L.A. Guns – Hollywood Forever
The first half of 2012 brings a new L.A. Guns studio album. Since there are two versions of the band I suppose we should let you know which version this is. The Phil Lewis and Steve Riley version of L.A. Guns have More...
Saxon – Heavy Metal Thunder – Live Eagles Over Wacken DVD/CD
Saxon regained their footing with 2004‘s Lionheart album, since then the band has been hell bent on reconquering the world. While it’s been easier to do so across Europe the United States in another story. Here More...
Legacy of Disorder – Last Man Standing
When the new album by New Zealand’s Legacy of Disorder titled Last Man Standing arrived, I didn’t know what to really expect. Would Legacy of Disorder be another in a line of forgettable cookie-cutter post nu-metal More...
The Cult – Choice of Weapon
After a releasing the uninspiring Born into This The Cult have returned. I’m surprised that The Cult has released a full-length album since singer Ian Astbury vowed that they “wouldn’t do this” again. More...
Malice – New Breed of Godz
In this day and age when a metal band ‘attempts’ a re-launch the results could be horrendous, embarrassing or both. A recent example of how to do it ‘right’ is Accept; who after a lengthy recording hiatus More...
Kill Devil Hill – Kill Devil Hill
Drummer extraordinaire Vinny Appice has put together his post first Heaven & Hell project with singer Dewey Bragg and guitarist Mark Zavon. Bragg is best known for his work with the Texas based groove metal More...
Primal Rock Rebellion – Awoken Broken
Primal Rock Rebellion is the latest project by guitarist Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden and vocalist Mikee Goodman of SikTh their debut album is entitled Awoken Broken. Before you ask, this band is nothing like Iron More...
Ministry – Fix: The Ministry Movie
With a number of new Al Jourgenson related product coming out over the course of the past few weeks— it’s no surprise that Fix: The Ministry Movie which was released last fall has seen the light of day More...
Accept – Stalingrad
Accept made a comeback in 2010 in a huge way with Blood of the Nations – the album proved that Wolf Hoffmann and Co. could press forward without original singer Udo Dirschneider, who refused to take part in More...
Cocaine Moustache – On The Mirror
Can you imagine if a band took their obsession with cocaine to an extreme whereby they included it in their name, their album’s artwork, the packaging and wrote about it in song ad nauseam? Well Cocaine Moustache More...
Ministry – Relapse
If you’re a regular reader of Rock Confidential you know that I laid into Al Jourgensen for his haphazardly put together ‘country’ project. I also accused the guy of executing a very obvious cash grab by releasing More...
Hysterica – The Art of Metal
Stockholm, Sweden’s Hysterica issued their debut album in 2009 entitled Metalwar. Hysterica are an all-female act who are as easy on the eyes as they are on the ears with with their anthemic, catchy, melodic, More...
