Dan Reed Network – Origins
6/10 As a music-loving teenager, I quickly fell in love with Dan Reed Network, an underground jewel only remembered by few and whose funky rhythms...
Author: Anton Stenlund
Mark Knopfler – Down the Road Wherever
6/10 There are two words to best describe the new Mark Knopfler album: “smooth” and “long”. The first word is undoubtably meant as a compliment,...
Nordic Union – Second Coming
6/10 The second album by Nordic Union, a melodic rock-project centered around Pretty Maids-singer Ronnie Atkins and Eclipse- and W.E.T.-guitarist Erik Mårtensson kind of sounds...
Electric Boys – The Ghost Ward Diaries
6/10 With their third release since the reunion in 2009, Electric Boys has now released just as many albums as they did before the split-up...
Stephen Pearcy – View to a Thrill
6/10 If you blast Stephen Pearcys new album View to a Thrill through your loudspeaker, you might forget the 80’s ever ended. Without ever sounding...
Amaranthe – Helix
3/10 Symphonic, gothic metal is sort of an acquired taste, and I really quite like it. But there’s a limit to how much radio-oriented this...
Soulfly – Ritual
6/10 When Sepultura released the highly succesful Roots in 1996, the transformation from brutal thrash metal to brutal nu metal shocked many fans, and made...
Axxis – Monster Hero
7/10 Axxis is one of those bands that just makes you happy. Their mixture of melodic rock and power metal has for the last 30...
Impellitteri – The Nature of the Beast
6/10 Back in the 80’s, Chris Impellitteri was one of the greatest shredding guitar players around, and his band had a great start with powerful...
Nazareth – Tattooed On My Brain
7/10 Hardly did I expect I’d ever review a brand new Nazareth-album! The departure of Dan McCafferty, the band’s iconic voice since forever, seemed impossible...
Steve Perry – Traces
9/10 When Steve Perry returns to the studio for the first time since his departure from Journey more than 20 years ago, it’s with a...
Dynazty – Firesign
6/10 Unlike many others, I wasn’t all that captivated by Dynaztys breakthrough album Sultans of Sin back in 2012. It was a decent hair metal...
