(TheBRHM.com) Guns N’ Roses is a band that gave me some trouble while doing this edition of ‘Best of the Decade’. It’s a band known for some classic bangers and albums but strife among the band members—as well as partaking in whatever devilment suited their fancy—meant that the discography output ...
(TheBRHM.com) While diving into metal in the late 2000s, I ran into a lot of new thrash—or retro thrash, thrash revival—as well as some speed metal revival bands. Some of these bands featured members from black metal bands or who had a background or influences in black metal and maybe ...
(TheBRHM.com) A flawless debut album is a challenge that many never hit. There will be something that either the artist or critics can look at and feel “Eh, this ruins it” or “That song was unnecessary to the overall project” and so on. German band Accept’s debut album was a ...
(TheBRHM.com) Chastain is one of these 1980s U.S metal bands that get love among old-school fans of 80s metal, power metal, and just old-school metal in general. Chastain’s sound is a mix of speed metal and driving mid-tempo heavy metal based around lyrics of fantasy, the three Ls (life, love, ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s get into another classic debut album and see what stands out the most with Holy Diver by Dio. Now, Dio was the solo act of Ronnie James Dio, a powerful lead singer who was known for heading up Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow and Black Sabbath. I’d say it was ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s head to Japan for our first in a trifecta of album dives. This one looks at the debut release from Saitama’s Hellhound called Tokyo Flying V Massacre. I discovered this album roughly a year after its 2006 release. My initial thought were that it was some good Japanese ...
(TheBRHM.com) We haven’t had a Head 2 Head on here in a while! Let’s look at the three debuts of three metal legends from the same period in Motörhead, Black Sabbath, and Judas Priest. All of these debuts come in the 1970s with Sabbath’s being the earliest and best known ...
(TheBRHM.com) The 2000s was a really hot period for metal as a lot of newer bands formed either early that decade or at the end of the 1990s began releasing material. I’ve found that most the bangers I enjoy from this period came out in the later part of the ...
(TheBRHM.com) Right now, I’m on my third re-listen of Kerry King’s From Hell I Rise. I went into this solo project from Slayer co-founder and guitarist Kerry King in a piece about solo projects that were or are better than the main band and this doesn’t disappoint at all. From ...
(TheBRHM.com) The 1974 self-titled debut from KISS is probably one of the few albums from the band that I actually keep in rotation. For those wondering, the others are Alive! and Destroyer. I don’t know, oftentimes when I’m in a mood for hard rock I will go with AC/DC, Queen, ...