Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Review: Therion, Painkiller Hotel, and Gloriana

  Three chord wonders, through poptastic country rock, and ending up in operatic metal glory.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 08, 2009

• Music Reviews: Rory Gallagher, Gregg Rolie, Chuck Mosley, Janus & Dream Theater

  Some pop rock, some power prog, a bit of classy blues and some alright rap metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 30, 2009

• Music reviews: Circle of Fate, Machines of Grace, Theatre of Tragedy, Gary Moore & Beatallica

  Metal Beatles, to goth metal done right, to some tasty blues. It must be this week's Meltdown.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 22, 2009

• Music Reviews: Jason Aldean, Jethro Tull, Grief of War, U.D.O., and RAM

  Your lot for this week ranges from folk-rock to some traditional heavy metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 14, 2009

• Music Review: Ensiferum, Glorior Belli, Fools Game, and Axxis

  Viking metal mayhem, metal cheese from Germany, and some blues black metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 09, 2009

• Music Reviews: Lillian Axe, Saint Deamon, Saidian, Unholy, and Lion's Share

  A great selection of metal for this week ranging from the upbeat to the dark and moody.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 29, 2009

• Music Reviews: Set Your Goals, Evile, Inglorious Incarnation, Bloodbound, Covered Call

  From pop-punk to hard rock with some thrash in the hard middle. Not a bad collection this week

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 17, 2009

• Music Review: The 69 Eyes, Moonstone Project, Submission, Pathosray, Vision Divine

  Trashy death metal through AOR funk to some rather good progressive metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 09, 2009

• Music Review: Black Crowes, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Primal Fear, Dredg, and The Deer Hunter

  From pop prog to Germanic heavy metal with a touch of blues, it must be this week's review selection from Marty.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 29, 2009

• Music Review: Iron Maiden, Delain, Bill Leverty, Loaded, and Chickenfoot

  Southern roots rock, gothic symphonic metal, and a hard rock supergroup is just the start of this week's column.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 22, 2009

• Music Review: Animals as Leaders, Exilia, Testament, Ted Nugent, and Deep Purple

  Deep Purple and Ted Nugent are just some of the pleasures in this lot.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 15, 2009

• Music Review: BB King, White Wizzard, The Jokers, Tantric, and Native Window

  Party rock, some violin tinged AOR and a touch of the NWOBHM as done by a bunch of Yanks.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 04, 2009

• Music Review: Place Vandome, Robert Berry, Shakra, Susperia, and Procol Harum

  Symphonic Procul Harum, extreme metallers playing trad metal and some classy hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 30, 2009

• Music Reviews: White Lion, Moody Blues, Hardline, OSI, Joe Lynn Turner

  Hard rock cheese through uber-clever prog to the Moody Blues....plus some hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 22, 2009

• Music Review: Heaven & Hell, Mastodon, Queensryche, Crescent Shield, and Spheric Universe Experience

  A rather progressive collection of metal this week with a touch of Heaven & Hell.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 14, 2009

• Music Review: Evanscapps, Slough Feg, Devil's Whorehouse, Schenker/Barden Acoustic Project, Jimi Jamison, and Return to Forever

  Jazz, southern rock, AOR pomp and some nice death rock in this week's collection.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 07, 2009

• Music Review: Draven, Susperia, Rhino, Stemm, and Seance

  This week we look at some of the heavier and darker side of heavy rock. Get yer leathers on and take a look.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 29, 2009

• Music Reviews: The Bakerton Group, Black Crowes, Hanging Doll, The Great Kat, and the To Live is to Die Book

  The Great Kat appalls, Black Crowes disappoint, while Hanging Doll & The Bakerton Group enthrall.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 21, 2009

• Music Review: The Answer, Prong, Icon, JSS and a Book Review Too

  Jeff Scott Soto solo, The Answer storms back, an Icon and Prong remixed.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 13, 2009

• Music Review: Styx, Gary Moore, Paul Rodgers, Black Label Society, and Elvenking

  Italian Celtic power-metal, biker metal, pomp, a bit of classy blues and Thin Lizzy blues, not a bad outing.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 08, 2009