Best Music Review

South Carolina USDM War Machine LECHEROUS NOCTURNE will release their third full length album, Behold Almighty Doctrine, on March 19th via U...

Or: why the "change" pocket in cargo shorts is truly, genuinely great and useful: Said pocket holds an iPod nano nearly perfectly,...

The first time I heard the phrase “Nine Pound Gun” was when I was partridge and pheasant hunting near the Madison River in Montana.  As we p...

As of the date of my submission, there's no downloadable content available from Sleep. Which means I have to stream it to hear it at all...

Alestorm's genre was listed as Scottish Pirate Metal. I am not kidding you. This is possibly the coolest, weirdest thing I have ever had...

There I was - an American in Barcelona in the late 1970’s.  I paid for a small habitación off Las Ramblas.  The city was, and is, a dizzying...

Acephalix' last full-length, Interminable Night, was my no. 7 album of last year, so I was excited to hear this one. It's very simil...

  Black Earth.  Dwell on the words for a second.  Imagine it.  Inhale it.  Feel it in your hands. Black.  Rich.  Pungent.  Dirty.  Fertile. ...

Hailing from the Midwest, (I’ve seen that they are from Kansas and Kansas City, and there is a Kansas City, Kansas, so both could be right),...

If you like faster Sabbath-rock that hails from the realm of Acid King and Sleep, then Dark Earth is something you'd dig.  The demo is o...

So here's my thesis: Death/grind is the new thrash metal, updated from around 1985, to now: it's sophisticated in terms of musical s...

  I went to a metal show last night and it just hit me how much I really love metal.  I hadn’t been to a show for a while, as I’ve mostly b...

  In many ways, apb is as responsible for The Ripple Effect coming into existence as any band out there. I don't know when it was that ...

“Did you talk to the guy Penfold?” “You mean the wizened old metal head who hangs out down by the arts district?” “Yeah, the old head.  Did ...

Deep breathe now, mates, prepare yourselves. My name is Gorgeous Nightmare, and I......am a One Directioner. I do not deny it, I love One Di...

“This is the soundtrack to your worst nightmare: Life”.  So says the press release accompanying this album from French black metallers H...

The Eternal Fall is a very strange band. I loved half the album and didn't like the other half at all. The great songs are light, punky ...

  The music coming out this year has been nothing short of incredible and really hard to keep up with. I'm behind at least a couple mont...

I would think the purpose of sending out a blanket blast of promos is to get someone’s attention, get your album reviewed, and use that pres...

Only one month into the year and I already have my #1 album of 2012. What's a heavy music fan to do? Enjoy it for the rest of my life, t...