Heavy Metal Archives

The Native Howl - Sons of Destruction / Sumerian Records (2024)

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 16, 2024

Purity in genres is always nice, although when a hybrid unlike anything comes along, you cannot help but show interest. We have seen Rap, Pop, Country, Blues, and Classical come together with Heavy Metal, but how many can say they have ever seen Bluegrass join ... Read More

Poppy - Negative Spaces / Sumerian Records (2024)

Poppy – Negative Spaces (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 15, 2024

American Performer Poppy is perhaps one of the most enigmatic in music today. A compliment when it seems many others are a carbon copy of the next, Poppy has made a name for herself in the pop and also the Heavy Metal genre. A part ... Read More

Doro – Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Party (EP Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 15, 2024

With over four decades behind her, Doro Pesch remains as inspired, active, and energized as ever before. A force of nature, just in the past few years, the Metal Goddess released the Triumph And Agony Live in 2021 ( a live album celebrating the 35th ... Read More

The Foreshadowing - New Wave Order / Lifeforce Records (2024)

The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

Since forming nearly twenty years ago, The Foreshadowing has sustained itself as a leading force in the Gothic Doom Metal world. Out of Italy, the band was a surprise newcomer back in 2007 with the release of the debut album Days of Nothing. From here ... Read More

Sybreed - Slave Design / Aggregate Media (2024)

Sybreed – Slave Design (20th Anniversary Edition Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

While Industrial Metal music had been craving a niche for itself late ‘80s with bands like Ministry, the genre grew from there with KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails, into the ‘90s with others like Fear Factory and Rammstein. Then as the 2000s hit a new ... Read More

Victory - Circle of Life / AFM Records (2024)

Victory – Circle of Life (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

When it comes to Heavy Metal’s most recognized guitarists, there is a good chance you think of names like Ozzy Osbourne’s Randy Rhoads, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine, or Judas Priest’s K. K. Downing. Three of a long list of highly accomplished players, there are still so ... Read More

Heavy Metal

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

Poppy – Negative Spaces (Album Review)

Doro – Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Party (EP Review)

The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Album Review)

Sybreed – Slave Design (20th Anniversary Edition Review)

Victory – Circle of Life (Album Review)

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

Poppy – Negative Spaces (Album Review)

Doro – Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Party (EP Review)

The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Album Review)

Sybreed – Slave Design (20th Anniversary Edition Review)

Victory – Circle of Life (Album Review)

This Week In Horror Movie History – Stigmata (1999)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Flash Gordon (1980)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Visiting Hours (1982)

Developing Artist Showcase – Vipërwitch

Developing Artist Showcase – Vermilia

Developing Artist Showcase – Black Smoke Trigger

Interview – Clayne Crawford & Summer Shelton

Interview – Bishop Briggs

Interview – Henry Thomas & Sarah Lind

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

The The – Ensoulment (Album Review)

Blood Star (Movie Review)