As temperatures rapidly dropping ahead of an incoming snowstorm, the black clad line outside Irving Plaza had two reasons to be excited to get off the frigid Manhattan streets as the venue opened its doors. First, to keep from becoming gothic icicles (gothcicles?), and second - and far more importantly - to find a place closest to the stage for Lord of the Lost 's tremendous performance. As one of the first dates of the Dark Winter Tour, the German rockers had come to New Yor

Edenbridge - Set The Dark On Fire (Steamhammer), out now While winter has covered most of the northern hemisphere in snow and ice this month, Austrian symphonic power metal quintet Edenbridge have come to turn the heat up with their twelfth album, Set The Dark On Fire. Wasting no time in kicking off an epic musical journey, "The Ghostship Diaries" immerses listeners in a world of magic and mystery with vocalist extraordinaire, Sabine Edelsbacher, serving as both guide and na

Absinthe Green - Of Love and Pain (Independent), out 19 September Anyone who has ever danced with the Green Fairy knows that each...

At nearly 100 years old, the Brooklyn Paramount long ago solidified its place in music history. As an early venue for jazz, big band, and...

With the setting sun casting malevolent shadows over the streets of New York, it was quite fitting that a black clad crowd had formed a...

While an afternoon of fog and cloud cover had tapped away the first sings of spring that had only just come to New York twenty four hours...

Jinjer - Duél (Napalm Records) Out February 07 Far and away one of the most in demand bands of the last decade, the years since 2021's...

Crucial Velocity - Controller (Golden Robot Records) Out now! Welding together progressive passages and wall of sound tones reminiscent...

The Halo Effect - March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast Records) Out January 10 "When we started doing this as teenagers in Sweden, no one...

Harakiri For The Sky - With Autumn I'll Surrender (Single, AOP Records) "A brilliant first offering of new music from one of today's most...