Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: Meltgsnow, Shadowgarden, Atrocity, King Giant, Dark Age, The Breathing Process

  Southern-tinged country metal to ethno and backed to some rather dull "extreme" stuff.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 14, 2010

• Music CD/DVD Reviews: Black River, Steve Morse, Tristania, Lillian Axe, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

  Goth metal, hard rock, and a touch of classy rock fills this column out nicely.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 07, 2010

• Music DVD/ CD Reviews: Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Suicidal Angels, Overmaster, Votum

  Progtastic to power to thrash and back... it's that time of the week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 01, 2010

• Music Reviews: Minuetum, Stratovarius, The Acacia Strain, Andrew WK, Magica, Various

  Power metal from Romania, Greece & Scandinavia plus Andrew WK and some blues.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 23, 2010

• Music Reviews: Rage, The Other, Buckcherry, Triosphere, Empires of Eden, Crystal Tears

  Lashings of power metal, bit of horror punk and a whole lot of clever metal kicking around.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 15, 2010

• Music Review: Gentlemen of Distorted Sound, Colours of One, Pierce the Veil, Solgeldom & This is the Blues

  From the cold Scandinavian wastes to groove rock care of a Nugent (not that one) and some plod pop rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 06, 2010

• Music/DVD Reviews: Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Stormzone, Mark Sweeney

  A couple of releases with Ozzy looming large and a few other notable releases for your listening pleasure.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 30, 2010

• Music/DVD Reviews: Thunderstone, Manimal, Nox Aurea, ELP, The Doors, Rolling Stones

  From the Rolling Stones to a bit of melodic goth to some classy power metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 23, 2010

• Music Reviews: Vard, Jane Bogeart, FM, Edenbridge, Glyder, and Svartsot

  From the jolly Viking tales to the pop rock goodness of AOR.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 13, 2010

• Music Reviews: Shadowside, Axel Rudi Pell, H.E.A.T., Van Canto, Mortemia, Hungry & the Hunted

  From acapella metal to pagan and back to no idea what.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 02, 2010

• Music Review: Lacrimas Profundere, Solution .45, Big Ball, Darklight Corporation, and Heidevolk

  Goth metal, modern proggy death, an AC/DC clone and righteous pagan metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 25, 2010

• Music Reviews: Sun Domingo, Masterplan, Neverland, Kissin' Dynamite, Ereb Altor, Delain

  From doom to progressive through gumby and back to symphonic... its all metal this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 21, 2010

• Music Reviews: Blaze Bayley, Karma to Burn, Triumph, Judas Priest, Scorpions

  A classic reissue, a revamped greatest hits and some great metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 15, 2010

• Music Reviews: Nightmare, Heavenly, Sabbath Assembly, Griftegård

  Creepy gospel-tinged rock, epic doom and two does of French power metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 07, 2010

• Music Reviews: Tyr, Wuthering Heights, October File, Ares Kingdom, 30db

  Solid American rock, decent thrash, and some rather good power metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 28, 2010

• Music Reviews: The Cringe, The Hawkwind Triad, Orwell, and Whiplash

  Veteran thrash, so-so metal core thrash, some decent power pop and a Hawkwind tribute.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 19, 2010

• Music Reviews: Christopher Lee, Jeff Beck, The Vision Bleak, Orden Ogan, Jon Oliva's Pain

  Symphonic power metal, a crusty concept album and some rather fun horror metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 09, 2010

• Music Reviews: Paradox, Haken, Svarti Loghin, The Devil's Blood, and Subaudition

  Intense, trippy and downright odd, heavy rock with a touch of thrash for good measure.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 01, 2010

• Music Reviews: Cypher 16, Savatage, Raven, Jonny Lang, Axel Rudi Pell

  Vintage metal and some rather neat modern stuff reviewed this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 23, 2010

• Music Reviews: The Contribution, Keel, All Day Sucker, and Fight the Quiet

  Some more of the more poppy rock reviewed, with a touch of ole school 80s hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 15, 2010