Music is the truest form of art and emotion there is and rock music is notorious for combining the two. When it’s done right, it’s a beautiful thing and that’s exactly what City Of The Weak’s Pulling Teeth is. With bands like Flyleaf evaporating into thin air and others like Paramore...

If you’re from the Midwest and know Christian rock music, you probably have heard of The Protest. They’re one of the hardest-working and heaviest-traveling bands you’ll find and their latest record- Legacy is their major label debut via Rockfest Records but third record overall...

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...

When Corky Gainsford announced awhile back that he was leaving Otherwise, fans were hoping deep down that he would return to music eventually. Then when he announced a new project in Code Red Riot, we were all hoping the project would lead to an album and even a tour. Fast forward to 2018 and...

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...

When Like A Storm released “Love The Way You Hate Me,” the first single from Awaken the Fire in 2014, the rock world was put on notice and the band continued to blaze through the charts, tours and festival circuit like crazy, becoming one of the top rock bands in the world. Fast forward to...

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...

Every once in awhile in rock, there’s a debut record that comes along and leaves you with a hard time describing just how good it really is- Diamante’s Coming In Hot is one of those records. It opens with the title track, a sexy, gritty, party rock track and the essential way to open up...

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...

Adversity and hard-times can sometimes make or break a band- more importantly, it can lead to some of the best stuff a band will ever write and that’s exactly what happened From Ashes to New sat down to put together what would eventually become their sophomore album- The Future. This record...

Three years removed from Threat To Survival, Shinedown are back with Attention Attention– their sixth overall and is a return to their heavier rock roots while also keeping the sounds of their previous two records. Amaryllis and Threat To Survival saw the band evolving to a more...

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...