(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 ...
(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) 3 Inches of Blood is a Canadian power metal act from British Columbia known for their fast tempo of use of two vocalists. That was probably the main thing that gave 3IOB that little extra umph. In each of their full length releases the act always had the goods ...
(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 ...
(TheBRHM.com) At the time of this piece, the 20th anniversary of VH1’s “Metal Month” would’ve just passed. You could also look at it as a way to use all those music videos and films that weren’t aired on VH1 Classic at the time. Maybe it was a vehicle for their ...
(TheBRHM.com) I’m a fan of those 80s Canadian metal bands such as thrashers Razor, Voivod, and Strappado but we’re going to get into a band we’ve touch on with Thor. The band goes back to 1973 as Centaur and began playing under the Thor name in 1977. Centered around the ...
(TheBRHM.com) During VH1’s 2006 “Metal Month”, the network ran several documentaries and a few films such as Spinal Tap and Rock Star. It was a given that I was going to enjoy Spinal Tap and at the time I thought Rock Star was something entertaining to watch. Having watched it ...
(TheBRHM.com) While looking around on Apple Music for some older power metal to listen to, I noticed that Jag Panzer were missing their 1984 debut Ample Destruction and the 1994 release Dissident Alliance. Now, there was an album that was recorded in 1987 but that wasn’t released until 2004 as ...