A band’s debut album is more important than a lot of people realize. Not only does it set the stage for the rest of their career, but it’s the telling point for whether fans will want to come to the shows and, if a band doesn’t have a strong debut record, there’s zero chance fans will...

It’s been over three years since Dream Theater’s last release: the highly divisive and sprawling The Astonishing. Fans have been desperate for some classic Dream Theater since that album came out. For this record, the band secluded themselves in a studio in New York to write and record....

While She Sleeps is a metalcore band from the UK that has started to break into the scene over the last three to four years. The band has been around since 2006 and is preparing to release their fourth full length studio album So What? One of the highlights of So What? comes at the very end of...

I Prevail exploded out of nowhere a few years ago with a blistering cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” but they also set out to prove that they’re much more than just a Tswifty cover band. When they released their debut record- Lifelines they did exactly that and there was no...

Jinjer is an Ukranian metalcore outfit that has gained more and more popularity over the last half-decade or so. The band has released three full-length albums and the Micro EP is intended to tide fans over until they can finish work on their highly-anticipated fourth studio record. Micro is a...

King 810 have returned with their third full-length studio album in early 2019, Suicide King. This album sees the band as a two-piece after guitarists Jason Hale and Andrew Beal and drummer Jason Workman left the group rather unceremoniously. Those departures leave only vocalist David Gunn and...

There is no denying that Unearth’s 2014 release Watchers of Rule was an absolute banger of an album. However, frontman Trevor Phipps said that he thought the songs off that album didn’t have the intended impact on their live audiences. Fans had to wait four years, but the pioneers of...

All That Remains are getting ready to release their 9th studio album Victim of the New Disease. 2017’s Madness was a little more on the softer side give or take a few songs so diving into this new album I was blown away at how heavy it is from start to finish. There are a few slower...

Architects is a band that has been consistent and prolific throughout their 12 year career. However, it has been over the past two years that they have faced some major adversity. In August of 2016, the band lost founding member and guitarist Tom Searle to skin cancer at the age of 28. They...

When Skillet’s John Cooper announced his new project, Fight the Fury, fans immediately started talking and the buzz began. Then it was announced fellow Skillet member Seth Morrison would be joining and the anticipation grew immensely. From the very beginning with the teaser the band posted,...

Metal and horror have always gone hand-in-hand and meshed well. So when Ice Nine Kills sat down to write The Silver Scream– a record where each song is inspired by a cult horror classic, it made perfect sense, especially since their previous record was the same but with classic novels....

Atreyu is gearing up to release their seventh studio album In Our Wake. This album is a step in a slightly different direction for Atreyu and it’s glorious. There honestly isn’t a bad song on In Our Wake because each song is so different from the next, really showing how much the guys are...

20 years and 10 albums into a band’s career warrants something special and big and that’s exactly what Nonpoint have done with X. They purposefully took a full year off from touring, writing and recording to properly give the record what it deserved and it shows with the final...

13 years after they set the metal world ablaze with their debut – The Poison, Bullet For My Valentine are still going strong and and harder than ever with Gravity, their sixth studio record and far departure from what fans may be used to. In 2013, the band tried to change gears with...

It’s an exciting thing when an album lives up to its title and that’s exactly what you have with Halestorm’s fourth record- Vicious, which comes on the heels of Into The Wild Life. Vicious’ predecessor was somewhat of a departure in sound for the band and the fanbase was split on its...