Taking my annual Spring vacation from the blog, but I will return May 1st to regale you with all the latest tales of sex, drugs and debauc...

If you had seen or experienced some of the crazy low temperatures these Chicagoans had experienced during the cold snap of 2018-19, then y...

I'm a sucker for a distinct logo, and Germans Carthaun have one that instantly stood out to me, a little hard to make out at first, b...

While Black Hearse Serenade was a sizable improvement over the first 'reunion' era album from I.N.C. , Terrible Things is a bit ...

While they were never in contention as being one of the better East Coast thrash bands in the 80s, the  Indestructible Noise Command was ...

There was a little disconnect for me between the packaging and musical contents of Solstices ; where the lavish, beautiful cover artwork s...

Grand œuvre takes almost no time enveloping the listener in swaths of mysterious atmospherics, the haunting, melancholic guitars that intr...

I suppose after the triumphant  Condition Hüman three years ago, my favorite  Queensrÿche record in the 27 years leading up to it, I was ...

The last decade of Overkill  studio albums have suffered a little bit from an interchangeability issue, in that you could lift a few track...

The Live in Overhausen double-live record is a fairly interesting concept...while a lot of veteran bands have been touring off performanc...