You have no doubt been involved in a conversation where a version of the following question has been asked; “If you could only take 10 albums with you to a desert island to listen to forevermore, what would you take?” Which is just a fancy way of saying what is […]
The golden age of nu metal is somewhere between 1996 and 2003. After the breakthrough of Korn‘s debut album in 1994, it was their release of Life Is Peachy in 1996 when nu metal began to hit the mainstream. In 1997 we had Coal Chamber and Limp Bizkit‘s debut albums. […]
This is a new segment I am going to start. I am going to revisit a classic within the world of heavy metal. This could be an album, a memorable concert or event. Anything that qualifies under the commonly accepted criteria of a classic – with a healthy dose of […]
If we were to loosely assign the Big 4 of German power metal as being Accept, Halloween, Blind Guardian and Powerwolf (please @ me with your angry rebuttals), then Iron Savior would firmly sit as one of the bands next in line. Skycrest is the 12th album in their long […]
Melodic death metal’s long time purveyors of catchy hooks and virtuoso performances Children of Bodom sadly called it a day back in 2019 with their final album Hexed. Following the heart breaking tragic passing of frontman Alexi Laiho in early 2021, the follow up project Bodom After Midnight has likely […]
There is something about the sound of a cranked Boss HM-2 that warms the cracked edges of my darkened soul. Like a cosy blanket on a cold winters day. If the blanket was a bag of knives. And by winters day I mean the cold embrace of hell. But warming […]
2020 has been a total disaster on many fronts. Stuck in lockdown, no live music. Nightmare. However what 2020 has produced is a heap of quality heavy metal albums. Narrowing it down to ten was pretty tough going. But such is the quality of albums this year they are all […]
It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a disaster of a year. However there have been a huge number of great heavy metal album and single releases in 2020. Legendary bands and newcomers alike. Surprise releases. Bands back from the dead. Quality from all around. So here I present […]
So you have no doubt heard this before. A band classified as Christian Rock or Christian Metal. But what does that really mean? A genre is typically there to describe a type of music. To let you know what you’re in for. We typically like certain types of music because […]
Pick up your metal mixing bowl. Combine 3 parts deathcore, 2 parts djent and 1 part 8 bit video game music. Bake it in hell fire for 47 minutes and 2 seconds and you have Black Heart, the sixth studio album from Massachusetts’ Within The Ruins. I often find at […]
