I'm a massive whore for blackened speed and thrash metal, and I make no apologies for that, nor should any be necessary, whether we'...

Cannibal Corpse is one of those acts whose audience seems to always fluctuate between static appreciation and stagnant indifference, so it...

Beyond the fact that the A utopsy vs. Bloodbath split automatically warrants attention for featuring a pair of the genre's hottest comm...

While I don't take exception to records like Into the Unknown or 9 , which manage to channel most of Mercyful Fate 's positive qual...

  Off on my usual Summer vacation, but I will return in October for the annual horror metal reviews! Thanks to you fine folks for stopping b...

The idea of cover albums in power metal is no rarity; groups such as Hammerfall and Powerwolf have put out some pretty damn good collection...

The Best, The Rest, The Rare really walks the line between being a total label-driven bullshit retread compilation and something that was l...

Even with the advance knowledge that Helloween had adopted a silly side with tracks like "Dr. Stein", I saw the cover and title f...

Call of the Wild sadly doesn't offer up anything new or nuanced as far as the Powerwolf formula. From the songwriting to the very same...

Chameleon is widely considered the nadir of Helloween 's career, even more lowly than Pink Bubbles Go Ape , and I can entirely understa...