At first listen, the first single from Youtube content creator, comedian, and actor Anna Akana may seem like an anti-intervention song that wallows in self delusion and poor coping mechanisms. However, it is not... Read More

Magenta is a Norwegian industrial rock band with a unique sound. They formed in 1995 and in 2013, this album (Songs for the Dead) started recording... Read More

Lyrically and musically the duo has captured the feeling of isolation and aggression that metahumans would have, hell, that real world prisoners being reintegrated into society feel... Read More

Overall the song is not a train wreck, I grant you it's not spectacular either, it really is just a mash up of riffs from different versions of Ghostbusters themes (the original, one of the synthier versions from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, and even a few notes from the Extreme Ghostbusters cartoon... Read More

Classic Rob Zombie, heavy but infectious and downright catchy. Much like "Living Dead Girl"... Read More

Orgy returns with their Talk Sick EP, popularly known for their breakout hit cover of New Order's "Blue Monday" back in the 90's. Orgy's sound has matured and embraced Industrial Metal... Read More

Taryn Southern produced an awesome single out of an episode of her talk show, Party Fun Times, that was about LGBT culture...
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The Feudale Brothers Band, formerly Mystic Haze (longtime TLR readers should remember them both from reviews and on TLR! Radio), have dropped a pretty sweet LP here...
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Our buddy, Steve Bello, is back with Layers Of Time, nine songs that live up to and embody Steve's genre label for his music Progmetalfunk. Very cosmic and at times very heavy... Read More

MofoisDead creates their own brand of metal-edged alt-rock with their songs on Brisneyland. The Brisbane, Australia-based three piece outfit... Read More

Hard, fast, heavy. Above The Storm kicks your teeth in with a sonic boot to the face from the first brutal note of their Eternal Sun EP to the last... Read More

At first listen (especially a casual listen), KillSET, may strike you as par for the course "math metal" ala early 2000's Mudvayne, but push past that first impression... Read More

Mark Claytor delivers some solid guitar driven, mostly instrumental rock on his Enharmonic Dissonance EP. His musicianship through the four songs is impeccable, compositions are methodical... Read More

he Sean Baker Orchestra gives a nice shot to the system with guitarist Sean Bakers approach to composing and his skill in performing. He explores new angles with his compositions... Read More

Star Scream has hit an interesting sweet spot with album Sexploitation, it lands at the juxtaposition where a Tim Burton film score, a video game soundtrack, and Electro Pop Punk all meet...
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Dauzat St. Marie serves up a deep yet uplifting EP with Falling Again, reminiscent of 90's alt acoustic rock but with a maturity and romantic air not often combined... Read More

Lauriana Mae returns with a new EP and a more mature sound and carrying. She has also ditched most of the big band style accompaniment she had on her last outing...
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Chrysalis delves into Experimental Rock and Metal pretty soundly on Focus On The Center, at points the seven song album is like mixed media set to music... Read More

"Paper Doll" retains the punk rock attitude and garage rock band fuzz and low fi sound I fell in love with on Married With Sea Monsters' "Face It, Tiger" inspired by Edge of Spider-Verse #2... Read More

FlashFires delivers a catchy indie/alt-pop number with "Shy", throwing it back to the early 2000's with the melody, very 2003 Kaiser Chiefs... Read More

Heavy, dark, light, profound, and absolutely hard rocking. Profane And The Sacred takes listeners on a varied journey... Read More

CHIEFS bring a hard rocking album to the table with Tomorrow's Over, grunge influences are clear from the first notes of the first track... Read More

The Love Zombies' new single, "Be Honest", recalls 60's girl group fun poppy energy, mixed with some old school UK punk... Read More

There is a lot of power in Meg Myers' voice, most of it she hasn't revealed yet, at least not in any of her material that I have heard, but... Read More

Kyshera is just about everything that is right with alternative rock, engaging sounds, thought provoking lyrics as well as heartfelt lyrics that don't dip into pop or emo territory... Read More

Faith No More's second single, "Superhero", off their new album, Sol Invictus, blurs the lines between alt rock and metal... Read More

Vespers Nine delivers a decent mix of hard rock, energetic rock, and ballads. The ten song album does dive into the ballad side of the pool pretty heavy, complete with a better than the original cover...
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Prog rock with melodic overtones from UK based Reason is some of the best progressive rock/metal that's has come in the door at TLR in the last year or so...
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Sexy electro pop, somewhat reminiscent of Blondie, at least in Scarlett Johansson's vocal style on this first single from the all women supergroup... Read More

Thrashers from Montreal, Citizen Vicious rides the line into bar metal at times, but mostly does stay in the thrash genre. The album title pretty much says it all... Read More

Brutal and relentless. Pallor Mortis never lets up and the band revels in it, judging from the layout of each song's composition. The Montreal-based four piece Death Metal outfit hammers their genre home... Read More

For the naysayers of Halestorm's first single from Into The Wild Life, "Apocalyptic", listen to "Mayhem". "Mayhem" is harder, faster, and about sex... Read More

Taryn Southern steps away from her usual comedy driven song writing with Change It Up for an uplifting and self affirming number about taking charge of your life...
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Heavy and dark, Mammoth Black brings hard instrumentals and Brett Lloyd's vocals pulverize with their strength; they are reminiscent of All That Remains' Philip Labonte but heavier... Read More

Evil Scarecrow's missing track from Sixty-Six Past Six finally sees release as a single. The song's narrative is about a robot named Robototron... obviously... Read More

London based, stripped down, punk rock duo The Connectors' garage punk lo-fi single Half Measures recalls old school British punk...
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Composition on the English four-piece band's single, Forever, is solid and has more rock with a peppering of hard rock to it... Read More

