By Greg Maki If you like your metal melodic with a bit of a modern, technological sheen and a whole lot of rebellious swagger, then let me direct you to Germany’s League of Distortion, the brainchild of vocalist Anna Brunner (Exit Eden) and guitarist Jim Müller (Kissin’ Dynamite). On the band’s self-titled debut, you can... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki If you’re like me, music is a big part of spooky season, and spooky season is not confined to October; it’s whenever you want it to be. This year, a new band out of Central Florida, has loudly crashed my Halloween playlist and is sure to remain in heavy rotation when the... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki As I’ve stated in previous reviews, I’ve never been much of a death metal guy. I’ve also never been the biggest fan of hardcore. Put two and two together, and you probably can figure out that deathcore isn’t exactly my favorite subgenre of heavy music. Maybe that’s because, as far as I... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Bolstered by powerhouse new frontman Erik Grönwall, Skid Row suddenly is relevant again, and that just might be one of 2022’s biggest stories in hard rock. With the young Swedish singer leading the way—he’s the rest of the band’s junior by about a quarter century—Skid Row truly sounds like the chart-topping sensation... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Is this it? Is this really the end? Forty-four years after Michael Myers stabbed his way and prototypical “final girl” Laurie Strode screamed her way into the hearts of movie-goers in John Carpenter’s slasher masterpiece “Halloween,” director/co-writer David Gordon Green wraps his sequel trilogy with a period rather than the ellipsis we’re... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki So much has happened in the world of Machine Head in recent years that its previous album, the scattershot “Catharsis,” seems even more in the rearview than its January 2018 release indicates. Later in 2018, longtime drummer Dave McClain and guitarist Phil Demmel left the band, leading to guitarist Logan Mader and... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki I’m not sure if it's criticism or praise to say that “Introvert,” the new seven-song EP from Saint Asonia, sounds exactly how one would expect it to sound. Probably a little of both. The band, of course, is based on the musical partnership of ex-Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier and Staind... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki With “The Stadium Tour” finally underway, Mötley Crüe is officially back in action, playing its first shows since “The Final Tour”—supposedly sealed with a legal contract—wrapped on Dec. 31, 2015. Though known for spectacle and its band members’ outrageous lifestyles—immortalized in “The Dirt,” the book and movie—more than anything else, the Crüe... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Looking to build off the success of 2019’s “Disguise”—particularly the singles “Brand New Numb” and “Another Life”—Motionless in White has returned with arguably its most complete album to date in “Scoring the End of the World.” Like its most immediate predecessor, the record leans heavily into the hard rock aspect of the... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki With warm weather here and the official start of summer just around the corner, there isn’t a batch of tunes more suitable for this season of good times than “Feel This,” the fourth full-length from Pennsylvania rockers Crobot. In a just world, “Better Times” would be the song of summer 2022, a... Continue Reading →
