The Party Ain’t Over – Wanda Jackson
Bob Dylan’s track Thunder On The Mountain from his Modern Times (2006) album includes the enigmatic reference to “thinkin’ ’bout Alicia Keys”. Why Alicia Keys? What was it about her that drew […]
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The Pale Haunt Departure – Novembers Doom
The End Records novembersdoom.com The album was mixed by Dan Swano, a guitarist who plays with bands such as Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath, and Nightingale. It was mastered […]
Out Loud – Naio Ssaion
Building upon the poppy sound crafted by the likes of Lacuna Coil, recent Theatre Of Tragedy, and Evanescence, Naio Ssaion makes its international debut with Out Loud, which has […]
The Optical Illusion – Time Requiem
Master keyboardist Richard Andersson (Space Odyssey, Evil Masquerade, Adagio, Majestic, and Silver Seraph) unleashes The Optical Illusion, the third release under his project band Time Requiem. A blistering combination […]
Oneida Road – Kamikaze Hearts
Well my Realplayer has just done a damn weird thing, overwriting Chris While and Julie Matthews tracks with Kamikaze Hearts’ Oneida Road details, so after wondering where the female vocalist […]
Once – Nightwish
With Once, Nightwish builds upon classical orchestration and embraces the harder facets of heavy metal. Yes, the symphonic and harmonic elements are still a force on Once, as is the […]
Nymphetamine – Cradle Of Filth
With its luscious and lascivious title, Nymphetamine finds England’s Cradle Of Filth concurrently pushing forward its particular brand of black/gothic metal and hearkening back to its roots, perhaps as far […]
No Longer Buried – Trendkill
A blistering slab of thrash metal/ hardcore, Trendkill’s No Longer Buried will appeal to fans of Hatebreed, Machine Head, and even Sepultura. The strongpoint of this Swedish outfit is its […]
No Hay Banda – Audrey Horne
You would think that with members from bands such as Gorgoroth and Enslaved that Audrey Horne would reek of Norwegian black metal, but the band’s debut, No Hay Banda, […]
New York Dolls – Too Much Too Soon
In his learned volume Dressing Up: Transvestitism And Drag (Thames & Hudson, 1979) Peter Ackroyd declares the New York Dolls ‘radically subversive’, and, sure – the scuzzbags were something of […]
Voivod has walked many paths and experienced numerous lineup changes. At first the Canadians created some hard-driving thrash metal, with releases such as its 1984 debut War And Pain and […]
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Brace yourselves and prepare for a new sound in extreme music. Unlike bands like Finntroll and Windir, which use folk music to bolster their approach to black metal, […]
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