Steve Ramsey (Satan, Skyclad) Interview
45 years ago, a teenaged Steve Ramsey drew up the logo for a band in one of his schoolbooks. That band was Satan. Little did […]
Month: September 2024
Moggs Motel – Moggs Motel
Despite bridging the gap between the advent of heavy metal and the NWOBHM, and influencing every traditional metal band whose ever walked the face of […]
Black Sites – The Promised Land?
Us Chicagoans are absolutely spoiled with one of the best metal scenes in the country, if not the world. Aside from Trouble, Master, Zoetrope, Macabre, […]
Top 10: Metal Albums of 2015
Are we really halfway through the ’10s? Surely, this can’t be…can it? Indeed, it is. 2015 was a peculiar time for metal in hindsight. The […]
The Dictators – The Dictators
The official soundtrack to cruising around in a hotrod and scoring barely legal chicks, The Dictators have been around in some capacity or another for […]
Blitzkrieg – Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg are best known for two things. The first is having their eponymous 1980 song covered by Metallica on the Creeping Death EP. The second […]
Udo and Sven Dirkschneider (U.D.O.) Interview
Ready or not, here they come! After a far too long absence from these here American shores, the Teutonic metal powerhouse known as U.D.O. will […]
Rob Robbins (Dr. Dirty) Interview
You’ve heard the story a zillion times: A band comes together, records a demo, and catches the attention of record labels before subsequently self-imploding and […]
Nektar – Mission to Mars
When we last caught up with progressive rock icons Nektar, the band were reestablishing themselves in the wake of founder Roye Albrighton’s passing. The result […]
From My Collection #93: Pat Travers – Live! Go for What You Know
Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. If nothing else, the ’70s was the era of the guitar hero and the live album. And […]