Month: March 2021

Los Angeles’ Metal Church stand as one of the most innovated and unfortunately, one of the underappreciated heavy metal bands of the 1980’s. And ‘The Dark’, their second album, is without any doubt, the masterpiece of their hard-driven air-guitar assault. Every track on this album, from the “Ton Of Bricks” attacking your ears at the beginning, to the incredible lament of “Watch The Children Pray” halfway through, right to the equally melodic and pounding “Burial At Sea” and “Western Alliance” at the end, is a classic. David Wayne’s vocals did a great job on ‘The Dark’, giving the album a no-nonsense metal consistency and quality.

01 Ton Of Bricks
02 Start The Fire<

Hailing from Rome, Italy, ScreamMachine is a driving heavy metal force. Armed and dangerous with molten metal riffs, the quintent is ready to take the world by storm with their blazing sound inspired by titans like Judas Priest, Metallica, Iced Earth, Savatage, and Accept. Even if the guys from ScreaMachine are in love with that legendary 80’s metal sound, they are not living in the past. Their aim is to deliver an aggressive and traditional heavy metal sound blended with a modern production and songwriting.

01 Demondome
02 The Metal Monster
03 The Human God
04 Darksteel
05 Mistress Of Disaster
06 52hz
07 Wisdom Of The Ages
08 Silver Fever
09 Dancing With Shadows
10 Scream Machine

John Cyriis’s Agent Steel return to Earth from their long intergalactic journey! “No Godz Before Me” is the first studio outing for John Cyriis since “Unstoppable Force” in 1987! This album is a stunning return, John Cyriis vocals pierce the very fabric of the galaxy. This is true Agent Steel, speed metal at its finest with the master of the universe at the helm….. Enjoy the journey!

01 Passage To Afron-v
02 Crypts Of Galactic Damnation
03 No Other Godz
04 Trespassers
05 The Devil’s Greatest Trick
06 Sonata Cosmica
07 Veterans Of Disaster
08 Carousel Of Vagrant Souls
09 The Incident
10 Outer Space Connection
11 Entrance To Afron-v

Elements of blackened death, left-field thrash and grandiose symphonic metal are all present and correct, but Cryptosis have combined them in an exhilarating, unprecedented new form that promises to satisfy on both primal and cerebral levels. Cryptosis are what happens when metal is allowed to evolve, to expand and to breathe. An invigorating shot in the arm for the entire metal scene.

01 Overture 2149
02 Decypher
03 Death Technology
04 Prospect Of Immortality
05 Transcendence
06 Perpetual Motion
07 Conjuring The Egoist
08 Game Of Souls
09 Mindscape
10 Flux Divergence

The album marks a shift musically from Sylvan’s previous outing focusing more on the lyrics and vocals in tandem with gorgeous orchestration and timely melodies.

01 The Second Coming
02 Sailing To Byzantium
03 Cap And Bells
04 The Realists
05 The Stolen Child
06 To An Isle In The Water
07 The Hawk
08 The Witch And The Mermaid
09 The Fisherman
10 You’ve Got To Find A Way
11 To A Child Dancing In The Wind

Smith/Kotze n is the exciting partnership between guitarists and vocalists Adrian Smith ( IRON MAIDEN ) and Richie Kotzen ( The Winery Dogs, Poison ). Part-time neighbors in LA, full-time friends with a healthy mutual respect their music is reminiscent of the classic rock bands of the 70’s updated with crisp hooks, harmonies and pure guitar virtuosity. The debut single Taking My Chances sets the tone for this electrifying collaboration between these two much admired rock music trailblazers.

01 Taking My Chances
02R unning
03 Scars
04 Some People
05 Glory Road
06 Solar Fire
07 You Don’t Know Me
08 I Wanna Stay
09 Til Tomorrow

Four years after their orchestral album “Synthesis,” Evanescence will finally return from the studio in 2021 with a new long player: “The Bitter Truth” is album number five.

The American alternative rock band recorded twelve songs for it. The production of the record was taken over by Nick Raskulinecz, an old acquaintance. He was already behind the controls for the 2011 album “Evanescence.

01 Artifact/the Turn
02 Broken Pieces Shine
03 The Game Is Over
04 Yeah Right
05 Feeding The Dark
06 Wasted On You
07 Better Without You
08 Use My Voice
09 Take Cover
10 Far From Heaven
11 Part Of Me
12 Blind Belief