LANTERN: Dimensions
LANTERN Dimensions
DARK DESCENT
9/10
EPIC METAL OF DEATH: Until recently, your humble narrator wasn’t at all familiar with Finland’s Lantern, despite their 13...
DIO: Magica (Reissue)
DIO Magica (Reissue)
BMG / NIJI
8/10
After spending the 90s unsuccessfully chasing relevance in the post-Nirvana world, Ronnie James Dio made an about-face in...
ZOMBI: Liquid Crystal
ZOMBI Liquid Crystal
RELAPSE
8/10
TEXTUAL LAYERS OF SOUND: Throughout the course of their latest sonic journey, Liquid Crystal, Zombi, the prog/synth duo of...
MINISTRY: Moral Hygiene
MINISTRY Moral Hygiene
NUCLEAR BLAST
8/10
INDUSTRIAL METAL: Timelessness in songs and song lyrics is much more difficult to achieve that it appears. Think of all...
downset.: Maintain
downset.Maintain
NUCLEAR BLAST
7/10
OG RAPCORE: Not all rap metal is nu metal, as many seem to think. The two can be mutually exclusive, as is the...
DORO: Conqueress – Forever Strong and Proud
DOROConqueress – Forever Strong and Proud
NUCLEAR BLAST
9/10
QUEEN OF HEAVY METAL: Doro Pesch didn’t really need to release an album this good in 2023. The former...
MOVEMENTS: Feel Something
MOVEMENTSFeel Something
FEARLESS
9/10
LOUD AND SAD: Feel Something, the follow-up to Movements’ emotive debut EP Outgrown Things, serves up a similar taste of euphonic verses, cool...
COMBICHRIST: One Fire
COMBICHRISTOne Fire
OUT OF LINE
10/10
INDUSTRIAL METAL: “A beat-driven explosive journey through an aggressive
industrial landscape” would likely be the most metaphorically poetic
description of this release from...
KADAVAR: For the Dead Travel Fast
KADAVAR For the Dead Travel Fast
NUCLEAR BLAST
8/10
OCCULT ROCK: For a band named after a synonym for a corpse, Kadavar’s work has been pretty upbeat...
SEPULTURA: SepulQuarta
SEPULTURA SepulQuarta
NUCLEAR BLAST
8/10
GROOVE THRASH METAL: The COVID-19 global pandemic didn’t stop every band from being creative. Take Brazilian groove thrashers Sepultura for instance....