In contrast to James LaBrie’s 2013 solo outing ‘Impermanent Resonance’, which found the Dream Theater singer treading musically heavy and tempestuous waters, ‘Beautiful Shade of Grey’ finds him gazing deeply into the [...]
Skull Fist’s leather-cuffed prehensile-appendage burrowed deep into our rib cages to steal our collective hearts via the inclusion of their catchy-as-all-hell “Bad for Good” in 2015’s New Zealand horror-comedy masterpiece [...]
Having kicked around Newcastle, England in various configurations since their fall from Heaven in 1979, New Wave of British Heavy Metal luminaries Satan released their magnum opus ‘Court in the Act’ in 1983. A forward-thinking record that has [...]
Over ten years sober and the cloud of addiction still hangs heavy over Crowbar vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and de-facto leader Kirk Windstein. The emotive and crushingly heavy tracks that make up the band’s new record are thick with themes of [...]
Webster defines an automaton as a “moving mechanical device made in the imitation of a human being.” Noted conspiracy theorist and shoot-from-the-hip, metallic warlord Matt Pike is many things, but automaton is certainly not one of them. The [...]
On his critically lauded track “Shelter from the Storm,” Bob Dylan sang the lines “Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, but nothing really matters much it’s doom alone that counts.” The [...]
While still high concept, The Night Flight Orchestra of ‘Aeromantic II’ is a band that has come into its own. Mostly gone are the double-entendres and pastiche of their earlier work. Instead, they come across as a sincere and fully formed [...]
Yngwie Malmsteen positions his new record as the result of being able to take “much longer in the studio, both to write and record,” due to the pandemic, and he “feel(s) (that) the album has benefited enormously as a result.” [...]
