(TheBRHM.com) There is a habit in music writing of filing a band away the moment it becomes convenient, and few bands got filed more carelessly than the one Lemmy Kilmister ran for forty years. Say the name in most rooms and you get the same reflex answer. Heavy metal. Loud, ...

(TheBRHM.com) Every genre keeps a canon. This one guards its like a family heirloom, maybe tighter. Ask somebody where the music came from and you’ll get six names, tops, said in the lowered voice folks save for church. Fine. But notice who never makes that list and something starts to ...

(TheBRHM.com) Few loyalties in music run as deep, or defy logic as boldly, as the bond between a metalhead and the band that raised him. Let me tell you something I figured out standing in a pit at sixteen, one of maybe three brothers in a sea of denim and ...

(TheBRHM.com) There is a band whose name belongs in every serious conversation about American heavy metal, and most people have never heard it. They had everything the moment demanded. And the world still slept on them. Not because they lacked the goods, but because four Black men plugged in and ...

(TheBRHM.com) There are certain bands whose influence runs far deeper than their record sales ever suggested, and Black Death belongs near the top of that list. Long before the rest of us had the language to describe what they were doing, four young men out of Cleveland were quietly rewriting ...