
FROM THE RUINS – Into Chaos
From The Ruins are an “unadulterated and unapologetic thrash band” hailing from Reno, Nevada. More martial than In Ruins, less proggy than Within the Ruins, Into Chaos is the band’s six song debut EP. Employing …READ MORE
From The Ruins are an “unadulterated and unapologetic thrash band” hailing from Reno, Nevada. More martial than In Ruins, less proggy than Within the Ruins, Into Chaos is the band’s six song debut EP. Employing …READ MORE
Fort Lauderdale band Union Kain’s debut Black Dawn shows a band with a lot of musical promise. Tight, riff heavy and uncompromising songs, Glazergirl’s bluesy, brash vocals, variety in all eight of the tracks. But …READ MORE
Clarity, the full-length debut from My Heavy Memory, kicks off with “Truth In Lies”, a Classic Metal jaunt with the dials of the Wayback machine set for the early eighties. Hailing from the Bay Area …READ MORE
Divebomb Records has re-released Forté’s debut album Stranger Than Fiction, first released in 1992, the year after Nirvana’s Nevermind . The false but popular narrative has Nevermind sounding the death knell of Heavy Metal, an odd …READ MORE
American Nightmare is the third release from California’s Hellbender, following the independent releases Steel, Blood, and Bone (2014) and Falling Down (2016), an album they promoted by touring the U.S. and Canada with Destruction. Seeking to help win them …READ MORE
“Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!” So goes the chorus for “Memento Mori”, the first cut off Lamb Of God’s self-titled tenth album and a certain contender for Metal track of the year. Beginning with …READ MORE
Necronomicon’s seventh album Invictus opens with a modified excerpt of the great W.B. Yates poem “The Second Coming”. Originally written to describe post-World War One Europe, the oft-quoted poem’s apocalyptic imagery is sadly as apt today as …READ MORE
Collapse, the newest release from Italy’s Minatox69 and their first full-length, starts strong with “I Can’t Believe”, a genre-defying track indicating how overflowing the band’s sonic bag of tricks is. Labelled Melodic Thrash Metal in …READ MORE
Pure Steel Records is reissuing Alien Factor, the 2006 debut from Cleveland, Ohio Progressive Metal band Dark Arena. Anyone who missed the initial release would be well advised to give this shining, powerful disc a spin. …READ MORE
The name Trotoar may sound like a term for a prehistoric European war chieftain or the final monster the hero must face in an ancient epic quest, but the word has no actual meaning in …READ MORE