Greg T. Walker (Two Wolf, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Every musical genre has a starting point. For metal, a genre with countless subgenres to its name, there’s no shortage of bands credited as pioneers […]
Ripping Remains – Necrodestiny
Does anyone else remember Dripping Decay? We reviewed their debut album, Festering Grotesqueries (2023), upon its release, and were taken aback by the sheer grossness […]
Hooded Menace – Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
When we last heard from Finnish death/doom disciples, Hooded Menace, they had just released their sixth full length, The Tritonus Bell (2021): An album that […]
Top 10: Rush Albums
If you told me a week ago that Rush would be an active band come the next Top 10, I’d never in a million years […]
Suffering Hour – Impelling Rebirth
As the old saying goes, “What goes around comes around.” Slowly but surely, it seems that the thrasher crop of the early ’10s, who abandoned […]
Dirkschneider & the Old Gang – Babylon
When I last interviewed German metal god, Udo Dirkschneider, I asked about the possibility of a full length from his Dirkschneider & the Old Gang […]
Wode – Uncrossing the Keys
“What’s this? Joe tackling a black metal band he’s never listened to before?” What can I say folks? Sometimes I like to live dangerously. Granted, […]
Michael Schenker Group – Don’t Sell Your Soul
As Michael Schenker continues to make his way around the US of A, celebrating the legacy of UFO, what better time to remind everyone that […]
Black Rose – Killing Machine
Much like WTF, the last album from cult NWOBHM act Black Rose, their latest, Killing Machine, snuck up on me out of nowhere. There was […]
From My Collection #118: Def Leppard – On Through the Night
Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. Def Leppard are one of the most divisive bands in the history of hard rock and heavy […]