Crowbar is on the road right now middling with four death metal bands. It is an odd lineup: Deterioration (grindcore), Left To Suffer (deathcore), Crowbar, Sanguisugabogg (death metal), Dying Fetus…

Folk rock band The Green Goblins release their self-titled debut album. The Green Goblins play the familiar Celtic folk ’n’ roll music rooted in Irish folk traditions modernized for audiences who l…

Tulsa trio Doctor Nez whip up the fuzz on their new record, Nothing Short Of Silver. Currently quartered in Colorado, Doctor Nez began in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nothing Short Of Silver is said to be “the…

The sixth studio album from Valley Of The Sun is The Blacklight Sessions. Valley Of The Sun started out on the banks of the Ohio River in 2010, or thereabouts. I first heard them a few years ago an…

Thrash legends Anthrax have a new album out, their dozenth, Cursum Perficio. Anthrax is a legendary thrash band that started out in New York in 1981. One of the biggest names in thrash, indeed in a…

London stoner doom band Green Lung fill another bowl with their latest album, Necropolitan. Green Lung began not even ten years ago in England. They are a doom band that makes generous use of an or…

Lexington death metal band Tombstalker bring out a new long-player, Chaos Monolith. Tombstalker came out swinging, releasing a demo and a split the year after they got together in 2008. The next ye…

Folk metal band Gåte have a new album on the way, Sigil. Gåte, from Trøndelag, Norway, have been together for more than a quarter century. Their new album, Sigil, is their first with the Season Of …

Psychedelic prog rockers Mr. Bison plant a seed with their new album, The Garden Of Forgotten Dreams. Mr. Bison formed in Tuscany around 2011, releasing their first EP that year, We Don’t Like Love…

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German psychedelic space rock trio The Spacelords present their new album Uranus Omnibus Sanctus. The Spacelords are an instrumental band that came together in 2008. Known for their long, spacey, p…

Suffering Quota release their fourth full-length album, Sisyphean Life. From the Netherlands, Suffering Quota is a grindcore band that has been prowling the earth since about 2009. The quartet is s…

King Black Acid puts out again with a new album, Telling Secrets In A Crowded Room. The press release tells us “Daniel Riddle’s musical voyage first began to take some shape in the band Indigo Zero…

Gdańsk black metal legends Behemoth have a new album out, I, Scvlptor. Poland has long been fertile ground for heavy metal music, especially black metal. No bigger band has emerged from that land t…

The debut album from Chicago metal band Shrineburner is Hymns Of Despair. Shrineburner is from Chicago, and has been around for a few years. In 2024 they released their EP Solitude, and they follow…

Progressive death metal band Epitaphe release their third album, simply title III. Formed in France in 2009 with a slightly differently spelled name, Epitaphe is a progressive death metal band that…

When I think of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, I always think of Ronnie James Dio as the singer. In fact, Dio sang on fewer than half of the studio albums Rainbow released. Rainbow, or Ritchie Blackm…

Atlanta prog grunge band Moon Destroys release a new album, Omni. Formed just a few years back, Moon Destroys brings together veteran musicians from Torche, Gold Pyramid, and Abrams. Their music ha…

The debut studio album from Voodoo Queen is Violet Crown. Voodoo Queen is a fairly new band, having come together in France in the past few years. They have put out a few singles, and released at l…

Alt pop metalcore band In This Moment conjure a new album, Witch, for their mass of followers. Created in 2005, In This Moment produces music that could be labeled in many ways. Truly, it is melodi…

Prog metal masters Mastodon return with an epic masterpiece, Marrow Deep. From Atlanta, Mastodon formed in the year 2000. Their first LP, Remission (2002), flew a little bit under the radar, but by…

Louisiana duo Fane present a new doom album, Armageddon Scars. Fane has been around for a few years. It is easy to confuse them with another band of the same name from Buffalo. This one, though, is…

Maryland death thrashers Ninth Realm let loose with their second album, Damnation’s Veil. Ninth Realm got going around 2018, and they have been laying down studio tracks steadily ever since. So far…

The new album from Grace Potter is Trespasser. Grace Potter is from Waitsfield, Vermont, and she now lives in California most of the time. Her early musical success was with Grace Potter and the No…

