Reviews
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Album Reviews, Live Show Reviews, DVD and Film Reviews
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Album Review: NIGHTWISH – Human. :II: Nature.
Nightwish are best known as one of the giants of the symphonic metal world. Incorporating traditional instruments, orchestral elements, and…
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Album Review: TESTAMENT – Titans of Creation
In this day and age, the lineup for the “Big Four” of thrash has been seemingly carved into stone by…
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Album Review: ME AND THAT MAN – New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1
Two decades ago, I would not have been able to contemplate how huge Behemoth has become nor do I imagine…
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Album Review: CANDLEMASS – The Pendulum (EP)
Now that Sabbath have abdicated the throne, Candlemass have duly ascended to new heights sitting atop the proverbial holy mountain…
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Album Review: IN THIS MOMENT – Mother
In This Moment have undergone a number of incarnations since the release of the debut record Beautiful Tragedy in 2007.…
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Album Review: CASKETS OPEN – Concrete Realms of Pain
There is so much music out there that there comes a point where one takes a step back to reassess…
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Album Review: MY DYING BRIDE – The Ghost of Orion
The early ‘90s were a revolutionary time for Metal. Though perhaps commercially less viable, the wheat was thoroughly separated from…
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Concert Review and Photos: WHILE SHE SLEEPS in Detroit, MI
On Sunday, March 1st, 2020, While She Sleeps ripped through The Shelter at Saint Andrews Hall in Detroit on their…
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Album Review: INTRONAUT – Fluid Existential Inversions
Sure, Intronaut play what could be called Prog Metal with a bit of Post Metal thrown in, but that is…
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Concert Review and Photos: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE with CEREMONY in Philadelphia
On Sunday, February 16, 2020, fans gathered at the Theatre of Living Arts (TLA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for an explosive…
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Album Review: OBSIDIAN TONGUE – Volume III
After listening to Volume III, the latest release from Obsidian Tongue about a dozen or so times, it wasn’t until…
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Album Review: KIRK WINDSTEIN – Dream in Motion
I’ve always been a fan of certain scenes in Metal. From New York Death Metal to Norwegian Black Metal, it…
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Album Review: MIDNIGHT – Rebirth by Blasphemy
Heavy Metal is the soundtrack for those of us whose lives may seem anachronistic to the current cyberpunk digital world…
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Top Metal Albums of 2019
Sanhedrin – The Poisoner While there are countless bands out there who seek by divination to discover the sacred flame…
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Concert Review and Photos: AIRBOURNE in London, UK
The day finally arrived as Airbourne brought the UK leg of the tour to London’s Kentish Town Forum in support…
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Concert Review and Photos: ALTER BRIDGE in Warsaw, Poland
As trips for music go, sometimes it can turn out to be quite unexpected… like to travel to the other…
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Concert Review and Photos: SLAYER in Columbus, OH
On the absolutely freezing night of Tuesday, November 12th, Slayer’s ‘The Final Campaign’ tour blazed through Nationwide Arena in Columbus…
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Concert Review and Photos: THE INTERRUPTERS at House of Blues – Cleveland
On November 8th, The Interrupters brought their ‘Fight the Good Fight’ tour through a frigid Cleveland, Ohio to play at…
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Concert Review and Photos: GHOST with Nothing More in New Jersey
Friday night, The Cure Insurance Arena was the site of lethal, double-billed ‘The Ultimate Tour Named Death’ by mainstream Swedish…
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Concert Review and Photos: GLORYHAMMER with Beast in Black in Manchester, UK
It’s a chilly autumn evening and lining up outside Manchester’s Student Union/Music Venues are a bunch of your usual metalheads.…
