Record Reviews

A quarter of a century into their career, California punksters U.S. Bombs are back with two new releases.

Todd Michael Hall has a new solo album out on which he presents a different side of himself: a storytelling singer-songwriter in the great classic American rock tradition.

British rockers Thunder are back with a scaled-back and mostly acoustic EP release ahead of their Japan tour.

Legendary drumming brothers Carmine and Vinny Appice have finally made a splendid classic hard rock album together and with a little help from their industry friends.

Korrupt combines energetic Norwegian shout-along punk with hardcore on its debut album.

It took them three decades, but thrash metal band Ice Age from Gothenburg has finally released a splendid debut album filled with fab guitar riffing and Sabrina Kihlstrand’s commanding voice.

Motörised rock classics delivered from beyond the grave. Long live Lemmy!

CyHra – a new dawn for former Amaranthe and In Flames members who return with a terrific modern and melodic metal album.

American Mafia returns with “Made in New York”, a great American-sounding melodic rock EP.

Dani Filth and his Cradle of Filth are back with a hard-hitting album full of drama as well as bombastic and fabulously twisted metal.

Swedish symphonic extreme metal band Zornheym, led by former Dark Funeral guitarist Zorn, has arrived on the scene with a splendid debut album full of drama.

Helmuth Lehner, Austria’s master of dark ceremonies, is back with gloriously heavy and dark extreme metal on the new Belphegor album.