Miss May I Hits Hard With “Highbrow Thieves”
Miss May I continues to make the case that No Place For Me could be one of the band's heaviest releases in years with...
Wolves At The Gate – “Letterkills” Single Review
Wolves At The Gate waste absolutely no time on their new single “Letterkills.” Crushing riffs kick off the song and immediately establish the heaviness...
A Skylit Drive – “Half Hearted” Review
A Skylit Drive are proving they are far from finished. Their new single, “Half Hearted,” kicks off another chapter for the veteran post-hardcore band...
SABATON – “Templars” feat. Pop Evil
Sabaton is history power metal at its best, and “Templars” is another example of why they continue to set the standard for the genre.
Originally...
World Famous Pets Bring the Fun on Their Self-Titled Album
There are some albums where you can tell pretty quickly that the people making them were having a genuinely good time. World Famous Pets...
Moonshine Zombies – “Run Malcom Run”
Kentucky’s Moonshine Zombies come out swinging with “Run Malcom Run,” a hard-driving Southern rock track that has plenty of grit, attitude, and personality.
One of...
ACCEPT Revisit “Losers and Winners” With an All-Star Heavy Metal Lineup
ACCEPT are celebrating 50 years by digging into their massive catalog and giving some of their best-known songs a fresh coat of steel. The...
Lacey Sturm – “Forever & Ever” Featuring Lindsey Stirling
Lacey Sturm gives “Forever & Ever” new life with an official music video that pairs perfectly with the song’s mix of beauty, heaviness, and...
Bad Wolves Give Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” a Hard Hitting Metal Facelift
Some songs are so iconic that covering them can be a dangerous move. Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is one of those songs. Bad Wolves took...
Molly Hatchet Keep the Southern Rock Tradition Alive on “Dixie Highway”
Molly Hatchet have been carrying the flag for Southern rock for decades, and their new single “Dixie Highway” shows that the longtime rockers have...
KAMELOT Find Their “Sanctuary” With Clémentine Delauney and Ignacia Fernández
KAMELOT have added another great song to their already impressive catalog with “Sanctuary,” featuring Clémentine Delauney of Visions of Atlantis and Ignacia Fernández of...
Flotsam and Jetsam Hit Hard With “The Edge of Nowhere”
Thrash metal legends Flotsam and Jetsam are back with another bruising dose of old school aggression on “The Edge of Nowhere,” the third and...
156/Silence Pushes Metalcore Beyond Its Boundaries on From A Distance
Pittsburgh metalcore band 156/Silence returns with From A Distance, a 12 track album released September 4 through Pure Noise Records. It is the band's...
Yellowcard Delivers Classic Pop Punk Emotion on “Calvary Drive”
Yellowcard is back with another new track, “Calvary Drive,” and this is exactly what I would expect from this band. It is good, melodic...
Sent By Ravens Haven’t Missed a Beat on Comeback Single “A Quiet War”
After 14 years without new music, Sent By Ravens are back with “A Quiet War,” and it does not sound like a band trying...
Extol Hit Hard with New Single “The One and the Many”
Extol are back with “The One and the Many,” the first taste of their upcoming album Aura of Decay, due November 6 through Solid...
XIII Minutes: Seeing Is Deceiving
XIII Minutes continues to show just how much sound three musicians can create. Their new single, “Seeing Is Deceiving,” is heavy, powerful, and carries...
Zach Top Releases “Good Girls & Cowgirls” and “Other Side of Hurtin’”: A Perfect...
Zach Top is back with two new singles, “Good Girls & Cowgirls” and “Other Side of Hurtin’,” and once again, he proves why he...
The Mountain G.O.A.T. Has Earned His Crown
I’m just going to get this out of the way from the beginning: I love the f*ck out of this album.
There’s really no better...
Skillet Rises Above With Hard Hitting New Single “Lift Me Up”
Skillet has never been afraid to change.
