Reviews
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Album Reviews, Live Show Reviews, DVD and Film Reviews
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Album Review: ITHEIST – Itheist
It seems the lines between Black and Death Metal have blurred yet again. To call Itheist a Blackened Death Metal…
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Album Review: VULTURE – Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves
Like a nuclear reactor explosion – shamelessly watching HBO’s Chernobyl has crept into my subconscious – Vulture‘s new full-length erupts…
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Concert Review and Photos: RIVERSIDE in San Francisco
It only took a mere 21 years for Riverside to make their first ever appearance in San Francisco, playing to…
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Concert Review and Photos: ELDER at Slaktkyrkan – Stockholm
Almost exactly one year after their last show in Stockholm, Elder came back to the Swedish capital to play again…
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Festival Review: Monster Energy’s WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE 2019
Review: Kicking off the summer festival wave @ Welcome to Rockville 2019 Sun, sweat and rain – the three things…
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Album Review: DEATH ANGEL – Humanicide
Kirk Hammett. Gary Holt. Chuck Billy. With names such as the above proliferating the scene, one would be hard-pressed to…
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Album Review: LVCIFYRE – Sacrament
At some point, every Metal fan has come to the precipice where the band just discovered is the real deal,…
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Concert Review and Photos: EVANESCENCE at Sands Bethlehem Event Center
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, alternative band Veridia, opened for Evanescence at the Bethlehem Sands Event Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.…
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Concert Review and Photos: OM in Stockholm
A concert by Om feels more like a religious ritual than a music show. Their music is often classified as…
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Concert Review and Photos: AVANTASIA in Stockholm
Following the release of “Moonglow” back in February, Avantasia went on a world tour that brought, or will bring, the…
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Album Review: POSSESSED – Revelations of Oblivion
Back in 1983, when the Crüe were shouting at the devil, Jeff Becerra and company were enlisting the dark lord…
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Album Review: KAMPFAR – Ofidians Manifest
It has literally been twenty years since my first exposure to KAMPFAR. I reviewed their sophomore effort, Fra Underverdenen, and…
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Album Review: STELLAR MASTER ELITE – Hologram Temple
It seems that all life really is about is learning how to accept change, or at least put on the…
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Concert Review and Photos: DROPKICK MURPHYS in London, UK
On the 26th April, 2019 fans descended to London’s exclusive internationally renowned live music venue the O2 Academy Brixton to…
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Album Review: ELUVEITIE – Ategnatos
There was a time when combining folk music with metal was one of the most genius innovations to be introduced…
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Concert Review and Photos: DANCE GAVIN DANCE in Columbus, OH
Dance Gavin Dance played a sold-out show at Express Live with Covet, Hail the Sun, Don Broco, and Periphery rounding…
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Concert Review and Photos: CANDLEBOX in Montclair, NJ
Candlebox was one of the last to enter the fray that was the Seattle grunge movement of the early nineties.…
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Concert Review and Photos: PAPA ROACH and NOTHING MORE in London, UK
Papa Roach continue with their phenomenal success by returning with the Who Do You Trust UK Tour 2019 in support…
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DVD Review: FOREIGNER – Live At The Rainbow ‘78
My first introduction to Foreigner was with their album, “4”, which seemed to break them through to the masses, helped…