This Week's New reviews
Devin Townsend - Ki (5 stars)
Absu / Rumpelstiltskin Grinder / Sothis / Afterlight Live
Chick Corea & John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band Live (4 stars)
Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
Michael Jackson: The Curtain Has Fallen on an Icon
Noism - +
First Look: Hoodless
Figure of Six - Aion
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade (5 stars)
The Legends - Over and Over (4 stars)
Hot In The City: Psychostick, Holy Rolling Empire, Crushed and Sugar High
July 2009
Absu / Rumpelstiltskin Grinder / Sothis / Afterlight Live
Chick Corea & John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band Live (4 stars)
Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
Devin Townsend - Ki (5 stars)
June 2009
The Very Best of Prestige Records (4.5 stars)
Hot In The City: Psychostick, Holy Rolling Empire, Crushed and Sugar High
Believers Never Die part Deux: Fall Out Boy, Cobra Starship, All Time Low, Metro Station, Hey Monday
Quick Flicks: Ministry- Jeff Buckley- Ice T- Billie Holiday
MorleyView: The Agonist
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
Bible of the Devil - Freedom Metal
Bon Jovi - These Days Album Reflection and Review: Part I
Cold Northern Vengeance Interview
Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road
Destruction - Devolution
Devil's Whorehouse - Blood & Ashes
Evanscapps - Last Time (4 stars)
Figure of Six - Aion
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know (3.5 stars)
First Look: Hill Country Revue
First Look: Hoodless
Iron Maiden - Flight 666 (5 stars)
ISIS - Wavering Radiant (4 stars)
Michael Jackson: The Curtain Has Fallen on an Icon
Lamb of God - Wrath
The Legends - Over and Over (4 stars)
Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Lecherous Nocturne - The Age of Miracles Has Passed
Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
Nightwish - Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (4 stars)
Noism - +
Orthodox - Amanecer en Puerta Oscura
OSI - Blood
Queensryche - American Soldier (3.5 stars)
On The Record: Schenker Barden Acoustic Project - Gipsy Lady (180 Gram vinyl)
Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction
Soraia: The Real Thing
Street Sweeper Social Club (4 stars)
MorleyView: UFO
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade (5 stars)
May 2009
Passport: The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem- Fact- Nancy and more
Wolves In The Throne Room / A Storm Of Light / Krallice / Indian Live
Arise - The Reckoning
A Storm of Light Interview
The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings (4 stars)
Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine
Crown the Lost - Blind Faith Loyalty
Booker T - Potato Hole (5 stars)
Death Valley Dragline - Beyond the Sunn
Depswa - Distorted American Dream (4 stars)
Eighteen Wheels Burning - Tweak'd Out, Strung Up, and Redlined
Ensoph - Rex Mundi X-ile
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (3 stars)
Guillotine - Blood Money
Harpoon - Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By (4 stars)
Hill Country Revue (North Mississippi Allstars) - Make a Move (5 stars)
The Return of Will Hoge (5 stars)
Ironwood - :Fire:Water:Ash: (4 stars)
Jane's Addiction - A Cabinet of Curiosities (Box Set) (4 stars)
Julie the Band - An Act of Communication (4 stars)
Lady Sovereign - Jigsaw (3 stars)
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Give Peace a Chance: John & Yoko's Bed-In for Peace (4 stars)
Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
First Look: Max Morgan
The Nigel Dupree Band - Attraction (4 stars)
Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift
Psykup - We Love You All
Reflections - When Shadows Fall
Chris Robley and the Fear of Heights - Movie Theater Haiku (a masque of backwards ballads, a picturesque burlesque) (3.5 stars)
Under Their Thumb (Rolling Stones Book) (4 stars)
Seance - Awakening of the Gods
Silversun Pickups - Swoon (3 stars)
Sinner - Crash and Burn
Britney Spears Live: Sequin, Sex & Spectacle
Spinal Tap Unwigged and Unplugged
Rod Stewart - Unplugged and Seated (4 stars)
Keith Urban: Reaching For The Sky
First Look: WarHorse
April 2009
Dear Aerosmith
McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2009: Flaming Lips, Michael Franti and Spearhead and more (5 stars)