Over nearly three decades, the band has gone through numerous musical shifts while continuing to build one of...
Wade Forster’s The Aftermath Finds Beauty in Heartbreak, Memory, and What Comes After
There are albums that grab you because they’re loud, catchy, or immediately impossible to get out of your head. Then there are albums that...
Wyatt Flores’ Scared of Heights Is An Emotional Journey Through Fear, Growth, and Finding...
I’ve been trying to write this review of Wyatt Flores’ Scared of Heights since it came out on July 31, and for some reason,...
Islander – “Dead Youth” (feat. Darby Allin) review
Review by Jimmy Sorrells
Some bands never lose the hunger that made people notice them in the first place. Islander is one of those bands....
Framing Hanley – Do You Feel Guilty Being Okay? Review
After more than two decades together, Framing Hanley continues to prove they have plenty left to say. Formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005, the...
Kevin Christopher hello God e.p. Review
Hailing from Greenville, South Carolina, Kevin Christopher is a singer-songwriter and worship leader whose music is created to glorify God. Drawing inspiration from his...
Evan Ryan Canady – Providence Review
Following the release of Trials and Tribulations, Evan Ryan Canady returns with Providence, an eight song album that boldly places Scripture at the center...
SUFFER NOT THE WITCH – Suffer Not The Witch EP
Jarrod Butler's solo project Suffer Not The Witch delivers three tracks of uncompromising Christian extreme metal that blend blackened aggression with a bold Gospel...
Braxton Keith is the Real Damn Deal
Braxton Keith’s Real Damn Deal is exactly what the title says it is. It's just straight-up country music that sounds like it was made...
Pipe Bomb – Hell Hole Vinyl Release
Philadelphia chaotic hardcore band Pipe Bomb just dropped one of the coolest underground vinyl releases I have seen in a while with Hell Hole...
Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen Deliver One of the Year’s Best Americana Albums
Ryan Bingham’s new album They Call Us The Lucky Ones honestly feels like the most natural record he’s made in a long time. Nothing...
The Milk Carton Kids Lost Cause Lover Fool: A Stripped-Down, Honest Folk Album That...
Lost Cause Lover Fool is a very straightforward, well-executed album from The Milk Carton Kids. They stick closely to what they do best, acoustic...
Emo Is Dead?
People say emo is dead. I don’t buy it.
Emotion Is Dead by The Juliana Theory still holds up just as strong today as it...
Is Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home Bodysnatcher’s Best Album Yet? (Review)
Bodysnatcher’s Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home feels like the band locking in and doing exactly what they know works, just heavier and more...
Pipe Bomb – Hell Hole
Pipe Bomb, the solo project of Mitchell Layton, delivers raw, Christ-centered chaotic metalcore that hits hard and refuses to let up. Drawing influence from...
Lamb of God’s Into Oblivion Proves the Metal Veterans Are Still at the Top...
Lamb of God have been one of the most consistent forces in modern metal for more than two decades, and their latest album, Into...
Sonny Sandoval – Sonny Dread album review
For more than three decades, Sonny Sandoval has been one of the most recognizable voices in heavy music, but reggae has always been part...
Jay Buchanan’s “Caroline” Opens the Door to a Stunning New Era
Jay Buchanan has always had one of the most powerful voices in rock, but “Caroline” shows a completely different side of him, and honestly,...
After More Than 10 Years, Wretched’s “Decay” Delivers Their Most Ambitious and Emotional Album...
It’s been over a decade since Cannibal tore through the metal underground, and the silence that followed left fans wondering if Wretched had become...
Talk Is Cheap But Fight From Within Back It Up
Since their formation in upstate New York in 2021, Fight From Within have carried themselves like a band with something to prove. Emerging from...
The Storytelling Brilliance of Josh Ritter on “I Believe in You, My Honeydew”
Josh Ritter has always had a way of writing songs that feel bigger than music. They are full of characters, stories, and moments. His...