by Joe Mis Staff Writer International rockers M.I.C. (Made In China) have recently released their third studio album, entitled 3rd Degree. This quintet of talented performers plays music that spans genres from early ‘80s classic rock to modern power-pop and delivers 12 tracks of pure fun. Like a [...]
by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer German guitar hero Herman Frank is both an underground legend and a protagonist of the current metal scene. Having played guitar on the iconic album Balls to the Wall, he has rejoined the reunited Accept. Through the ’80s and ’90s Frank’s main musical [...]
by Nikiforos Skoumas Staff Writer Ordo ab Chao is the debut album by Canadian modern melodic, progressive rock group Android Meme. The sound of Android Meme is built on thick rhythm guitars, melodic keyboards, harmonious vocals, progressive drumming, all complemented by layers of keyboard and synth [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer The fourth entry in Heaven & Hell’s Lost Relics reissue series, Strike While the Iron’s Hot is a comprehensive anthology of early recordings by New York heavy metal band Blacksmith. One of the best of the “cult” bands in the American metal scene, [...]
by Mark Allen Staff Writer Fans of Swedish singer-guitarist Andreas Novak have exhibited Job-like patience as they awaited this second solo effort from the ex-Mind’s Eye vocalist and current House of Shakira frontman, but those fans will probably proclaim the wait well worth it once they hear [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Guardian at the Gate is album number three from New Jersey-based heavy metal outfit Arctic Flame, another of the traditional metal revivalists on the Pure Steel label. Like most bands in the so-called New Wave of Traditional metal, Arctic Flame cites Judas Priest and [...]
by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer June 25, 2011 at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, U.K. “To me, that is what separates the men from the boys. To be together though thick and thin and come out OK in the end,” Tom Keifer was telling Kerrang’s Mick Wall back in November 1990, just before [...]
by Chris A. Staff Writer June 26, 2011 at Riverbend Amphitheater in Cincinnati, OH. It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since Poison became the poster children for 1980’s “hair metal”. Sure enough, the original band members are all still alive, kicking and performing with a [...]
by Deb Rao Staff Writer June 18, 2011 at Red Rock Amphitheatre in Las Vegas, NV. Motley Crue brought the Glam-A Geddon Tour also featuring Poison and The New York Dolls to Red Rock Amphitheatre on June 18 for a sold out performance that bedazzled the 8,800 capacity audience. This was also the first [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Philadelphia-based traditional metal band Pharaoh’s eagerly anticipated fourth studio album may still be on the horizon, but the band has served up an “odds and ends” EP to keep fans satisfied in the meantime. The new EP, titled Ten Years, contains four studio [...]