On The Record: Van Morrison- King Tubby & Friends- Chris Darrow- Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts
Kreator- Exodus- Belphegor- Warbringer and Epicurean Live
The Devil Wears Prada/A Day to Remember/Sky Eats Airplane/Emarosa Live
Legends Live: Jeff Beck (5 stars)
Blood of the Black Owl - A Feral Spirit
Carlon - Johari Window (4 stars)
Ravi Coltrane - Blending Times (3.5 stars)
Cold Northern Vengeance - Domination and Servitude
Chick Corea & Hiromi - Duet (5 stars)
Cynic - Traced in Air
Elder
The Gaslight Anthem Live
Glasvegas Live in Chicago
Gollum Interview
The Great Divide: Metallica Vs Motley Crue
IXXI - Elect Darkness
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life (2 stars)
Maegashira - The Stark Arctic
5 Stars: Wynton Marsalis - He and She (5 stars)
First Look: Mongrel
Ofermod - Tiamatu
MorleyView: Gregg Rolie (Santana)
First Look: Saving Abel
Saxon - Into the Labyrinth
Sky Eats Airplane Interview
Sky Eats Airplane
Thin Lizzy - Still Dangerous (4 stars)
Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve
On The Record: The Killers- Jamey Johnson- MGMT
Quick Flicks: Iggy Pop- Iron Butterfly- Jon Anderson- Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention- Kate Bush
Butch Walker: So Alive
The Weight - Are Men (4 stars)
Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium
Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge (4 stars)
Xystus Interview
March 2009
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self (3.5 stars)
Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha (4.5 stars)
Brigham Bachman
Burton Cummings - Above The Ground (5 stars)
First Look: Burn Halo (3 stars)
Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew - From the Seas to the Streets (2.5 stars)
Decyfer Down - Crash (3.5 stars)
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon
Fountains of Wayne - No Better Place: Live in Chicago (4 stars)
First Look: Haley
God Forbid - Earthsblood (4 stars)
Kenneth Ishak - Silver Lightning From A Black Sky
Lamb of God - Wrath (3.5 stars)
Maegashira Interview
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing (3 stars)
Agnes Milewski - Pretty Boys and Ugly Girls (4.5 stars)
Morrissey - Years of Refusal (2 stars)
The New Regime (Nine Inch Nails solo project)
Pearl Jam - Ten (Legacy Edition) (4.5 stars)
Derek Sherinian - Molecular Heinosity (3.5 stars)
Sweet Cobra - Forever
U2 Month: No Line on the Horizon (4 stars)
U2 Month: How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb (4 stars)
U2 Month: All That You Can't Leave Behind (4 stars)
U2 Month: Pop (3 stars)
U2 Month: Passengers - Original Soundtracks 1
U2 Month: Zooropa
U2 Month: Achtung Baby (5 stars)
U2 Month: Rattle and Hum (3.5 stars)
U2 Month: The Joshua Tree (5 stars)
U2 Month: The Unforgettable Fire (3.5 stars)
U2 Month: War (4 stars)
U2 Month: Boy (4 stars)
U2 Month: October (3 stars)
U2 - No Line on the Horizon (3.5 stars)
Hot In The City: Vol 9: The Love Me Nots- North Side Kings- Snail Quail- Anarbor- The Hounds
Quick Flicks: Johnny Winter, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, The Wentus Blues Band and Ronnie Earl and The Broadcasters
From the Basement: Radiohead, White Stripes, Eels, Beck, Sonic Youth and more (5 stars)
Yes - Symphonic Live (4 stars)
Young Dubliners - Saints and Sinners
Young Werewolves - Cheat the Devil (4 stars)
Zappa Plays Zappa Live (4 stars)
Feb 2009
Arkan - Hilal
Beehoover - Heavy Zooo
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Deena - Somewhere in Blue (4 stars)
East of the Wall - Farmer's Almanac
Gamma Ray - Hell Yeah
Headhunter - Parasite of Society
Heartless Bastards Live in Philly (4 stars)
Lacuna Coil - Visual Karma (Body, Mind and Soul) (4.5 stars)
Linkin Park - Road to Revolution (5 stars)
Road Trip: Oh Lordi!: Finnish "Safari" Visits the Metal Monsters' Lair!
Metallica Live
Netherbird - The Ghost Collector
Outlaw Order - Dragging Down the Enforcer
Revolting Cocks - Sex-O Olympic-O (3 stars)
Sepultura - A-lex
Bruce Springsteen - Tracks (3.5 stars)
Those Who Bring the Torture - Tank Gasmask Ammo
Thursday - Common Existence (3.5 stars)
MorleyView: Joe Lynn Turner
Quick Flicks: Sex Pistols- Demon Hunter- Marc Almond
Jazz Icons: Series 3 DVD Boxset (5 stars)
On The Record: David Bowie- Sam Cooke- Kemialliset Ystavat / Sunroof!
