Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: Joe Perry, King Hell, Social Code, Blood Cult

  Southern boogie death metal, blues and rock reviewed...

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 05, 2010

• Music Reviews: Armour, Heathen, Free Reign, and Andre Matos

  Trad and power metal for this week's collection. Nothing too bad and all quite decent.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 26, 2010

• Music Reviews: Acrassicauda, At Vance, Raise the Red Lantern, KMDFM, and Dyse

  Iraqi metal, German avant-garde something and of course a varied remix album.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 17, 2010

• Music CD & DVD Reviews: SPV, Gamma Ray, Fear Factory, Freedom Call, and Annihilator

  This week we take a look at new power metal releases, with a bit of metal nostalgia for good measure.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 08, 2010

• Music / Music DVD Reviews: Brainstorm, Mob Rules, Dark Age, Nostradameus, and Concert in the Park

  From posh mainstream rock to oddles of power metal its time for Marty Musical Meltdown.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 28, 2010

• Music Reviews: The Wishing Tree, Axis of Evil, Those Crooked Vultures, Ihsahn, Suicidal Tendencies

  From prog folk to extreme prog metal with a bit of skate punk thrown in... must be the new MMM.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 16, 2010

• Music Review: Crash the System, The Trophy, Constancia, Out Loud

  A quartet of melodic rock for this first column of the new year.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 05, 2010

• Music Reviews: White Wizzard, Savage Messiah, Skeletonwitch, Mind Key, Cain's Offering & Walken

  Something heavy, something proggy and a whole heck of a lot of metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 25, 2009

• Music/DVD Reviews: Blues at Montreux 2004, Marilyn Manson, Jorn, Silent Rage, Praying Mantis, Menegarm

  What to get those blues/hard rock/Viking metal fans on your holiday shopping list...

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 19, 2009

• Music DVD/CD Review: Alter Bridge, Voivod, Pagan Metal, Marillion, and W.A.S.P.

  Pagan metal examined, Marillion going acoustic, Voivod live and a great return from WASP.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 13, 2009

• Music DVD Reviews: Kansas, Meatloaf, Billy Idol, Thin Lizzy, Creed

  If you enjoy watching your live music releases, check this column out.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 07, 2009

• Music Reviews: Defiance, Insomnium, Secrets of the Moon, Leave's Eyes, Imperial Vengeance

  Its all pretty heavy, whether sung by a woman or a man, mostly good and always interesting.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 18, 2009

• Music Review: Cooper, Inc, Uriah Heep, 7 DayBinge, 16 Second Stare, Aetherius Oscurita

  From the nicest of mainstream hard rock to the blackest of black metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 08, 2009

• Music Review: Duran Duran, Status Quo, Steve Morse Band, Joe Bonamassa, and House of Lords

  From pomp to blues to glossy pop rock... a typical week then.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 31, 2009

• Music Reviews: ZZ Top, Roxy Music, Winger, Lynch Mob, and Ike Reilly

  Roxy Music, ZZ Top and Winger tousle with a touch of rough & ready rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 23, 2009

• Music Reviews: Toto, The Company Band, Pelican, Mr Big, Black Cobra

  Instrumental metal to Mr Big and back to some quality heavy metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 15, 2009

• Music Reviews: Steve Comte & the Crazy Truth, While Heaven Wept, Forest Stream, Megadeth & Lynryd Skynyrd

  From sleaze rock through doomy metal to Southern-fried rock, that is a good week in rock reviewing as far as I am concerned.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 08, 2009

• Music Review: Little Feat, Rick Wakeman, Onslaught, Marduk, and De Magia Veterum

  This is your lot for the week, from pomp to the darkest of avant garde.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 01, 2009

• Music Review: The Kentucky Headhunters, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Nick Oliveri, and Jason Aldean

  Country rock, big band metal swing, and some acoustic metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 24, 2009

• Music Review: Tough, Harvestman, Shrinebuilder, A Storm of Light, and Rod Stewart

  Rod the Mod to Wino via a darkened forest path... yes it must be more CD reviews.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 12, 2009