ife is the eleventh studio album by the Italian Progressive Metal act DGM. It was written primarily by guitarist and producer Simone Mularoni over the course of two years. Life was released on November 17, 2023 through Frontiers Music...
Review: SOLEDRIVER – Return Me To Light (2023)
OLEDRIVER is the latest project by STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet and EDGE OF FOREVER mastermind Alessandro Del Vecchio. While the two have collaborated on prior Frontiers Music projects ICONIC and SUNBOMB, this is their first collaboration that features the duo exclusively...
Review: SEVENDUST – Seven of Sevendust (2023)
BMG recently released an extensive box set by Heavy Metal mainstays SEVENDUST. Seven of Sevendust comes in two configurations; a 7-CD set and a 9-LP set. This collection covers the band's studio work from 2005-2015...
Review: ALICE COOPER – Road (2023)
Road is the latest album by legendary rocker ALICE COOPER. It is his 29th studio album overall, and the first album written and recorded with his current live band; guitarist Ryan Roxie, bassist Chuck Garric, guitarist Nita Strauss, drummer Glen Sobel, and guitarist Tommy Henriksen. Road was produced by longtime Alice Cooper collaborator Bob Ezrin...
Review: U.D.O. – Touchdown (2023)
Touchdown is the eighteenth studio album by German Heavy Metal mainstays U.D.O. Vocalist Udo Dirkschneider is flanked by his son Sven Dirkschnider on drums, Andrey Smirnov & Fabian Dee Dammers on guitar, and ex-ACCEPT bandmate Peter Baltes on bass. Baltes has worked with Dirkschneider in the past in different capacities, but his membership in U.D.O. is now official...
Review: BLAZE BAYLEY – Damaged Strange Different And Live (2023)
In 2021, the album War Within Me brought me back to BLAZE BAYLEY. I hadn't heard an album by the one-time IRON MAIDEN frontman since Tenth Dimension in 2002. It wasn't because I didn't like BLAZE BAILEY, but likely because there were other artists I liked more. We're talking pre-streaming here, so you had to pick and choose your music back in my day kiddos...
Review: Y & T – Yesterday and Today Live (2023)
Originally released in 1991, Yesterday and Today Live (Expanded Edition) has recently been re-released by Metal Blade Records on various multi-colored vinyl, double CD, and digital streaming. The expanded edition features two live performances left off the original release, "Earth Shaker" and "Rescue Me"....
Review: SCORPIONS – Colours of Rock [Vinyl Reissues 1974-1978] (2023)
In conjunction with the SCORPIONS 2023 European tour, BMG is reissuing twelve key album's that helped define the German group's legacy. These albums will be released on colored vinyl with some being remastered from the original tapes for the first time ever. The first wave of releases focus on the SCORPIONS formative years...
Review: JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13 – Crash of Life (2023)
Guitarist extraordinaire Joel Hoekstra (WHITESNAKE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) is back with Crash of Life, his third studio album under the JOEL HOEKSTRA'S 13 banner. Joining Hoekstra once again...
Review: GLORYHAMMER Return To The Kingdom Of Fife (2023)
Hailing from the no-so-distance Kingdom of Fife, the mighty GLORYHAMMER have returned with another album loaded with power, majesty, and adventure. Return to the Kingdom of Fife is the band's fourth studio album, and a call back to their decade old debut album Kingdom of The Fife (2013)...