(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) During the early-mid 1980s, there was a shake-up in the Los Angeles metal scene which saw several thrash bands and future thrash artists leave the area for San Francisco, forming the Bay Area Thrash scene. It kind of gave Los Angeles the reputation for being the home of glam ...
(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) 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) I often find myself asking “What happened?” while listening thrash metal releases from the late 1980s to early 1990s. If you’re a long-time metalhead then you know that time period in relation to thrash, it was a pretty good period but the good times wouldn’t last. You could say ...
(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, ...
(TheBRHM.com) In 1981, German metal legends Accept released their third studio album Breaker. The album came four years after the band’s debut self-titled release. After reforming in 1976 as Accept, the band’s early sound was more along the lines of that late 1970s hard rock that often flirted with the ...
(TheBRHM.com) Do you have a favorite band or musical group that broke up, went on hiatus, are between albums, or released an essential member of their sound? I believe we all do. Three acts I love—Judas Priest, Slayer and Immortal—had at least one of these occur and the artist released ...