Top 10

When UFO hired the services of 18 year old whiz kid guitarist Michael Schenker in 1973, they were a floundering space rock band on life […]

It’s hard to believe that 40 years have passed since Spinal Tap rocked the silver screen with their eponymous documentary, This is Spinal Tap. 40 […]

By now, you’re more than familiar with the all too parroted narrative that one day in 1987, seemingly out of nowhere, Death released Scream Bloody […]

Who’s ready to hop into the heavy metal time machine? I am! If ’79 was the year the dam began to burst, as Saxon famously […]

As you could likely surmise from our radio silence yesterday, we were absolutely blindsided by the sudden passing of Ozzy Osbourne. If you’re reading this, […]

Hard as it is to believe, we’re now three days away from what’s bound to be the biggest show in metal history, Back to the […]

Metal historians will wax poetic for days regarding Ronnie James Dio’s ’70s and ’80s output. Between Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and his own eponymous outfit, it’s […]

It’s been a whole 7 days since I ventured out to the ‘Land to catch ’em, and I’ve still got a bad case of AC/DC […]

Witchfynde: A band that I wouldn’t go so far as to brand “obscure”, but you certainly never hear mentioned as frequently as Iron Maiden, Saxon, […]

Hey you! Did you miss our retrospective Top 10s highlighting specific years in metal history? Well, after months of pondering how I was going to […]