As much as I enjoy the more extreme side of metal, I will always have a soft spot for classic heavy metal. Bands like...

Accept are one of the seminal acts in classic heavy metal. From their early hard rock beginning to their glory days as the militaristic, bombastic...

Headbangers Symphony is the follow-up to Wolf Hoffmann's album Classical, in which he began to follow his vision of classical music translated into metal....

To Hell starts off strong with a sinister edge in the tone and the feeling of a crushing weight building up. Heavy guitar work that...

In 2013, Udo Dirkschneider and his unit gave us Steelhammer, a record I held in fairly high regard for its relative diversity and wealth...

In the early to mid 1980’s Germany was a hotbed for power/speed metal, producing such notable acts as Running Wild, Helloween, and Blind Guardian....

When Accept dropped the earth-shattering Blood of the Nations back in 2010, I knew that it would be hard for them to achieve the...

U.D.O.'s latest studio offering, Steelhamer, was a really good record. Though it had weak points, it was overall one of Udo Dirkschnieder's finest post-Accept...

Sinbreed have recently become the talk of the metal world, stepping out of relative anonymity. For better or worse, it is not because of their...

This is not dissimilar to what I was talking about in my review of the new Crystal Viper album: Tough as nails female fronted...