Album Review- Disturbed “Asylum”

If you loved the other Disturbed albums, you're gonna love "Asylum".

If there is a model of consistency in hard rock today, Disturbed holds that candle for keeping things rocking, but not veering off in a vastly different direction throughout the course of their first four albums.

Even though their debut, “The Sickness” [...]

Album Review- The Showdown “Blood in the Gears”

"Blood in the Gears" is a step in the right direction for The Showdown.

After their 2007 album “Temptation Come My Way”, the Tennessean based band The Showdown found a heavy groove and seemed to please a rock of heavy metal and hard rock fans as well. The band’s next album, “Back [...]

Album Review- Iron Maiden “The Final Frontier”

It wouldn't have hurt "Frontier" to be a bit shorter.

Iron Maiden’s body of work is one of the greatest ever seen in the world of metal. From songs like “Number of the Beast” to “The Trooper”, the band’s anthems are always at or near the top of any metal fans’ list.

Since [...]

Album Review- Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare”

Not quite "Waking The Fallen", but I'll take this over Nickelback any day of the week.

Even though it’s happened in rock history before, it has been a while since a band in their prime of their commercial success has lost a member. Mourning the December 2009 death of drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev” [...]

MCB Review: Against Me!- White Crosses

Against Me! hits the Fillmore Detroit on July 2nd.

Fans of the Gainesville, Florida band Against Me’s earlier material were probably selling “sell-out” when the band worked with ex-Nirvana producer Butch Vig on their stellar 2007 album “New Wave”. So, when the band picked Vig once again to produce the band’s [...]

The MCB Review: As I Lay Dying- The Powerless Rise

"The Powerless Rise" cover art.

I know many of the band’s longtime fans will disagree with me on this- but As I Lay Dying’s last album “An Ocean Between Us”, came out as the band’s most complete and full bodied work. It added more melody to the band’s fierce sound, which [...]

The MCB Review- Deftones’ Diamond Eyes

"Diamond Eyes" is a well done return to form for the Deftones.

After listening to the very ho-hum new Godsmack album (between you and me- I might be generous by calling it “ho-hum”), I was hoping that the Deftones weren’t going to let me down with their first album in four years, [...]

MCB Album Review: Bullet For My Valentine- Fever

"Fever" is solid, but nothing out of this world.

If Bullet For My Valentine’s second album, “Scream Aim Fire”, seemed a little off, a little too polished to you- you definitely weren’t in the minority. Given the excitement a lot of people showed after the success of their 2006 debut “The [...]

Is There Any Sting Left in the Tail?

The Scorpions' 17th and potentially last album should please core fans.

After almost 40 years in the business and 17 studio albums, longtime German rock band The Scorpions recently announced that their latest album, Sting in the Tail, would be their last and they would be retiring. But the band wanted [...]