Record Reviews

Japanese heavy metal is not all about veteran bands. Hell Freezes Over is at the forefront of a younger generation of terrific Japanese metal bands.

Norwegian band Enslaved’s new studio album offers us a tasty mix of blackened folk metal and progressive rock.

Seasoned metal musicians from Kreator, Venom Inc, Massacre, Skull Fist and Annihilator get together to play excellent punk-rock in new band FORE.

British thrash metal band Onslaught has a new vocalist and a terrific new album ready for an assault on your ears.

Sweden’s fabulous Thundermother is back with a new album filled with bluesy hard rock of the best kind.

On “Abyss”, its new studio album, Canada’s Unleash The Archers shows us some new sides to its creativity. There are more keyboards and some pop, but the fierce metal riffs are still there and so is the fabulous voice of Brittney Slayes.

Primal Fear’s new studio album “Metal Commando” shows us that this band is a German stallion and not a one-trick power metal pony.

Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum returns with its eighth full-length studio album, “Thalassic”.

German metal vocalist Udo Dirkschneider takes the collaboration between his band U.D.O. and the German armed forces concert band to a new and unexpected level.

German thrash metal band Destruction shows us that they are still a terrific live act on its new live album.

Twisted Sister may have called it quits in 2016, but its frontman Dee Snider keeps delivering both in the studio and live.

Metal band The Lightbringer of Sweden teams up with German vocalist Herbie Langhans, of Avantasia and Firewind fame, to create a fab 1980s metal-influenced album.

The seasoned gentlemen in Deep Purple are still at it. Their new Bob Ezrin-produced album “Whoosh!” is a solid album of grown-up bluesy rock but with some nuanced twists and turns.