Album Reviews
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2025, Adrenalizing Media Not you, not me, and not anyone on this planet will ever be able to listen to the amount of music available at any given moment in time. As such, we pick and choose our favorites, preoccupied with genre splitting and, occasionally, will latch onto something brand new just because. To many,…
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Frontiers Music Srl, 2025 Ever since Christian metalheads STRYPER reinvented themselves with their comeback album ‘No More Hell To Pay’ in 2013, the band has been thriving both in terms of quantity and quality of their releases. The four-piece also underwent some sonic rejuvenation when bassist and backing vocalist Perry Richardson joined the band in…
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Jay Hooks Records It might surprise some to know that I’m a lover of Electric Blues. I don’t celebrate it as much as I probably should and there’s no underlying reason either. I tell people that I’m a Metalhead if they ask. But growing up in the 60’s and 70’s it’s just always been a…
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60 Cycle Hum Recordshttps://john-5.com JOHN 5 has an impressive 30+ year pedigree that ranges from songwriting to studio work, and from film to live performances. Some of you would be taken aback by some of the songs and full albums that JOHN 5 has written for other artists. JOHN 5 has had notable guitar slots…
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2025 BMG Recordings “The punks loved us. The only reason we weren’t in that lot was because we had long hair, so obviously we must be heavy metal. That was the thinking. But a lot of kids heard us without seeing a picture, so they thought we were a punk band.” ——Lemmy Kilmister I recently…
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By Brian J. Heaton270 pages FIFTH ANGEL is a melodic heavy metal band that originally hailed from Bellevue, Washington, and released a seminal recording in 1986–– their self-titled debut album (originally released on Shrapnel Records, then re-issued later by Epic Records). I consider this one of the first albums to establish the ‘power metal’ genre,…
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RatPak Records – 2025http://www.allsinnerscult.com After three well-received EPs (their self-titled studio release, an acoustic live show and a live disc recorded at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles), the Massachusetts-based rockers ALL SINNERS take the next big step in their evolution with the release of their full-length debut album ‘We Own The Night’…
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Reigning Phoenix Music It should come as no surprise that the latest outing from the “godfathers of hardcore” AGNOSTIC FRONT is not exactly brimming with surprises. In fact, if there is a surprise here, it’s just how resolutely the band’s 13thstudio album, ‘Echoes In Eternity,’ captures all the things that have made AGNOSTIC so vital…
