Last year I discovered and reviewed the delightful prog rock/metal project Lonely Robot for the first time. Strong and lush in melodies and songwriting, this solo project by John Mitchell (also of Frost* and Kino) turned out to be one of the most [...]
Beginning with his tenure under Ritchie Blackmore on Rainbow’s divisive ‘Down to Earth’ record, Graham Bonnet has long been associated with some of the greatest guitarists in metal history. Most notably, both Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve [...]
Katalepsy is a death metal band from Moscow, Russia. Katalepsy is also a slam band. In addition, Katalepsy is a groove metal band. Not to mention that Katalepsy is a technical death metal band. At times, Katalepsy is also a hardcore band. All these [...]
Exocrine is a technical death metal band from Bordeaux, France, and Maelstrom is their fourth studio record. Now that the facts are out of the way, Malestrom is an extremely rewarding record that Exocrine should be proud of and will and should be well [...]
As I am writing this, Stefan Weinerhall just released a statement on Falconer’s Facebook page saying that the band will no longer exist after 20 years and 9 albums released, which struck me like lightning and left me rather bummed. As a fan since [...]
It’s getting old, isn’t it? Endless reboots, re-dos, and reconstructions of the terminally reused. Sure, there have been some classic re-imaginings of some classic songs, films, and games. But they are relatively few and far between. Instead, [...]
It’s good to start things out by saying that ‘We Are One’ is not a typical U.D.O. álbum. Rather, it’s a collaboration between the band and the Musikkorps der Bundeswehr, the renowned Concert Band of the German Armed Forces, [...]
Black Metal is a fickle beast for this consumer, on the one hand, it is an extreme fringe of metal, yet along with it’s bloodier brother, Death Metal is often aggrandized to be at the forefront of the genre, ironically since they are at the very [...]
