Posts Tagged ‘USPM’

Dire Peril’s first full-length album The Extraterrestrial Compendium may be a collaboration between Helion Prime guitarist Jason Ashcraft and Judicator vocalist John Yelland, but it isn’t a mere sum of their parts. Ashcraft’s riffs and writing for this [...]

Ironflame’s second full-length Tales of Splendor and Sorrow demonstrates massive growth with very little change. The formula of 2017’s Lightning Strikes the Crown is unaltered as the American power metal tropes of blazing guitar runs, high-pitched vocal [...]

In the alarmingly growing world of franchise bands carrying on after the passing of their leading figureheads, Riot V is closer to the Black Star Riders side of the spectrum than it is to say Lynyrd Skynyrd. Sure, adding the Roman numeral was a rather [...]

I must admit that it takes a couple songs for Gatekeeper to find their footing on East of Sun. Lead single “Blade of Cimmeria” and “North Wolves” aren’t bad songs at all, but the former’s vocal lines can be a little too forceful, especially during the [...]

When listening to Visigoth’s follow-up to 2015’s The Revenant King, the comparably shorter length is more than likely the first thing you’ll notice. Conqueror’s Oath is about twenty minutes shorter than its predecessor and there are only three songs that [...]

Nevermore spent the majority of their twenty year run under the radar, but there’s no denying the huge influence they’ve cast over modern metal. Their mix of melodic and extreme metal sounds under a vague groove-prog umbrella defied categorization, and [...]

Jag Panzer has always been an underrated yet respected band in American heavy metal scene. That attitude seems to extend to guitarist Mark Briody, the band’s driving force for over thirty years despite being somewhat overshadowed in the public eye [...]

The second coming of the redundantly named Jack Starr’s Burning Starr seems to be doing pretty well for itself. Though it’s been six years since the band’s previous outing, 2011’s Land of the Dead, the lineup has stayed the same since their 2008 comeback [...]