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MEGADETH – TH1RT3EN (Album Review)

It's no secret that I love MEGADETH, and I'll forever be grateful to Dave Mustaine for giving a 16-year-old kid (me) a chance to...

SLIPKNOT – IOWA 10th Anniversary Edition (Review)

I distinctly remember the morning of August 28, 2001. I was in a weird space at the time - technically unemployed, yet I still found...

LESS THAN JAKE – ANTHOLOGY (DVD Review)

When LESS THAN JAKE decides to put out a DVD, they don't just put out a DVD. For ANTHOLOGY, the long-running ska-punk outfit performed six albums in their entirety...

COME AS YOU ARE: A 20th Anniversary Tribute to NIRVANA’s NEVERMIND (Review)

There have already been a lot of track-for-track ''tribute'' albums released to celebrate NEVERMIND, the landmark album by NIRVANA. At least four strike my mind as...

DUB TRIO – IV (Album Review)

DUB TRIO's IV is easily one of my favorite records of 2011. Packing 40-minutes of music into a 9-track package, IV is a freight train of sound that...

MIKE PATTON – THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS (Music From The Film and Inspired By the Book) Review

I am indeed one of ''those people.'' Yes, ''those people'' that rabidly look forward to the release of anything involving FAITH NO MORE/TOMAHAWK/FANTOMAS/MR. BUNGLE/LOVEAGE/MONDO CANE/PEEPING TOM/countless...

STEEL PANTHER – BALLS OUT (Album Review)

A lot of people have said that STEEL PANTHER ''would've been huge'' had they hit the scene within the mid-late 80's hair metal boom. While entirely possible,...

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – AMERICAN CAPITALIST (Album Review)

If they didn't make it clear on 2009's WAR IS THE ANSWER, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH are a divisive outfit when it comes to their sonic merits....

EVILE – FIVE SERPENT’S TEETH (Album Review)

I've been sitting on a copy of FIVE SERPENT'S TEETH, the third album from UK thrashers EVILE since early September and almost feel a bit bad that...

LOU REED & METALLICA – LULU (Album Review)

Unsettling and uneasy would be two words to describe LULU, the forthcoming collaborative effort between former VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman LOU REED and ''Big 4'' topliners METALLICA. The...

Jeffrey NOTHING – THE NEW PSYCHODALIA (Album Review)

With THE NEW PSYCHODALIA (out this week via Suburban Noize Records), MUSHROOMHEAD's JEFFREY NOTHING brings listeners his first full-length solo effort. A few years in the...

FORREST DAY – Self-Titled (Album Review)

One of 2011's best albums arrived here completely unexpected and unsolicited a few weeks back. The self-titled debut from FORREST DAY was released this...

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