Album Reviews
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Album Reviews
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Album Review: DIMMU BORGIR – Eonian
One of the most anticipated releases this season for many Metal fans is the new album, Eonian, by Dimmu Borgir,…
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Album Review: IHSAHN – Ámr
The mid-1990s were an important time for me personally, musically, and also for the Metal community in general. I was…
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Album Review: YASHIRA – Shrine
Listening to this, the first full-length by Yashira from Jacksonville, FL, I feel as if transported back to 2002. While…
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Album Review: ABOVE AURORA – Path to Ruin
In Extreme Metal, despite being the forefront of creativity perhaps in any genre of music, things can often become too…
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Album Review: FOLLOW THE CIPHER – Follow The Cipher
Every once in a blue moon a band will change the entire atmosphere of the music scene. Whether it is…
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Album Review: FROM ASHES TO NEW – The Future
THE FUTURE is NOW!! Or so it would seem coming from the Pennsylvania band, FROM ASHES TO NEW as they…
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Album Review: VARMIA – W Ciele Nie
This year seems quite different from last year. In 2017, the scene became so populated with new albums that for…
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Album Review: GRIFT – Vilsna Andars Boning
Fans of Sweden’s Atmospheric Black Metal band, Grift, should be accustomed to Erik Gärdefors’s habit of releasing EPs. Vilsna Andars…
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Album Review: BEHEMOTH – Messe Noire: Live Satanist
As the intro, full of screams and grating metal, plays over the PA, the crowd begins to scream in anticipation…
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Album Review: WINTERFYLLETH – The Hallowing of Heirdom
Formed in 2007, Winterfylleth are now on their sixth full-length release, The Hallowing of Heirdom. When translated from Old English,…
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Album Review: OCTOPUS – Supernatural Alliance
When did Rock ‘N Roll die? Was it when Jim Morrison expired in a Paris bathtub or when Bon Scott…
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Album Review: MESSA – Feast for Water
Messa’s new album Feast for Water begins much like it looks. Taking the cover imagery as a starting point —…
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Album Review: AUGURY – Illusive Golden Age
It’s been nine years since the last release from Canadian progressive/technical death masters Augury. Fortunately, this dormancy has been but…
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Album Review: PRIMORDIAL – Exile Amongst the Ruins
For those unfamiliar with Primordial, their roots go back to 1987 when their current guitarist, Ciarán MacUilliam, and bassist, Pól…
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Album Review: THE CROWN – Cobra Speed Venom
While some bands come and go with the trends, others, often seemingly disparate, maintain a dialogue started long before their…
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Album Review: MEMORIAM – The Silent Vigil
While the Heavy Metal world, let alone Death Metal world, is ridiculously populated with bands ranging in talent and originality,…
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Album Review: MAVERICK – Cold Star Dancer
I guess that I have a tiny bit of bias to admit to before I start this review – Maverick…
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Album Review: ON THORNS I LAY – Aegean Sorrow
Greek goth purveyors On Thorns I Lay are accomplished veterans, having contributed much to the goth aesthetic of earlier years.…
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Album Review: THE DEAD DAISIES – Burn It Down
There are some bands that you can almost guess what they’ll sound like, just by their name – Rammstein would…
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Album Review: NEAL MORSE – Life and Times
Review by Dale Unsworth Since first appearing on the progressive rock scene in the early 90s with Spock’s Beard, Neal…