Girls Rock DVD (4 stars)
Jan 2009
Angel - On Earth As It Is In Heaven (4 stars)
On The Record: Led Zeppelin- Lou Reed- Polysics
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology (4 stars)
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire Deluxe Edition (3 stars)
Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball (4 stars)
Brett Dennen - Hope for the Hopeless (4 stars)
On The Record: Franz Ferdinand - Tonight (2-disc vinyl)
John Frusciante - The Empyrean (3.5 stars)
Paper Route - Are We All Forgotten (3.5 stars)
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live DVD (5 stars)
Saliva - Cinco Diablo (2.5 stars)
Slik Helvetika - Krypt Kicker
Bruce Springsteen Month
Bruce Springsteen Month: Working on a Dream (new album) (2.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (3 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: The Wild, Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen Month: Born To Run (5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Darkness on the Edge of Town (4 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: The River (4.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Nebraska (5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Born in the U.S.A. (4 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Tunnel of Love (4.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Human Touch (2 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Lucky Town (4.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: The Ghost of Tom Joad (2.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: The Rising (4 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Devils and Dust (3.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: The Seeger Sessions (2.5 stars)
Bruce Springsteen Month: Magic (3 stars)
Why Springsteen's "The Wrestler" Should Have An Oscar Nomination
Bruce Springsteen Month: Bruce Live
Supersuckers - Get It Together (4.5 stars)
Voetsek - Infernal Command
Abigail Williams - In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Xystus - Equilibrio
Rock Reads: Stadium Rock (4 stars)
Causes 1 (3.5 stars)
Dec 2008
Ian Christe Interview: Metal's Reigning Journalist and Van Halen Guru
Closer - A Darker Kind of Salvation
Deadbird - Twilight Ritual
Roger (Ebert) and Me
Michael Franti & Spearhead: A Triumphant Tonic For Tragic Souls
Guitar Red - Lightnin' in a Bottle (5 stars)
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (5 stars)
Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses (Rock Reads)
Kottonmouth Kings - The Green Album (3 stars)
Lords - F**k All Ya'll Motherf**kers (4 stars)
Lord Belial - The Black Curse
Mike Mangione - Tenebrae (4.5 stars)
Jon McLaughlin - OK Now (4 stars)
Ogre - Plague of the Planet (5 stars)
Panzer Division Marduk
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors (4 stars)
W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose
Satan's Host - Burning the Born Again
Slash
Tribe After Tribe - M.O.A.B. (3 stars)
UB40 Greatest Hits (4.5 stars)
The Wedding - The Sound the Steel (4 stars)
Whitechapel - This is Exile
13 Questions With Andrew Murphy of Smooch Records
Quick Flicks: Mushroomhead- Black Metal Satanica- Earache My Eye
Nov 2008
AC/DC Live (5 stars)
AC/DC: For Those About To Rock... We Reward You
Baboon Rising - Friendly Agrarian Tower
Beyonce - I Am... Sasha Fierce (1.5 stars)
Bigelf - Cheat the Gallows
Cheap Trick - Budokan! (5 stars)
The Cure - 4:13 Dream (3.5 stars)
The Dears - Missiles (4 stars)
Scorsese by Ebert
My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem (3 stars)
False Icons - GodComplex (2 stars)
Hauschka - Ferndorf (4.5 stars)
Impiety - Dominator
In this Moment - The Dream (4 stars)
KISS - Ikons Box Set (3 stars)
Marduk - Infernal Eternal
Nachtmystium and Wolves in the Throne Room Live
The New Up - Broken Machine EP (4 stars)
The Rasmus - Black Roses (5 stars)
Semi Precious Weapons - We Love You (5 stars)
Senses Fail - Life is Not a Waiting Room (3 stars)
Sotajumala - Teloitus
Springsteen's Fumble
Paul Stanley - One Live KISS DVD (3.5 stars)
Two Cow Garage - Speaking in Cursive (5 stars)
Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper (3 stars)
Passport: Made in Iceland, Juana Molina, David Newman and Eliane Elias
We Wish you a Metal XMas and a Head Banging New Year (5 stars)
Nachtmystium and Wolves in the Throne Room Live
Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows (4.5 stars)
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Oct 2008
Rock Band Tour: The Cab, the Plain White T’s, Dashboard Confessional and Panic At The Disco
EPs: Two Sheds, Fiance and Johnny Flynn
The 88 - Not Only... But Also (4 stars)
AC/DC - Black Ice (4.5 stars)
Backtrack: Let There Be Rock (5 stars)
MorleyView: Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws (5 stars)
The Faint - Fasciinatiion (3.5 stars)
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh (4.5 stars)
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
James Live
Machinery - The Passing
Magica - Hereafter
Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura And Beyond (3 stars)
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman - Fabled City (2.5 stars)
MorleyView: My Ruin
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (4.5 stars)
The Poison Written - Devices
Red I Flight - The Years
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason (3.5 stars)
Saint Deamon - In Shadows Lost from the Brave
Sieges Even - Playgrounds
Suidakra - Thirteen Years of Celtic Wartunes
Tina Turner Rolling and Rocking
Zero Hour Interview
