White Mantis – Arrows at the Sun
Praying Mantis? One of my favorite acts of the NWOBHM, even though the dorks at Metal Archives swear up and down they’re AOR. White Mantis? […]
From My Collection #115: Gillan – Glory Road
Welcome to another edition of From My Collection. Happy 80th birthday, Ian Gillan! If you can’t believe you’re reading those words, believe me when I […]
Ellefson-Soto – Unbreakable
Ellefson-Soto: Because MegaTalisman just doesn’t have the same ring! As you’ve likely figured out by now, Ellefson-Soto is a collaboration between former Megadeth bassist David […]
Martyr – Dark Believer
Time flies when you’re having fun! It feels just like yesterday that I took a voyage to Martyr’s Planet Metalhead, making my way from one […]
Simon Kirke (Bad Company, Free) Interview
As the drummer for not one, but two ’70s hard rock juggernauts, there’s very little Simon Kirke hasn’t done over the course of his nearly […]
Phantom Fire – Phantom Fire
Is there anything worse than a band or album you should love on paper falling short of expectation? I mean, sure, Ozzy Osbourne leaving this […]
Top 10: NWOBHM Singles of 1980
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 […]
Paralysis – Spiral of Suffering
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from crossover crushers Paralysis, half a decade to be exact. Yes, it was during the dog days of […]
Crypt Sermon – Saturnian Appendices
It’s a saying we’ve heard time and time again: The sequel is never as good as the original. Nine times out of ten, this age […]
Crypt Sermon Interview
With their first two albums, Out of the Garden (2015) and The Ruins of Fading Light (2019), epic doom demigods Crypt Sermon quickly cemented themselves […]