Album Reviews
Dive deep into the world of heavy metal and hard rock with our in-depth album reviews. Whether you’re a lifelong fan or a newcomer, we cover the latest releases from iconic legends to rising stars. Expect honest, detailed critiques that explore everything from raw musicality and technical prowess to lyrical depth and production quality. Our reviews capture the power, energy, and emotion that make metal and rock genres stand out, offering insights into both classic albums and fresh, boundary-pushing sounds. Stay updated with the best in heavy music, and discover your next favorite album!
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Album Review: BLACK STAR RIDERS – Another State of Grace
It feels like it’s been ages since we last had a new Black Star Riders album – and although just…
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Album Review: IMPERIUM DEKADENZ – When We Are Forgotten
The definition of communication is the imparting or exchanging of information or news. There are obviously myriad ways in which…
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Album Review: INFINITY SHRED – Forever, A Fast Life
Some have posited that existence is merely a simulation. Perhaps somewhere in deep space, large-eyed grey aliens are gathered around…
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Album Review: DESTRUCTION – Born to Perish
Deutschland is the fabled breeding ground for some of the most prolific artists in music history. From the symphonic bombast…
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Album Review: TOTAL HATE – Throne Behind A Black Veil
Black Metal has roots deeply burrowed in the catacombs of the history of musical evolution. Some 200 years ago, Europeans…
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Album Review: BLOODY HAMMERS – The Summoning
A shadow descends over the winding landscape beneath the dominating mountains as a solitary, bloated cloud boldly makes its way…
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Album Review: CLEMENS WIJERS – Parasite Twin
Clemens “Ardek” Wijers is best known as the keyboardist for Netherlands metal trio Carach Angren. Given the success of his…
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Album Review: MEMORIAM – Requiem for Mankind
Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV…
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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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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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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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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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Album Review: DEVIN TOWNSEND – Empath
Devin Townsend. What more can be said about this avant-garde, pioneer of progress? From his beginnings singing with Steve Vai…
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Album Review: FEN – Stone and Sea
Personally, I’ve always been drawn to the music in which I can get lost. Eerie sounds, dreamscapes, and hallucinatory psychedelia…
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Album Review: MISERY INDEX – Rituals of Power
Death Metal is huge once again. Seeing the evolution and subsequent peaks and valleys – the late 90s being a…
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Album Review: DEAD GIRLS CORP- Bloody Noses and Hand Grenades
I recently read somewhere that Industrial music was passé and irrelevant. I wish I could remember where I read that…
