Record Reviews

Swedish symphonic extreme metal band Zornheym revisits the asylum and its twisted characters on its splendid new album.

Alcatrazz, now with the terrific Doogie White on vocals, delivers a smashing fifth studio album.

Henrik Nygren serves us another delicious melodic death metal Carchosa pizza from Malmö.

Ex-Judas Priest men KK Downing and Tim “Ripper” Owens carry on the Priest legacy with KK’s Priest.

Meat-and-potatoes thrash metal from Germany.

Very promising extreme metal from London. Cult Burial is heading deeper down the underground on its new EP.

Former Accept frontman David Reece is not stuck in the past on his great new album.

Udo Dirkschneider is still the same old Udo on the new U.D.O. album.

Hellhound consists of dedicated Japanese metalheads on a mission.

Extreme metal band Aborted’s new album continues an excellent and sinister musical journey deep into the abyss.

Stockholm-based black metal band Hladomrak returns with a new album full of splendid chaos and darkness.

Lars Eng is back with a new The Lightbringer of Sweden single. “Free the Angels” is European power metal at its best.

Atmospheric black metal from the wild forests of the State of Washington.