There is a difference between being caught in a rut and doing what you know you’re good at. I don’t really know the difference personally and I don’t think tired old dogs like AC/DC do either, but Accept sure does. Despite replacing lead guitarist Herman [...]
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 Saxon meets W.A.S.P. formula on here as [...]
The early to mid-80s are seen as a simpler time for heavy metal, but it might be more appropriate to say that things were just more ambiguous back then. It was a time when extremities were developing beyond their infancy but descriptors like black and [...]
Midnight is one of those bands where you pretty much know exactly what you’re get each time Athenar and his faceless band of co-conspirators release new music: a killer batch of Venom-meets-Motörhead blackened speed metal songs about sex, drugs, and [...]
When it comes to the Indy music scene, there’s no one else who brings the metal quite like Sacred Leather. Riffs, image, stage presentation - it all harkens back to the classic 80’s bands like Priest, Maiden, and Dio, But all the leather [...]
There’s a good chance that Helstar’s Vampiro could’ve fallen flat on its face. While the Texas group’s ninth full-length album isn’t a direct sequel to their legendary Nosferatu, the return to the vampire lyrical theme and aspirations to achieve their [...]
