Top 10

On any given week, I’d be thrilled to revisit and re-examine the lengthy catalog of Nazareth. The Scottish hard rock/heavy metal pioneers have influenced scenes […]

A year ago today, the world lost one of the finest voices in hard and heavy music, John Lawton. For most headbangers, Lawton is best […]

We’re 3 years into the 90s and while metal has fallen out of favor with the mainstream crowd, it’s alive and well in the underground. […]

June is here and if you’re reading this, chances are you’re still hungover, bruised, and sunburnt from what may be the last Maryland Deathfest ever. […]

Has it really been 30 years since 1992? Not that I was alive back then, but it feels just like yesterday that it was 2012 […]

The early 80s were arguably the best time in recorded history to be a teenage metalhead. The dark imagery and shocking stage antics of Iron […]

When making these retrospective best metal albums of a year lists, I’ve noticed two trends. There’s the years where the top 2 or 3 spots […]

In the early 1970s, no other band terrorized the masses like Alice Cooper. Their uncompromising brand of hard rock, coupled with explicit lyricism that explored […]

A new decade is here and metal is officially 20! A lot has changed in the two decades that have passed since those foreboding church […]

It’s a big week in the Judas Priest camp. After the first leg of their already postponed 50 Heavy Metal Years Tour was abruptly postponed […]