Music Monday: Blessed by a Broken Heart, Feel the Power

When I saw the video for Blessed by a Broken Heart’s (hereafter BBABH) first single off of their latest album Feel the Power I was actually a little disappointed.  The band’s previous album, Pedal to the Metal, as a guilty pleasure of pop-metalcore with copious layers of 80s influenced glam metal keys; that album’s “Move [...]

A Quick Take on Steelwing

If I were browsing CDs in a store and came across Steelwing’s Lord of the Wasteland it would have been album I bought on cover art alone. I mean it has a robot vulture and a badass muscle car loaded with guns! It is ridiculous. It is awesome. It displays a sense of fun that [...]

Metal Reviews (and one non-metal review)

I’ve actually managed to pick up a few (note: understatement) CDs over the last few months and figured I’d mention a couple that you folks out there might enjoy.  Not all of the stuff was released this year but they’re things I’ve purchased and enjoyed. Metal is getting more mainstream every day but folk metal [...]

Metal Review: Watershed by Opeth

Progressive music, whether it’s prog rock or prog metal, is an oddity. The genre (if it can even be called that) is definitely an acquired taste. Songs tend to be on longer side (some might say longer than absolutely necessary) and they usually incorporate a wide variety of musical sources. Call it what it is: [...]

Black Tide rising…

Been meaning to write about this for a while but kept putting it off; now I’m a bit behind thanks to the new Rock Band DLC.  I stumbled across Black Tide during a search for new music via the Playist over at the Kerrang! website; unfortunatley some genius broke the link.  A short hop over [...]

Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain Review

Portland rockers Agallochhave reached deep into the cold dark pits of their mortal souls and poured the black extract found therin into their latest album “Ashes Against the Grain.”  Indeed there are few bands in the black metal/death metal genre(s) that manage to infuse their music with an emotionally rich sound and I am excited to report [...]

Saturday Morning Metal- Trick question! Lemmy IS God!

YouTube – Saxon – I’ve Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)

Top 5: Part 2 (Music)

My music picks have a number of older titles in them, but everything I list here I bought this year. 5. Down -Sentenced (1997) Down is a fantastic black metal album. Shades of this album can be heard in almost every metal, metalcore, and emo band album released recently and Sentenced still does it better. [...]