Live albums don’t always rule. Sometimes they suck, due to the production, how the lead singer’s goiter is acting up that night, or for many different reasons. But Bay-Area thrash mongers Nuclear Assault’s new live …READ MORE
Remember how Alice in Chains employed the use of two-part harmony to design some of the darkest music ever created, the duos’ voices a disharmonious death knell? You do? Well, On The Rise (OTR) sounds …READ MORE
The recent Type O Negative tour took the Brooklyn goth-rockers to Oslo in support of their sixth album (including a best of compilation, dubbed “The Least Worst Of” in typical Type O fashion), which is …READ MORE
Razamanaz. Now there’s an ‘80s band name. There’s probably some deep meaning behind it; maybe one of the band members had a “vision.” Or, they probably just thought it sounded cool. Regardless, the CD that …READ MORE
“Stand up and shout! Stand up, stand up, stand up and let it out!” If you’ve seen the movie Rock Star, then you’ve heard the voice of Jeff Scott Soto. Of course, in a sad …READ MORE
For a release from a “group of musicians” that bear the name Royal Hunt, but have a revolving cast of players, you couldn’t get a more cohesive sounding CD from a band that has been …READ MORE
Winterlong’s sophomore release, The Second Coming, features another change in players, drumming from Vanden Plas’ Andreas Lil and the well known Anders Johanson, and features a new vocalist, Mikael Holm. It also features some heavy, …READ MORE
Swedish band Lost Horizon’s second studio CD, A Flame to the Ground Beneath, is already garnering rave reviews throughout the metal world. If you listen to their interview on Metal Express, you’ll hear them point …READ MORE
Dutch prog band Silent Edge describe themselves as “constantly looking for the source of the inspiring silence.” Huh? If you look at the name of the band and try to figure out what a “silent …READ MORE
Agent Steel still has something to prove. They debuted and released music at the same time as their thrash brethren Exodus, Dark Angel and Anthrax back in 1985, but never truly reached their potential, nor …READ MORE