The eponymous third studio album from the Little Rock, Arkansas-based goth rock outfit, was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson) and preceded by the soaring first single "What You Want." The 12-track Evanescence is set to drop ...

In an age when record companies wantonly rape and pillage every last vestige of most successful rock band catalogs, leaving no stone unturned where unnecessary reissues, repackages, and blatantly recycled "best-of" sets are concerned, Canadian hard rock legends Triumph have ...

Though Metalocalypse might focus on their ridiculous bombast of heavy metal, it's clear that it comes from a place of love, poking fun at the genre and its tropes in a way that only a true metal fan can. And ...

On its third album, Wishbone Ash doesn't mess with its formula--as before, this long running British rock institution purveys a mix of blues, folk, and Yes- style riffs mated to endearingly cosmic lyrics. The songs here, however, are considerably more ...

David Draiman pulls out all the stops with the self-titled debut of his industrial metal band, Device, his first project since Disturbed went on hiatus in 2011. Teaming up with Geno Lenardo, formerly of Filter, Device's debut finds them looking ...

A two-disc set that covers the legendary new wave of the British heavy metal outfit's entire career, from "Killers" and "Number of the Beast" to "Wicker Man" and "Fear of the Dark," Two Minutes to Midnight: A Millennium Tribute to ...

"Crawling" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Additional personnel includes: Ian Hornbeck, Scott Koziol (bass); The Dust Brothers (programming). Recorded at NRG Recordings, North Hollywood, California. Personnel: Mike Shinoda (vocals, sampler); Chester Bennington (vocals); Brad Delson (guitar, background vocals); ...

Producers include: Bruce Fairbairn, Bob Rock, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Lance Quinn.

British import edition, this includes nine bonus tracks, including remixes, unreleased instrumentals, and in-studio chatter. With IN ROCK, Deep Purple added vocalist Ian Gillan into the line-up, a decision that irrevocably changed their fortunes. IN ROCK is one of the genre's ...

Best in Show, the seventh studio album from chainsaw-loving, southern rock veterans Jackyl, is as refreshingly unpretentious as it is willfully juvenile, offering up 11 slabs of ribs that are hardly fall-off-the-bone tender, but still require a bib. Unapologetically lewd ...

Originally decried by critics as an American rip-off of the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith blew these criticisms away by going on to become the biggest and best hard rock band of the '70s. Fronted by funky and fast-talking Steven Tyler, Aerosmith ...

With their third album, Black Veil Brides complete their transformation from a heavily made-up metalcore band to a full-fledged gothic glam metal band, mixing drama and swagger on the sprawling and conceptual Wretched & Divine. Channeling the freewheeling power of ...

MASTER OF PUPPETS was Metallica's last album with bass player Cliff Burton. Burton was killed in a traffic accident. He was replaced by Jason Newsted. Recorded at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark from September through December, 1985. Metallica: James Hetfield (vocals, guitar); ...

Shinedown's debut album is a blast of updated vintage Florida alt-rock that should find a home in the hearts of those for whom the flames of Alice in Chains and Soundgarden still burn brightly. This Jacksonville Florida quartet's take on ...

This is a Hyper CD, which contains regular audio tracks and also provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser. The 2003 edition of HIGH VOLTAGE includes liner notes by Murray Engelheart. HIGH VOLTAGE was the ...

Swedish metal act Ghost (not to be confused with the Japanese acid folk group or any number of other acts taking on the namesake) followed their 2010 debut with the darkly creeping Infestissuman. Much like its predecessor Opus Eponymous, the ...

Also available in a 3-pack with BRITISH STEEL and POINT OF ENTRY. In the early '80s, a new musical movement, dubbed "The New Wave of British Metal," swept across England. The conspirators include such heavy bands as Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, ...

Volbeat are sick and tired of music purists wagging their finger at them. They refuse to be confined to the pigeonhole of a specific genre but throw off all fetters intended to keep them on the ground. In the past ...

Kid Rock's unique blend of Midwestern rock & roll, rap, and R&B gets another airing with COCKY, which features a plethora of road tunes, who's-the-baddest cuts, and straight-ahead drinking songs. The slow, greasy grooves of "You Never Met a Motherf**cker ...

Although Nazareth had already broken into the big time in England with their 1973 release RAZAMANAZ, the band had yet to crack the U.S. market. Their stateside break came two years later in the form of 1975's HAIR OF THE ...

Since there are now two bands named Queensrÿche, we'll sort out that this is the one led by founding vocalist Geoff Tate, created after he was fired in 2012 and rushed out the tepid solo album Kings & Thieves in ...

While Black Sabbath remained one of heavy metal's top concert draws throughout the late '70s, the band's albums of the era proved to not be on par with its earlier work. This creative weakness was what caused vocalist Ozzy Osbourne ...

Between the Buried and Me's 2007 album, Colors, marked a departure for the band from the expansive technical death metal of its earlier career into more progressive rock-influenced territory. Released in 2009, The Great Misdirect refined BTBAM's new approach, and ...

Five Finger Death Punch stormed rock radio in 2007 with "The Bleeding" (from debut album THE WAY OF THE FIST), a powerful, emotionally tense track that matched vintage, Metallica-style thrash with a throat-shredding chorus more typical of late aughts metalcore. ...

The first Deep Purple album to feature Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale, resulted in a much more bluesy effort all round. Coverdale's throaty roar, combined with Hughes' soaring vocal, made for a heartfelt, rootsy record. 'Might Just Take Your Life' ...