2019

Soen - Lotus Label: Silver Lining Music Release Date: February 1, 2019 I can be very picky about what albums I review. Some music I simply don’t enjoy, that does not mean it is bad music, it is a matter of perception and taste. That…

Herman Frank - Fight the Fear Label: AFM Records Release Date: February 8, 2019 I have long been a fan of Herman Frank, from his time with the legendary Accept, as well as his work with Victory and Panzer. Still somehow I’ve managed to…

Heavy metal frontrunners INCITE - led by frontman Richie Cavalera - are set to release their upcoming fifth full-length album, Built To Destroy, this coming Friday, January 25, 2019 via Minus Head Records. Produced by Steve Evetts (The…

Flotsam and Jetsam - The End of Chaos Label: AFM Records Release Date: January 18, 2019 I’m just going to put it out there—2018 pretty well sucked for thrash metal. There just weren’t too many gems to speak of.  Already 2019 is showing…

After delivering one of 2016’s most exceptional metal albums in Avantasia’s Ghostlights, band mastermind Tobias Sammet planned to take some time off. He’s spent the last 27 years fronting Edguy, the power metal band he started at 14 with…

Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters Swallow The Sun release their second single and video, "Firelights", off of their forthcoming album When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light. Watch the music video, directed and produced by Aapo…

Best of lists have always been a challenge for me.  Call me fickle, but I feel like my interests are constantly fluctuating based on mood, life events, patterns, etc.  It seems an ever changing dynamic playlist sometimes even tailored to…

Montreal's BEYOND CREATION have released a new video for their song "In Adversity." The song is taken from their late 2018 release Algorythm. Watch the video  below. "In Adversity" was filmed by Sam Ouimet during BEYOND CREATION's…

IMONOLITH - the new metal powerhouse featuring vocalist Jon Howard (Threat Signal, Arkaea), drummer Ryan 'RVP' Van Poederooyen (Devin Townsend Project), guitarist Brian Waddell (Devin Townsend Project), bassist Byron Stroud (Strapping Young…

When recently announcing their fifth studio album, No More Hollywood Endings, which will be unleashed on March 22nd via Nuclear Blast, Finnish heavy metallers BATTLE BEAST promised fans a taster of their new offering at the beginning of…