St. Anger is the most controversial album from Metallica and is considered to be one of the most universally reviled music releases this century. Fifteen years later, is it really as bad as everyone says it is? Metallica used to be regarded as one of the heaviest and fastest thrash metal bands on the planet….

Periphery just dropped their sixth studio album Periphery IV: Hail Stan (no, not Hail Satan) last Friday. They have been the pioneers of djent for the past decade and are quickly becoming standard-bearers of the modern prog metal music scene. They are one of a handful of bands that straddles the line between commercial success…

The Matt Fox Experience is an experimental electronic fusion project based out of Moonachie, New Jersey. It is headed by songwriter and lead vocalist Michael ‘Shred’ Spadavecchia and the project focuses on the life and daily activities of a certain Matthew Dean Fox. Their discography spans four albums: The Matt Fox Experience, Matt Fox: Graduation…

Metal music in 2019 is already in full swing. Brand new albums from Overkill, Dream Theater and Candlemass already hit the shelves, and we still have very highly anticipated records from Slipknot and Tool that are coming out soon. There are also rumblings of new material coming from Gojira, Nile and Opeth that we’ll have…

Dr. Thomas Baldino has announced his retirement at the conclusion of the spring semester after working at Wilkes University for 28 years. Baldino originally wanted to major in history and be a high school history teacher. One of his high school teachers, however, noted that he “was less interested in names and dates and facts,…

Blues rock musician Gary Clark Jr. released his new album This Land a week earlier than expected on Feb. 22. It debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 and he is currently touring the United States to promote the album. Clark returns with a deft and masterful genre synthesis of blues, hip-hop and…

Feral Roots, released almost a month ago, is the brand new album from the blues rock n’ roll band Rival Sons. The band is celebrating a decade of heavy touring and high octane riffs, and their sixth album is no exception to the norm they established for themselves. “We spent more time writing, passing things…

Palisades are an interesting newer band that started off as a Motionless in White clone, transitioning into electronicore/EDM rock and then finally settling into post-hardcore/metalcore. While Erase the Pain is a much higher step in quality than their previous output, that isn’t really saying much. To put things in perspective, their debut record Outcasts sounded…

Amorphis- Queen of Time It shouldn’t seem possible, but Amorphis released another perfect record after already releasing a perfect record, Under the Red Cloud, three years ago. Everything, from the instrumentation, to the grand pianos, saxophones, vocal choirs, is perfect. There is so much going on in this album, even for a progressive band, and…

Bad Wolves could make a case for being the fastest rising rock band within the last five years. The name might ring a bell if you have heard their cover of The Cranberries’ “Zombie,” which currently has more than 131 million views on YouTube. It would have had Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan contributing guest…