Music Review
Unless you are living under a rock, you had to have heard the hype about how awesome this album is. For those that are trying to resist the glowing reviews, let me reassure you: in this instance, you need to believe the hype. Jimmy P. Brown II has been the front-man for many bands through…
I know this gets said in metal a lot… but this is a killer album! Peacemaker is one of those rare heavy metal super groups that manages to transcend the typical trappings of metal super groups. No musical identity crisis here, no schizophrenic pull of different musical visions… just “rip yo face off” metal with…
Fireworks on Ferris Wheels is the new collaboration between singer-songwriters Amy Courts and Paul Koopman. With Courts and Koopman coming together, I knew it would be a great album. But I didn’t know how great until I pressed play on their BandCamp page. The sound here is a mix between pop, rock, Americana, and alt…
We received a request to review this album months ago… but got a bit distracted by life. I really enjoyed the album, so I am trying to get the word out now. If you have been itching for some new industrial rock/metal, Roberts might be just the right fit for you. His sound has a…
This album, Alice’s 27th, has all the ingredients of a rock classic. It has Bob Ezrin on the production end, an all star cast consisting of Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Roger Glover (Deep Purple), and Larry Mullens (U2), and it has three of the original Alice Cooper Band members on a couple of the numbers.…
Roger and Randy Rose from Mad at the World are back at it, with a powerful re-visit of their early synth-heavy albums. Being a fan of MatW and of good synth work, their album Hope fails to disappoint. The synth structures and sounds are reminiscent of the eponymous first album and the powerful subsequent release…
Hard to believe that My Silent Wake has been around 13 years now. If I am counting correctly, There Was Death is their 10th full length album (not counting EPs, splits, and singles). Also hard to believe that Ian Arkley keeps churning out the metal after so many decades of being in Seventh Angel and…
Hard to believe we let this one pass without a review at DTL. Of course, you might see me as biased here, but I love this EP. Knott obviously wanted to put out an EP that connects his current work with his 90s output, and the resulting EP does a great job of doing just…
Pacifico returns with their first new album since 2013’s Without Heroes. Everest has been out for a while, so we are obviously a bit behind on reviews. But if you missed this album when it came out, time to rectify your mistake. From the opening track “The Need to Dismantle,” Pacifico proves they haven’t lost…
Let’s be honest here: most people had already decided whether or not they would like the new U2 album before they even heard it. You could have probably predicted who would have liked it and who would have hated it before they ever tweeted or posted on Facebook about it. Yes, I tend to like…