Month: April 2020

If you’re a NWOBHM nerd, you’re no stranger to Cloven Hoof. The legendary band formed in 1979 and began playing an occult style of metal […]

“Nobody knows the band Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don […]

While America was thrashing it up in the 1980s, an equally burgeoning scene was taking the Great White North by storm. Bands like Razor, Slaughter, […]

Ever since Deep Purple’s masterpiece Perfect Strangers (1984), the comeback album has been a fixture of metal. Most end up being pale imitations of what once was, […]

This past Friday, as I was drinking the night way and blasting Deep Purple’s classic Made in Japan (1972), a friend sent a link to a group […]

No matter how cool your band name is, umlauts will make it ten times cooler. Could you imagine Blue Öyster Cult, Mötley Crüe, and Motörhead […]

“Welcome to my funeral my family and my friends”: It was with this lyric that Dream Death arguably gave birth to death/doom on their cult […]

Hypnotizing heavy metal: That’s how Canada’s Spell describes themselves. This description has never been truer than on their third album, Opulent Decay. On their debut, The […]

As much as I enjoy reviewing albums, sometimes I just can’t bare to sit through 40 minutes of *insert trend hopping band’s album here* or […]

There’s no shortage of classic styles being reimagined in today’s OSDM revival. Whether how good or bad they’re reimagined is up to you. Some walk […]