Is it fair to complain about the cheesiness of a power metal album, or has that become a staple of the genre? Either way, Walpyrgus’s new album Walpyrgus Nights is ripe with it. So much so, in fact, that there [...]
The 2010s have been a rather rocky time for Danzig. 2010’s Deth Red Sabaoth was a great way to kick things off and the band has miraculously not had a single lineup change through the whole decade, but any signs of [...]
Having been introduced to multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Andrew D’Cagna’s work through his bass playing for Brimstone Coven, I was not aware that he was such a busy guy. Apparently not content with just releasing the [...]
Angry Machines is often seen as the epitome of mid-90s metal desperation. It is likely the most obscure album that Ronnie James Dio ever released and is solely remembered as a time when one of the biggest metal [...]
Anyone who loves a good trilogy knows that the second part always ups the ante. Beloved middle children like The Two Towers and The Empire Strikes Back work to expand the worlds that were conceived by their [...]
It would be easy to write Night Demon’s second full-length album off as a mere repeat of their 2015 debut, which was in itself a repeat of various old school metal tropes. The Los Angeles trio still uses the same [...]
A genre is lucky if it exists long enough to look back on itself. Metal has spent the last decade or so cranking out throwback acts, and while most of them fall on the spectrum from “passable” to “absolutely boring,” [...]
This collaboration between Bloomington’s Thorr-Axe and Archarus of Indianapolis has much more interesting prospects than your average split album. While splits are often released to cross-promote bands to each other’s [...]
