Record Reviews

Scarecrow takes us on a wild Finnish metalpunk ride on its new album.

Kardinal X combines classic hard rock, NWOBHM and progressive metal on its debut album.

Mayhem goes punk as well as revisiting its classic Norwegian black metal sound on new EP.

Swedish melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates push the boundaries on the new album.

Singaporean melodic death metal at its best on Assault’s new album.

A live performance recorded in front of nobody? Lacuna Coil pulls it off. This is a terrific live album.

Sweden’s Mad Invasion combines classic 70s hard rock with 80s melodic hard rock and modern influences on its debut album.

The best-ever live album gets released in an expanded 71-song deluxe box set format! It doesn’t get any better than this! This is gold for both casual Motörhead fans and devoted Motörhead archaeologists.

Sweden’s Death Reich gives us old-school meat-and-potatoes death metal with plenty of aggression and energy.

Swedish multi-instrumentalist Anders “LA” Rönnblom teams up with Tracii Guns, Rudy Sarzo, Snowy Shaw and other stars in new classic hard rock project Social Disorder.

New album from a blackened melodic death metal trio from New Hampshire.

Exquisite prog metal on new The Vicious Head Society album by Irishman Graham Keane.

German band Betrayal gives us old-school death metal with blackened thrash and tech and prog bits. The resulting sick stew is very good.