Steel Panther is a tough pill to swallow in these modern times. Despite being an uber-talented band that can play circles around both modern bands and the legacy acts that they parody, their politically incorrect lyrics are their most-definable [...]
There’s a Monster’s of Rock Festival MTV special from 1992 on YouTube that includes live music footage and interviews from a lineup consisting of W.A.S.P, Slayer. Skid Row, Iron Maiden, and The Almighty, the band that launched vocalist Ricky [...]
“Sabbathian” acolytes Candlemass were one of the earliest purveyors of the doom genre. Of the handful of bands that bowed to the power of the monolithic riff in the early 80s, they were perhaps the band that arrived almost fully formed. Their [...]
It’s hard to beat those first 3 Skid Row records. A band with one foot planted in the 80s “pop-metal,” and the other firmly planted in heavier, more-progressive endeavors, they were on course to bridge the gap between 80s and 90s [...]
Lead off track ‘In Extremis’ with its monstrously catchy chorus and memorable lead guitar lines is a solid slab of infectious timeless metal. Setting a high bar for the remainder of the record, the song is especially notable in that Todd La [...]
Despite the love that seminal albums ‘Gretchen Goes to Nebraska’ and ‘Faith, Hope, Love’ received on “Headbanger’s Ball” back in the day, King’s X has never been heavy metal in the traditional sense. A power [...]
In contrast to James LaBrie’s 2013 solo outing ‘Impermanent Resonance’, which found the Dream Theater singer treading musically heavy and tempestuous waters, ‘Beautiful Shade of Grey’ finds him gazing deeply into the [...]
Skull Fist’s leather-cuffed prehensile-appendage burrowed deep into our rib cages to steal our collective hearts via the inclusion of their catchy-as-all-hell “Bad for Good” in 2015’s New Zealand horror-comedy masterpiece [...]
