As we occasionally do, let's take a momentary break from the flood of new albums to look at a few new singles, and think about what they...

When you're dealing with a band called The Vintage Caravan, you know what you're going to be getting; vintage rock and roll of the...

Power metal was my gateway into heavy music, but man has it become a stagnant genre. That's not to say it wasn't before, but after...

A couple years ago, I talked briefly about the album "Revisionary History" by Alicia Witt. The red-headed actress you are bound...

Death metal. I listen to very little of it, because it and I have a philosophical disagreement. I love music for the melody of it, while d...

Oh, symphonic metal. I don't have a deep history with the genre, because many of the bigger bands that define it have one of two probl...

Sometimes a band drifts in a direction, or does something specifically, that makes you scratch your head. That happened to me with the pre...

I'm not sure what the word 'buzz' means anymore. As I was reading the preamble to this album, I was informed about the growing...

When Doro first made her appearance on the scene, she was a rarity; a woman front and center in heavy metal. The culture has evolved over...

We use the word 'gimmick' as a pejorative, when we really shouldn't. Gimmicks are easy ways to stand apart, and not necessaril...