Review: Halford 3 – Winter Songs [2009]

Rob Halford offers the most highly anticipated Christmas album of the season Winter Songs, another fantastic contribution from the world of heavy metal to the most wonderful time of the year. To be honest, I did not feel the holiday vibe in the beginning as I did on A Twisted Christmas and We Wish You […]

Review: SwampDaWamp – Rock This Country [2009]

Imagine for a moment the bastard child of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the 90’s WWE character Papa Shango (the singer’s image bears some resemblance), and you get something along the lines of SwampDaWamp. Rock This Country features 12 tracks of good Southern Rock music. SwampDaWamp is a great garage and bar band that you would be […]

Track Review: Volbeat "A Warrior’s Call" [2009]

Danish metal outfit Volbeat offers all you freaks “A Warrior’s Call,” a brand new and fresh anthemic fight song. Without sounding too contrived (remember Megadeth’s “Crush ‘Em”), Volbeat has created a tolerable and memorable arena track suitable for any competitive event. After all, the track was written and recorded specifically for boxer Mikkel Kessler’s recent […]

Review: Age of Evil – Get Dead EP [2009]

When the Age of Evil Get Dead EP arrived on my doorstep, the two cover tracks — Skid Row’s “Slave to the Grind” and Judas Priest’s “The Hellion/Electric Eye” — immediately gained my attention. “This is going to be a killer disc,” I thought to myself. The band has a cool name, some teenage angst, and […]

SOS Metal Reviews: The Black Dahlia Murder "Deflorate," Leaves’ Eyes, Midnight Fistfight, and more…

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: DEFLORATE The Black Dahlia Murder returns with a terse homage bountifully bursting with Swedish metal influence with their unique blackened thrash twists embedded within on their 10-track, 34-minute collection Deflorate. Showcasing swift jabs of focused aggression with a familiar brutality behind it all (“Eyes of Thousands”), this Michigan troupe’s delectable twin […]

Review: W.A.S.P. – Babylon [2009]

Friends, countrymen, and Tipper F*cking Gore, it is time to once again lend W.A.S.P. your ears in the most undivided of manner. Blackie Lawless and company return to deliver another powerful onslaught of classic heavy metal on Babylon. As you already know, when an album’s subject matter centers around the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, […]