Album Reviews


  • ALL SINNERS ‘We Own The Night’

    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’…

  • AGNOSTIC FRONT ‘Echoes In Eternity’

    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…

  • DORO ‘Warriors of the Sea’

    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…

  • DESPISED ICON ‘Shadow Work’

    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,…

  • SPITE – ‘New World Killer’

    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…