News
MELIAH RAGE: ‘Idol Hands’ video
Bostonian Power Thrashers Meliah Rage have just released a promo-clip of “Idol Hands”, the title track of their album released by Metal On Metal Records in April 2018. Check out the video here below….
Album Reviews
Salem – Attrition
For those new to the band, Salem were formed around 1980 from the ashes of Ethel The Frog but “Attrition” is only the band’s 3rd full-length release. The music is a melodic Rock accentuated by [Read »]
Album Reviews
Toledo Steel – No Quarter
In theory not a lot of words are necessary for this review: if bands such as Judas Priest, Satan, Accept, Saxon mean anything to you, then “No Quarter” is a no-brainer. But I’ll go a [Read »]
Album Reviews
La Bottega Del Tempo A Vapore – Tempi InVersi
The first track is a brief intro which kicks off with a cacophony that sounds as if various songs and riffs are being played together without a care for law and order. As the 2nd [Read »]
Album Reviews
Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins – Pawn And Prophecy
The eponymous 2014 debut of Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins had been a pleasant surprise – it was musically so different from the bassist’s work with Symphony X, his main band. And yet it had felt [Read »]
Album Reviews
Herman Frank – The Devil Rides Out
“The Devil Rides Out” was the third solo outing from guitarist Herman Frank but it’s still hard to avoid comparisons with his previous bands. This is not an album that might incite you to play [Read »]
Interviews
Interview with PARADISE LOST
THE LOST INTERVIEW Back around November 2017 Paradise Lost were triumphantly parading their brand of Gothic Doom / Doom Death Metal one venue after another in celebration of the band’s “Medusa” album. And as the [Read »]
Interviews
Interview with Kev Bower of Hell
SOUTH OF HEAVEN The annual Malta Doom Metal Festival (MDM) transcends its own name to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of Metal. It was only fitting, therefore, that this year’s edition was headlined by HELL. [Read »]
Album Reviews
Nocturnal Rites – Phoenix
Didn’t Nocturnal Rites play Thrash Metal, or am I imagining things? No, it turns out I’m not, but significant changes took place since I last heard the band. Phoenix is in fact dense with melodies, [Read »]
Album Reviews
Bloodbound – War Of Dragons
Here’s another album to fall into my hands only recently even though this was released back in February. Before first putting on this CD, the clues…artwork, moniker…all pointed to a visceral listening experience. In reality, [Read »]