The Snakes ’n’ Ladders (1989) album was pivotal for Nazareth in that it was the final record where all four original members contributed. After this one, founding guitarist Manny Charlton would ret…

Florida stoner doom band Florist dredges the swamp for dank tunes to populate their new album, Adrift. Florist coagulated into a recognizable entity in 2023. The new record, Adrift, is their second…

London metalcore groovers Perpetual Paradox follow up last year’s LP with a new EP, May Misery Befall You. Perpetual Paradox is a metalcore band that leans toward hardcore and enjoys crossover elem…

The new album from jazz fusion improv band Giraffe, their debut, is The Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums. Giraffe’s music is said to exist between “cosmic psychedelia, improvised jazz, and explora…

Stoner doom band Argul release their debut LP, Soledad y Orgullo. Argul came together in Lima, Peru in 2014. They did not release any recordings (that I can find) until 2024, when they put out a fo…

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Memphis hard rock band Saliva bring out a new album, Breaking Through. Saliva formed more than a quarter of a century ago in Tennessee. In the early aughts, they had a couple of big singles, “Click…

I remember standing in a record store in 1980 talking to the manager about music (what else?) when he mentioned there was a new Nazareth album. I asked him what he thought about it, and he said the…

Finland’s dark metal goth band Soulgrind release their tenth album, Ad Polchram Mortem. Soulgrind started out in 1992 in Helsinki. The music they created initially lived in the doom and death metal…

Instrumental prog metallers Coyote Man release their second full-length album, Prosthetic Memories. Coyote Man is an instrumental power trio from Chicago. “Our aim is to make the listener more susc…

Nazareth’s best selling and best known album is Hair Of The Dog (1975), by a long shot. The fame of the record, in the US at least, is due to the least impressive song on the album, “Love Hurts,” a…

Columbus death metal doom agents Abyssal Rift release their second album, Relics Of Great Ash. I don’t know much about Abyssal Rift, except that they come from Columbus, Ohio, and their new record …

East Coast punk band The Iron Roses offer ten songs for the revolution on their latest album, Molotov Nights. I saw The Iron Roses for the first time in Las Vegas at Punk Rock Bowling and I became …

Hollywood Vampires take the stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival. As supergroups go, Hollywood Vampires is an odd one, comprised of two musicians and a movie star: Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Per…

Nazareth was an early hard rock band that occasionally dabbled in heavy metal. Forming in Dunfermline, Scotland in the late nineteen sixties and originally peopled by Dan McCafferty (vocals), Manny…

Nonpoint headlines Rock Lansing Music Fest as it returns on Saturday, August 1st. Gates open at 11am. Rock Lansing is an outdoor rock music festival located this year at Jackson Field (505 E. Michi…

Portland musical amalgamation Dry Wedding release a new album, The Back Of Beyond. You know, Portland, Oregon is a place where anything can happen. The only thing you really know when you hear a ba…

Dead Meadow release an album of rarities and covers, Foundlings. DC psychedelic rockers Dead Meadow came together in the nation’s capitol in 1998. Over the years they have released ten studio album…

UK post-rock duo Gudewife issue a new EP, Atoms, Don’t Die. Gudewife describe their new EP this way: “Atoms, Don’t Die is a meditation on loss. The title comes from a theory concerning the decay of…

Ddent release a new album of dark contemplative hybrid-post-metal, Feeding The Void’s Luster. Ddent (or DDENT or ddent) started out in 2010 initially as an instrumental project. Indeed, the band is…

Mongolian folk metal band The Hu return with a new album, Hun. The Hu formed in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, the capitol of Mongolian, becoming pioneers of the Hunnu rock genre. They have released a couple…

Black Sabbath’s 1986 album Seventh Star gets a new remastering from Warner Records. By 1985, Tony Iommi was the last man standing in Black Sabbath, the sole founding member remaining. He was not cl…

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Death metal band Fuming Mouth add a new prong to their pitchfork with their latest album, The Ringing Bell. Massachusetts crusty death metallers Fuming Mouth started banging the anvil in 2013. With…