(TheBRHM.com) This time we’re looking at extremely strong debuts! We’ll start with a band we’ve discussed a bit before in Blind Guardian with their 1988 debut Battalions of Fear. What Type of Vibe Is Blind Guardian? To be honest, there are different vibes with Blind Guardian’s music. It can depend ...
(TheBRHM.com) We’ve touched on the late Thin Lizzy lead singer and bass player Phil Lynott several times. Now, it’s time for an ultimate list! Here are five greatest Thin Lizzy songs that cemented Lynott’s name in Black rock and heavy metal. Most of these songs are from the band’s hot ...
(TheBRHM.com) We’re getting into a bit of hard rock for “Greatest Album Debuts” with the 1973 self-titled release by Queen. On this release, you’ll get a mix of 70s hard rock and progressive rock but the prog element when mixed with that hard rock gives us something similar to speed ...
(TheBRHM.com) It’s March 1992 and Ice T just had a strong 1991 with the success of New Jack City, the solid performance of Ricochet, and a landmark album in O.G. Original Gangsta. His 1992 would kick off with his band Body Count’s self-titled debut. This was an album I saw ...
(TheBRHM.com) I touched on Three, a Cleveland-based band featuring Black Death singer Siki Spacek in his usual roles as vocalists and guitarist. Is it a continuation of Black Death Resurrected and Black Death? Not exactly, but with Siki’s involvement, you’ll notice a lot of the two aforementioned bands’ influences on ...
(TheBRHM.com) This album is something a little outside of what I prefer listening to. I prefer a faster-paced metal journey but Smoulder delivered something that has me reconsidering slower tempo metal. Of course, it helps that Smoulder’s music is rooted in tales of gritty, primordial fantasy. Epic doom metal, fantasy-themed ...
(TheBRHM.com) In the latter part of the 1980s, thrash was thriving in the U.S and Germany. These were the two main regions I’d hear about in my introduction to old school metal but it wasn’t unusual to hear about bands from the UK, Canada, and Brazil. Canada’s metal scene at ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s get into a few of my favorite screechers and shriekers in speed metal and thrash from the 2000s. Three of these singers are still going today performing and/or recording. However, we’re going to start with a largely forgotten name and band from the early 2000s. Chad Brown of Engage ...
(TheBRHM.com) We recently took a “Greatest Album Debuts” jaunt to Canada for some power metal stylings. As a country for metal music, I dig Canada for its speed metal and thrash offerings but acts like Smoulder, 3 Inches of Blood, metal OG Thor, and Gatekeeper show that the Great White ...
(TheBRHM.com) In the late 1990s, I wasn’t familiar with Kiss at all. Sure, I most likely heard some of their hit tunes in commercials or films but I didn’t actually match them with those songs. It wouldn’t be until the release of the Psycho Circus comic book from Image Comics ...