NV. It has been a whirlwind of a summer for the Sin City Sinners. The only place to be this summer on Monday nights was at the Crown Theater in Vegas. The Sin City Sinners return to the Crown Theater Sept. 19 with [...]
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 [...]
by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer Alyson Avenue is the female fronted Swedish melodic hard rock/AOR band formed during the late ’90s, which arguably contributed to the resurgence of melodic rock/AOR in the new millennium. Alyson Avenue put out two albums; Presence of Mind in 2000 and Omega in [...]
by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer Half Past Midnight is the brand new, debut album by Greek-based AOR/melodic rock band Wild Rose issued by Retrospect records. A part of the Greek underground scene since the mid ‘00s, Wild Rose take the valiant step of an international album release in September. [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer While the rock world anxiously awaits the arrival of new ZZ Top material (including the track that was supposed to have debuted on the space shuttle and didn’t), the band has at least decided to tide fans over with an archival live release. A growing trend amongst the [...]
by Joe Mis Staff Writer “Forged in Hell’s fire – The Blade is coming back” – not only a line from one of their songs, but an apt description of Tokyo Blade’s latest release, Thousand Men Strong. This veteran British quintet hasn’t lost a step since their formation back [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Dystopium is the fourth full-length album from Swedish genre-benders Loch Vostok. Formed from the ashes of the progressive metal band Mayadome, Loch Vostok combines elements of Evergrey-style dark progressive metal with a hefty helping of the kind of melodic death [...]
by Chris A. Staff Writer High-energy, great hooks, loud guitars all wrapped up with a confident attitude is an accurate description of Pop Evil, a quintet of vintage rock/metal inspired fans who formed a band in the boonies of the American mid-west. Released in July, 2011, their new album, War of [...]
