REVIEW: CANDLEMASS – “Sweet Evil Sun”
“Sabbathian” acolytes Candlemass were one of the earliest purveyors of the doom genre. Of the handful of bands that bowed to the power of the monolithic riff in the early…
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Andrew Small
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Andy Small, dedicated father and husband, consumer of delicious craft beer, office drone, Lovecraft fanatic, occasional writer and musician and heavy metal acolyte, resides in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. He, for one, welcomes our new insect overlords.
REVIEW: SKID ROW – “The Gang’s All Here”
It’s hard to beat those first 3 Skid Row records. A band with one foot planted in the 80s “pop-metal,” and the other firmly planted in heavier, more-progressive endeavors, they…
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REVIEW: QUEENSRYCHE – “Digital Noise Alliance”
Lead off track ‘In Extremis’ with its monstrously catchy chorus and memorable lead guitar lines is a solid slab of infectious timeless metal. Setting a high bar for the remainder…
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REVIEW: KING’S X – “Three Sides Of One”
Despite the love that seminal albums ‘Gretchen Goes to Nebraska’ and ‘Faith, Hope, Love’ received on “Headbanger’s Ball” back in the day, King’s X has never been heavy metal in…
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REVIEW: JAMES LABRIE – “Beautiful Shade of Grey”
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…
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REVIEW: SKULL FIST – “Paid In Full”
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…
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REVIEW: SATAN – “Earth Infernal”
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…
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REVIEW: CROWBAR – “Zero And Below”
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…
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REVIEW: MATT PIKE – “Matt Pike Versus Automaton”
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…
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REVIEW: KHEMMIS – “Deceiver”
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…
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