Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2020, Lawrence King Publishing Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP This is a really, really great book and I like it a lot but we need to address the elephant in the room. This is not really a book about ‘Metal’. In his introduction author and all…
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Band of Spice – By The Corner of Tomorrow
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Scarlet Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Beginning his time in the music industry as the vocalist and bass player for 90s’ stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars, Swedish musician and songwriter Christian “Spice” Sjöstrand has a fondness for 1970s’ hard rock and has incorporated elements…
Alice Cooper-Detroit Stories
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Ear Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP It looks like Alice is feeling nostalgic. Following up quickly on the heels of the BREADCRUMBS covers EP in late 2019, Alice has dropped his 21st solo album DETROIT STORIES. I day nostalgic because as legend has it, Detroit…
Aerosmith-Young Lust
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2001, Geffen Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP Usually we don’t bother reviewing older releases and especially not a Greatest Hits compilation. In addition, a big band like Aerosmith doesn’t really need my help or care if I wrote a review of their albums. However, I came across…
Sea of Snakes – World of Fire
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Assault Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry The debut EP from Californian riff-rockers Sea of Snakes entitled World of Fire (pretty apt under the current global circumstances, wouldn’t you say?) is a generously sized portion of heavy metal, mixed with elements of sludge metal and punk. Comprising…
Interview with BAND OF SPICE
Interview with Band Of Spice 27th March, 2021 Interview by Jack Merry
Heavy Metal Collectors: An interview series Part 27: Danko Jones (Canada)
Spectacularly Majestic! Heavy Metal Collectors: An interview series Part 27: Danko Jones (Canada) by JP Inspiration can come from a number of unique sources. The concept behind this interview series was developed over time but recently crystallized in my mind. As the owner of a large library I’ve often pondered…
Metal-Rules Exclusive: Finnish Heavy/Doom band BYRON (feat. former members of CHURCH OF VOID, HORNA and BATTLELORE) Premier Debut Album THE OMEGA EVANGELION
“I’m proud and privileged to present BYRON’S debut album THE OMEGA EVANGELION as an exclusive premiere for the respectful audience of metal-rules.com, out March 26, 2021! THE OMEGA EVANGELION serves an eclectic mix of melodic metal, occult rock, stoner and some darker sides of doom as a theme album of…
Wheat, Brian – Son Of A Milkman:My Crazy Life With Telsa (Book review)
Reviewed: March 2021 Published: 2021, Post Hill Press Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP I’ve read a lot of rock star autobiographies and this is one of them! On a more serious note, I don’t know why but I came away feeling slightly…underwhelmed after reading SON OF A MILKMAN. Brian Wheat, bassist,…
Scars Remain – Scars Remain
March 2021 Released 2020 / Self-Release Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine “Scars Remain is a Hard Rock band from Charlotte, NC. Even with plenty of experience under their belts, they still play with the same energy as when they first got together, continuously solidifying their foothold in…
Åge Sten Nilsen and Trond Holter of Wig Wam on New CD Never Say Die – We Made Rock & Roll Fun Again!
Interview by Robert Cavuoto Norway’s Wig Wam have reunited and released the perfect hard rock CD, Never Say Die, via Frontier Music s.r.l. Wig Wam formed in 2001 and released their debut album, 667 … The Neighbour Of The Beast in 2004 and never looked back. That same year they…
Return To Void – Infinite Silence
Reviewed: February 2021 Released: 2020, Inverse Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Finnish progressive hard rock/metal band Return To Void unleashed their third studio album Infinite Silence on December 18th, 2020 via Inverse Records. After 2017’s self-titled debut album and its follow up Memory Shift: The Day After in 2018, the group has…
Harwood, Mark (Dir.) Soaring Highs And Brutal Lows (documentary)
Reviewed: January, 2021 Released: 2015, Streaming Amazon Prime Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP SOARING HIGHS AND BRUTAL LOWS the documentary about female singers in Metal has been out for five years now and is STILL not available on DVD. When it came out I thought to myself, “I can’t stream it…
Quick Jabs for January 2021
This is a new monthly section where we will post an assortment of shorter reviews for albums that we have checked out or may have missed out on previously. The reviews are short and to the point, thus the tile “Quick Jabs”. Trident – North October 2nd, 2020 – Non…
Adam, Whitney (Dir.) – Ozzy Osbourne: Throne Of Darkness (Documentary)
Reviewed: January, 2021 Released: 2020 Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: JP As time goes on more and digital technology makes it easier and faster to create content, we are seeing more and more low-budget documentaries about Hard Rock and Heavy Metal hitting the market. THRONE OF DARKNESS falls into that category. This is…