Album Review- Machine Head “Unto the Locust”

"Locust" is a worthy follow up to the unbelievable "The Blackening".

Machine Head’s 2007 album “The Blackening” was has been the high water mark of any metal album since it’s release four and a half years ago. Anytime a great album shows up recently, this is the modern metal album that you [...]

Album Review- Anthrax “Worship Music”

"Worship Music": not groundbreaking, but defintely worth the listen.

Yeah, yeah- I’m sure you’ve heard my take on the state of the thrash metal titans Anthrax over the past several years at some point in another. I’m sure you heard my disdain of the over dumping new singer Dan Nelson, passing on [...]

Album Review- Incubus “If Not Now, When?”

Incubus challenges their fans on "If Not Now, When?" and is sure to cause lively debate.

After listening to the band’s 2009 track “Black Heart Inertia”, it felt like Incubus was getting back to basics, albeit a little more toned down version of the band, but it felt like a good step [...]

Album Review- Sublime with Rome “Yours Truly”

You won't find too many better summer albums than "Yours Truly" this year.

Everybody knows the backstory with Sublime; lead singer dies months before the band’s songs get huge, album blows up, band can’t tour and fans are left wondering what could have been. Ok, we know all of that. But with [...]

Album Review- Limp Bizkit “Gold Cobra”

"Cobra" should have been much more than Fred Durst lashing out at haters.

Reviewing a Limp Bizkit album is really a no-win situation: if you like the album, your musical cred is snatched quicker than a fat woman at the buffet, or if you hate it- you just end up sounding like [...]

Album Review- Queensryche “Dedicated to Chaos”

"Dedicated" is sure to make some long time Queensryche fans to scratch their heads.

After the band released their “American Solider” album back in 2009, the guys in the long time prog-rock juggernaut Queensryche pulled probably the biggest swerve yet by doing a “cabaret” style show, with burlesque dancers and alternate [...]

Album Review- In Flames “Sounds of A Playground Fading”

"Sounds" is another solid, but perhaps not stellar effort for the Swedish metal stars.

When In Flames released “A Sense Of Purpose” back in 2008, the album met with indifference from metal fans who had seen the band through their “Clayman” days through the stellar “Come Clarity”. Couple that with the [...]

Album Review- Black Dahlia Murder “Ritual”

"Ritual" is a tour de force and should be in the Top 10 of year end metal lists.

Detroit’s entry into the extreme metal movement, the Black Dahlia Murder, has become one of the biggest names in death metal but providing a good yin and yang effect with its fans: sound heavier [...]

Album Review- Black Veil Brides “Set The World On Fire”

"World" is the type of album custom built for rock radio success- let's see if they bite.

The first album from Los Angeles based quintet Black Veil Brides, “We Stitch These Wounds” showed that along with the band’s makeup clad image, the music wasn’t all that bad either. At times, “Wounds” [...]

Album Review- Arch Enemy “Khaos Legions”

"Khaos Legions" is good, but falls short of the "great" category.

After mass touring several years ago, the Swedish & German death metal outfit Arch Enemy kinda disappeared for a few years while going into the studio to record their eighth album, “Khaos Legions”. Sure, the band released an album mostly of [...]