by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Loneliness Still Is the Friend is the second full-length album from Urban Tales. Not to be confused with the similarly named Finnish melodic rock band Urban Tale, Urban Tales is a Portuguese gothic metal band. It’s taking the easiest route to compare Urban Tales to [...]
by John Kindred Staff Writer Adrian English is no stranger to the music scene, having pounded out an existence starting at age 15 in the Las Vegas club circuit. Mike Varney (Shrapnel Records) took notice of English and featured him in the June 1993 hometown hero’s column for the magazine Guitar [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer It’s hard to believe that Gamma Ray—Kai Hansen’s second successful band—is over 20 years old. But, like his old bandmates in Helloween, he just keeps on trucking, unashamedly producing epic power metal, seemingly unaffected by age. As a treat for long-time fans, [...]
by Justin Gaines Staff Writer Back Through Time is the third full-length from “True Scottish Pirate Metal” band Alestorm. To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the pirate-obsessed band has decided to follow up their 2009 album Black Sails at Midnight with another serving of songs about booze, [...]
by Mark Allen Staff Writer San Diego-based indie metal band Silence Betrayed have big aspirations. “We want to be the next Guns ‘N Roses,” front-man Joe La once proclaimed. Nothing wrong with that. Rock super-stardom is as good a goal as any, and Silence Betrayed have several elements locked [...]
by Trevor Portz Staff Writer Like the pseudo Goths that sit around in coffee shops discussing how sad life is before hopping into their brand new hybrids and heading to their McMansions in the hills, wanting for absolutely nothing, horror-punk as a genre has become little more than a joke. Sure, [...]
by Deb Rao Staff Writer May 7, 2011 at Vamp’d in Las Vegas, NV. Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler and his band Adler’s Appetite is getting ready to set the metal world on fire with his current U.S. Tour that made a special stop May 7 on the third night of the tour at [...]
by Cyndi Jo Staff Writer May 5, 2011 at Brixton in Redondo Beach, CA. After a hot day of laying on the beach or just getting a tan from catching some of the fish survivors from the lack of oxygen die-off a couple of months ago, Redondo Beach hosted another big cover-band fish:Adler’s Appetite. [...]
by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer May 6, 2011 at London Underworld in London, United Kingdom It was Marty Friedman’s first London performance in 4 years, and the UK guitar community has, as always, responded with an impressive turn-out. Economic slowdown – which in the UK shows no signs of [...]
by Deb Rao Staff Writer April 25, 2011 at Crown Theater in Las Vegas, NV. The Monday night concert series is kicking into high gear, as The Crown Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas was turned into an ’80s rock haven as Stephen Pearcy and Sin City Sinners took the stage for an explosive Monday [...]
