Record Reviews

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.

Swedish garage rockers Sator’s terrific “Basement Noise” album from 2006 is being reissued.

Swedish power metal band Stormwind’s Sweden Rock Festival performance from 2003 is being reissued in an excellent remastered version.

Prague’s Insistent serves up crusty grindcore with death metal riffs on its new album.

Flotsam and Jetsam gives us the best kind of American thrash metal on its 14th album.

Former Nervosa members Fernanda Lira and Luana Dametto have teamed up with guitarists Sonia Anubis and Tainá Bergamaschi in the fierce new death metal band Crypta.

The voice of metal Udo Dirkschneider is back with some of his old Accept and U.D.O. band members in a new project.

German industrial/metal crossover band Die Krupps hits us in the face with their keyboards and a covers album.

Feradur, a melodic death metal band from Luxembourg, returns with a great new EP.

Sweden’s Krakel gives us weird and wonderful avant-garde rock on its second album.

NWOBHM band Tygers of Pan Tang releases a best-of compilation of music from the past 13 years.

Swedish rockers Electric Haze arrives on the scene with a promising debut album.