Cryptic Rock

• Warlord – Free Spirit Soar (Album Review) | Cryptic Rock | May 14, 2024, 6:54 p.m.
Back in the early ’80s, Metal Blade Records had a series called Metal Massacre which showcased a list of underground, unsigned Heavy Metal acts. A place where legends like Metallica, Ratt, Overkill, and Slayer had

• Angus & Julia Stone – Cape Forestier (Album Review) | Cryptic Rock | May 9, 2024, 6:14 p.m.
From The Everly Brothers to The Kinks, Oasis, and beyond… there is something unique about siblings who create music together. Scientifically a part of their genetics to be within the same range, another fascinating sibling

• Powerman 5000 – Abandon Ship (Album Review) | Cryptic Rock | May 7, 2024, 3:36 p.m.
Powerman 5000 are one of those bands where their sound shifts from album to album. Now established for over 30 years, they are most often associated with their massively successful 1999 album Tonight the Stars

• Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All (Album Review) | Cryptic Rock | May 7, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
The time has come for one of the elder statesmen of the second wave of Norwegian Black Metal to release a new album. Darkthrone may have strayed far from their original blueprint in both sound

• Better Than Ezra – Super Magick (Album Review) | Cryptic Rock | May 7, 2024, 2:20 p.m.
Emerging from a crowded room of Alternative Rock bands during the 1990s was no easy task, but Better Than Ezra is one of those which managed to do just that. Initially coming together in 1988,