(TheBRHM.com) Every couple of years the same conversation comes back around like a chorus you’re sick of. Somebody asks which young act is destined to become the next Metallica. You hear it at shows, in comment sections, on those podcasts that burn forty minutes arguing over the snare sound on ...
(TheBRHM.com) Some careers burn bright and vanish fast. Two strong records, a couple of tours, then the slow slide into nostalgia bookings and reunion paydays. Mille Petrozza never signed up for that ending, and these days he is still very much on the attack, not resting on a plaque. He ...
(TheBRHM.com) Kurdt Vanderhoof already knew what he wanted his band to sound like while most everybody else was still fumbling toward it. Metal Church had begun in San Francisco, but after Vanderhoof returned to his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington, the lineup that became the classic Metal Church took shape. This ...
(TheBRHM.com) Bring up Hendrix and folks reach for the tie-dye first. The scarves. That burning guitar at Monterey. Flowers in the hair, incense curling through some California afternoon in 1967. That picture stuck, and it flattened him. What got buried underneath all the soft-focus mythology was the pure menace in ...
(TheBRHM.com) Longevity behind the microphone in rock and metal owes far less to a lucky throat than to what a singer actually does to guard it over the long haul. And plenty of them guarded nothing at all. Here is the cruel part. Every other part of the show has ...
(TheBRHM.com) Every genre keeps a canon, and heavy metal guards its own with near religious fervor. Iron Maiden gets the arenas. Judas Priest owns the leather and the reverence. Accept earned credit for welding precision onto aggression before half the world caught up. And then there is a name that ...
(TheBRHM.com) Every legendary band tends to carry two names, the face crowds scream until their throats give out, and the person quietly keeping the machine from cracking apart. Rarely are they the same. Think about it. You can rattle off frontmen without breaking a sweat. The screamers, the poets, the ...
(TheBRHM.com) Ronnie James Dio brought something to heavy metal that most singers never touch. Call it authority, or imagination, or plain conviction. His voice could turn a microphone into a doorway, and behind it sat somewhere older and bigger than the room you stood in. Think about that. Here was ...
(TheBRHM.com) Sleep Token has spent the past few years steadily rearranging what heaviness is allowed to mean in this corner of music. They did it without publicly attaching their real faces or identities to the music. Strange when you sit with it. Here’s what keeps pulling at me. You’ve got ...
(TheBRHM.com) When Loudwire handed Rob Halford its inaugural Lemmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, it honored a performer whose fingerprints sit on the very shape of an entire genre, which makes any single award feel small next to what he built. And yeah, I said it. The folks handing him ...