GWAR
Music History • Humor The Early History and Formation of GWAR: A Totally Serious (But Not Really) Account If you’ve ever seen a GWAR concert, you know it’s less like…
CARCASS Symphonies of Sickness
CARCASS Symphonies of Sickness is the second album from the English Death Metal / Grindcore band from 1999. This is a HUGE step forward for the band. The first album…
HELLOWEEN Walls of Jericho
Helloween Walls of Jericho is the first release from German Heavy Metal band from 1985. From the outset I have to preface that I’ve never been the biggest fan of…
KREATOR Endless Pain
KREATOR Endless Pain is the debut release from this long running German thrash band released back in 1985. Like the other German bands of the time the band recorded this…
ROTTING CHRIST Thy Mighty Contract
ROTTING CHRIST had just put out their debut EP not long before this and here we have the bands first full length recording which was released in 1993. I’m going…
ACCEPT
Formation in Solingen Few heavy metal bands can claim the influence and staying power of Accept. The group took shape in Solingen, West Germany in the late 1960s, when guitarist…
BURZUM Aske
I have mixed feelings about this one. As someone who has take pro active anti racism stances in my time I don’t tend to give this guy that much time.…
ENTOMBED Left Hand Path
Well, here’s an album that changed the path of at least Swedish Death Metal with Entombed Left Hand Path we had in one single release a sound that defined the…
SAXON Strong Arm of the Law
SAXON Strong arm of the Law is the third album from this English group. Also released in 1980 (Later in the year after “Wheels of Steel”) and this is a…
RONNIE JAMES DIO
Introduction Few figures in heavy metal loom as large as Ronnie James Dio. A man barely five and a half feet tall in stature, but a giant in vocal power…