As a kid my brother’s uninformed and admittedly random purchases from metal and punk mail-order distros often ended […]
retro tuesdays
Satan is more-or-less the best still-standing band to come from the NWOBHM movement and their third album found the band with […]
Skyclad struck inspirational gold combining elements of folk and Celtic rock with thrash metal on their debut and […]
For all of the insane and experimental extreme metal coming out of Finland in the early 90’s few […]
Back in 2004 on my eternal quest to listen to every single thrash metal album released from 1983 […]
Paul Chain is dead. Or let’s say his gentrified stage/band name from the late 70’s until 2003 was […]
When I typically compile lists of music releases I tend to get a bit lost in the dissonance […]
Not long after discovering Pentagram and Sadism, two of Chile’s finest and most important death/thrash metal bands I […]
Around 2004 the craziest shit happened while I was looking for poorly transferred, obscure NWOBHM singles to impress […]
Swiss death metal band Messiah’s third album showcased an impressive professional transformation as the band’s unusual style finally […]
The first three Obliveon recordings were machinated, beyond psychedelic thrash metal albums with just enough of a corroded […]
In the earliest days of my researching proto-metal, NWOBHM and the hard rock groups that inspired the world-changing […]
The Netherlands is a country that I know very, very little about. They seem to be a very […]
1986 was one hell of a year for heavy metal and a year so cock-jammed with metal couldn’t […]
