Exodus – Persona Non Grata
Last week, a Facebook friend posed the question: Which band drastically fell off after the release of their debut album? The first band that came […]
Month: November 2021
Herman Frank (Victory, Accept) Interview
For 40 years, Herman Frank’s name has been synonymous with larger than life, Teutonic metal riffs. Whether it be with Accept, Victory, or as a […]
200 Stab Wounds – Slave to the Scalpel
200 Stab Wounds is the latest death metal band that everybody and their mom can’t stop talking about. I swear, it was like one day […]
Top 10: Metal Albums of 1987
As the 80s entered its final few years, heavy metal evolved and expanded in ways nobody could’ve imagined just a few short years earlier. If […]
Tower – Shock to the System
Cruz del Sur Music has long piqued my interest. With the exception of maybe an uneven release here or there, this is a label who […]
L.A. Guns – Checkered Past
I have been proudly aboard the L.A. Guns reunion bandwagon from the moment Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns squashed their beef. Their last two albums, […]
Geoff Tate at the Arcada Theatre (11/11/2021)
I’ve sure been getting my fair share of post-pandemic Queensrÿche. After seeing them in Milwaukee this past September, and St. Charles last month, last night […]
Mortiferum – Preserved in Torment
There are two types of death/doom bands dominating the scene these days: The maggot infested, gore ridden Autopsy worshippers and the hellish, diabolic, drag you […]
From My Collection #28: Raven – All for One
Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. Although it’s been a little over two and a half weeks since they laid waste to Chicago’s […]
Crazy Lixx – Street Lethal
Crazy Lixx is one of the few bands of the 21st century glam metal revival to pump out a catalog that goes toe to toe […]