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2017: The year I became a grown-ass man! On paper, that is. Yours truly turned 18 and enjoyed his newfound freedom by attending every 18+ […]

Happy Hallows’ Eve Eve! Yes, it’s that time of year again. The air is crisp, ghoulish images grace the lawns of otherwise conventional households, and […]

2016 was a year full of wild twists and turns. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series, a reality TV star won the presidency, and […]

While scrolling through the wasteland that is Facebook, I came across a meme yesterday pitting Running Wild against Alestorm. While I agreed with nearly every […]

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 […]

For the past 24 hours, every “rock” media outlet has been fixated on the reunion of some bloody wankers from the ’90s that made an […]

From roughly 2009 onwards of our retrospective metal journey, I’ve had the pleasure of reminiscing about albums I recall first hearing upon their release. Today’s […]

Before there was death metal, black metal, thrash, speed, grind, crust, or any other countless bastardizations of extreme metal we take for granted today, there […]

2013 was a lean, mean, headbangin’ machine of a year! The amount of veteran acts who came out swinging is nothing short of staggering, with […]

Upon reviewing Sabbat’s latest album, Sabbaticult, it got me thinking about Japan’s rich heavy metal history: A tale that goes as far back as this […]