There’s a certain comfort that comes with a long, happy marriage. You come home to the same house, the same smell of your favorite meal permeating the rooms, the same dog wagging its tail in anticipation of a scratching session.…
There’s a moment in every long-standing band’s career when the audience collectively holds its breath. Halford quitting Judas Priest. Metallica cutting their hair. Nightwish writing Tarja a letter to let her know she’s out. When Primal Fear co-founder Mat Sinner…
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade since I stood in line at the bank, sweating through an unusually hot November day, when the kind of news you never expect dropped into my feed. Helloween are reuniting, with…
There’s a moment halfway through “WATCH OUT!” where everything starts spinning. Not metaphorically, not musically, but viscerally. The chorus swirls in psychedelic loops around your head, mirroring the “spinning in a circle” lyric so literally, so perfectly, it’s as if…
It begins, as all hauntings do, with a false sense of safety. A soft shimmer, a haunting children’s choir, and then Peacefield rolls in – an 80s-inspired opener that plays tricks on your memory, as though you’ve heard it somewhere…
It’s been three years since Slipknot released their last album, “We Are Not Your Kind.” During that time, the world has been dealing with a crisis unlike any in recent history, and the music industry has arguably suffered the most.…
It’s been a while since we’ve had a proper Blind Guardian album, but it was worth the wait. Their last offering, “Legacy of the Dark Lands,” was a departure from the band’s traditional heavy metal sound. Instead, the album labeled…
When Megadeth released their album “Dystopia” in 2016, many fans were taken aback. The album had a very different sound than their recent opus. It was clear that Dave Mustaine was trying to recapture the sound of their earlier albums,…