Album Reviews
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LIGHTNING STRIKESThe King Is VictoriousRubicon Music They were once touted as the first lean, mean Armenian heavy metal machine who predated SYSTEM OF A DOWN by a decade when they first formed in Los Angeles in 1985. Their name conjured up images of fast and furious forces of nature – so much so that their…
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LEVIATHAN CYCLE‘The Suffering Prolonged’ EPIndependent I’ve been fortunate, in this world, to not only review some of the biggest bands on the planet but many of them shaped the music I grew up ‘blasting through my speakers’. The moments that stick with you are often the early ones. Times when you catch bands before the…
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AXEL RUDI PELL’Ghost Town’Steamhammerhttps://www.axel-rudi-pell.de AXEL RUDI PELL isn’t exactly a household name in North America, but the tales of his exploits have been well documented overseas. The guitarist got his start in the band STEELER around 1984. Not the one with Ron Keel and Yngwie Malmsteen. The German one. Pell went solo in 1989 with…
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EXHUMED‘Red Asphalt’2026, Relapse Records Ladies, gentlemen, gore fiends and grind heads, start your engines: EXHUMED are back. Hard to believe, but true, the band led by Matt Harvey has been thrashing like maniacs for 36 years! Back now with newest opus ‘Red Asphalt’ one must ask the question: is this album a new era for…
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ROB ZOMBIE’The Great Satan’Nuclear Blast Recordshttps://www.robzombie.com/ ‘The Great Satan’ is the 8th studio album by musician and filmmaker ROB ZOMBIE. Rob’s latest collection of music, his first in nearly five years, can actually be summed up in just two words; classic Zombie! What era is that? I would classify it between WHITE ZOMBIE’s 1992 album…
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SYLOSISThe New FleshNuclear Blast Records SYLOSIS deserves a seat at the table and at this point, they’ve earned it! This isn’t a band still trying to prove they belong; it’s a band reminding the metal world that consistency, evolution, and riff writing still matter. For me, ‘The New Flesh’ isn’t just another album to review,…
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STATIC-X‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ 25th Anniversary Corrosive EditionOtsego Entertainment Group 2026 Originally released in March of 1999, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ was the debut album that put Los Angeles Nu-Metal act STATIC-X on the map. Within 2 years it had reached platinum status on the strength of hit singles “Push It”, which was in heavy rotation on…
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ENTHRONED‘Ashspawn’Season Of Mist Here we have another retro review for a release that came out last December and was definitely one of the best releases of 2026 with that of Belgium’s own ENTHRONED and their full-length release through SEASON OF MIST, ‘Ashspawn’. With 9 epic tracks and for nearly an hour with an album that…
