Rebel Wizard – The Warning of One EP
This thing tears through you like a beast possessed, doing in roughly fifteen minutes the kind of sonic damage it takes some bands a full hour to deal out.
Portrait – Burn the World (Review and Interview)
Burn the World is a dark romp through the metal of three and a half decades ago, played immaculately, but with some serious fire.
Candle – Demo 2016 (Review and Interview)
See that guy? The one who looks a little dangerous? That is the personification of Candle.
Venomous Maximus – No Warning
Repeated distorted low riffs, combined with varying hard rock grooves make for a great setting of a void.
The Wizards – Full Moon in Scorpio (plus Interview)
Sometimes bands that so clearly worship another time and place in musical history end up as pale shadows of their idols. Not so with The Wizards. They hold there own. Full Moon in Scorpio blew me away right from the opening riffs.
Iron Magazine – Queen of Hell
Queen of Hell sounds like it’s fresh off the time machine from the 1980s.
SONG OF THE WEEK: Night Demon – The Chalice
Check out The Chalice in all of its ritualistic glory below, and then move on and discover the rest of the EP.
Sumerlands – Sumerlands
They remind me of the better bands of that generation before it went full hair metal, with even a touch of NWOBHM in the mix. Instead, they are really the new wave of American heavy metal.
Guitar Force – Different Universe
Altogether, with these elements, you have a very good sounding heavy metal band that I could listen to on my way to work, getting hyped for a workout, or just making every day epic!
Motorowl – Om Generator
The album Om Generator is filled with some great feelings of nostalgia and new twists that make for a good album.