26th September 2011
Last year Swedish progressive rockers released Road Salt One, their most diverse album to date. Now hardly year and a half later the band is about to release the second part of Road Salt and […]
20th September 2011
Mastodon’s previous album, Crack The Skye, was their strongest release and perhaps the best release of the year 2009, so expectations for the follow-up are high, to say the least. Following the success and critical […]
13th September 2011
Not only has it been more then eight years since Anthrax’ previous studio album We’ve Come For You All, but in those eighth years so much has happened with New York thrash metal band. Joey […]
7th September 2011
Porg metal giants’ twelfth album is simply entitled Dream Theater. Nothing new there, but what is interesting is that established bands who release self-titled albums often do so to mark a new direction and, in […]
7th September 2011
Rising from the ashes of grunge and NWOAHM, Stained achieved commercial success some ten years ago, mainly based around the bans ballads, most noticeably MTV darling “It’s Been a While”. Since then their success has […]
1st September 2011
“You listen to my last two records and the Skid Row records without me. Mine sound more like Skid Row then they do” Sebastian Bach stated in a recent interview with Classic Rock magazine. In […]
1st September 2011
Reviewing the band’s previous two albums, Systematic Chaos and Black Clouds & Silver Linings, one thing struck me – the prog metal giants are in need of change. I thought that the most obvious change […]
1st August 2011
Jeff Jordan’s gorgeous cover serves as an appropriate packaging, Leprous’ second album, Bilateral. Much like the painting, the young Norwegian progressive band delivers a beautiful, complex and fresh opus. Over the past decade or so, […]
20th July 2011
Nonpoint are back with an album, a new guitarist, a new label and even new management. However generally looking there is not much new on Miracle. But the band did change some things since their […]
1st June 2011
The phenomenal band Iron Maiden has so many great songs which they can’t put onto one ‘Best of’ album. But, there’s always a solution; the band has chosen to break their songs into two eras. […]
21st May 2011
It has been five years since The Cult released their last full length studio album Born Into This. Their new album Choice Of Weapon is their first on Cooking Vinyl. Unlike some times before the […]
7th May 2011
Nikki Sixx’s sideproject Sixx:A.M. saw the light of day back in 2007. Band’s debut album The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack was based on Sixx’ autobiography, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered […]
7th May 2011
Live At Donington 1990 documents Whitesnake at top of their career, riding the wave of huge commercial success of the 80’s and right before the band’s popularity started to decline. The 1990 Donington performance also […]
1st May 2011
One of the biggest “hair rock” names from the late 80’s are back with their first studio album since 2006’s Born Again, which was band’s first album not to feature band’s original singer Jani Lane. Rockaholic […]
25th April 2011
Still Looking For the Answers is a début album form 41Point9, but what we have here is a group of rather musically experienced gentlemen. Consisting of Bob Madsen (Enchant, Xen), Brian Cline (Enchant) and Kenny […]
22nd January 2019
What the fuck is this? Bassists from Anthrax and Megadeth released a record? Is it a recording from one of their bass clinics? Not only, it’s not a bass clinic recording, but it’s a collection […]
22nd January 2019
If there is one thing that I have learned in the last year it is that you never quite know what exactly will play through your speakers when you put on a record publiced by […]
14th January 2019
Aetranok, to me, represents what seems to be a rise in popularity for Second Wave Black Metal in the US. Since the beginning of the 2010’s, I have seen a fair amount of such bands […]
8th January 2019
A couple of years since the release of Metal Church’s “return” album unimaginably titled XI, the Californian Metallers are back with the follow-up Damned If You Do. Calling XI, return-album might be somewhat misleading, because […]
25th December 2018
Cascadian Black Metal, as I have heard quite a few bands being referenced as these days, seems to be a genre growing exponentially faster and faster as time progresses – And, seeing as it is […]
19th December 2018
Pensees Nocturnes is, without a doubt, one of the most peculiar mixtures of genres and themes that I have come across all year (which, coming in at the end of said year, is saying something). […]
13th December 2018
Chaotic Matrix is official re-release of the second full-length album by the legendary Colombian most well-known death metal outfit, Internal Suffering. Infernal Suffering has four full-length albums in its discography and each drastically different from […]
4th December 2018
Archive photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Precisely 35 years since the release of their debut album, Slayer, were set to play their last show Denmark. Accidentally it was also on the same day 3 years ago that […]
2nd December 2018
Photo: Goran www.facebook.com/UrbanMescaleroPhotography Clutch did play the area this summer when they guested Roskilde Festival, but their last gig in Copenhagen was in 2015 when they played the outstanding sold-out show at Vega. This time […]
28th November 2018
Myrd has recently released their third full-length album – Negativisme (Danish for ‘negativism’) which, this time around, is a collaboration between the lead singer (as far as I can tell, the only remaining member of […]
