By Greg Prato On Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
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Anthrax – Worship Music

Anthrax fans have had no choice but to be very patient waiting for the arrival of the group’s tenth studio album overall, 2011′s Worship Music. Doubling as the first Anthrax studio album since 2003′s More...

By Greg Prato On Sunday, July 24th, 2011
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ZZ Top – Live In Germany 1980

Interestingly, while always priding themselves on being a kick-ass live band, ZZ Top never got around to issuing a full-length live album during their 1970s/1980s peak. But as they say, it’s better late than More...

By Greg Prato On Sunday, June 5th, 2011
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Nazareth – Bigdogz

Often times, when a veteran classic rock band tries to keep pace with the young pups and attempts a “stylistic makeover,” it spells disaster. Thankfully, rowdy Scottish rockers Nazareth know exactly More...

By Greg Prato On Thursday, March 24th, 2011
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Pushking – The World as We Love It

Star-studded rock albums can be a dicey affair, as quite often they can lack cohesion. But the set-up for the 2011 studio effort by Russian rockers Pushking, The World as We Love It, is an intriguing and promising More...

By Greg Prato On Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
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Heaven & Hell – Neon Nights

When Heaven & Hell took the stage on the evening of July 30, 2009 at the Wacken Open Air Festival, it was incomprehensible that this was to be the group’s final tour. The band had just issued a brand-new More...

By Greg Prato On Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
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Accept – Blood Of The Nations

The last time there was a new studio album from German headbangers Accept, it was 1996, and heavy metal was quite possibly at an all-time low — completely ignored by MTV (Headbanger’s Ball was off the More...

By Greg Prato On Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
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Murderdolls – Women and Children Last

Trash metal? Horror metal? Punk metal? B-movie metal? It’s hard to settle on a single description for the Murderdolls. But after hearing their sophomore effort, 2010′s Women and Children Last, any of More...

By Greg Prato On Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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Airbourne – No Guts. No Glory.

Take a look around the hard rock landscape ever since the early ’90s, and there has been an unmistakable lack of “manly metal bands.” But with the emergence of acts like Airbourne, the aforementioned More...