Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am the Weapon
As much as I love my ’80s thrash, the number of bands from that era still putting out quality material today is far and few […]
Month: September 2024
Victory – Circle of Life
The ’20s have been quite the victory lap (pun fully intended) for Herman Frank. After roughly a decade of dormancy, the veteran guitarist revived the […]
Satan – Songs in Crimson
To say Satan has had one of the best second winds in metal history would be an understatement. Despite never making their proper mark in […]
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 […]
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 […]