Record Reviews

Old-school Florida death metal from Sweden. Finspång’s finest, Open Surgery, serves up glorious meat-and-potatoes basement death metal on its new album.

This is music for those who drink their metal black and without sugar. It is another great album in Sweden’s proud tradition of black metal mastery.

Former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno is back with a new album featuring Mercyful Fate’s Becky Baldwin and a Depeche Mode cover!

Excellent debut album from How We End, a modern multi-national European metal band featuring folks from Evanescence, Nervosa, Primal Fear, Amaranthe and Cyhra.

Japanese bassist Kiyoshi, who released six solo albums in five years, now showcases her best songs on a terrific live album that perfectly demonstrates why this artist is such a joy to experience.

Freddy Villano is back. Grown-up American rock with British influences is what The Crows gives us on the band’s debut album.

Wormwood concludes an album trilogy about death with a magnificent new album full of atmospheric, melodic black metal with some melancholic folk metal parts.

This is string-based storytelling. Put on a pair of quality headphones, turn off the lights, close your eyes and immerse yourself in the world of Marty Friedman.

There is nothing rebellious or dangerous about Nestor’s music. This is the nice and clean side of rock music. But it is bloody good.

Canadian power metal band Unleash The Archers keeps evolving musically.

Japan’s Re-Arise performs classic hard rock on its third album.“Revive” is one of the best and most important hard rock albums ever released by a Japanese band.

This is a wonderful reimagination of Sparks’ classic 1974 album by an eclectic mix of artists.