Album Reviews
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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…
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Rare Diamonds Productions – 2025http://www.doromusic.de As a way to tide fans over until her next full-length studio album, singer DORO PESCH has released ‘Warriors of the Sea’, a compilation album that marks a celebration of her recent ‘Metal Queen Metal Cruises”, two sold-out events that were so successful that at least one more is planned…
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2025, Nuclear Blast There is something in the water in Canada. Perennially the underdog in the larger global metal scene, Canada nonetheless churns out world class metal bands. Somewhere, amongst the frozen tundra (it’s cold here okay?) and probably mingling with Sasquatch, there will be a new band to rise from the ranks of flannel,…
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Rise Records, 2025 Last year, I was out shooting the Dying Fetus tour, and Spite were one of the openers. I’ll be straight I had no idea who the hell they were. I was there to photograph AngelMaker again, and I was hyped for that. While waiting in the pit before the show, another photographer…
