Fortress: Don’t Spare The Wicked (High Roller Records)
prepare to meet your new favourite band...
Black Label Society – Doom Crew (Spinefarm)
The band's best in a while...
Dawn After Dark – New Dawn Rising (Chapter 22)
A riotous, euphoric return...
Deceased – Thrash Times At Ridgemont High (Hells Headbangers)
A rose-tinted look back to happier times...
Perfect Plan – Live At Sharpener’s House (Frontiers Music)
Gavin Strickmann manages to talk about Perfect Plan for a whole review without mentioning Jimi Jamison...
Husqwarnah – Front: Toward Enemy (Fuel Records/Reborn Through Tapes)
Punishing but hugely enjoyable death metal from Italy...
Theatres Des Vampires – In Nomine Sanguinis (Scarlet Records)
Supreme vampyric fun and games from long-established masters (and mistress) of the genre...
Devil Electric – Godless (Kozmik Artefactz)
Superior retro-rock from Melbourne...
Skid Row – The Atlantic Years (BMG)
Hits, memories, and a few rarities and forgotten gems from New Jersey's finest...
Sorcerer – Reverence (Metal Blade EP)
Reverence indeed...
The Three Tremors – Guardians Of The Void (Steel Cartel)
Still failing to live up to the promise of the concept?
Crooked Shapes – Crooked Shapes (Own Level)
Promising stuff...