Music Reviews

For the past 35 years, Meshuggah has set their place in metal history as a groundbreaking, trailblazing band that has continually set the bar higher for technicality and creativity. Their brand of metal expands beyond sonic barriers to the point that no one subgenre of metal can fully define them, and since the release of…

6 years by today’s standards is a hell of a long time to wait for an album, but for many Red Hot Chili Peppers fans this wait was worth it. Three years had gone by since the release of the Chilis’ last LP The Getaway when the band dropped an early Christmas present at the…

Scorpions were one of the most integral and influential bands of the ‘80s; a band with a booming sound and leather-clad aesthetic that was perfectly exemplary of the arena rock and heavy metal genres without overkilling it as some bands did. Their glory days were a fun time for rock and roll as a whole,…

Music from the PNW that isn’t grunge or some kind of obscure indie rock? Yes, it is a thing, and The Devils of Loudun prove it! The Seattle-based death metal act is now three records in (more like two if you combine the two five-track releases that came before) and has carved out a distinguished…

The last full-length studio release we saw from Slash was 2018’s Living The Dream, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been keeping himself busy. In between legs of the lengthy Not In This Lifetime reunion tour with Guns N’ Roses, he embarked on numerous solo dates with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, with Kennedy redirecting…

Two and a half years have gone by since Korn’s last release The Nothing and much has transpired in that time. There’s the constant cancelling and rescheduling of shows for starters, then the hiatus of Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu that began before their last tour due to personal issues. On the bright side, Jonathan Davis has…

2021 has been a busy year for Of Mice & Men. They started the year off by severing from their contract with Rise Records and signing with SharpTone, announcing their first EP Timeless that would be released in late February with a single of the same name being released two weeks in advance. They followed…

The digitization of the music industry over the last 20-plus years has lead to some interesting developments, and the rate at which the business is changing will only continue to accelerate. One of the more exciting developments is the way in which independent artists can leverage platforms like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok to build fanbases…

Guitar heroes in rock and metal have grown fewer by the year since the axe-slingers of the ‘80s took Eddie Van Halen-style shredding to the point of overkill and were largely washed away by the minimalism of grunge. It’s yet to be determined whether anyone will emerge in the future that will achieve the same…

Nearly 20 years since Remission, Mastodon remain one of the more engaging and constantly evolving bands in contemporary metal. Their alt-prog-sludge-metal sonic stew has brought them countless accolades as trailblazers by fans and peers alike, and their refusal to define themselves stylistically allows them to keep expanding beyond the usual confines of a run-of-the-mill 21st…