Articles by Joe Miller

Death metal week rages on here at Defenders of the Faith! Well, I didn’t intend for it to be “death metal week”. It just so […]

When you think of early death metal, Messiah is probably not the first band that comes to mind. That’s assuming you know who Messiah is. […]

The late 2010s saw the advent of the OSDM (“old school death metal”) revival, in which a ton of kids who just a few years […]

In the late 70s, Blue Öyster Cult evolved from high priests of occult metal to golden gods of arena rock. The sound explored on such […]

The melodic rock tastemakers at Frontiers Records have done it again. If you’re keeping tabs, it’s time to add Perfect Plan to the seemingly endless […]

What a treat we have here! I take a holiday weekend and return to a brand new Iron Maiden album! And released 5 years to […]

Before there was metal, there was hard rock. Before there was hard rock, there was the blues. Through it all has been the British blues […]

Diamond Rexx was the black eye glam metal needed in 1986. In a field that would soon be saturated by Poison pretty boys and whatever […]

It was 2017 when out of nowhere, Necrot took the death metal underground by storm with their debut full length, Blood Offerings. Well, it wasn’t completely […]