A slight concept, even by Los Straitjackets' standards, the masked men from Nashville time travel back to the swinging '60s and land in the middle of a suburban twist party. Special guest Kaiser George Miller handles honking sax and vocals on a set of 16 dance-ready tracks that fly by in a little over a half-hour. It's fun aplenty, but like that tasty Chinese food, you'll forget about it an hour after the disc ends. A few covers ("Domino Twist" originally recorded by, who else, Fats Domino and ...   [ read more ]

CD $21.83

Dry Kill Logic make some thoroughly aggressive music intended to entertain the listener and hopefully make them move around in the process. The songs contained within The Darker Side of Nonsense don't just rock, they bludgeon the listener like a frozen leg of beef to the skull. From the violent chorus of the album's opening track, where vocalist Cliff Rigano offers the mathematical equation "Me + You = Nightmare!" to the frenetic sway of "Rot," prepare yourself for a roller coaster ride into ma...   [ read more ]

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The Scandinavian countries are well known for death metal and black metal, but Scandinavia also gave us plenty of power metal revival and progressive metal recordings in the '90s and 2000s. In Finland, singer Timo Kotipelto is among the Scandinavians who has played a major role in that scene, first as the lead singer of Stratovarius (a band he joined in 1994, although Stratovarius' original lineup was formed in 1982), then as leader of his self-named band Kotipelto. Serenity has ...   [ read more ]

CD $45.58