Reviews

TOP 30 METAL/HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF 2020 PART FOUR: 5-1 05. My Dying Bride – Ghost of Orion/Macabre Cabaret Another band from the past...

Band: AC/DC Album: Power Up Label: Columbia Records Style: Hard Rock Release Date: 11/13/2020 This fall, it seems a lot of the old guard...

Band: Molassess Album: Through the Hollow Label: Season of Mist Style: Progressive/Psychedelic Hard Rock Release Date: 10/16/2020 Through...

Band: Askog Album: Varg Label: Self-Release Style: Black Metal Release Date: 10/17/2020 Askog is a two-man band from Sweden who formed in...

Band: Enslaved Album: Utgard Label: Nuclear Blast Style: Black Metal/Prog Release Date: 10/02/2020 For almost three decades, the mighty...

Band: Dokken Album: The Lost Songs: 1978-1981 Label: Silver Lining Music Style: Melodic Hard Rock Release Date: 08/25/2020 Don Dokken...

Band: Crust Album: …And A Dirge Becomes An Anthem Label: Rumf Productions Style: Doom, Sludge, Black Release Date: 08/14/2020 Hailing...

Band: Astral Witch Album: Astral Witch Style: Doom, Fuzz Label: Independent Release Date: May 23, 2020 Astral Witch are a three-piece...

Band: Lamb of God Album: Lamb of God Genre: Groove, Thrash, New Wave of American Heavy Metal Label: Epic Release Date: 06/19/20 Has it...

Band: Rough Spells Album: Ruins at Midday Label: Independent Release Date: February 2, 2020 Rough Spells hail from Toronto, Ontario, and...

Band: Oz Title: Forced Commandments Label: Massacre Records Style: Traditional Metal Release Date: May 22, 2020 Oz is one of those cult...

Artist: Paradise Lost Album: Obsidian Label: Nuclear Blast Style: Death Doom Release Date: May 15, 2020 What are you going to say about...

Artist: Witchskull Album: A Driftwood Cross Label: Rise Above Records Style: Doom Release Date: April 24, 2020 Australia’s Witchskull...

Artist: Solicitor Album: Spectral Devastation Label: Gates of Hell Records Style: Speed Metal, baby! Release Date: April 24, 2020...

Artist: Traveler Title: Termination Shock Label: Cruz del Sur Style: Traditional Metal/Hard Rock Release Date: April 10, 2020 From the...

Band: Hadewijch Title: Herbal Noise Label: Electric Valley Records Style: Doom, Post-Rock Release Date: May 8, 2020 This French trio have...

Ten songs, thirty-four minutes of pure, unadulterated blackened speed. Midnight return with their newest platter, Rebirth by Blasphemy,...

Carnifliate are a foursome from Slovenia, and they have unleashed a particularly brutal album full of death and grind and humor....

Ramprasad is the brainchild of two collaborators from Portland, OR: Aaron D.C. Edge and David Fylstra, who wrote and performed all of...

Monolord return with their fourth full-length epic, bringing more Doom and shifting, heavy riffs, shaking the Earth to its foundations....

This week the Wizard turns his magical gaze upon a four-song collection called Scorn Coalescence, which features two brutal bands from...

The Great War Sabaton The great modern purveyors of Power Metal return this year with an exemplary release. Sabaton sing songs about war...

Did you know that South Asia has a vibrant and bubbling Hardcore scene? It seems the cauldron of punk/metal is boiling and overflowing...

Euphoria Nanotech Independent Last night the Wizard was reflecting on his Life in Metal, going back over the decades and thinking about...

Allagash Cryptic Visions Independent Allagash crawled out of Canada a few years ago, a fully-equipped Metal band ready to rock and roll,...

Pathetic Rat King Independent This one crawls out of the gate covered in grease and blood, slithering along, serpentine and ugly as hell....

Snogg Chhinnamasta Self-Released Snogg hail from Slovenia and are a duo that has so far released a demo and three short releases....

Darkthrone Old Star Peaceville Records Darkthrone has become the new Motorhead, bringing the world quality new releases every few years...