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Seventh Veil - White Trash Attitude Album Review

Seventh Veil: White Trash Attitude

Melodic (Sleaze) Hard Rock
3.0/5.0

While some may think of Italy as the home of epic symphonic power metal, they also have more than small cottage industry producing melodic hard rock, especially ... [ Read More ]

Saturday Overdose - Eat My Dust (EP) Album Review

Saturday Overdose: Eat My Dust (EP)

Melodic Hard Rock
3.5/5.0

Saturday Overdose is an upstart Italian hard rock band formed by four high school friends. They started out playing covers at school parties, but that didn't pan out ... [ Read More ]

Veilside - Meanwhile ... Album Review

Veilside: Meanwhile ... (EP)

Melodic Hard Rock
3.5/5.0

Veilside is a promising hard rock band from the Chicago area, offering their second EP Meanwhile .... Here's the skinny, what you need to know ... [ Read More ]

Reckless In Vegas - The Hard Way Album Review

Reckless In Vegas: The Hard Way

Melodic Hard Rock
5.0/5.0

I can't keep Reckless In Vegas' The Hard Way out of my player, blasting from my ancient but awesome Advent analog stereo speakers. I've played it a least six times ... [ Read More ]

Dario Lorina 2013 Self-titled Debut Album Review

Dario Lorina: Dario Lorina

Instrumental Rock/Metal Guitar
4.0/5.0

Dario Lorina may not be a household name (yet) for most hard rock and heavy metal listeners. But in the guitar world, he's gotten some recognition ... [ Read More ]

Chastain Surrender To No One Album Review

Chastain: Surrender To No One

Heavy/Power Metal
3.0/5.0

Surrender To No One, Chastain's tenth album, is a reunion for the band, of sorts. Guitarist David Chastain is reunited with original vocalist Leather Leone ... [ Read More ]

Deliverance Hear What I Say Album Review

Deliverance: Hear What I Say

Progressive Thrash Metal
4.0/5.0

This is the end. At least that's what founder, guitarist, and vocalist Jimmy Brown has said. Hear What I Say, their tenth album, will be the last album for seminal ... [ Read More ]

Salem Forgotten Dreams Album Review

Salem: Forgotten Dreams

Melodic Hard Rock/Metal (NWoBHM)
4.5/5.0

The story of UK band Salem is a tale that could told of many bands, whether past or present. Born out of the NWoBHM uprising, Salem had talent and a hardcore ... [ Read More ]

Rustfield Kingdom of Rust Album Review

Rustfield: Kingdom of Rust

Melodic/Progressive Rock/Metal
4.5/5.0

Italian band Rustfield has it's origins in multi-instrumentalist and composer Davide Ronfetto with his long time friend, and sometime aerospace ... [ Read More ]

Boston - Life Love & Hope Album Review

Boston: Life, Love & Hope

AOR/Melodic Roc
4.0/5.0

This is not your father's Boston. Or, in my case, this is not the Boston I group up with, particularly their seminal self-titled debut that astonished the rock and roll world ... [ Read More ]

Bloodgood Dangerously Close Album Review

Bloodgood: Dangerously Close

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
4.5/5.0

Back in the day, thirty years ago, when I was a younger man and big into Eighties rock and metal, I attended my fair share of concerts. When I became a Christian in 1982 ... [ Read More ]

Rhapsody Of Fire Dark Wings of Steel Album Review

Rhapsody Of Fire: Dark Wings of Steel

Melodic/Symphonic/Power Metal
4.5/5.0

I'll admit it. I was pretty hard on the last two Rhapsody Of Fire studio albums, giving them both only an average rating, when they probably deserved better ... [ Read More ]

Starsoup Bazaar of Wonders Album Review

Starsoup: Bazaar of Wonders

Melodic Progressive Rock/Metal
4.5/5.0

Starsoup is the creation of Russian vocalist Alexey Markov (ex-Crime of Passion) with the participation of additional musicians from the Moscow area ... [ Read More ]

11.24.2013 : New Music Reviews
Adrian Galysh - Tone Poet Album Review

Adrian Galysh: Tone Poet

Melodic/Progressive Rock
5.0/5.0

In the daily muddle of music submissions, every once and a while, there comes an album that's bright and refreshing, even unexpected. Such is the case with guitarist ... [ Read More ]

Human Fortress - Raided Land Album Review

Human Fortress: Raided Land

Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
4.0/5.0

About face. Reverse course. After bailing briefly after their last album, the much discussed modern metal sounding Eternal Empire, Human Fortress has regrouped and ... [ Read More ]

Dragonhammer - The X Experiment Album Review

Dragonhammer: The X Experiment

Progressive Power Metal
3.5/5.0

Here's another band that's been missing in action for quite some time, nine years to be exact. Italy's Dragonhammer returns with their fourth album ... [ Read More ]

Silent Voices Reveal The Change Album Review

Silent Voices: Reveal The Change

Melodic/Progressive Metal
4.5/5.0

Returning from a hiatus of silence after their original lead singer departed the band is Finnish outfit Silent Voices with their fourth album, Reveal The Change ... [ Read More ]

Armory - Empyrean Realms Album Review

Armory: Empyrean Realms

Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
5.0/5.0

Six years was simply too long to wait for a new, and second, Armory album, Empyrean Realms. These guys are just to good at what they do ... [ Read More ]

Crystal Ball Dawnbreaker Album Review

Crystal Ball: Dawnbreaker

Melodic Hard Rock/Metal
4.0/5.0

Apparently, sometime between Crystal Ball's previous album, Secrets (2007) and the new Dawnbreaker, the band dissolved for several years. Now original ... [ Read More ]

Switchblade - Heavy Weapons Album Review

Switchblade: Heavy Weapons

Heavy/Power Metal
4.5/5.0

Switchblade would be the first to admit it; they're not trying to reinvent the wheel or do something clever or novel. Nope. This Israeli band delivers basic old school ... [ Read More ]

Lunar Explosion 2013 Self-titled Debut Album Review

Lunar Explosion: Lunar Explosion

Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
3.5/5.0

Lunar Explosion is a young upstart band from Italy, but not without some significant experience in the three short years of existence. Despite their youth, on the strength ... [ Read More ]

Almah Unfold Album Review

Almah: Unfold

Melodic/Progressive/Power Metal
4.5/5.0

Having officially departed Angra, vocalist Edu Falaschi has given full attention to his band Almah. They release their fourth album, Unfold, on Scarlet Records ... [ Read More ]

Big Guns Down But Not Out Album Review

Big Guns: Down But Not Out

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
3.5/5.0

Rumbling out of Ireland is Big Guns a classic hard rock, heavy metal, act delivering their debut album, Down But Not Out. The band draws influences from AC/DC ... [ Read More ]

Aeon Zen - Self Portrait EP Album Review

Aeon Zen: Self Portrait (EP)

Progressive Metal
3.5/5.0

Here's the skinny on Aeon Zen's new EP Self Portrait: it's four songs, re-arranged, re-recorded, and apparently renamed, from their debut album, A Mind's Portrait ... [ Read More ]


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Rhapsody Of Fire - Dark Wings Of Steel CD album review

I'll admit it. I was pretty hard on the last two Rhapsody Of Fire studio albums, giving them both only an average rating, when they probably deserved better. Who else does epic melodic and symphonic ... [ Read More ]

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Mindcage - Our Own Devices review

Again there is hope for American metal! Welcome Thoughts Betrayed to the great American metal fold, and we are blessed because of their entrance. Thoughts Betrayed is the result of a partnership between to midwestern guitar virtuosos ... [ Read More ]

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