(TheBRHM.com) There is a conversation that never seems to die in metal circles, and it comes right back the second anybody says Big Four. For the newcomers, that title means Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Four bands, crowned as the faces of American thrash. Should it have been the Big ...

(TheBRHM.com) Drop the needle on Rust in Peace and about ninety seconds in you’ll get everything worth knowing about Megadeth. None of it has a thing to do with Metallica. I figured that out young, back when I was a Black kid falling hard for heavy metal and making it ...

(TheBRHM.com) Every genre eventually has to reckon with its own history, but few have let that history calcify quite like heavy metal has. For a style built on rebellion and volume and the refusal to sit still, the modern fanbase has grown strangely comfortable, strangely protective, strangely allergic to anything ...

(TheBRHM.com) This music had me before I had the words to explain why, and the band has held my attention long enough that honesty about them feels earned rather than borrowed. So here is the truth of it. A Brother who came up on loud guitars, often the only face ...

(TheBRHM.com) Some records you listen to. A few of them hit you. Back in Black did the second thing to me before I even understood what was happening. Somewhere in my teenage years, standing over my uncle’s milk crate of vinyl, flipping through it, and I slid that one out ...

(TheBRHM.com) Let me set the scene for you. I’m sixteen, headphones busted on one side, volume shoved way past any safe level, and the opening of Battery comes creeping out the speaker all gentle and Spanish guitar pretty. Then the riff drops and my whole spine snaps straight. I had ...