The world hasn’t had the benefit of a new BLS album for quite a while now. In fact, their last album “Shot to Hell” goes way back to 2006. After that, Zakk kept busy with his longstanding commitment to Ozzy Osborne and has since been retired and replaced by Greek export Gus G. While such [...]
Metalheads may take pride in the sheer breadth and diversity of their musical tastes, but the truth is they’re a discriminating lot. No surprise then that in the mind’s of most self-righteous metalheads, Bullet For My Valentine are somewhere between Britney Spears and Papa Roach. In not so many words: Near the bottom of the [...]
That particular segment of American youth who bother to embark on music careers, especially one in metal, have lately embraced the keyboard as a full-fledged segment of the aural mix. Such is the case with Society’s Plague, a youngish quintet from Kentucky who are being touted as the cutting edge of their genre. Whatever genre [...]
Matters begin on a creepy note for A7X’s fifth opus “Nightmare” as the title track oozes King Diamond eeriness before it grabs you by the collar. It’s a promising start to an album that sees the usually flamboyant band commemorate “The Rev” Sullivan’s passing. Just look at the cover; that’s him (“foREVer”) on the tombstone [...]
It gives the listener hope, it gives them power, it fills you with a divine over-whelming sense of peace, and that’s just the first song.
I waited a long time for this album. I heard from For Today’s vocalist Mattie Montgomery that “This album is going to be the most confrontational album ever written.” Hearing that I [...]
When The Devil Wears Prada released their first full length album Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord, metal fans were awestruck with the raw sound TDWP could push out. The punishing vocals and heavy breakdowns made for a brutal wake up call to other metal bands that were trying to keep up. Four years later, TDWP [...]
The Acacia Strain are heavier than ever with the release of their fifth studio effort, Wormwood. The album opens up with the track, Beast, which Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed appears in. The build up of the opening track will have every Acacia Strain fan banging their heads. A robotic voice come in stating, [...]
With Dino Cazares and Burton C. Bell reigniting their collaborative bromance, it seemed all was right in the metal world…until this comeback was almost torpedoed by the remaining 2/4ths of the original Fear Factory lineup who happen to be peddling Fear Factory lite on their own ill-starred Arkaea. With the original band’s progeny now split [...]
Nevermore. The name alone evokes tremors of ecstasy. Few bands have left such an indelible imprint on the contemporary metal world than the Seattle quartet, who’ve ventured into realms both extreme and melodic for 2005’s pre-hiatus masterpiece “This Godless Endeavor.” Back then, aside from sending shockwaves among metalheads who couldn’t really decipher which genre Nevermore [...]
In the Year of our Lord, 2010, San Francisco’s preeminent peddlers of thrash vitriol hath come down to deliver us a brutal aural spanking that’ll leave our ears sore for days. No kidding, Exodus haven’t sounded this intense since…why, never. Until this “Exhibit B” came along. Where its predecessor was a bloated affair armed to [...]
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