Reviews

Welcome to Antihero Magazine, your ultimate hub for everything Heavy Metal and Hard Rock! Here, we deliver passionate, in-depth reviews of the latest and greatest albums, electrifying live shows, and iconic DVDs and films that define the spirit of rock and metal. From thunderous new releases to legendary classics, we analyze every riff, lyric, and performance with the energy and dedication that true fans deserve. Whether you’re looking for your next headbanging anthem, a live show worth catching, or a film that captures the raw essence of metal, we’ve got you covered. Let’s turn up the volume and dive in!

October 17, 2026

Acid Bath, High on Fire, The Melvins & Windhand: Four Distinct Visions of Heavy Music Converge in Santa Cruz – Concert Review & Photos

The Quarry Amphitheater — Santa Cruz, California — October 10, 2026 The Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz brought together…

October 13, 2026

BEAT Brings Progressive Rock Brilliance to the Quarry Amphitheater – Concert Review & Photos

Santa Cruz, California | October 9, 2026 Some music never loses its ability to surprise. Decades after redefining the possibilities…

September 23, 2026

Stick Men Make Three Sound Like an Orchestra in Santa Cruz – Concert Review & Photos

There are few things more satisfying in progressive rock than watching musicians take a format that should be physically impossible…

September 1, 2026

Wolverhampton Drowns, Then Roars: Accept Bring 50 Years to KK’s Steel Mill – Concert Review & Photos

There are shows you attend, and there are shows you survive. Tonight was the latter before it was ever the…

July 15, 2026

Classic Albums Live’s Led Zeppelin II: A Masterclass in Musical Fidelity at Bridgewater Hall – Concert Review

Classic Albums Live’s performance of Led Zeppelin II at Bridgewater Hall on Tuesday 30 June 2026 felt like a masterclass…

July 3, 2026

MOONSPELL Return from Exile on the Deliberate, Atmospheric `Far From God` – Album Review

Five years is a long time to be silent — particularly for a band that spent much of the previous…

June 25, 2026

TODOMAL’s `Graveyards of Joy` Is a Trilogy-Closing Reckoning with Loss, Landscape, and the Stubborn Persistence of Hope – Album Review

There is a painting on the cover of Graveyards of Joy — Ruïnes (1865) by Catalan artist Lluís Rigalt that…

June 24, 2026

Download 2026: Three Days of Chaos, Catharsis, and Crowd Surfing at Donington

Download XXIII Festival (2026) – Review by Howard Keogh Photos by Enda Madden Download Festival is still evolving. This year’s…

June 13, 2026

Bloodstock Open Air 2026 Preview: Twenty-Five Years in the Field

Twenty-five years is a long time to keep anything alive – let alone an independently owned, uncompromising heavy metal festival…

June 11, 2026

Iceland’s Next Voice: FORSMÁN Arrive with `Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur` – Album Review

Iceland’s black metal scene has earned its reputation not through volume alone but through a genuine conviction that is difficult…

June 8, 2026

The Weight of What Remains: FIRES IN THE DISTANCE Deepen Their Vision on `Circadian Promise` – Album Review

There is a category of album that announces itself not through force but through gravity – records that don’t demand…

June 6, 2026

NUCLEAR TOMB’s `Epoch Inhumane` Is the Sound of Progressive Thrash Fully Metabolized – Album Review

There’s a strain of thrash that has always been more interested in the wrong chord than the right riff, more…

June 4, 2026

From Invocation to Benediction: KHEMMIS Conjures Their Defining Statement – Album Review

There is an argument to be made that choosing to self-title your fifth album is an act of either supreme…

June 1, 2026

AUGUST BURNS RED Strip It Down and Find Themselves Again on `Season of Surrender` – Album Review

There is a particular kind of fan fatigue that accumulates not from dislike but from overexposure — the slow erosion…

May 28, 2026

STORMKEEP Embrace the Darkness Within on The Nocturnes of Iswylm – Album Review

With Tales of Othertime, Stormkeep did something genuinely difficult: they released a debut full-length that felt fully formed, rooted in…

May 26, 2026

Unearthing the Ancient: HECATE ENTHRONED Return With The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried – Album Review

Seven years is a long time to go quiet. For a band with Hecate Enthroned‘s lineage — architects of the…

May 23, 2026

MONOLORD’s Neverending — Thirteen Years Deep, Still Digging – Album Review

There is a particular trap waiting for any doom band that achieves institutional status: the slow calcification of a sound…

May 22, 2026

DEFILED’s Altered State Is a Precise, Disorienting Strike from Japan’s Death Metal Underground – Album Review

Defiled have never been easy to classify, and that’s precisely the point. Active since 1992 — death metal’s formative era…

May 18, 2026

Eight Years in the Dark: Dimmu Borgir Return with Grand Serpent Rising – Album Review

Waiting is rarely part of metal’s vocabulary, but Dimmu Borgir have never moved on anyone’s schedule but their own. Eight…

March 29, 2026

Epica, Amaranthe and Charlotte Wessels – THE ARCANE DIMENSIONS TOUR – Concert Review & Photos

Epica, Amaranthe and Charlotte Wessels brought a night full of symphonic melodies and siren vocals during their Arcane Dimensions tour…