Album Reviews

Creeping out of the silence ever so slowly, the violin that triggers the first few strands of a melody in Steel Blossoms’ “Revenge” might not present us with very much at the onset of the song, but what it will create with the other components of this amazing new single …

Billy Droze’s new album, simply titled Renaissance, is powered by big strings and even bigger vocal melodies from Droze himself, and it doesn’t take much more than a cursory inspection of its opening track, “Coal Fed Train,” to get swept away by its chunky instrumental presence and slick serenades, which are …

  If you were looking for new metal music to fall in love with, then the debut album by Magg Dylan called Amethyst is right for you. This 10-tracks record is set to be released on February 21, 2020. The Virginia-Beach based alternative metal band has been around since 2017 …

Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene lead off their third release City of Love with the album’s title track as the first single. This, in and of itself, is a rather assertive statement. Listeners traditionally consider title songs centerpiece numbers on a release, definitive tracks of a sort, and leading the way …

Christmas isn’t just a time for shopping and vivid lights outside homes. It’s a time, as well, when musical acts of various styles feel the festive spirit as well and release songs and albums with a Yuletide theme. Dallas String Quartet, however, haven’t recorded your typical holiday release. The synthesis …

In his latest single, titled “When You Think No One Loves You,” Canada’s David Leask doesn’t really tell us anything that we already didn’t know about his personality as a performer, but you could make the argument that, at this stage in his career, he doesn’t really need to. With …

Vocalist Kelly Keeling describes a dismal landscape in the first few lines of Carmine Appice’s new single “Nobody Knew,” a cut off of the freshly-reissued album Guitar Zeus, and every word he sings is made stinging by the backdrop of lush strings being plucked and strummed by the one and only Brian …

Driven by a mixture of Hüsker Dü-esque vocal harmonies and a rollicking groove steeped in alternative rock fuzz, “Sweet Nothings,” one of the cornerstone tracks in The Persian Leaps’ new album Electric Living, sweeps through the speakers and commands the attention of anyone within earshot of its aggressive thrust. Much like …

If you’ve ever pondered what mixing suffocating riffs, chugging harmonies, self-aware poetry and punishingly strong amounts of noise would sound like in a ten-track LP, Parker Longbough has an answer that you’d be wise to take note of in his latest album, the uncompromisingly heavy Green and Gold/Drink the Hemlock. Green and …

Peter Ulrich has a small but secure place in musical history. Ulrich played as drummer for Dead Can Dance during the band’s halcyon 1980’s period and, as such, helped contribute to their sound. He has since written, recorded, and released a number of solo efforts before founding The Peter Ulrich …

Jupiter in Velvet has long since carved out his own unique niche in the modern music world as a purveyor of guitar fueled rock borrowing much from psychedelic predecessors like Hendrix, The Beatles, and more modern performers like Prince. Despite the obvious influences in his songwriting and visual presentation, Velvet …

Creeping through the shadows like a thief in the night, we find an evocative melody suffocated by middle and bass at the onset of B Fhukken Have’s “XIXXCI” that will grow in size and strength in the next few minutes of play, though not without the leading vocal of B …