#310 2nd Albums BETTER or WORSE than the 1st
“Careful back there…” Generally speaking, an artist’s DEBUT ALBUM will often be quite good, while their SOPHOMORE ALBUM, in contrast, will often be far more advanced, sophisticated, and light years ...
24 Juli 20251h 9min
#309 – Sabbath: BACK TO THE BEGINNING
“There were some heroes and there were some zeroes…” BACK TO THE BEGINNING, the final concert performance by the O.G. lineup of BLACK SABBATH featuring Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Ozzy...
17 Juli 20251h 6min
#308 GREAT METAL ALBUMS RUINED BY ONE SONG
“If you’ve got a whole room full of 10’s, that’s the 5…” We’ve all been there. Every one of us have experienced an album where it was “almost perfect” front to back, yet there was that one song that...
10 Juli 20251h 14min
#307 DEATH MATCH: THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
“I thought it was gonna be tight…” 1982 –Michael Jackson releases what would become the biggest selling album in music history with Thriller, Survivor and Olivia Newton John are locked in their own HE...
3 Juli 20251h 43min
#306 GOD IN METAL
“I’ll take your ‘Lord of This World’ and raise you ‘After Forever’…” From “The Moses story” to “the shortest verse in The Good Book” to one of the creepiest spoken word intros in all of metal which ...
26 Juni 20251h 31min
#305 SUNSET STRIP DEATH MATCH: METAL HEALTH vs OUT OF THE CELLAR
“If they’re not fat, they’re soft…” Think back to The Sunset Strip and the emerging metal scene of the early 80’s, full of sleaze, shred, and riffs, long before the emergence of the “serious glam” and...
19 Juni 20251h 36min
#304 METALLICA M72 TOUR CONCERT REVIEW
“It was almost too big…” Get ready for a rebuttal from “Captain Backpedal” after being challenged to a fight on a “goat farm”, discover the “magic number” required to transform your twanglification l...
12 Juni 20251h 5min
#303 MACHINE HEAD: BURN MY EYES Album Review
“It’s like the Sam Kinison meets Bobcat Goldthwait of dogs…” Bridging the gap between the thrash metal of the late 80’s and early 90’s and the tidal wave of groove metal that made landfall in the me...
5 Juni 20251h 20min
