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...

By now everybody knows who Mark Tremonti is. From his days in Creed and Alter Bridge to his stunning solo releases he has amassed a stellar body of work, the hits just keep on coming. He has just released his fourth solo studio release entitled A Dying Machine on Napalm records and it is by...

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis has been mulling over a solo release for some time but hasn’t been able to make it a reality until now. He has just released his first solo album entitled Black Labyrinth and I have to say that it is a pretty damn good release and the more I listen to it, the...

If you heard Bad Wolves’ cover of The Cranberries’ “Zombie” and thought their debut record- Disobey would follow suit, be prepared to grab the earplugs and have your ass blows away- this record is so much more than that. They start off with “Officer Down,” which is a shot to the...

Ghost’s rise to popularity has been pretty quick over the last few years and their fourth record- Prequelle is the one that will probably make them blow up completely when it’s all said and done. Their previous record- Meliora saw them bring home a Grammy as well as their fanbase growing...

There aren’t many bands out there today that can say they have had pretty much the same line-up since their inception. Sevendust is that rare band that can and since 1994 the line-up has stayed pretty much the same; For almost the last 25 years it’s always been Lajon Witherspoon vocals,...

Light The Torch is a band with a somewhat checkered past. They started out as Devil You Know, releasing two albums before a long drawn out legal fight with their former drummer John Stankey forced the rest of the band to move on without him. They changed their name to Light The Torch and have...

20 years removed from their debut record, Godsmack are still creating their best music and their latest record- When Legends Rise– is exactly that and its clear from the very beginning. The title track opens the record with a tribal drum intro from Shannon Larkin, which rips into a...

When Bride singer Dale Thompson announced a new side project following Bride’s retirement, The World Will Burn was breathed to life and their debut- Severity was very strongly-received and sold well on the indie charts. Thompson brought in longtime friend Alan Zaring to assume duties on...

Every now and again you really get excited about something you are about to review. That was the case when it came to the newest effort by W.E.T. entitled Earthrage. This is the third release by these melodic masters and judging on how good the first two albums were I knew that this one would...

Six albums in, Blessthefall know exactly how to keep things fresh and their latest record- Hard Feelings does just that. With 10 power-packed songs, the record sits at just under 38 minutes in length and the songs flow together so perfectly, you may not realize the songs have changed if you...