Tag: Reigning Phoenix Music

Stillbirth – Survival Protocol Review

[Cover art by Aghy R Purakusuma]  If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, then it’s the middle of the week. Despite how popular that one Geico commercial was with the camel, real life

Amorphis – Borderland Review

You do something for thirty-plus years, and you get pretty good at it. Case in point: Finland’s thirty-five-year-old progressive metal wizards Amorphis. After starting out in a more death metal direction, over the last few

Helloween – Giants & Monsters Review

Is it even possible, dear friends and readers, to feel bad or sad or glum or anything but radiantly giddy while listening to Helloween? For my money… no, it is not. Thus, new Helloween is

Opeth – The Last Will And Testament Review

[Cover art by Travis Smith] Hoooooooooboy, folks, look what we’ve got here. It’s gonna be hard to think of a metal album in 2024 that will elicit as many opinions as will The Last Will

Octoploid – Beyond The Aeons Review

Here’s a thought: whatever you think you’re too good for, stuff it. Nobody on this wet rock called Earth is better than anybody else. Life swarms and stumps and squirms where it must; death equalizes.