Halestorm's first single off their upcoming third full length album, Into The Wild Life, is another hard rock, guitar heavy, ode to a failing relationship; however...
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From Hell has crafted an epic, dark, bone crushingly heavy concept album in Ascent From Hell. Each song is a full narrative; monologues, dialogue... Read More

Loud, abusive, and pissed off; just like every thrash album should be. Exodus is back with Blood In, Blood Out, and they are just hard and heavy as when they first came on the scene 30 years ago...
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Dear You delivers some tight pop punk goodness on their six song EP, I Can Only Blame Myself. Plenty of emotion in these songs... Read More

om Keifer's debut solo album, The Way Life Goes, released over a year (and unfortunately not talked about nearly enough by the mainstream music media) cements Keifer's ability to write and perform...
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Under Aspect delivers a solid metal album in The Things You Should Not See, with a nice crossbreeding of  metal subgenres woven throughout the eight tracks within. There are some tropes that come from... Read More

Reckless Serenade delivers a heartfelt pop punk ditty in "Take Me Back To The Summer", thankfully a little heavier on the punk side of the genre... Read More

The Return Of The Bearded Brethren is an ten song love letter to the best parts of 70's rock! Big sound that rides the line between rock and metal, a whiskey soaked flair...
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Resistance’s The Seeds Within delivers a heavy and dark message through the whole album. The sound is bold and gritty, and as you’d expect of kickass metal, deep. Not only are the instruments intense... Read More

The first single, and what will be the second track on the full album, Rock or Bust, dropping on November 28 of this year... Read More

YouTuber, actress, songwriter/singer Taryn Southern's "Everyone Pees In The Ocean" is another of her many hilarious and yet poignant comedy songs... Read More

The Age of The Universe has some very tight instruments on their Singularity album, vocals follow suit and have a slight resemblance to Bono's voice sometimes... Read More

"Electro Sci-Fi Opera", this description of their sound and this album is perfect. Bogotá, Colombia based Cyberpunk/Electro masters, Psyborg Corp... Read More

Tantric delves deep into songs frontman Hugo Ferreira has written over the years and archived; as he puts it, "This isn't so much a premeditated album... Read More

Heavy, experimental, and somehow dissonant yet not all at the same time. Tummler and Solomon have an interesting sound, deep and bass driven, melodic with deep drop tuning... Read More

The Lovesick Saints are an Arizona based three piece alternative/punk outfit, their six song Dia De Los Muertos features a much more diverse sound and diverse influences from outside of those genres... Read More

Married With Sea Monsters must have loved Edge of Spider-Verse #2: Gwen Stacy: Spider-Woman as much I did, because they made a real cover of a fictional song... Read More

The Smoking Hearts score a victory with Victory! Billing themselves as rock 'n' roll, the band's sound is closer to a mix of metal and hardcore punk... Read More

EDM and Hip-Hop aren't usually genres reviewed at TLR, but considering this is the first single off the soundtrack to the remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... Read More

I, Omega has crafted a hard hitting album that rides and blurs the lines between metal and progressive... and it is good. Thrown in are some punk and hardcore influences... Read More

Million Dollar Fix is pretty damn balls to the wall rock 'n roll. Hard riffs and tasty hooks, their is like if AC/DC and Wolfmother had a baby, and it is good... Read More

Ben Kuzay is back with another bass powered album. A Celebration of Life delves deeper into Ben's composition skills as he lays out an album with varying moods and deeper subtext... Read More

(Hed) p.e. is back after a four year break from producing a full album, and damn are they on fire with Evolution! The band has really hit the gas with the songs on this album... Read More

Tasmanian quartet, Save The Clock Tower, bring together metal, hardcore, post-hardcore, emo, screamo, alternative, and balls to the wall hard rock... Read More

Young Master Goren is only 14 years old and jams with Soul based and guitar heavy R&B/Rock like an amalgamation of Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and BB King... Read More

Mohammad Molaei's cover of Queen's legendary song will not be for everyone, especially purists that deny anyone can touch anything Freddie Mercury wrote. That said, Mohammad's version is badass... Read More

Four piece Belfast, Ireland based Ajenda crafts a powerful song that calls humanity as a whole out on the downward spiral it is collectively in... Read More

A teaming of World Music, Sudanese Ethnic to be specific, with shred metal is awe inspiring and completely beautiful... Read More

Adrian English returns with Total Chaos, and as hard as it is to believe, he is better than ever. Speed, precision, and more emotion flowing through his music than in previous outings... Read More

SWIRL is a hard rock/metal outfit from Temecula, CA and they are bringing big arena style rock and metal back to the forefront from the Inland Empire out to the masses! ...Read More

Something You Whisper shows how diverse they can on the From The Other Side EP, showcased are example of their ability to write and play rock, metal, metalcore at points, ballads... Read More

Pop Punk snark and humor mixed with Kelly Ogden's tight yet bubbly vocals and bass guitar, Luis Cabezas' smooth guitars that are still clearly guided by punk power chords and attitude... Read More

The Venetia Fair are back with their new EP of covers, “...Basically Just Does Karaoke”, on the EP are the bands takes on new and old classics like “Bohemian Rhapsody”... Read More

Soul Asylum's 2012 album Delayed Reaction, their first new album since 2006's The Silver Lining, brings the band to new heights of their game. Still making beauty from melancholy... Read More

Uh Huh Baby Yeah present a hybrid of pop-rock with screamo. The go-to formula for pop-rockers that want to get radio play without becoming Justin Bieber (...the reference burns the fingers as it is typed)... Read More

Hard, fast, and pissed off. Downfall 2012 delivers metal that revels in its roots while staying current; mixing in some rap style lyrics in at points and dystopianism... Read More

Toby Knapp is back and has brought a blend of heavier but more thoughtful metal with him in Static Warfare... Read More