Album Reviews

Forty years ago this week, Queensrÿche released their second full-length album, Rage for Order. Operation: Mindcrime, released two years later, is oft...

After two highly regarded recordings with Royal Hunt, DC Cooper released his one and only solo album in late 1998. Joining him on this outing was Conc...

This week, we check out a band neither one of us were super familiar with, Drain STH. Our friend Chris Willenbrock requested we listen to their 1996 d...

This week we travel back to 2000 to chat about Shadows Fall and their Of One Blood album! This request came to us from our good friend Chris Calabrese...

In anticipation of their ProgPower USA appearance this year, Justin chose The Gathering’s Mandylion album to discuss this week. Released in August of ...

Perhaps some of you missed this one! Twenty years ago, drummer Uli Kusch brought together the talents of vocalist Maggy Luyten, guitarist Jørn Viggo L...

Well, it took us long enough but we finally sit down and talk about heavy metal legends Armored Saint and Justin chose 1991’s Symbol of Salvation albu...

Our good friend and Dan Swanö enthusiast Patrick Celsus requested we talk about Nightingale’s second album, The Closing Chronicles. Released in 1996, ...

20 years ago, Pearl Jam released their eighth studio album aptly named Pearl Jam. This record particularly made an impact on Chris at this time which ...

Fifteen years ago, Welsh prog metal outfit Lost In Thought released their debut album, Opus Arise, and it immediately became a favorite of Justin’s. T...

Some of Sonata Arctica’s most memorable songs call 2003’s Winterheart’s Guild record home. But does the album as a whole hold a candle to the band’s h...

Thanks go out to Brian Hueller for requesting Therion’s seventh album, 1998’s Vovin! This was our first full length discussion on the Swedish symphoni...