Tag Archives: heavy metal

ATOMIK TRAIN – Atomik Train

January 21, 2026

Atomic Train 2025 No-nonsense heavy, if quite sensitive, assault from Quebecois quartet who threaten their audience with a bout of good time. Not every idea concocted in the period of Covid has proven fruitful, yet this foursome, who released a … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews Tagged , ,

NATIONAL WRECKING COMPANY – National Wrecking Co. II

November 20, 2025

Hyperspace 2025 Fierce and furious as befits our times, hard rock veterans offer up their sophomore effort as sacrificial gift to the gods of ruined life. Scratching the seven-year itch might not be on Jimmy Kunes and ‘s minds – … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews Tagged , , , , ,

STILL DUSK – Chronicles Of Dystopia

June 3, 2025

Rock Company 2025 Refracting current affairs through the lens of heaviosity, Greek foursome offer stylistically expansive full-length debut. If this quartet didn’t want to expedite their first album, which arrived at the end of a seven-year-stretch of the ensemble existence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews Tagged , ,

THOR – Ride Of The Iron Horse

March 23, 2024

Cleopatra 2024 Reflecting on fifty years of tuneful thunder, Vancouver heavyweights go full-circle to head into the future. To follow this ensemble is to never know how close to Valhalla they are to take their next album, what with Jon … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews Tagged , , ,

DIO – The Studio Albums: 1996-2004

November 9, 2023

BMG 2023 Recapturing glories of yore, the avatar of all things hard ‘n’ heavy leads his troops on to final victory. If you pictured this ensemble’s timeline as a graph, it didn’t flow like the rising and the falling of … Continue reading →

Posted in Reissues Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,