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Edguy returns with Age of the Joker, another platter of great melodic metal

22 August 2011 Entertainment

Coming to a new Edguy is always a good thing. Ten years ago this German melodic heavy metal band single-handedly brought me back to metal in the 21st century (helping to revive me from a decade lost to grunge in nu-metal). Age of the Joker is their ninth studio album, with the band offering both [...]

In Waves: Trivium stays the course on this unusually entertaining, somewhat predictable, album of modern metal

15 August 2011 American Culture

Honestly, I expected more from Trivium on their new album In Waves. They still offer a mystifying blend of death metal, thrash metal, and metalcore within a sometimes melodic wrapper, including harmonious vocal arrangements against death growls and screams. So then this is essentially the state of modern metal, same old same old, nothing ventured, [...]

Firewolfe delivers terrific American made melodic heavy metal on debut

1 August 2011 American Culture

Here’s the bottom line at the start: if you dig classic American melodic heavy/power metal, then you should stop reading now and buy Firewolfe’s debut album. Here’ the long review, if you’d like to stick around. Firewolfe is a collaborative effort of love by five dudes making music that they love and would listen to [...]

ZombieShakerBox’s debut Encrypted offers both timeless and modern American melodic hard rock

18 July 2011 American Culture

I’m not sure where the name came from, or what it means. Zombies have been a big deal as of late: perhaps due to the coming zombie apocalypse. (You know it’s going to happen.) This I do know: ZombieShakerBox rocks. They rock big time on their debut work Encrypted. Coming out of Las Vegas, founded [...]

Concert Review: Def Leppard lets it rock with a rousing greatest hits live show in Hershey

4 July 2011 American Culture

The crowd was getting more than a little anxious. The speakers were pumping AC/DC’s For Those About to Rock at an ever increasing volume. On the stadium floor, the stage right audience was rising to their feet, straining their necks for a glimpse of something in the stage shadows. Then, my son leaned over to [...]

Award winning metal guitarist Jake Dreyer releases his debut solo EP “In the Shadows of Madness”

25 June 2011 American Culture

Award winning metal guitarist Jake Dreyer has just released his debut solo EP “In the Shadows of Madness” showcasing his many years of study under such masters as David “The Shred Demon” Shankle (DSG, Ex-Manowar), Chris Broderick (Megadeth, Ex-Jag Panzer, Nevermore) and Rusty Cooley (Outworld). Throughout his years of playing, Jake has been named Jagermeister’s [...]

With Iconoclast, Symphony X returns with a monumental piece of American progressive metal

30 May 2011 Entertainment

Heavier might be a good word to describe Symphony X’s return on Iconoclast. But being Symphony X that would be too simplistic of a description. Founder and guitarist Michael Romeo states, in the press material, “This record will only become accessible to the listener after several runs. That was our purpose … to create a [...]

Eight great new music reviews added at Dangerdog Music Reviews including the latest from Artizan: Curse of the Artizan

25 April 2011 American Culture

Eight new music reviews have been added to Dangerdog Music Reviews including the brand new full-length recording for the awesome American traditional metal band Artizan. The Curse of the Artizan is an epic work of classic melodic heavy metal. Also reviewed are Lost in Thought, prog metal from the UK and more classic metal from [...]

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax rocked for seven hours Saturday in the California desert

25 April 2011 American Culture

There’s nothing like a heavy metal parking lot, and the pre-show party going on before the sold-out Big 4 concert Saturday in Indio, California was maybe the craziest ever – an entire field of metalheads in sleeveless pentagram-emblazoned black T-shirts and devil beards tailgating, cooking brats on hibachis, drinking Coors tall boys and spraying sunscreen [...]

Seven new music reviews added to Dangerdog Music Reviews

11 April 2011 Entertainment

Seven new music reviews have been added this week to Dangerdog Music Reviews. Reviews include the forthcoming releases from The Poodles, the reformed King Kobra, Enbound, Conflicted, Faithsedge, and Solar Fragment. There’s also a review of the debut album, Adventures in Chaos, from Canadian power trio Tools of Creation, a platter of melodic heavy rock. [...]

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