Vintage doom to power metal, mostly traditional heavy metal! This is the result of countless hours spent listening to these albums....

Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Sleaze, Southern & AOR ... everything goes! 2022 was by far the best year for rock music in the last three...

Rock & Metal albums with progressive music as the core element! Ranking the thirty best prog albums released this year was not an easy...

Genre-fluid non-traditional metal: pop to melodeath ... all at once! It takes real talent in order for musicians to be able to navigate...

Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Here we have twenty-five best examples of modern acts taking on the heyday sounds of...

Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock One of the oldest forms of secular music, "The Blues", is the pillar of much of the music we hear...

Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 6th (Extended) Edition. Many of these albums will climb high on this...

Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 5th (Extended) Edition. I've ditched this week's "... in the event...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 15th edition. Unfortunately I had no spare time to write individual...

Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 4th Edition. Three debutants and two veteran acts round up this 4th...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 14th edition. The 10 titles on this week's edition cover a lot of ground....

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 13th edition. Here are ten recently released titles that for whatever...

Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 3rd Edition. I won't be surprised if all these records will find their...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 12th edition. European rock and metal reign supreme on this 12th weekly...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 11th edition. Standard ten titles weekly edition of ... in the event they...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 10th edition. With the hard rock getting its own spotlight this week...

Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 2nd Edition. When facing all the daily incertitudes, we once again...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 9th (MEGA) edition. The second half of April was rather generous with its...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 8th edition. In this week's edition, I will focus on hard rock and the...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 7th edition. Perhaps not the most popular metal releases of the last...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 6th edition. Another week has gone by. Here are ten recent albums. Some...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 5th edition. Standard, ten titles, mix bag (5th) edition. In the event...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. MEGA (4th) edition. The month of March was particularly generous with the...

Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 1st Edition. Sweden alone will keep the flame of melodic rock music...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. MEGA (3rd) edition. Only very few titles contained here had some level of...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 2nd edition. As another week rolls by, here are ten rock & metal albums...

Forthcoming extreme metal albums! New edition of Imminent Carnage! Ten upcoming extreme metal albums set to be released in the next 45...

Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 1st edition. Most readers are most likely already familiar with my...

... from the abysmal depths of eternal damnation! ... and here it is! 2021 Top 50 Extreme Metal albums! No individual...

Traditional metal: Heavy Metal, Power Metal & Doom Metal! Splitting the top metal albums list into two distinct lists was absolutely...

Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Sleaze, Southern & AOR ... everything goes! And they say rock is dead ... 50 BLACKØWL Fly Away Spain Released on...

Rock & Metal albums with progressive music as the core element! Judging by the overwhelming number of quality debut and comeback...

Genre-fluid non-traditional metal: pop to melodeath ... all at once! 2021 was an incredible year for rock and metal music with its...

Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Nothing dated here. Simple greatness that happens to sound as if was written and...

Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock "The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a...

The only possible positive side to this miserable covid affair, for the past eighteen months or so, was the ample time musicians had to...

Is real rock maintaining potential? I'm not talking about the horseshit promoted as "rock" by the mainstream. No. Hell no! Seven out of...

Prog has continued to rise to the occasion during the 2nd quarter of 2021. Whereas Q1 was inclined more towards the prog-roots, Q2 was...

Forthcoming Death Metal Albums Ten great forthcoming Death Metal albums scheduled to be released in the next 45 days. Mark your...

Prog rock is riding high this year! Its longevity surpassing any other contemporary rock or metal genres, prog, luring not only new fans...

Rock is also being well represented so far this year. Still not quite at the same volume of releases as its more aggressive counterparts,...

... music in the time of pandemic. With each passing week of 2021 we are witnessing tidal wave after tidal wave of new releases in the...

From Faithful Trad to Avant-garde Black - All Delivered in Spades! From the Hellfire inferno the Metal army has risen once again! Despite...

Hard Rock, Prog Rock, AOR & Glam Metal Thirty years ago the styles and sub-genres clearly exemplified by the following fifty titles were...

Often offering an alternate point-of-view, exploring new musical nuances, cover songs, different mixes, are all elements that make for...

Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Due to this year's tidal wave of quality releases, I've decided to expend not only...

Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock Kicking off 2020 year's end festivities with a top ten of the most exciting electric blues and...

EMIL'S DEEP UNDERGROUND RECOS (part X) Thrash Metal ... and beyond ... Edition! Thrash metal without a message is just bogus. Whereas...

Part V: Long Live Rock 'n' Roll ... the 2010s Our journey through 50 years of metal ends (for now) on a high note. Over the course of the...

Part IV: A World Ablaze ... the 2000s Starting around the mid 1990s, alongside grunge, metal maintained a quasi-mainstream edge via...