If you pull your kid out of school and drive five hours to see Alestorm and Gloryhammer at a club, you may have a metal problem. It was more than worth it.

Others may dislike Machine Head’s latest outing, but I think it’s one of the most interesting records they’ve ever done.

I walked away wondering how I’d missed Dark Hound’s first two albums. It’s an oversight that I intend to correct immediately.

Fifty years ago, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s “Fire” had to be just about the coolest thing you’d ever seen – and for parents, probably one of the scariest.

It was, honestly, a pretty lousy year for music. This list of Best Metal, Country and Hard Rock of 2017 highlights five exceptions, and some key honorable mentions.

Frankly, not a lot of music has excited me through the first half of this year. That is, until Alestorm’s ‘No Grave But the Sea’ arrived.

When rockers begin to get older, you expect to see it in their performance. Not Alice Cooper.

‘Fight for the Rock’ almost put Savatage’s career in a coffin before we got their best work.

It’s not often that the passing of someone famous really affects me. When I hear about it, I may think, “Man, that’s a shame,” but I quickly move on. Every now and then, though, someone makes You May Also Like: Savatage, “Prelude to Madness / Hall of the Mountain King”Read More

A failed attempt to make Motley Crue relevant again, ‘Generation Swine’ is just a bad all-around record.