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Disturbed – Asylum

Disturbed – Asylum

Disturbed is back with their fifth studio album, “Asylum,” and the band shows it is a metal band with a conscience. The first single off Asylum is “Another Way to Die,” featuring front man David Drainman’s signature mix of hard,...

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

When Iron Maiden’s classic lineup famously reunited in the year 2000, their first new album, the quite excellent Brave New World, neatly reconnected both musicians and fans with the band’s heritage, while simultaneously promising a prosperous future still to come....

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare

Following the death of Avenged Sevenfold drummer James “The Reverend” Sullivan in 2009, the band marched on, enlisting the help of Sullivan’s drumming hero, Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy, for their fifth studio album Nightmare. Luckily, the sound of the band...

Buckcherry – All Night Long

Buckcherry – All Night Long

Buckcherry couldn’t send a stronger signal with the opening pair of “All Night Long” and “It’s a Party” on their fifth album, All Night Long: the band has bounced back from the murky hangover of Black Butterfly with yet another...

‘Growing Up Twisted’ – Episodes 1 & 2

‘Growing Up Twisted’ – Episodes 1 & 2

An undeniable presence in the 1980s, Dee Snider is instantly recognizable as the front man of heavy metal band Twisted Sister. But really, he’s just one of six – a regular guy navigating life in the suburbs of New York...

Joe Elliott – My Regeneration

Joe Elliott – My Regeneration

Let there be no doubt of Joe Elliott’s deep love of Mott the Hoople. Who else would — or could — craft an album-length salute to the music the group made after Ian Hunter left, rounding up highlights from Hunter’s...

Hellyeah – Stampede

Hellyeah – Stampede

Bringing together members of Damageplan, Pantera, Nothingface, and Mudvayne, Hellyeah are as close to a groove metal supergroup as the world has seen since Down. Given Hellyeah’s pedigree, it comes as no surprise that their second album, Stampede, is an...

Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth

Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth

Danzig’s first album of new material in six years stays true to its creator’s punk roots by returning to the sludgy, borrowed amplifier cacophony of Samhain and Legacy of Brutality-era Misfits. Deth Red Sabaoth sounds like what a lot of...

Ozzy Osbourne – Scream

Ozzy Osbourne – Scream

Ozzy Osbourne’s tenth studio album was originally called Soul Sucka before fans shut the working title down. The resulting Scream may not win any awards for brain cell power as far as titles go, but the 11 tracks contained within...

Vince Neil – Tattoos & Tequila

Vince Neil – Tattoos & Tequila

Look, I’m not going to beat around the bush here. Tattoos & Tequila is the most fun record Vince Neil has been involved in since Exposed – maybe even Dr. Feelgood. Sure, it’s almost 100% cover songs, but Vince does...

Krokus – Hoodoo

Krokus – Hoodoo

The best AC/DC impersonators in the world are back, and they’re rocking as hard as ever. Hoodoo was hailed as a comeback album for Krokus, but for a band that was established in 1974 and went through a number of...

Godsmack – The Oracle

Godsmack – The Oracle

Four long years after IV, Godsmack’s last effort, fans perhaps had some reason for trepidation about the release of The Oracle. After all, since their 1998 debut, they had moved further afield of the songwriting and recording formula that made...

Airbourne – No Guts. No Glory.

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 genre has certainly been given new...

Ratt – Infestation

Ratt – Infestation

Ratt’s first album in 11 years and their seventh overall (1997′s Collage is a generally disowned odds-and-sods affair), 2010′s Infestation turned the page on a decade-long nightmare for the ‘80s glam metal legends; a decade that was rife with personal...

Peter Frampton – Thank You Mr. Churchill

Peter Frampton – Thank You Mr. Churchill

Peter Frampton releases records so rarely that he’s almost forced to plainly admit their themes in the titles: 2003′s Now dealt with the present while its 2010 successor, Thank You Mr. Churchill, casts an eye toward the past, Frampton piecing...

Jeff Beck – Emotion & Commotion

Jeff Beck – Emotion & Commotion

When Jeff Beck last ventured into the studio it was to cut 2003′s Jeff, a deliberately modernist album steeped in electronica, to which 2010′s Emotion & Commotion almost feels like a refutation. Working with producers Steve Lipson and Trevor Horn,...


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