CD Review: “The Deviant Chord” by Jag Panzer
Jag Panzer storms the battlefield with its first album in six years. The Deviant Chord is replete with soaring vocals and stellar guitar virtuosity. I admit that power metal is my least favorite sub-genre in heavy metal, but Jag Panzer always possessed a ...
CD Review: “Deep Calleth Upon Deep” by Satyricon
Legendary Norwegian black metal duo Satyricon are back with Deep Calleth Upon Deep, its ninth studio album. “Midnight Serpent” opens with a rollicking guitar riff over a demonic circus of blast beats. It is evil black n' roll with Satyr's harsh vocals sou ...
CD Review: “Love From With The Dead” by With The Dead
The ear piercing, distortion on “Isolation” opens up the second slab of doom released by With The Dead. The lumbering riffs and plodding drums meander like a blind giant in a forest. It is a fitting way to kick things off on Love From With The Dead. “Egyp ...
Fox’s ‘The Orville’ Makes Its Inaugural Flight
For Fox, getting a two-week jump on the relaunch of the Star Trek franchise (with Star Trek: Discovery leaving space dock on CBS on September 24) with its own futuristic space saga comedy The Orville is probably a good thing. It gives this new property a ...
‘Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities’ by Alter Bridge
Earlier this year, I had the honor to cover one of my favorite bands, Alter Bridge, at a concert they were playing nearby. When I arrived, the line was wrapped around the block, and that was five minutes after the doors had opened. And this wasn ...
‘Black Smoke Rising’ EP by Greta Van Fleet
In the village of Frankenmuth, Michigan, just North of Detroit, four young men calling themselves Greta Van Fleet are re-imagining the British Invasion. Not in the sense of Paul Revere (or Sybil Ludington, if you’d prefer), but the British Invasion of t ...
Matchbox Twenty and Counting Crows at the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta
A capacity crowd filled the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta on Sunday, August 13, to be transported back to the 90s and early 2000s. The A Brief History of Everything Tour is being co headlined by Matchbox Twenty and Counting Crows. The bands are alterna ...
Nickelback, Daughtry, and Shaman’s Harvest at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Atlanta
Thousands of people packed the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre on Wednesday, August 2, to rock out for hours. Nickelback is joined on their Feed the Machine tour by Daughtry (a band fronted by Chris Daughtry, former fourth place finisher on American Idol in ...
CD Review: “Profane Nexus” by Incantation
You can never underestimate the old guard. Incantation has spewed blasphemous, twisted death metal for 28 years. The band's blend of death and gothic sludge has placed it in the upper echelons of extreme metal. After a six year hiatus, Incantation showed ...
CD Review: “Ascension Gate” by Dawn of Disease
German death metal quintet Dawn of Disease unleash its fourth album Ascension Gate only a year after its predecessor, Worship The Grave. Ascension is an amalgam of melodicism, brutal blast beats and melancholic doom riffs. The Swedish metal influence is a ...