NIGHTWISH – Yesterwynde
(Nuclear Blast) Rating: 6.0 Nightwish is one the few bands left where it’s an event when a new album comes out. In the Finns’ case, it can be a blessing...
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Songs For Beating Hearts (Album Review)
If you’re looking for Autumnal prog-rock to fit the mood of the season, there’s no better place to look than Sweden. Happily, Beardfish’s unexpected reunion album has all that your...
RANDY MCSTINE – Mutual Hallucinations (Album Review)
The road to being an established solo artist continues. Although Randy McStine has been a member of several bands (e.g. The Fringe, Minneman & McStine, In Continuum) and came to...
TRIBULATION – Sub Rosa In Æternum
(Century Media) Rating: 5.0 Look how they massacred my boy…. There’s a fine line in a band’s evolution where it can bring new soundscapes that enhances the music or it...
DEF LEPPARD – One Night Only Live At The Leadmill...
(Mercury) Rating: 8.0 For decades, Def Leppard has been one of the leading arena (and nowadays, stadium) rock bands. But as evidenced by the recent CD/DVD concert recording, One Night...
STRYPER – When We Were Kings
(Frontiers) Rating: 8.0 By Rich Catino When We Were Kings is the sixth studio album (one of covers and re-recordings prior) from Stryper since their 2011 reformation with the original...
IMPELLITTERI – War Machine
(Frontiers) Rating: 8.0 Few have been able to sustain such a roller-coaster ride of a career and remain relevant, like guitar whiz Chris Impellitteri. His initial eponymous EP, back in...
IMMORTAL BIRD – Sin Querencia
(20 Buck Spin) Rating: 8.0 I don’t like the band name, just like how I don’t like King Parrot‘s band name, but despite it sounding—to me, anyway—like a joke, the...
TEARS OF TRAGEDY – Wonder Arts
(Walküre) Rating: 8.5 Wonder Arts is the sixth full-length from Tears Of Tragedy. The Japanese trio has ran the same lineup since their inception in 2008, utilizing a session drummer...
GIGAN – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
(Willowtip) Rating: 8.5 Think I got that album title right, good god, Chicago’s Gigan coming back difficult after seven years of no full-lengths, not that we’d expect anything different from...
