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...
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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...
Twitch / The Land Of Rape And Honey (Deluxe Vinyl...
(Rhino) Rating: 8.0 There are few rock bands that you can point to as almost single-handedly helping trailblaze and popularize a certain subgenre. But Ministry – and in particular, their...
KLONE – The Unseen (Album Review)
Hailing from France, Klone are a band who have been on the rise over the course of several albums. Although originally employing heavier and darker approaches – like that of...
Tapping The Vein (Deluxe Edition)
(BMG) Rating: 8.5 Can’t get enough Sodom lately, having seen them twice on last year’s 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise, the year before, it was headlining Hell’s Heroes festival and...
PRIMAL CODE – Opaque Fixation (Album Review)
Transparently dark and forbidding Since the mid-1980s Chicago, Illinois has proven something of a dark horse entry within the greater North American death metal scene. Though arguably less prolific than...
GOLGOTHAN REMAINS – Bearer Of Light, Matriarch Of Death
(Dark Descent) Rating: 8.5 I don’t know Sydney-based Golgothan Remains, but I sure know Dark Descent, and Dark Descent sure know their death metal, so I’m all in. The cover...
