By Greg Maki At this point in her recording career—which has seen six full-lengths and another half dozen EPs since 2016—the only thing we can expect from Poppy is the unexpected. Having dipped her toes in dance pop, industrial, nu metal, metalcore and other diverse genres in the past, she throws a bit of everything—and... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki And the 2024 award for comeback album I didn’t know I needed goes to … It seems to have taken the burst of activity that started with the Canadian quartet’s reunion performance at the 2022 Blue Ridge Rock Festival for Kittie to get its due as a pioneering, influential force in heavy... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki After leaving German “electronicore” act Electric Callboy (then known as Eskimo Callboy) in 2020, vocalist Sebastian "Sushi" Biesler wasted no time in starting his next project, Ghøstkid, and releasing its self-titled debut album later that same year. Pursuing a darker, more metalcore-influenced sound than the band Biesler had fronted for a decade,... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki It seems like every time Ace Frehley releases new music, we’re bombarded with talk about how it’s his best since his 1978 solo album. As “10,000 Volts” is his sixth new record—the fourth of original material—since 2009, old Space Ace has been blabbing on about that quite a bit in recent years.... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Tribute bands are a dime a dozen, but few have the pedigree of Zakk Sabbath. If you found your way to this site, you should need no introduction to Zakk Wylde, who has held down guitar duties for Ozzy Osbourne on and off since 1987, built his own band Black Label Society... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Didn’t we just do this? Another year is winding down, and we’re back to share the music we have enjoyed the most throughout 2023. With so many albums out in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic and bands more focused on touring now, this year might not have been quite as strong... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki See the corpse-painted nuns of Dogma—taking their names from mythological female demons Nixe, Lamia, Abrahel and Lilith—and you might expect to hear a barrage of inhuman shrieks and wails, impenetrable walls of guitars and relentless blast beats, all brought to life through lo-fi production and probably recorded somewhere in the frozen wilderness... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki When you’re a new band that’s hit on something that’s connecting with an audience and the creative juices are flowing, the best thing you can do is to keep the content coming. Florida’s Dark Divine is doing exactly that, returning with its debut full-length, “Deadly Fun,” less than a year after the... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki After expanding its sound in all directions—and including a fair amount of pop sensibilities—on its 2020 album, “Darkness,” Stitched Up Heart has gone darker and a whole lot heavier on album number three, “To the Wolves.” Incorporating electronics to add an industrial-strength edge to much of the recording and with frontwoman Alecia... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Have you ever thought to yourself, “What would it sound like if the singer of Volbeat made a death metal album?” No? Yeah, I didn’t think so. As some know, before starting Volbeat and taking the band from Denmark to international success, Michael Poulsen fronted the death metal act Dominus, which released... Continue Reading →
