It seems to be a week for female-fronted bands for me. First the Missbehaviour compilation, then Arch Enemy, now Widow. Though I’m not familiar with their previous album, On Fire is the band’s second album, following up 2004’s Midnight Strikes. The band came together over their love of horror, and that love is evident just […]

A while back I wrote a review for a pretty bad album by Hellfire that said listeners might find some 1980s nostalgia in it, but here’s a much better way to get your fix of ’80s style melodic metal. This is the third album for Finland’s Thunderstone, and it will certainly conjure comparisons to fellow […]

Quite frankly, the angelic soprano singing over metal riffs is getting a little old to me. Most of the time the bands that are doing it are doing it in an attempt to offer something different (at this point, it’s not really) and the vocals don’t really jibe with the music. But I know there […]

Let’s put aside the pretentious subtitle of this record because it’s almost to easy to take shots at it. (And considering the quality of most tribute albums, how hard is it really to be the world’s greatest?) In fact, it may live up to its billing. It’s certainly the best of the several Ozzy tributes […]

So this is the debut of Jada Pinkett Smith’s metal band.OK, for the two of you still reading this review, the biggest problem with this record, as you might guess, is the fact that it’s not believable on any level. The band’s OK. They play a fairly solid version of nu-metal, but Smith sounds like, […]

Winter’s Bane hasn’t been one of the luckiest bands in the world. After releasing their very solid melodic power metal debut Heart of a Killer in 1993, they soon lost their lead singer – a guy by the name of Tim Owens, better known as “Ripper.” Guitarist Lou St. Paul took over the vocal duties on […]

I’ve read a lot of stellar reviews of the latest record from folk/Viking/pagan outfit Tyr, so I was anxious to hear it, and if I’m being quite honest, I’m a little disappointed. While I can appreciate a lot of the things that they do, and there are certainly some quite good moments on the record, […]